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EXCLUSIVE: True Blood is the latest high-end drama series to get its own rewatch podcast series. Kristin Bauer, who played vampire Pam De Beaufort, and Deborah Ann Woll, who played vampire Jessica Hamby, will host Truest Blood, which is produced by Safe Haven Productions, the company run by True Blood co-star…

Right in the middle of Big Sky‘s panel at TCA on Thursday, actor John Carroll Lynch popped up on the screen, to announce that he will be returning for Season 2. Details on his return are being kept under wraps. The character Lynch played in Season 1 was sex trafficking Montana state trooper Rick Legarski, who was shot…

EXCLUSIVE: Big Sky has set the first major new cast addition for Season 2. Janina Gavankar (Sleepy Hollow, The Mysteries of Laura) has joined the popular ABC drama series as a series regular opposite returning leads Kylie Bunbury and Katheryn Winnick. In Season 2 of the David E. Kelley series based on the books by…

EXCLUSIVE: Janina Gavankar has joined Eli Roth’s feature take of the Gearbox and 2K video game Borderlands at Lionsgate. The Way Back and The Morning Show actress will play the role of Commander Knoxx, a new, key character being introduced to the Borderlands franchise. She joins Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee…

EXCLUSIVE: Kamala Harris, who is Black and of South Asian descent, has made history in more ways than one as a Vice Presidential candidate. That said, Atypical star Nik Dodani rallied South Asians from film and TV for a NowThis video to celebrate Harris and to discuss the power of voting — specifically the South Asian…

EXCLUSIVE: The Way Back and The Morning Show actress Janina Gavankar is writing and starring in a female-driven monster movie based on the ancient Hindu myth of the Rakshasa. 108 Media will finance and produce the pic. Gavankar co-wrote the feature with her creative partner Russo Schelling, and the movie will be shot…

EXCLUSIVE: For The People alum Wesam Keesh is set as a series regular opposite Janina Gavankar in Echo, NBC's drama pilot from JJ Bailey, Davis Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Bailey, Echo is a high-concept, genre procedural revolving around a team of investigators who solve the highest-profile…

EXCLUSIVE: Janina Gavankar has been cast as the female lead in Echo, NBC’s drama pilot from JJ Bailey, Davis Entertainment and Universal Television. Written by Bailey, Echo is a high-concept, genre procedural revolving around a team of investigators who solve the highest-profile crimes by sending our heroes into the…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re hearing that Sleepy Hollow actress Janina Gavankar is in final talks for the female lead in Gavin O’Connor’s Torrance at Warner Bros. She’ll play the ex-wife of Ben Affleck’s character. Torrance, he working title of the project also known as The Has Been, follows a former basketball all-star, played…

Sleepy Hollow alum Janina Gavankar has booked a series regular role opposite Erin Foster and Don Johnson in Fox’s untitled comedy pilot (fka Daddy Issues) from actress-writer Foster, New Girl creator Liz Meriwether, 20th Century Fox TV and 3 Arts Entertainment. The untitled comedy, written by Foster and loosely based…

Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) has a new partner. True Blood alumna Janina Gavankar is set for a recurring role in Fox’s drama series Sleepy Hollow as Diana, a new character who will be introduced in Season 4. The new character helps fill the void left by the controversial departure of female lead Nicole Beharie who played…

With the fate of NBC freshman The Mysteries Of Laura uncertain, the police dramedy’s Janina Gavankar has booked a pilot, CBS' untitled hybrid comedy written by former Modern Family executive producer Dan O'Shannon and Peter Warren. Gavankar has been tapped for the regular role of Sabrina, though her casting is in a…