Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

It’s almost Friday – YAY! Is everyone looking forward to the weekend? I’m sure we all are, right? In the meantime, here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The hour-long Canadian series called Heartland, which is now in its fifth season there, has been acquired for reairing on the cable channel GMC, which is considered America’s favorite channel for uplifting music and family entertainment. The series will premiere there on April 14 with back-to-back episodes at 7 and 8 PM (Eastern time) There will be encores at 9 and 10 PM and 11 PM and 12 midnight as well as on Sunday at 11 PM and midnight (again all Eastern time). Heartland is a modern-day Little House on the Prairie that focuses on the struggle of a debt-ridden family of Rocky Mountain horse ranchers fighting to keep a dream alive against a backdrop of young love, conflict and intrigue. The series stars Amber Marshall (The Elizabeth Smart Story), Shaun Johnston (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee), Michelle Morgan (Stargate Atlantis) and Graham Wardle (In the Land of Women). (The Futon Critic)

Actress Jodi Lyn O’Keefe (Prison Break) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Los Angeles, playing a central role in an upcoming episode that has not been given an air date. No other details are available on her role. (Robyn Ross at TV Guide)

ABC announced today that they are cancelling daytime soap operas One Life to Live and All My Children, leaving only 4 soap operas on during daytime. All My Children will air its final episode in September of this year with One Life to Live ending in January 2012. (Daniel Frankel at The Wrap)

One Tree Hill is doing it again…they are going to fast-forward through time. But unlike the four year leap that happened between Seasons 4 and 5, this fast forward is only supposed to be months and will be contained within an episode rather than over the summer hiatus – that is IF the show is being renewed. No word has been announced if the show will be back for yet another season or not. (Robyn Ross at TV Guide)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actresses Jeanne Tripplehorn and Patricia Clarkson will star in the Lifetime original movie Project Five, which an anthology of five short films that explore the impact of breast cancer on people’s lives, four of which are being directed by Jennifer Aniston, Alicia Keys, Demi Moore and Patty Jenkins. Tripplehorn will play Pearl, an oncologist, who is the only character to appear in all five segments. Clarkson will star in the segment directed by Aniston. (Deadline)

Newcomer Alice St. Clair will play Kate Middleton in the Hallmark movie William and Kate: A Royal Love Story. The Lifetime movie called William & Kate, which stars Nico Evers-Swindell as Prince William and Camilla Luddington as Middleton, premieres next Monday. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Hugh Laurie (House) will star in the film adaptation of the Lloyd Jones novel called Mister Pip, playing Mr. Watts, the last white man left on the war-torn island of Bougainville where he is asked to open a school. He reads the kids his favorite novel, Great Expectations and as they bond over the book, they shed some perspectives on their own difficult lives. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actress Sally Field (Brothers & Sisters) will play dowdy, old Mary Todd Lincoln (Abraham’s wife) in the upcoming biopic Lincoln that is set to star Daniel Day-Lewis as the bearded, emancipating president. (Rich Juzwiak at TV Guide)

Actress Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) will join Aaron Eckhart in the box office film called The Expatriate that follows a CIA agent assigned to track down her former CIA partner and lover (Eckhart). (First Showing)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

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That’s it. Enjoy!