Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actors Roger Bart (Desperate Housewives), Edward Furlong (Terminator 2) and Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) will all make guest appearances on the new TNT crime dram Perception, which is set to air next summer. Perception stars Eric McCormack from Will & Grace fame. (William Keck at TV Guide)

CBS has picked up 2 Broke Girls for a full season. (Twitter)

Actor Eric Bruskotter (Six Feet Under) will appear in a major recurring role on Glee as a love interest for Coach Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones). He will play a recruiter who comes to McKinley High for talent but ends up having eyes for the coach. (Michael Slezak at TV Line)

Actor Lex Medlin will return to Drop Dead Diva for season four (coming sometime next year to Lifetime) as a series regular. He plays Judge Owen French (Jane’s new boyfriend). (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Emmy winner Charles S. Dutton will guest star on Criminal Minds, as Tony Colt, a Philadelphia boxing trainer who learns that his favorite pupil, whom he’s mentored like a son, turns out to be the violent serial killer that brings the BAU to the city. (Joyce Eng at TV Guide)

Model-turned actress Molly Sims (Las Vegas) will guest star on the Royal Pains finale set to air this winter. She will play Grace Hay Adams, a supermodel-turned-magazine editor who successfully turned her life around after a tragic accident. Additionally, actress Tsai Chin (she played Cristina’s mom on Grey’s Anatomy, will also guest star, playing Mrs. Sesumi, the grandmother to three rambunctious teens. (Megan Masters at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

A new hour-long project for ABC will team Jon Favreau and Seth Green (as well as Roberto Orci and Michael Daugherty) in a project that brings “an X-Files sensibility to Capitol Hill. The project is being called Secret Cabinet with this tagline: A procedural following a newly-elected president and his secret cabinet, the government’s covert team of America’s most elite minds who investigate and protect our nation from the strangest occurrences and conspiracy theory truths out there.” (Lynette Rice at Entertainment Weekly)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Kristin Davis (Sex and the City) will star and executive producer the Lifetime movie called Of Two Minds that deals with mental illness. Actress Tammy Blanchard will also star in the story that chronicles the relationship between a woman (Davis) and her younger sister (Blanchard), who has schizophrenia. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Robert Downey Jr. will be teaming with Warner Bros. to relaunch the Perry Mason franchise as a feature film. (Jeff Sneider at Variety)

Actor Rodrigo Santoro (300 and Love Actually) and actress Jamie Alexander (Thor and Kyle XY) will co-star with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action thriller called Last Stand that has Schwarzenegger playing the sheriff in a small town who runs up against an escaped drug cartel leader heading for the Mexican border. Santoro will play the party-loving fellow officer Frank Martinez while Alexander will play Sarah Torrance, a beautiful cop who enjoys a playful romance with Martinez. Peter Stormare (Prison Break) and Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) co-star. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

Actress Julia Stiles has signed to star in the upcoming film called The Silver Linings Playbook that stars Bradley Cooper as a teacher institutionalized for depression who falls for an unstable woman (Jennifer Lawrence) while trying to win back his estranged wife. Stiles will play the older sister of Lawrence’s character. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actor Jeremy Irvine (who will be seen in the upcoming movie War Horse) will play Pip in the latest film adaptation of the classic Dickens tale Great Expectations. Among the other cast members are Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, Robbie Coltrane, Sally Hawkins and Holliday Grainger also star. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Q&A SECTION (with Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: Will there be a Glee Halloween episode this year? —Katie

Ausiello: No. The show goes on a three-week hiatus after this week’s episode, returning on Nov. 1 with the non-pumpkin themed “Pot O’ Gold.”

Question: Is Supernatural planning any meta episodes this season? The season has been pretty dark so far. I need a pick-me-up. —Patty

Ausiello: I have a hunch the Nov. 18 episode, titled “Season 7, Time For a Wedding,” should quench your meta/humor thirst. (And before you ask, yes, one of the brothers is the groom.)

Question: Any inside gossip on The Vampire Diaries? —Bridii

Ausiello: Rumor has it the Oct. 13 episode, “The Reckoning,” is going to be E-P-I-C. Basically, Klaus goes totally off the rails and no one is safe — especially not Elena, Stefan and Tyler.

Question: Words cannot express how excited I am that True Blood‘s Kristin Bauer van Straten is playing Maleficient on Once Upon a Time. Any plot details? —Cynthia

Ausiello: My crystal ball is showing me… a catfight of mythic proportions! “In our world, Maleficient is the Evil Queen’s oldest friend — and someone she wishes would just drop dead,” reveals exec producer Edward Kitsis. “That’s what happens when evil befriends evil.” Adds fellow EP Adam Horowtiz: “To go toe to toe with our Evil Queen we needed an iconic character — which led us to introduce Maleficient. And as huge fans of Kristin’s we couldn’t imagine anyone better to come in and bring her to life.”

Question: Once Upon a Time scoop, please! —Meg

Ausiello: Later this season, Kitsis and Horowtiz will introduce another iconic diva — The Blind Witch from Hansel and Gretel! Now read the official character description and tell me if this doesn’t scream another True Blood alum: “She lives in a gingerbread house and likes to dine on small children. She’s incredibly scary and frightening. Although blind, she’s also intense, strong, and calculating — no pushover, even for a grown man. Rather than hunting her prey (children), she uses her gingerbread house to lure unsuspecting young wanderers to her, only springing into action once they’ve stepped squarely into her trap.” Um, hello — Michelle Forbes!

That’s it. Enjoy!