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Taryn Manning (Orange Is the New Black, Hustle & Flow), Shane West (Gotham, Salem), Skylan Brooks (The Darkest Minds, Empire), Hart Denton (Riverdale) and Rutina Wesley (Queen Sugar, True Blood) have been tapped as the leads of No Running, an indie film being helmed by first-time feature director Delmar…

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 DuVernay…

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…

True Blood alumna Rutina Wesley has been tapped for a starring role on OWN’s new original drama series Queen Sugar, from Ava Duvernay and Warner Horizon Television. Written, directed and executive produced by Duvernay, the contemporary series is adapted from the first-time novel by Natalie Baszile. It centers on Nova…

Rutina Wesley, coming off playing Sookie’s best friend Tara on True Blood for seven seasons, has been cast as one of the four leads in ABC's period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc. A fictionalized account of the graduating class of Boston's first…