Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

NBC quietly gave legal drama Harry’s Law a full season order while giving new fairytale drama Grimm an additional order of more scripts. (TV.com)

Actor Derek Webster (Damages) is taking over the role of fictional New York City Mayor Robert Weldon from actor Joseph C. Phillips (General Hospital) on Castle. The role will be “beefed up” in terms of adding in critical back story details on the mayor’s longstanding friendship which allowed Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion) access to the Beckett and the team. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

CBS has ordered three more episodes of the medical drama A Gifted Man, now giving it 16 episodes for its debut season. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

AMC has purchased a drama project called Thunderstruck, which concerns UFOs and extraterrestrial visits. Producer David Eick (Battlestar Galactica) is on board to produce. (Deadline and TV.com)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead) has joined the cast of the action film called Snitch that stars Dwayne Johnson as a construction company owner who becomes a DEA snitch to reduce his son’s prison sentence. Bernthal will play an ex-con laborer for the construction company who is forced by his boss to help connect him to an underground drug dealer. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Q&A SECTION (with Kristin from E! Entertainment)

Question: I’m obsessed with Once Upon a Time. Scoop please!

Kristin: Hearing that Emma (Jennifer Morrison) will battle it out with the newspaper editor for a very important law-enforcement job. And Emma’s arrangement/deal with Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) will get more complicated than even she knows. That all goes down in the Rumplestiltskin origin episode.

Question: Once Upon a Time info please!!! Which story book character is the Sheriff? Is he good or bad? Sunday night confused me!

Kristin: He is not good.

Question: Revenge scoop (please)?!

Kristin: Prepare for the real Emily Thorne (Margarita Levieva) to stir up some major trouble on the ABC hit show. “Boy, is she back!” Gabriel Mann tells us of the real Emily, who will be crashing with Nolan (Mann) while she’s in town. “She’s a handful. She just jumps right into the middle of everything. The ripple effect of her presence will affect just about every character on the show. It’s major,” Mann teases. “I think Nolan is very, very, very curious about her and you’re going to see what happens between the two of them in episode eight.”

Question: Any Revenge scoop would be appreciated. Thanks!

Kristin: If you were annoyed that the show didn’t show Nolan and Tyler’s (Ashton Holmes) make out session, you’re not alone! Mann tells us that’s the only complaint he’s heard about the duo’s shocking hookup. “It wasn’t so much about the intimacy, the physical intimacy itself, but the intention of what that liaison meant,” he explains. “To have those two people hooking up, who are both potentially such grifters, and the monkey wrench that that could potentially through in Emily’s revenge plan.”

Question: I would love to get any scoop about Revenge!

Kristin: We’re hearing people (lots of them!) kind of like Nolan and Emily (Emily VanCamp) together, so we had to ask Mann what’s coming up for the revenging duo. “That relationship continues to evolve and become more complex,” Mann says of Nolan and Emily’s. “It’s fun to mess with her because she’s such a badass. How much do I have to do before she starts karate kicking me or throwing me against a wall again?” That’s not all he had to say about Nolan and Emily, but you’ll have to check back on Wednesday to hear what Mann thinks of the possibility of a romance brewing between the two.

Question: Why you guys never give the PLL fans a scoop?

Kristin: Because when we were in preschool we missed the lesson on sharing, but I guess we can tell you this: Remember that super-creepy doll that Alison (Sasha Pieterse) has hiding in her room? Well we’re thinking that the girls will be finding it soon because in an upcoming episode called “If These Dolls Could Talk” the gang meets Martha, the owner of a run-down doll boutique. This is probably the same place where ‘A’ purchased their eerie look-a-like dolls. Yikes!

Question: Can we talk about the end of Secret Circle, please?! Anything to tide us over until January?

Kristin: It seems like Melissa (Jessica Parker Kennedy) may finally be starting to get over Nick (Louis Hunter), her dearly departed BF. There’s one problem? Melissa’s new crush may get her into some pretty dangerous situations.

Question: Secret Circle post-hiatus scoop would be great?

Kristin: You know what else would be great? If we could go back in time and push Jake (Chris Zylka) off the boat to reunite him with Cassie (Britt Robertson), or so he could tell the gang there’s another Blackwell child in the coven. Sadly, we still haven’t finished our time machine. “Jake knows the existence of such a child, but the emergence of the second Blackwell offspring will be revealed in due course,” executive producer Andrew Miller ominously says. And for Jake fans worrying we won’t see his pretty face anytime soon, fear not! We’re hearing there’s still plenty of Jake action to come.

Question: Tell us about Grey Damon’s character on Secret Circle! I loved him on Nine Lives!

Kristin: Well, we loved him when he was on Friday Night Lights, so we win! “His character is a very dangerous guy for a lot of reasons,” Miller teases. “He’s confident and cocky and has a different kind of power than we’ve seen, but one of our characters will be drawn to him in a way that could prove dire for other characters.” Spoiler alert: it’s Faye (Phoebe Tonkin).

That’s it. Enjoy!