Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Season 2 of Being Human (the US version) will return to Syfy on January 16 at 9PM. (Twitter)

Actress Emma Caulfield (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Life Unexpected) will appear on the new ABC fairytale drama Once Upon a Time, appearing as the Blind Witch from Hansel and Gretel. She will appear in the 9th episode of the debut season of the new series that premieres on October 23 at 8 PM. (Meg Masters at TV Line)

Actress Rose Leslie (the mini-series Downton Abbey) has joined the cast of Game of Thrones. She will appear Ygritte a Wildling woman that Jon Snow meets during his adventures beyond the Wall. The series will return to HBO for its second season sometime next spring. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

FOX has scheduled the two-hour season finale of Terra Nova (which only had a 13-episode order with the network) for December 19 at 8 PM. (The Futon Critic)

Actors Neal McDonough (Desperate Housewives) and Mykelti Williamson (24) will play the “baddies” on Justified when the acclaimed series returns to FX for its third season. McDonough will recur as Quarles, a Detroit mobster in a sharp suit who comes to Kentucky with visions of becoming a crime lord while Williamson will play Limehouse, a man who lives in a small black town in Harlan County and who will do whatever it takes, legal or otherwise, to protect his holler. (Mandi Bierly at Entertainment Weekly)

Actress Rachael Harris (The Hangover) will guest star on the new FOX comedy New Girl, playing Tanya, a quirky vice principal at the school where Jess (Zooey Deschanel) teaches. This could potentially be a recurring role. The series returns in November with new episodes. (Dan Snierson at Entertainment Weekly)

NEW WEB SERIES

Actress Shiri Appleby (Life Unexpected and Roswell) is set to star in the upcoming web series called Dating Rules From My Future Self where she will play a 29-year-old who receives text messages from herself 10 years in the future warning her to radically change her dating strategy. This project comes from Alloy Entertainment (the people behind shows like The Secret Circle and Pretty Little Liars and the web series Wendy). Appleby will also produce this web series, which will launch in January 2012. (The Hollywood Reporter)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Alexa Vega (Spy Kids franchise) will star in a new Lifetime movie that has just been green lit. The movie is based on the true story of 17-year-old Washington state high-school student Gaby Rodriguez who pretended to be pregnant in an effort to explore conventional stereotypes and the treatment of pregnant teens for a senior year school project. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Lifetime is also developing an original movie based on the hit box office film Steel Magnolias, but the contemporary remake will feature an all-black cast. Let the dream casting commence. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Director Nora Ephron is collaborating with Sony on a remake of the BBC mini-series called Lost in Austen, which is a modern take on the Jane Austen classic Pride & Prejudice. That mini-series followed a modern Gotham girl transported into the middle of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. (Justin Kroll at Variety)

Actors Terrence Howard, Brendan Gleeson and Sam Elliott, actress Anna Kendrick and 11-year-old America’s Got Talent finalist Jackie Evancho have all joined the cast of the political action thriller called The Company You Keep from Robert Redford. This film is an adaptation of the 2003 novel from Neil Gordon in which Redford plays Jim Grant, a former Weather Underground militant wanted by the FBI on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974. He encounters a young newspaper reporter (Shia LaBeouf) in search of a story and must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road, traveling across American and deep into his past. Kendrick will play LaBeouf’s former flame, a young FBI agent who provides him with information he needs to uncover the truth. Howard will play the senior FBI agent and task force leader assigned to take down Grant. Gleeson will play the retired Michigan Chief of Police who investigated the robbery in the 1960s. Elliott will play a marijuana dealer who was involved with Julie Christie’s character. Evancho will play Redford’s daughter, who recently lost her mother. Other cast members include Brit Marling, Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Richard Jenkins, Stephen Root, Stanley Tucci and Chris Cooper. (Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

First Full Trailer for Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ Directed by Joss Whedon

That’s it. Enjoy!