OWN & discovery+ Team for Five New Shows

Five new shows produced by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network have been ordered straight-to-series for discovery+.

For the first time ever, OWN and HGTV will collaborate to co-produce a new series to air exclusively on discovery+. Tentatively titled Taking Back the House, the show will chronicle Broadway star Robert Hartwell’s room-by-room renovation of an 1820 colonial house he recently purchased.

The Great Soul Food Cookoff is a cooking competition that spotlights the culinary contributions of Black culture. Produced by Good Egg Entertainment (Chopped), the series will see Michael W. Twitty, the esteemed culinary historian, educator and James Beard Foundation award-winning author of The Cooking Gene, serve as culinary historian and consultant.

Produced by Guy Fieri’s Knuckle Sandwich Productions and Lando Entertainment, Burger Truck Brawl features the Billionaire Burger Boyz (and the Burger Girl), who own and operate one of L.A.’s most successful food trucks. In each episode, the Boyz will roll into a city, meet the challenging food truck, craft a new menu for that city, then sell, sell, sell.

The new series Like Mother, Like Daughter? (working title) follows six mother-daughter pairs who have serious issues between them, as they move into an isolated resort where they will be forced to work on their relationship. The pairs will embark on a three-week intensive experiment designed to cultivate the skills necessary for healthy and loving relationships with one another, but living in close quarters will put the pairs, and the therapists working with them, to the test. The show is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions.

From Tina Knowles-Lawson, Trell Thomas and A. Smith & Co. Productions, Breaking Black (working title) sets out to challenge and debunk the negative stereotypes that have surrounded Black men for centuries, by reshaping the narrative and highlighting their authentic stories. Through interviews, historical footage and personal stories from men across the country, the series aims to show the difficulties Black men face today while highlighting and celebrating the triumphs and successes of everyday living.

“OWN has built its loyal audience through programming that connects with viewers very deeply, and it is that intention that drives the programming we are bringing to discovery+,” said Tina Perry, president of OWN. “This slate of new series will incorporate OWN’s unique style in genres that include relationship, docuseries, cooking and the revelatory home renovation series Taking Back the House, which we are producing in an exciting first-time partnership with HGTV, and will appeal to discovery+ subscribers who are as varied and diverse as the programs themselves.”

“Our young and diverse discovery+ streaming audience places a premium on content from innovative storytellers across a wide range of voices, and OWN possesses an unparalleled track record in developing successful projects fitting that same criteria,” said Lisa Holme, group senior VP of content and commercial strategy for Discovery, Inc. “discovery+ provides the perfect platform for the OWN team and our creative partners to go even deeper in genres which all of our Discovery brands are known for, from food and home to lifestyle, docuseries and more.”