OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is expanding its Friday night lineup with the upcoming Belle Collective.
The unscripted reality series will follow the lives of five successful Black female entrepreneurs in Jackson, Mississippi.
The women “represent Mississippi’s finest Black female entrepreneurs, determined to break ceilings – glass and otherwise – while shredding long-held stereotypes of the South,” the network said Wednesday in a press release.
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The cast includes Dr. Antoinette Liles, one of the only Black female dentists in the state; Lateshia Pearson, the CEO of the National Women’s Brunch Organization; Latrice Rogers, the entrepreneur behind Goddess Lengths who was named the 2017 SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Mississippi Small Business Association; Marie Hamilton-Abston, a self-made millionaire and CEO of Hamilton Davis Mental Health, and Tambra Cherie, an on-air radio personality for Jackson’s top hip-hop and R&B station.
Belle Collective is executive produced by Kingdom Reign Entertainment, the production company behind OWN’s Love and Marriage: Huntsville. Carlos King, a producer for The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, and Slane Hatch, who directed an episode of House Hunters International, serve as the show’s executive producers.
The show will premiere on Friday, Jan. 15 at 10PM ET/PT.
Watch the preview for Belle Collective below.
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