The Oprah Winfrey Community is on the brink of say goodbye to the favored and long-running Iyanla: Fix My Life TV collection. The present, which started in 2012, options inspirational speaker, writer, and life coach Iyanla Vanzant as she helps visitors overcome numerous issues of their lives.
The eighth and ultimate season of Iyanla: Repair My Life will kick off on April 10th on OWN and the present will wrap up with a two-hour particular on Might 22nd.
OWN’S AWARD-WINNING HIT SERIES ‘IYANLA: FIX MY LIFE’ TO CONCLUDE WITH ITS EIGHTH SEASON
Closing Episodes to Premiere April 10 with a Should-See Opener That includes LisaRaye McCoy; Two-Hour Farewell Particular to Air on Might 22
Iyanla, Who Has Been with the Community for Almost Ten Years, Has Filmed Almost 150 Episodes of the Beloved Sequence
LOS ANGELES – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Community introduced right this moment that after ten years and eight seasons the award-winning hit “Iyanla: Repair My Life” can have its collection finale when all-new episodes premiere Saturday, April 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. A two-hour farewell particular will air on Saturday, Might 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT showcasing all of the memorable moments and never-before-seen footage from the collection.
“Iyanla: Repair My Life,” that includes six-time New York Occasions bestselling writer, non secular life coach, host, and government producer Iyanla Vanzant, has recorded almost 150 episodes and has been the highest-rated unscripted collection in OWN historical past throughout all key demos. The lengthy operating collection is a four-time NAACP Picture Award winner for Excellent Actuality Sequence and Iyanla has been nominated 4 instances as Excellent Host in a Actuality/Actuality Competitors or Recreation Present class, not too long ago for the 2020 season of the present. Throughout its most up-to-date season (10/31-12/19/20), “Iyanla: Repair My Life” was Saturday evening’s #1 authentic collection throughout broadcast and cable with African American ladies.
“The minute Iyanla stepped onto the stage of ‘The Oprah Present,’ I knew she had a expertise that was meant to be shared and I’m glad that she created the proper car to offer OWN viewers along with her therapeutic magic,” stated Oprah Winfrey. “Sunsetting the collection is bittersweet. I’m very grateful for her and the work she does and sit up for what unfolds subsequent from her reward of educating individuals to be higher variations of themselves.”
“We’re grateful to Iyanla and her staff for giving us this highly effective present that has, for almost the whole lifetime of this community, been a favourite with our viewers,” added Tina Perry, OWN president. “Viewers have associated to the struggles of these looking for steerage within the darkest of instances and with Iyanla’s compassionate knowledge, we’ve seen the enjoyment of overcoming ache that leads individuals on a path to true happiness.”
“The time I’ve spent creating and dealing on ‘Repair My Life’ has been nothing wanting phenomenal,” stated Iyanla Vanzant. “In my coronary heart of hearts, I imagine that ‘Repair My Life’ has contributed to the creation of a brand new style of tv programming, the place individuals get to talk and see learn how to handle points which were taboo. To have a community, a manufacturing staff and a crew that might stand in and take part within the manifestation of this imaginative and prescient has been humbling and most rewarding. My prayer is that ‘Repair My Life’ will probably be normal for others who’ve the imaginative and prescient and braveness to deliver private therapeutic work to the tv display.”
In dramatic new episodes (try the first-look trailer HERE), Iyanla helps those that are struggling, guiding them towards a brand new way of life and inspiring them to do the work vital for actual change. Via emotional heart-to-heart conversations and infrequently a dose of tough-love, Iyanla helps people confront unresolved points which might be inflicting turmoil. She coaches visitors and offers them the instruments to repair their very own lives, looking for to interrupt the unfavorable patterns. The brand new season opens with a dramatic intervention when actress LisaRaye McCoy (“The Household Enterprise”, “All of Us”) returns to Iyanla to finish the work that she began on her final go to. Iyanla solutions the decision to counsel LisaRaye who’s lastly able to deal with the underlying points inside herself.
The ultimate episode descriptions beneath:
(P) Saturday, April 10 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) – Episode: LisaRaye McCoy: Queen of De-Nial (711)
Actress LisaRaye McCoy returns to finish the work that she began on her final go to. This time round, nonetheless, somewhat than therapeutic the relationships along with her mom and daughter, she is trying to handle the breakdown inside herself.
(P) Saturday, April 17 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) – Episode: My Marriage Is None of Our Enterprise (709)
A pair who co-own a enterprise collectively and share eleven kids between them discover themselves at a disaster level of their marriage. Whereas he has one foot out the door, she remains to be hopeful that their union (and their livelihood) might be saved.
(F) Saturday, April 24 (9 p.m. – 10 p.m. ET/PT) – Episode: 99 Issues and the Corona is One (710)
A household with grownup kids feels disconnected and annoyed after being quarantined collectively throughout Covid. They shortly uncover, nonetheless, that their points with communication and co-dependency have existed lengthy earlier than the specter of any virus.
(P) Saturday, Might 1 (9 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT) – Episode: Soiled Laundry and Unfinished Enterprise (714)
The Giles household is again once more with extra unfinished enterprise. This time, Marc’s eldest son joins to settle a rating together with his dad, his youngest daughter confronts the grandmother who doesn’t like her, and his youngest son makes a run for it.
(P) Saturday, Might 8 (9 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT) – Episode: Taking Care of Enterprise, Shedding in Love (712)
4 feminine associates who’re on the prime of their recreation of their careers search Iyanla’s assist to determine why their romantic relationships at all times appear to fail. They quickly uncover that outdated wounds from the previous are creating blocks for the long run.
(P) Saturday, Might 15 (9 p.m. – 11 p.m. ET/PT) – Episode: An Open Letter to All Black Males (713)
A widowed father struggles to cease his two sons’ reckless habits, whose actions whereas grieving their mom’s dying threaten to ship these younger males straight down the jail pipeline, inflicting Iyanla to name in Dr. Steve Perry for reinforcements.
“Iyanla: Repair My Life” is produced by Bunim/Murray Productions with Gil Goldschein, Julie Pizzi, Erica Ross, Rob Cornick and Sean Rankine serving as government producers alongside Iyanla Vanzant.
About Bunim/Murray Productions
Bunim/Murray Productions (BMP) is the main producer of modern leisure content material. The Emmy Award-winning firm is broadly credited with creating the truth tv style with its hit collection The Actual World, which had moved to Fb after 32 seasons on MTV. BMP continued to innovate with the primary actuality recreation present, Highway Guidelines (MTV), in 1995; the primary actuality sitcom, The Easy Life (E!), in 2003; and the primary actuality cleaning soap opera, Beginning Over, in 2003. BMP’s present programming contains Maintaining with the Kardashians, Whole Bellas (E!), The Problem (MTV), Born This Method (A&E), Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Venture(Oxygen), Ball within the Household (Fb Watch), Limitless (Snapchat), Miz and Mrs. (USA Community), Household or Fiance, Iyanla Repair My Life (OWN), Crystal Maze (Nickelodeon) and Emily’s Marvel Lab (Netflix). BMP, via BMP Movies, has additionally produced Transhood (HBO) They Name Us Monsters (PBS), Valentine Highway (HBO), Pedro (MTV) and the Emmy Award-winning Autism: The Musical and Autism: The Sequel (HBO). Primarily based in Glendale, CA, the corporate was based in 1987 by Jonathan Murray and the late Mary-Ellis Bunim, who have been inducted into the Tv Academy’s Corridor of Fame in 2012. Bunim/Murray Productions is a division of Banijay, the world’s largest worldwide content material producer and distributor.
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What do you think? Have you ever loved the Iyanla TV collection? Are you disenchanted that the present is ending or, do you suppose the time is true?