Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

I think my updates can now get back to normal after being gone for 5 days, attending Comic Con and coming home to a dead computer. At least I hope it’s slowly getting back to normal…

Regardless, now that I have the 3-part entertainment update for July 21 to 27 out of the way, here are the news items for today’s update:

COMIC CON NEWS

The biggest winners and losers of Comic Con 2010

TV NEWS

Jim Beaver (Supernatural) will make a one-time guest appearance on the new NBC series Law & Order: Los Angeles. (Zap2It)

ABC Entertainment Group President Steve McPherson resigned from his position yesterday, just days before the network’s session at the Television Critics Association’s Summer Press Tour. (Deadline Hollywood Daily and Variety)

Noah Munck has been promoted to series regular on the Nickelodeon series iCarly. (TV Guide)

Marc Cherry, creator of Desperate Housewives has had a change of heart, he announced at the Television Critics Association press tour this morning that he could see handling off the show to someone else to run it after the coming 7th season ends. This is a complete reversal of his comments made in 2007. Cherry also gave more details about the new cast additions Brian Austin Green (Beverly Hills, 90210), who plays a hunky contractor who gets involved with Bree (Marcia Cross); and Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty), who will play the wife of a Major League Baseball player and Lynette’s (Felicity Huffman) former college pal who moves to Wisteria Lane. (Deadline Hollywood Daily)

DVD ANNOUNCEMENT

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BOX OFFICE NEWS

Casting for the vampire western High Midnight is set to include William Baldwin, Thomas Kretschmann, Ted Raimi and Kevin Weisman. Vincent D’Onofrio, Elizabeth Hurley, Taylor Nichols and Emilio Rivera are also set to star. (Shock Til You Drop and Dark Horizons)

Lena Headey (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Michael Ironside (Terminator Salvation) are to star in the thriller Safe House, which follows a team of US Marshals charged with protecting a mob-trial witness and her teenage daughter who have relocated to an isolated compound high in the Californian Rockies. Despite its security, the compound’s past is steeped in mystery and violence. Kate Mara and Michael Trucco may also be part of the cast, but no confirmations have been made on that yet. (Dark Horizons and Deadline Hollywood Daily)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Syfy is developing an online prequel to Battlestar Galactica entitled Blood & Chrome, which would focus on the life of William Adama during the first Cylon War. The project would consist of nine to ten episodes of roughly ten minutes each. (Maureen Ryan at the Chicago Tribune)

Anson Mount (Conviction) and Dominique McElligott (The Guard) will star in the AMC period drama pilot Hell on Wheels. Mount will play Cullen, a former slave owner and a Confederate soldier determined to avenge the rape/murder of his beloved wife by tracking and killing the Union soldiers who killed her who ends up working on the Transcontinental Railroad. McElligott will play Lily Bell, an intelligent woman taking care of her ill husband who is part of the team of surveyors mapping the railroad’s course. (Deadline Hollywood Daily)

Isaiah Mustafa will appear in the movie Horrible Bosses alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Q&A SECTION (with the TV gurus at TV Guide)

Question: Got any scoop on The Vampire Diaries’ new season? — Tara

MICKEY: The presence of werewolves in Mystic Falls makes uncomfortable bedfellows of the brothers Salvatore and Alaric. “What I love about Alaric and Damon is that they are both hopeless romantics blinded by love,” Ian Somerhalder tells us. Conveniently, a hottie grad student from Duke will round out their wolf-hunting pack.

Question: Will we see both universes equally next season on Fringe? — Liam

MICKEY: We’re hearing that, at least initially, we’ll see more of “over there.” Executive producer J.H. Wyatt wants viewers to enjoy their visit to the alternate universe. “We’re hoping that the audience will get behind the coolness of the other side, a world where John Lennon still exists and Martin Luther King is still alive, and that it’s actually a harder place to live.” Just ask Olivia, whose plight in captivity will be the subject of the early episodes.

Question: When will Brennan get to meet Booth’s new love interest on Bones? — Evan

ADAM: Booth’s new journalist-girlfriend, who will be played by Kathryn Winnick (House), turns up stateside to surprise Booth in Episode 2, but not before Bones gives Booth a little extra grief about his decision to leave his new love behind in Afghanistan.

Question: I want poor Erica to have a boyfriend on V. Please tell me it’s going to happen this season. — Michelle

MICKEY: Elizabeth Mitchell says she might be at the center of another love triangle. But will Erica succumb to the odd, deepening chemistry she has with Father Jack? Or Hobbs’ raw sexual magnetism? “Erica is going to get together with somebody, but I can’t say who,” she tells us. Care to guess in the comments?

Question: Any scoop on Smallville’s final season? I can’t wait to see Clark become Superman. — Zach

ADAM: Well, wait you must, it seems. “We’ve got 22 episodes to do it,” says executive producer Kelly Souders. “[Clark] has a few more obstacles and lessons to learn. When you look at the show right now, he’s definitely not the Superman — the bright light, the inspirational guy — that he will be by the end of the season. He’s still in sort of a dark hour. There are things that he’s internally wrestling with, and he really has to get over that in order to become that inspirational hope.”

Question: Got any Supernatural spoilers? — Samantha

ADAM: The show is adding a new angel who’s gone a bit rogue. The possibly recurring character is described as an attractive charmer who appears slightly manic on the surface but carries a great sadness.

That’s it. Enjoy!