The Best TV Shows on OWN

Every OWN Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Boasting a rich catalog, OWN features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2011 to 2021. For top-tier entertainment, OWN delivered Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse and Welcome to Sweetie Pie's in 2011 and 2011. Check out the most acclaimed shows on OWN, with a catalog of over 20 series updated for February 2026.

  • Delilah
    Delilah (2021)9.3

    Delilah left a demanding white-shoe law firm a decade ago and hung up her own shingle so she could make raising her kids her one priority. Now she takes on cases the big firms ignore and finds herself, more often than not, going head-to-head with the powerful and privileged as she fights for the disenfranchised.

  • The Paynes
    The Paynes (2018)8.5

    Follow Ella and Curtis Payne through the ups and downs of retirement in Florida. A “House of Payne” spin-off.

  • Family or Fiancé
    Family or Fiancé (2019)8.5

    "Family or Fiancé" follows the dynamics between engaged couples who bring their disapproving families together under one roof. The families only spend 3 days with each other, and the clock is ticking as the couples decide if they're going to tie the knot. It's a no-holds-barred look at what it's really like when the people closest to you have major issues with the one you want to marry. Serving as the voice of reason is relationship expert Tracy McMillan, who helps the couple confront their families' concerns. She works with the newly engaged couple on ways to strengthen their bond, air their differences and reveal their true selves to their families, for better or worse. At the end of the third and final day, the families are given their chance to speak now or forever hold their peace leaving the couple to make the ultimate choice — "I do" or "I don't."

  • Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star
    Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star (2011)8.0

    Your OWN Show: Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star was a reality competition show, created by Oprah Winfrey. The show aired from January 7, 2011 to February 25, 2011 on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Hosted by Nancy O'Dell and Carson Kressley, it featured ten prospective television hosts competing to earn their own television show on the OWN network. Each week, the contestants competed in a themed-television show challenge, where they were watched and judged by O'Dell, Kressley, and a guest judge and mentor, whose expertise is in the theme that week. After the production and filming, one contestant was eliminated, until the best host remained. Zach Anner and Kristina Kuzmic-Crocco were both chosen as the winners. Besides winning their television show, the champions also received $100,000 and a 2011 Chevrolet Equinox. The executive producer was Mark Burnett, who has produced many reality competitions, such as The Apprentice, Survivor, and Design Star.

  • Queen Sugar
    Queen Sugar (2016)7.7

    Two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.

  • Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots
    Tyler Perry's The Haves and the Have Nots (2013)7.5

    Follow the complicated dynamic between the rich and powerful Cryer family and the hired help who work in their opulent Savannah, Georgia, mansion.

  • Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong
    Tyler Perry's If Loving You Is Wrong (2014)7.5

    Follow the relationships of a group of husbands and wives that live and love on the same street. While the neighbors come from very different backgrounds, their lives are similar – raising children, dealing with exes, worrying about money and keeping romance in their relationships. But just below the surface — secrets, lies and deception threaten to destroy what they have built.

  • Ambitions
    Ambitions (2019)7.5

    A multigenerational family saga centered around one woman who, having recently relocated and intent on revitalizing her marriage, finds herself going head to head with some of the most powerful and deceitful players in the city.

  • All Rise
    All Rise (2019)7.4

    A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.

  • Cherish the Day
    Cherish the Day (2020)7.4

    A chronicle of the stirring relationship of one couple, with each episode spanning a single day. The narrative will unfold to reveal significant moments in a relationship that compel us to hold true to the ones we love, from the extraordinary to the everyday.

  • Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse
    Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse (2011)7.3

    Follow the ups-and-downs of Angela Williams, the owner of a successful beauty salon, and her husband of 13 years, Marcus, a former professional football player who has recently partnered with Richard Ellington and Joseph Jetson on a new sports news program called "C-Sports Now."

  • Love Thy Neighbor
    Love Thy Neighbor (2013)7.3

    Gun-toting Grandma Hattie has been given her own sitcom. Managing the Love Train Diner with her brother-in-law Floyd, she dishes out justice in the best way; with love.

  • Lindsay
    Lindsay (2014)7.0

    Lindsay Lohan returns to New York City and reunites with friends and family. As Lindsay works to stay on track amid the demands (and pitfalls) of fame, she opens up as never before.

  • Greenleaf
    Greenleaf (2016)7.0

    The unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, where scandalous secrets and lies are as numerous as the faithful. Born of the church, the Greenleaf family love and care for each other, but beneath the surface lies a den of iniquity—greed, adultery, sibling rivalry and conflicting values—that threatens to tear apart the very core of their faith that holds them together.

  • David Makes Man
    David Makes Man (2019)6.7

    A 14-year-old prodigy's mother relies on him to find a way out of poverty, but he is haunted by the death of his friend; he must choose between the streets that raised him or the higher education that may offer him a way out.

  • Welcome to Sweetie Pie's
    Welcome to Sweetie Pie's (2011)5.2

    When Miss Robbie Montgomery, a 1960s backup singer and former “Ikette,” suffered a collapsed lung and had to stop singing, she decided to pour her talents into another creative venture—a soul food restaurant called Sweetie Pie's. This docuseries follows the loud, loving and often singing Montgomery family as they work to expand their empire, one soulful dish at a time.

  • Put a Ring on It
    Put a Ring on It (2020)4.0

    Longtime couples, with help from a master relationship coach, embark on the ultimate relationship test. From week to week the couples are pushed outside their comfort zones to confront the question they've been too afraid to ask: is this their happily ever after? The couples will finally find out by dating other people. And in so doing, they'll discover if there's a connection they've been missing all along. Will they decide it’s time to go their separate ways, or is it finally time to put a ring on it?

  • Oprah's Next Chapter
    Oprah's Next Chapter (2012)3.6

    Oprah's Next Chapter is an American primetime television show hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey, airing on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The series premiered on Sunday January 1, 2012 at 9/8c, with a two-part episode featuring Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.

  • Ready to Love
    Ready to Love (2018)N/A

    A dating series exploring the real-life dating interactions of sexy, successful and grown black men and women in their 30s and 40s who are each looking for lasting love and an authentic relationship. A unique twist on a typical dating show, Ready to Love highlights the men's observations and experiences in the search for true love in Atlanta.

  • OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?
    OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? (2020)N/A

    With the civil unrest after the murder of George Floyd, Oprah talks to black leaders, activists and artists about systemic racism and the current state of America.