Oprah Winfrey (pictured) and the director of the Oscar-nominated Selma are creating a drama series for Winfrey’s TV channel.
The project from Winfrey and filmmaker Ava DuVernay is inspired by the Natalie Baszile novel Queen Sugar, the OWN channel said on Monday.
Winfrey will serve as executive producer and will play a recurring role – the first time she’s acted in a series for OWN, the network said.
DuVernay will write, direct and executive produce the drama, her first TV series.
DuVernay’s film is about the 1965 voting rights campaign led by the Rev Martin Luther King jr. Selma is a Best Picture Academy Award nominee. – Sapa-AP