Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

==Media==
===Movie references===
A portion of the 1974 movie ''[[The Sugarland Express]]'' takes place in Sugar Land. Many of the movie's earliest scenes were filmed at the nearby [[Jester State Prison Farm|Beauford H. Jester prison pre-release center]]. Other parts of the set were filmed in and around Sugar Land. The movie's title parses the name of the city as one word rather than two. It was among [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first films before he became famous. The film was the first theatrical feature film directed by Spielberg.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Sugar Land Express Gang|url=http://www.texasmonthly.com/content/%E2%80%9Csugarland-express%E2%80%9D-gang|work=Texas Monthly}}</ref>

In 2010, ''The Legend of Action Man'' was filmed in Sugar Land. The film was produced by Dingoman Productions, a sketch comedy group formed by Sugar Land residents Andy Young, Derek Papa & James McEnelly who got their start attending Austin High School together. The story takes place in the Sugar Land area and makes use of many of the landmarks there. ''Action Man'' is famous for being one of the least expensive films ever made, made on a budget of $200. Director Andy Young has written about the experience for ''Moviemaker'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.moviemaker.com/articles-directing/how-to-make-a-feature-film-for-under-200-legend-of-action-man-20110408/ | title=How to Make a Feature Film for Under $200 - MovieMaker Magazine | date=April 26, 2011 }}</ref>

===Music references===
[[Folk musician]] [[Lead Belly]]'s song "[[Midnight Special (song)|Midnight Special]]" discusses his arrest in Houston and his stay at the Sugar Land Prison (now the Beauford H. Jester pre-release Center{{fact|date=May 2025}}) in 1925.

<blockquote><poem>If you're ever down in Houston,
Boy, you better walk right.
And you better not squabble.
And you better not fight.
Bason and Brock will arrest you.
Payton and Boone will take you down.
You can bet your bottom dollar,
That you're Sugar Land bound.</poem></blockquote>

Country music band [[Sugarland]] gets its name from the city. They reference it in their song "Sugarland".

[[Bruce Springsteen]] recorded but did not release a song called "Sugar Land", about the economic crisis facing American agriculture in the 1980s.

===Newspapers and magazines===
The primary newspaper serving Sugar Land residents is the ''[[Houston Chronicle]]'', which is the only major newspaper in the Greater Houston region. On Thursdays, the ''Houston Chronicle'' offers a localized segment covering the Sugar Land area under its "Fort Bend" section. An alternative newspaper, the ''[[Houston Press]]'', is also offered in this area.

Additionally, Sugar Land residents receive local area news coverage via ''Covering Fort Bend'', which covers local news and political happenings in the Sugar Land area. Residents also are served by three free weekly newspapers, the ''Fort Bend Independent'', the ''Fort Bend Star'', and the ''Sugar Land Sun''. The ''[[Fort Bend Herald and Texas Coaster]]'', a daily newspaper covering primarily the Richmond-Rosenberg area west of Sugar Land, also covers news stories in Sugar Land.

===Television===
Over-the-air television in Sugar Land is broadcast in the Houston television market, which is the seventh-largest market in the United States according to Nielsen Media Research.

The city is also served by a citywide [[public-access television]] on [[cable TV|cable]] channel 16, which covers city council meetings, planning and zoning meetings, community events, [[Fort Bend Independent School District|FBISD]] board meetings, and [[Fort Bend County, Texas|Fort Bend County]] Commissioners' Court meetings.

The vast majority of cable subscribers in the Sugar Land area are served by [[Comcast]]-owned [[Xfinity]], which took over the Houston area's dominant cable franchise from [[Time Warner]] in 2007. Other cable options in Sugar Land include [[AT&T U-verse]], En-Touch Systems (which covers the River Park West and Telfair areas of the city), [[Phonoscope Communications|Phonoscope]], TVMAX, and [[Ygnition]] (the latter two of which cover cable subscribers in multifamily housing developments).

Sugar Land is the setting in the new Lifetime series, ''[[The Client List (TV series)|The Client List]]'' starring [[Jennifer Love Hewitt]]. Hewitt's character lives in Beaumont, but commutes to Sugar Land to work at a scandalous massage parlor.

Sugar Land is mentioned in Season 7 of the television series ''[[The Rookie (TV series)|The Rookie]]'', where the character Officer Miles Penn, portrayed by Deric Augustine, is said to have worked as a police officer in Sugar Land for two years before transferring to [[Los Angeles]].