Queen Sugar to end after seventh season next year

True Blood star Rutina Wesley's TV series Queen Sugar confirmed its future after season 6 came to an end earlier this year.

The series' director and writer, Ava DuVernay and US cable network OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network), confirmed on Tuesday (November 16) that the show will not return after a seventh season next year.

In a statement (via Entertainment Weekly), DuVernay said: "To everything, there is a season. And my producing partner Paul Garnes and I have had seven gorgeous seasons making Queen Sugar with a remarkable cast and crew, alongside our partners at OWN and Warner Bros. Television.

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"To write and produce seven seasons of a modern drama centred on a Black family is a radical act in our industry and a triumph that has far exceeded every hope I held," she continued.

"Now I feel strongly that the story, which began as a sunrise of a suggestion from Oprah Winfrey, is ready for its sunset as a dream fully realised. Queen Sugar has been one of the true joys of my career and my gratitude is buoyant and boundless."

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The show – which is based on the 2014 novel of the same name by author Natalie Baszile – first aired in September 2016 and centres on three siblings in rural Louisiana. Alongside Wesley, it stars Dawn-Lyen Gardner and Kofi Siriboe who must decide what to do with their father's 800-acre sugarcane farm following his sudden death.

The final season is currently still being written and production will begin early 2022 in New Orleans.

Earlier this year, it was announced that one of the show's stars, Omar Dorsey will star in season 2 of Power Book 3: Raising Kanan, which is set to airs on Starz next year. Set in the 1990s, the crime series tells the story of 15-year-old Kanan Stark as he exalts in the ranks of a drug organisation in Queens, New York City.

Queen Sugar airs on OWN in the US.