Tyler Perry’s ‘Divorced Sistas’, ‘Zatima’ & MoreRenewed By Paramount+

EXCLUSIVE: Two months after BET+ was folded into Paramount+, with its programming migrating to the larger streamer, four of the former BET+ original series have been renewed by Paramount+. They include Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas, picked up for Season 3, and Zatima (Season 6), as well as Carl Weber’s The Black Hamptons (Season 3) and The Family Business (Season 7).

Divorced Sistas and Zatima‘s orders are for 16 episodes, which is typical for Perry shows, running in two eight-episode installments. That has been the pattern for Divorced Sistas while Zatima‘s seasons to date have consisted of 20 episodes, split in two batches of 10.

That includes upcoming seasons of both series that had not been announced but had been quietly filming: a 20-episode fifth season of Zatima, and 16-episode second season of Divorced Sistas. The latter, a spinoff from Perry’s popular BET series Sistas, last summer logged the most watched series premiere on BET+.

The Family Business and The Black Hamptons’ pickups are for 10 episodes each. They are somewhat surprising given the large gap between seasons, especially for The Black Hamptons, whose renewal comes more than two and a half years after the series’ eight-episode second season ended its run on BET+. The Family Business‘ 10-episode sixth season released its finale on Dec. 18 last year. It is possible that the renewals have been done unofficially awhile ago and are now being announced.

The pickups for Divorced Sistas, Zatima, The Family Business and The Black Hamptons join the March Season 6 renewal for for BET+ original comedy Ms. Pat Show, which was done ahead of BET+’s slate transition to Paramount+ in June.

‘We feel the migration was very successful, the audiences are showing up for sure, Paramount+ Head of Originals Jane Wiseman told Deadline last week, noting that the volume of originals that BET+ was known for is not going to go down now that the shows are on Paramount+.

The integration of BET+ into Paramount+ involved Paramount buying out Tyler Perry Studios’ stake in BET+. He remains one of Paramount’s most prolific creators/producers across BET and Paramount+.

“Our relationship with Tyler Perry is very strong, and I’m excited for more content from him, as well as working closely with our friends at BET Studios,” Wiseman said last week.

BET Studios also works across Divorced Sistas, Zatima, The Family Business and The Black Hamptons.

Here are details on the newly renewed series:

Title: The Black Hamptons
Season: 3
EPs: Carl Weber, ND Brown Jones, Trey Haley
Logline: In this adaptation of Carl Weber’s novel, the Britton family faces high tensions with the newly arrived Johnsons in the upscale Black town of Sag Harbor, NY.
Talent: Lamman Rucker, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Elise Neal, Brian White, Karon Riley, and Mike Merrill
Episode count: 10 Eps

Title: The Family Business
Season: 7
EPs: Carl Weber, ND Brown Jones, Trey Haley, Ernie Hudson
Logline: The wealthy Duncans run their lucrative New York-based criminal enterprise with iron fists, and family always comes first.
Talent: Ernie Hudson, Valarie Pettiford, Darrin Dewitt, Javicia Leslie, Tami Roman, Sean Ringgold, Michael Jai White, Arrington Foster and Lisa Raye McCoy.
Episode count: 10 Eps

Title: Tyler Perry’s Divorced Sistas
Season: 3
EPs: Created, directed, written and executive produced by Tyler Perry.
Logline: What begins as one confession cracks open everything this group of women thought they were protecting. Years of deception, half-truths, and emotional compromises finally surface, forcing Rasheda, Geneva, Naomi, Tiffany, and Bridgette to confront not just the men in their lives, but one another.
Talent: LeToya Luckett, Khadeen Indréa, Porscha Coleman, Briana Price, Jennifer Sears, DeVon Franklin, Ronreaco Lee, and Robert Christopher Riley.
Episode count: 16 Eps

Title: Tyler Perry’s Zatima
Season: 6
EPs: Created and executive produced by Tyler Perry.
Logline: Revelations are birthed from misunderstandings, lessons of love and loss are painstakingly learned, and forgiveness and reconciliation dominate. For Zac and Fatima, the fight to protect their family becomes the center of everything as they learn what it truly takes to hold a life and a future… Together.
Talent: DeVale Ellis, Crystal Reneé Hayslett, Nzinga Imani, Remington Hoffman, Cameron Fuller and Guyviaud Joseph.
Episode count: 16 Eps