TYLER PERRY’S THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS
OWN, 9:00 p.m. ET
SERIES PREMIERE: At 8 p.m. ET, Oprah Winfrey repeats her recent edition of Oprah’s Next Chapter, with guest Tyler Perry, in which she asks the prolific and popular film and TV hyphenate what he plans to do next. Then, an hour later, Winfrey presents what he plans to do next: produce his own new TV drama series, made for Winfrey’s OWN network. Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots is a new prime-time soap, and it’s the first scripted series made for and presented by OWN. The second one, Love Thy Neighbor, premieres tomorrow night – and it, too, is created by Tyler Perry. In tonight’s Haves and the Have Nots, the big recognizable name is John Schneider, long ago of The Dukes of Hazzard, playing a very flawed patriarch with a taste for, among other things, prostitutes. One of them, played by Tika Sumpter, is a friend of his daughter, and sees an instant opportunity for blackmail. (No racial subtext intended.)