{
  "id": 17084046,
  "title": "‘Queen Sugar’ Author to Develop Novel ‘Friends and Family’ Into Series With UTV, Mary J. Blige, Gina Prince-Bythewood",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/queen-sugar-author-to-develop-novel-friends-and-family-into-series",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-29T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/queen-sugar-friends-and-family-tv-series-mary-j-blige-1236934220/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Universal Television is developing a series take on the Natalie Baszile novel “Friends and Family,” Variety has learned. The TV version is currently titled “Good People.” Should the project go forward, it would be the second series based on one of Baszile’s books. Her novel “Queen Sugar” was previously adapted into the series of the […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}