Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here is the news for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Dillon Casey, who has been recurring on the current second season of The CW drama Nikita, playing new Division operative Sean Pierce, has now been promoted to a series regular status. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Michael Weston (House and Six Feet Under) will guest star in an upcoming episode of CSI:NY as Frank, a former FBI crime lab agent who worked with Jo (Sela Ward) in Washington, but the duo’s reunion likely won’t be a happy one. They worked together on a case involving the rape of a U.S. senator’s daughter, which was Jo’s last case before leaving the FBI for New York. Because of Frank’s mistake in processing evidence, and Jo’s refusal to hide the mistake, serial rapist John Curtis (Jason Wiles) was released. When he strikes again in New York, Frank comes to visit Jo. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)

Actors Dean Cain and Eric Roberts and actress Kristanna Loken will make guest appearances on Burn Notice, which returns starting on November 3 with the final six episodes of Season 5. Cain will play Ryan, a cocky and dangerous CIA officer with years of experience in both field work and intelligence gathering who can sometimes be his own worst enemy. Roberts will play Reed, who makes his living supplying foreign, unfriendly governments with sensitive information about the US. And, Loken will potentially recur as Rebecca, a hotshot young CIA agent with counterterrorism experience who gets assigned to Michael’s team. All three will turn up in the season finale set for December. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress Sofia Vassilieva, who spent seven seasons on Medium, will have a pivotal guest-starring role as a rape victim on Law & Order: SVU. She will play Sarah Reese, a self-reliant, bohemian girl and shining star of her middle-class suburban family who comes to New York City on a piano scholarship, but loses her inner light after she’s attacked in her own apartment, according to an SVU insider. Her role will coincide with the debut of Andre Braugher, who has signed on as a defense attorney hired by Sarah’s attacker. (Michael Slezak at TV Line)

Actress Melinda McGraw (Mad Men) will guest star on NCIS as Diane, one of the three women for which Gibbs (Mark Harmon) married after his first wife was killed. Diane is the woman who married Gibb’s friend and colleague, FBI Agent Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano). (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)

FOX has given the new comedy New Girl the “back 9,” which means the sitcom is the first new show of the fall to get a full season order. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Tony winner Sutton Foster (Anything Goes) will star in the lead role on the new ABC Family series called Bunheads (from Amy Sherman-Palladino, the woman behind Gilmore Girls). The series follows Michelle (Foster), a Las Vegas showgirl who impulsively marries a man and moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law’s dance school. (The Futon Critic)

CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has set up a drama project at ABC with writer Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center). The project centers on a female undercover FBI agent who is a master of disguise. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files is set to write, direct and executive produce a mystery drama with a female lead for MRC that will be pitched to various networks in the next few weeks. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The men behind the Hawaii Five-0 reboot and the successful Star Trek remake have landed a new project with CBS. The as-yet untitled project is based on Robyn O’Brien, an author, researcher and mother of four who has become an unlikely advocate for cleaning up the food supply. It centers on a congresswoman, wife and mother who fights for the underdog. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actor Matt Barr (Hellcats) has joined the cast of the History Channel’s miniseries The Hatfields and McCoys, which is about America’s most infamous family feud. The mini centers on “Devil” Anse Hatfield (Kevin Costner) and Randall McCoy (Bill Paxton). Barr will play Hatfield’s oldest son. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Tom Everett Scott (Southland) is set to play the husband of Marisa Tomei in the upcoming box office comedy called Us & Them that stars Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as grandparents who are left alone to care for their grandkids, but their old-school methods soon clash with the more modern parenting style of their daughter and son-in-law (Tomei and Scott). (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Actor Jai Courtney (Spartacus: Blood and Sand) has landed a lead in the upcoming film One Shot based on the Lee Child-penned Jack Reacher novel series. In One Shot, Reacher (Tom Cruise) investigates what seems like an open and shut case of a sniper who guns down five random victims. The film is also set to star Rosamund Pike. Meanwhile, legendary actor Robert Duvall will have a small, but pivotal role in the film as well. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

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That’s it. Enjoy!