Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Rookie Blue has been renewed for a fourth season (it will continue to air in both Canada and the US). (Twitter and Amber Dowling at TV Guide Canada)

BBC America has picked up the new Canadian sci-fi drama series Orphan Black, which centers on a street-wise chameleon, who discovers that she is a clone. The series will premiere in the US as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturdays programming block. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies and GCB) has been cast in a recurring role in The Good Wife. She will “match wits with both Alicia and Peter”, playing a top-of-her-game political reporter who wants to know more about the Florrick campaign and marriage. (CBS)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Derek Luke will star opposite Paula Patton in the upcoming film called Baggage Claim based on the original novel by David Talbert. The film follows a flight attendant (Patton) who is the oldest unmarried woman in her family. With her sister about to get hitched, she becomes determined to find a man in 30 days. Luke plays her long-time friend and neighbor. (Variety)

Actors Hugo Weaving (The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings franchises) and Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) have joined the cast of the cast of the upcoming thriller called Mystery Road about an Aboriginal detective who returns home to an Outback town to solve the murder of a teenage indigenous girl. Weaving will play a cop with questionable motives, while Kwanten will play a pig hunter. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actress Angela Bassett has joined the cast of the upcoming film called Olympus Has Fallen that will star Aaron Eckhart as the U.S. President who, along with key members of his administration, are taken hostage and a Secret Service agent (Gerard Butler) tries to stop them. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Watch: First Full Trailer for Rob Cohen’s ‘Alex Cross’ with Tyler Perry

ME: Damn, does Matthew Fox (of Lost fame) looked wicked in this movie or what? Not just in his physique but in the role – creepy!!

INSIDE SCOOP/SPOILER CHAT (from Team WWK at E! Online)

Question: Got any information on Teen Wolf? – Jacqui

Team WWK: Two words: bottle episode! “We’ve just started editing episode 10, which is something of a bottle episode as it takes place mostly inside the Sheriff’s Station,” creator Jeff Davis tells us. “It’s tense and dramatic and I’m quite excited to see how the cut turns out.”

Question: Anything on White Collar? It’s the best thing about summer! – Ethan

Team WWK: White Collar will take a political turn around episode 12, so be on the lookout for a senator character who’ll stick around for two-episodes—his actions are primed and ready to impact everybody.

That’s it. Enjoy!