Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Legendary actress Jane Curtin (Kate & Allie and 3rd Rock From the Sun) has been added as a series regular to the new CBS drama Unforgettable. She will play Jane Webster, an acerbic and demanding Inspector who was running the Medical Examiner’s office in Manhattan until being demoted to the Queens Police Department for mouthing off one too many times. Although she is a brilliant forensic pathologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of New York crime, she refuses to be pigeonholed as merely a crime fighter, and even teaches a course in Romantic Poetry at New School. Carrie will soon come to rely on Jane’s deductive prowess and historical expertise to help solve the murder of her own sister more than two decades ago. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Becki Newton (Ugly Betty) will appear as a potential love interest for Barney on How I Met Your Mother. She is expected to recur throughout the show’s current season. Her character is named Quinn and her appearance comes on the heels of Barney’s breakup with Nora and subsequent rejection from Robin. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress Emily Rose (Haven) will guest star on Harry’s Law, playing a woman attempting to adopt an escaped gorilla. This will be the same episode for which Smallville’s Erica Durance appears. (Megan Masters at TV Line)

Actor Roger Bart (Desperate Housewives) will guest star on an upcoming episode of the new ABC drama Revenge, playing a rich, pretentious journalist who is writing a tell-all book on the Hamptons elite. (Entertainment Weekly and Megan Masters at TV Line)

Actress Meredith Baxter (Family Ties) will guest star on the ABC Family series Switched at Birth, playing Bonnie Tamblyn Dixon, the mother of Kathryn (Lea Thompson) and biological grandmother to Daphne (Katie LeClerc). Sparks fly and tension rise when she arrives for a family visit. The series returns on January 3 at 8 PM. (Robyn Ross at TV Guide)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

NBC has given a pilot order to The Munsters, an imaginative reinvention of the classic 60’s comedy from Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller. Word is that the network envisions the new Munsters as a potential summer or event series. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Writer Melissa Rosenberg (the writer of the film adaptations of the Twilight franchise) will write and executive produce one of two dramas for ABC. Her project centers on the widow of an assassinated criminal who is suddenly forced to adopt her late husband’s role in order to protect her family. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Ron Perlman (Sons of Anarchy) has joined the cast of the upcoming film Pacific Rim that is being called a “very, very beautiful poem to giant monsters” according to director Guillermo del Toro. The cast includes Idris Elba, Charlie Day and Charlie Hunnam. (Wired and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!