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True Blood’s Janina Gavankar Heads to Fox Comedy

SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 13: Actress Janina Gavankar attends the Maxim, FX and Fox Home Entertainment Comic-Con Party at Andaz on July 13, 2012 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images for Maxim)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - APRIL 05: Actress Janina Gavankar attends Logo’s “NewNowNext Awards” 2012 at Avalon on April 5, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images for LOGO) Photo: Chelsea Lauren/2012 Getty Images

True Blood’s Luna Garza, known in the non-supernatural realm as Janina Gavankar, is heading from HBO to Fox’s* upcoming show The Goodwin Games. The Scott Foley/Becki Newton-starring, single-camera comedy involves a trio of estranged siblings who try to cooperate in order to inherit their father’s fortune; it also landed in our roundup of the year’s most promising pilots. Gavankar has worked in the comedy realm on FX’s The League as well as The L Word, on which she appeared.

* Per the original sourcing on this story, this post initially said The Goodwin Games was on CBS.

True Blood’s Janina Gavankar Heads to Fox Comedy