Saints & Sinners (2016 TV series)


Saints & Sinners is an American prime time television soap opera. Starring Vanessa Bell Calloway, Clifton Powell, Keith Robinson and Gloria Reuben, the series follows the conflicts among the members of a Baptist church in small-town Georgia. The series premiered on the African-American-oriented television network Bounce TV on March 6, 2016, as the network's first original drama.
Saints & Sinners has received mixed to positive reviews from critics, but became a breakthrough series for Bounce TV, and their most-watched program ever since it launched. The first episode earned 1.3 million viewers, and in second week it drew 1.5 million viewers. On April 13, 2016 the show was renewed for a second season that premiered on March 5, 2017. Bounce announced on January 22, 2019 via their Twitter account that the show was renewed for a fourth season, set to premiere on July 7, 2019.

Production

On May 7, 2015, Bounce TV announced that it had ordered a new original drama, Saints & Sinners, from independent production company Swirl Films to premiere in 2016. The series serves as the first original drama commissioned by the African-American-oriented digital television network, whose previous originals were sitcoms. Saints & Sinners has been compared to the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series Greenleaf, which is also set at an African-American run church and is being produced in Atlanta at the same time.
The eight-episode first season began filming in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2016. On January 12, 2016, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Gloria Reuben, Clifton Powell, Richard Lawson, Keith Robinson, Christian Keyes, Jasmine Burke, J. D. Williams, and Afemo Omilami were announced as main cast members of the series. The pilot was directed by filmmaker Jerry Lamothe. Principal photography ended February 25, 2016. To promote the series, Bounce TV allowed affiliates who carry the network on a digital subchannel to air an encore of the series premiere on their main channels.

Cast

Main

Season 1 (2016)

Season 2 (2017)

Season 3 (2018)

Season 4 (2019)