closing week, own: Oprah Winfrey network debuted its new drama sequence, from Lionsgate television, starring Merle Dandridge, Lynn Whitfield, Keith David, and media icon, Oprah Winfrey, Greenleaf, to an eagerly waiting for viewers at Tribeca movie pageant, but not before offering a sneak peek to just a few fortunate journalists.
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Premiering on Tuesday, June 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and Wednesday, June 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on own, Greenleaf, takes viewers into the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family unit and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, the place scandalous secrets and lies are as a lot of because the faithful. Born of the church, the Greenleaf family love and care for each and every different, however beneath the floor lays den of iniquity—greed, adultery, sibling rivalry, and conflicting values—that threatens to tear aside the very core of the religion that holds them collectively.
In executive producing Greenleaf for the own community, Winfrey set out to create anything genuine, and relatable. "What I actually am most interested in developing are experiences that includes americans of diversity, chiefly individuals of color—black americans of colour, that allow us to be precise," Winfrey states. I think the way you smash down limitations in a society that doesn't thoroughly see you as human, is to demonstrate your humanness and to reveal your humanity," she endured.
Former minister and creator of the collection, Craig Wright, spoke on what drew him to create the layered household drama based around a megachurch. "I suppose a lot of what made this venture attractive to me is we bought to get a hold of a show about people whose faith is actual. The doesn't deal with the religion with satire, it treats it with admire," says Wright. "That doesn't suggest the reveal can't have meaty turns and juicy, silky stuff in it. but it takes the religion of the people in reality seriously and that i suppose, in a weird way, doing a exhibit about a black church really made that viable, that the religion receives to be taken critically."
moreover the indicates more diagnosed talent, Greenleaf also elements distinctive solid participants, Kim Hawthorne (Rake) as Kerissa Greenleaf; Lamman Rucker (Meet the Browns) as Jacob Greenleaf; Tye White (The individuals v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story) as Kevin Satterlee; Deborah joy Winans (Whitney) as Charity Greenleaf-Satterlee and Desiree Ross (Falling Skies) as Sophia.
To journey a taste of the drama that's to come back, check out the trailer.
Tune in to Greenleaf, Tuesday, June 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT and Wednesday, June 22 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on own. The sequence will constantly air on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT for the the rest of its 13-episode first season.
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