Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

===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]].