Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Well after yesterday’s long news update today’s update seems much simpler. Here are the news items for today:

NEWS

Congrats to all the Emmy nominees (they were announced this morning). Some of the big “winners” (at least for now) include Downtown Abbey, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Homeland, Game of Thrones and Sherlock (among others). The official awards ceremony will be televised on September 15. (E! Online)

TELEVISION

Actress Camilla Luddington (from William & Kate, the Lifetime movie and True Blood) has landed a recurring role as a young doctor on Grey’s Anatomy. (Deadline)

Actor Richard Burgi (Desperate Housewives) will appear in the season premiere of Blue Bloods when it returns this fall to CBS. HE will play Councilman Anthony Russo, the powerful, wealthy chairman of the Committee on Public Safety. Blue Bloods will be back on September 28. (TV Guide)

Actress Megalyn Echikunwoke (The 4400 and CSI: Miami) will be a series regular on the new CBS legal drama Made in Jersey that tells the story of how working-class Jersey girl Martina Garretti (Janet Montgomery from Human Target) shows her stuffy New York law-firm colleagues a thing or two. Echikunwoke will play Riley, the daughter of an ambassador and a Silicon Valley pioneer and a second-year associate at the law firm of Stark & Rowan. The series will debut on September 28. (TV Line)

Actor Santiago Cabrera (Heroes and Merlin) will appear in a number of episodes of Dexter during the show’s 7th season. He will guest star as Ethan Price, the author of a true crime book series about famous murders. Dexter returns to Showtime on September 30. (Entertainment Weekly and TV Line)

Actress Grace Phipps (The Nine Lives of Chloe King) will appear in episodes of The Vampire Diaries when the series returns to The CW for its new season this fall. She will play April, a natural beauty with a bit of an edge, who has some history with both Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen), but Elena will try to protect her from the supernatural secrets of Mystic Falls. The Vampire Diaries will be back on October 11. (TV Guide)

Actor Patton Oswalt (Caprica) and actress Sonja Sohn (The Wire) will make guest appearances on upcoming episodes of Burn Notice. Oswalt will play Colin Schmidt, a notorious smuggler who is just the man the gang needs in order to escape the grasp of the CIA and disappear indefinitely. While Sohn will play a high-level CIA director. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Marlene King, executive producer of the ABC Family teen drama Pretty Little Liars is in the early stages of developing a TV project based on her 1995 feature film Now and Then. The film centered on four friends during the summer of 1970 and starred Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, Rosie O’Donnell, Melanie Griffith and Rita Wilson. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Bryan Fuller, the man behind the quirky but short-lived TV shows Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies announced some news about the latter of his creations. It seems that the tale of pie maker Ned (Lee Pace), who was able to bring the dead back to life with a single touch, could be making its way to Broadway as a musical. Fuller told TV Line the following: “We’re working on something that is definitely a Pushing Daisies revival, and the idea would be to have as many cast [members] as we can to participate in it.” No other specifics are known at this time, however. (TV Line and Blastr)

That’s it. Enjoy!