Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The final two episodes of the Canadian series Saving Hope that has been airing on NBC over the summer will not be aired on the network, but rather have been relegated to online. Once the episodes have aired in Canada, they should be available here in the States at NBC.com. The episodes were to air on September 8 & 15. (Twitter and TV Line)

Actress Amanda Schull (Center Stage and Pretty Little Liars) has landed a recurring role on Suits. She will play Katrina Bennett, a tenacious assistant district attorney; described as an ambitious go-getter, who knows how to play people’s weaknesses to get what she wants within Manhattan’s D.A.’s Office and proves to be a foil for Harvey (Gabriel Macht). Suits returns to the USA Network in January. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actors David Meunier and David Andrews – both who appeared in this past season of Justified – will both have minor roles in the new NBC drama Revolution. Meunier will play Strasser, a tough and psychotic militiaman who works for General Monroe (David Lyons) while Andrews will play O’Halloran, a kind family man and former cop. Revolution debuts on NBC on September 17. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

TV TRAILER

Downton Abbey Season 3 Preview

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FX has put a new martial arts drama called Downtown Dragons into development. The project will be set in the underworld of modern day Chinatown, New York, focusing on rival gangsters who must rely upon traditional fighting techniques to maintain their territories after the triad bosses bans all firearms in the area following a bloody shootout. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Kyle Killen (the creator of the short-lived shows Lone Star and Awake) has another drama in development; this time with ABC. The project is called Influence and is a provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. In addition to helping their clients, the agency’s staff sometimes turns their powers to pull strings on one another. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC has landed another family soap from playwright-screenwriter Kate Robin (Six Feet Under) and director-producer Jake Kasdan. The untitled drama explores what happens when a successful NYC woman suddenly disappears. The lives of her husband, daughter, siblings and parents are turned upside down as they struggle to find out what happened to her while trying to survive the investigation and media circus that considers them as potential suspects, uncovering their darkest secrets. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Graham Yost, the EP behind Justified, is developing a drama for NBC called L.A. Woman, which revolves around a female spy in 1970s Los Angeles. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Michael Fassbender is attached to star in the upcoming comedy flick called Frank that is about a young wannabe musician who discovers he’s bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Fassbender). (Entertainment.Ie and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Lea Michele and Martin Short in Trailer for Animated ‘Dorothy of Oz’

Q&A SECTION (with Adam Bryant from TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: Have you heard anything new about Psych? — Ebony

ADAM: Looks like the Santa Barbara Police Department is about to get a makeover. The show is casting a new oddball (think Paul Reubens or Alan Cumming) who is brilliant at turning dysfunctional departments into top-notch law enforcement institutions. That’s bad news for Shawn and Gus, whose lack of professionalism bewilders their new overseer. Do we see unemployment in their futures?

Question: Got any intel on Covert Affairs? — Jacob

ADAM: Wanna know what’s in the file on Annie that Lena gave Arthur before she shot her and Simon? We hear that it’ll help Lena wipe her hands clean of the shooting, while simultaneously implicating Annie in some wrongdoing. “[The file] puts Annie in a bit of a gray area with the committee,” co-creator Matt Corman tells us. “The whole thing has been well-thought-out by Lena.”

Question: Now that you’ve seen the Castle premiere, what can you tell us about “the morning after”? — Brittney

ADAM: Based on Castle and Beckett’s post-coital glow and hilariously giddy morning chatter, it sounds like their (possibly kinky?) night won’t soon be forgotten. But it also won’t soon be replicated. Just when the couple seems ready for Round 2 (or Round 4, if you ask Castle), a comedy of errors will foil their plans — and force Beckett to do a bit of a walk of shame.

Question: Any scoop on Switched At Birth? – Miguel

Ausiello: Bay’s rebound boyfriend from Monday’s premiere? “He comes back!” reveals Vanessa Marano. “As we all know, Bay likes her boys. We did a count, and she has had the most boyfriends on the show — and that includes Regina, who, as we know, has had many good-looking men herself.” So will fists fly between her new guy and her other ex, Emmett? “Actually, there is a fight this season — a big fight. But not between those two characters actually — though Emmett is involved.”

Question: I’m so ready for new episodes of Haven. Do you have any scoop on what’s coming? Last we saw Nathan had a gun to Duke. I gotta know what’s coming! —April

Ausiello: The Sept. 21 season premiere overfloweth with testosterone as Nathan and Duke have at each other in a donneybrook tinged with more than a little supernatural weirdness. Luckily, heads cool in time to track down MIA Audrey, who’s been abducted by a faceless figure hungry for intel on “The Colorado Kid.” One Close Encounters of the Third Kind homage later, the hour closes with the introduction of many new questions about Audrey’s past, including one raised by a warning message she left for the world 20some years ago.

Question: I would highly appreciate any Nikita scoop. —Joseph

Ausiello: Nikita is forced to work with one of the Dirty Thirty ex-Division agents she’s hunting when a mission puts the two in Ari’s (and perhaps Amanda’s?) crosshairs.

Question: Any juicy new scoops on Once Upon a Time? The second season isn’t arriving fast enough! —Trippie

Ausiello: As a power struggle ensues in the newly magically enriched Storybrooke, Episode 2 will flash back to when the Evil Queen first met Rumplestiltskin. Also, series co-creator Adam Horowitz told Matt Mitovich that the show got Sebastian Stan back as the Mad Hatter for no fewer than three of the early batch of episodes — “and he doesn’t just show up to say, ‘Hey, I’m still here.’ He has his own story, because his daughter is still out there.”

That’s it. Enjoy!