Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle in Time) is poised to helm the series finale of Queen Sugar, returning one of its original voices to the director’s chair. Based on Natalie Baszile’s book of the same name, the OWN series made its debut in 2016. The show’s creator is DuVernay, while Oprah Winfrey serves as an executive producer.

Over the years, the filmmaker has continued to work on Queen Sugar and has written additional episodes. Later this year, the project’s eighth and final season, which will make seven overall, will debut. With women only being chosen to direct each episode, OWN has made it a point to provide the series to first-time female directors. The current showrunner Shaz Bennett will helm an episode for the first time in the upcoming season. Patricia Cardoso, Stacey Muhammad, and Kat Candler will also helm the final episodes.

What are Ava DuVernay ‘s work?

In recent years, DuVernay has largely sided with television. She has specialized on social justice-related projects for programs including When They See Us and Colin in Black and White. She co-created Naomi with Jill Blankenship, a recently canceled CW series about comic book superfan Naomi McDuffie who investigates a paranormal occurrence in her hometown. DMZ, directed by DuVernay for HBO Max, debuted recently as well. The series, which stars Rosario Dawson, centers on a doctor (Dawson) looking for her son in the harsh political climate of the present.

What is Queen Sugar all about?

The film Queen Sugar depicts the tale of three siblings, Ralph (Kofi Siriboe), Charley, and Nova (Rutina Wesley), who take over their father’s sugarcane field in rural Louisiana. Nicholas L. Ashe, Omar Dorsey, Dondre Whitfield, Timon Kyle Durrett, and Greg Vaughan are more cast members. Reagan Gomez-Preston, True O’Brien, and Glynn Turman have all made notable guest appearances.

Queen Sugar has received appreciation from critics for accurately portraying class and ethnicity as well as the Black experience. It has been running the longest among OWN’s original programs at the moment. Cherish the Day, a romantic anthology series starring Xosha Roquemore, Alano Miller, and Cicely Tyson, is one of the numerous programs that are currently running new episodes on the network. The soap drama The Kings of Napa, which debuted in January and just finished its first season, is another option.

Later this year, OWN will air the seventh season of Queen Sugar.

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