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Lords of Dogtown is headed to television. IMDb TV, Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming service, is developing a TV series adaptation of the 2005 Sony movie. The project hails from Shawn Ryan’s MiddKid Productions and Sony Pictures TV where the company is based, with the movie’s director Catherine Hardwick executive…

Izabella Alvarez (Westworld), Nia Holloway (Hawaii Five-O) and Hope Lauren (Supergirl) are set as series regulars opposite Luke Mitchell and Stella Baker in the CW drama pilot The Republic of Sarah, from Jeffrey Paul King, Marc Webb, CBS TV Studios and studio-based Fulwell 73. Additionally, Kat Candler (Queen Sugar, 13…

One of the busiest people in Hollywood just got a little bit busier with a Queen Sugar reunion of sorts. Ava DuVernay and her ARRAY Filmworks have re-teamed with Kat Candler to develop a one-hour drama series for TNT centered on the Texas oil industry. The latest project out of the sprawling nine-figure overall deal…

This week, Amanda N’Duka and I are excited to bring you a special live episode from the ATX Television Festival featuring Queen Sugar cast Dawn Lyen-Gardner, Rutina Wesley and Kofi Siriboe as well as season three showrunner Kat Candler. After an advanced screening of an episode of the OWN drama series from Ava…

The upcoming third season of OWN Network’s Queen Sugar will focus on the “journey of fatherhood,” the series’ new showrunner Kat Candler said at PaleyFest in Los Angeles on Saturday. “I’m excited about just watching the complexities of that relationship unfold,” she said, then raised some laughs when she added, “I'm…

Kat Candler, who served as producing director on the second season of Queen Sugar, has been named executive producer/showrunner for the hit OWN drama’s upcoming third season. She replaces Monica Macer who served as showrunner in Season 2. Macer, in turn, replaced Season 1 day-to-day showrunner Melissa Carter. Like her…

EXCLUSIVE: Just more than a week after Sundance Selects picked up North American rights to Hellion, the pic’s writer-director Kat Candler has signed with ICM Partners. In competition in this year's Sundance Film Festival, Hellion is Candler's feature debut and stars Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul, who was also a co-exec…

Kat Candler’s Hellion debuted in Park City last month, and now Sundance Selects has taken North American rights to the pic. Exec produced by Jeff Nichols (Mud), Hellion stars newcomer Josh Wiggins as Jacob, a 13-year-old obsessed with metal and dirt bike racing whose delinquent behavior begins to raise concerns around…