Greenleaf kicked off its fifth and final season with solid premiere numbers on OWN.
The popular series pulled in 1.9 million viewers in Live+3, up 1% from the season 4 premiere. It also ranked as Tuesday night’s No. 1 cable telecast among women 25-54, up 2% vs. prior season premiere in L+3, and was the No. 1 telecast across all of broadcast and cable for African-American women up, 5% vs. prior season premiere. The season 5 premiere also ranked as the No. 1 most social scripted series across all of broadcast and cable Tuesday night, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Greenleaf follows the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, dark secrets, and lies. The series stars Lynn Whitfield, Kim Hawthorne, Lamman Rucker, Benjamin Patterson, Merle Dandridge, Jacob Gibson, Keith David and Deborah Joy Winans. Although this is the final season of the show, a Greenleaf spinoff, currently in development with Lionsgate, was announced in May.
