Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

TV viewing was interrupted last night due to a special address by President Obama in honor of the tragic shootings in Tucson so some shows were pre-empted for other programs or just not aired at all. In light of those changes, here is what you can look forward to in the weeks to come:

TV SCHEDULE CHANGES (all from Zap2It)

FOX will air the two Human Target episodes that were bumped last night to this Friday, January 14. They will air from 8 to 10 PM. These are the last two episodes of the season for the show, which moves out of the way to make room for American Idol next week.

ABC rested Better With You for a week and is moving the Cougar Town episode that was scheduled for last night to next Wednesday (Jan. 19). The two subsequent episodes will also slide back a week. Cougar Town then goes on hiatus for a couple months to make way for the new comedy Mr. Sunshine. The episode originally scheduled for February 2 will air after Cougar Town returns in April.

ABC will air an encore of the Off the Map season premiere after Grey’s Anatomy TONIGHT (January 13) in place of Private Practice, which will see that episode air on February 3.

NBC will air the episode of Chase that was to return last night at 9 PM to next Wednesday, simply moving all subsequent episodes ahead one week.

ME: And, here is the rest of the entertainment news for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Rachel Boston (American Dreams) will join the USA Network drama In Plain Sight, playing Detective Abigal Chaffee, a recurring love interest for Marshall (Fred Weller). (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress Leven Rambin, who has a current role in CSI: Miami, will be appearing in One Tree Hill in a recurring role. She will play a young woman Brooke crosses paths with as she explores adoption options. Rambin will make her first appearance on the long-running CW series in the season’s 19th episode. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Cheech Marin will make a multiple-episode run in the new ABC medical drama Off the Map as Papa, a village medicine man who has a great love-hate relationship with Tommy (Zach Gilford). Actress Elizabeth Peña will appear toward the end of the first season, as the mother of one of Lily’s (Caroline Dhavernas) ex-ex-ex-boyfriends. And, Ed Begley Jr. will turn up as a traveling dentist while British actor Jonathan Cake (Six Degrees) will play a guy who’s been in love with Zee (Valerie Cruz) for years and years. And, last but not least, TV vet Ralph Waite in an as-yet unrevealed role. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Nick Stahl has joined the cast of the FOX drama pilot called Locke & Key, which is now being considered for fall and is based on the Joe Hill comic, telling the story of Nina Locke (Miranda Otto) and her three children, Tyler, Kinsey (Sarah Bolger), and Bode who, after the brutal murder of Nina’s husband Rendell Locke, return to Keyhouse, his old family home in Massachusetts. There, they are pestered by an evil entity named DODGE that’s determined to hold the family hostage one way or another until it gets what it wants. Stahl will play Rendell’s younger brother Duncan Locke, an art teacher, who lives nearby and frequently visits Nina and the kids and who strangely has few memories of his time growing up in Keyhouse. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Jane Espenson and Drew Z. Greenberg are going to write the Syfy pilot-in-development Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), which is based on the classic British TV show. The pilot would be about Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), a detective who’s murdered while investigating a case. He returns as a ghost, visible only to his former partner, and helps him solve crimes from beyond the grave. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

Looks like the Charlie’s Angels reboot has been given a green light by ABC. The story will be set in Miami and comes from Sony Pictures TV and Drew Barrymore’s Flower Films. Smallville writers/former executive producers Alfred Gough and Miles Miller wrote the script and will executive produce. (Michael Ausiello and Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Frances McDormand is set to voice the villain in the new animated movie Madagascar 3, which finds Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith all reprising their roles as big-game animals who escaped a New York. In this chapter the animals reunite to try to find their way home by joining a traveling circus, with new characters to include an Italian sea lion, a Russian tiger and a Latina jaguar. McDormand will voice a calculating and goal-oriented animal control officer out to capture them. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan will star in the box office movie called Dibbuk Box where he will play a recently divorced father whose daughter’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic after she purchases an antique wooden box at a yard sale. He soon discovers that the box was built to contain a dislocated spirit — a dibbuk — that inhabits and ultimately devours its human host. The movie is expected to be out on October 28. (Jeff Sneider at The Wrap)

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That’s it. Enjoy!