Greenleaf Breaks Records for OWN

LOS ANGELES: The new original drama Greenleaf has broken records for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, with the Lionsgate-produced show delivering the biggest series premiere in the channel’s history.

The show scored 3.043 million viewers and a 2.18 rating in women 25 to 54. It is also the second scripted cable debut in 2016 so far, behind FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Meanwhile, the return of Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots shored up 2.9 million viewers and a 2.12 rating in women 25 to 54.

Greenleaf, from award-winning writer/producer Craig Wright and exec producers Oprah Winfrey and Clement Virgo, focuses on a family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch. The cast includes Merle Dandridge, Keith David and Lynn Whitfield.