Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Showtime is developing a new potential drama with former Californication executive producer Gina Fattore that is being described as a high-concept multi-cultural family drama called Holiday. There are no other details about the project at this time, though. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is developing another fantasy project called A Kingdom Far Away from feature writer Justin Marks. The project is being described as a fantasy adventure about a quirky family surviving together on a lawless frontier; a magical land where monsters are real and one young woman’s unlikely destiny is about to change their lives forever. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

CBS has committed to a new potential drama The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller called The Advocates, a legal drama that centers on a female lawyer and a male ex-con who team up as “victim advocates,” going to the edge of the law to right wrongs and fight for the underdog. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) is set to play reclusive poet Emily Dickinson in the upcoming film called A Quiet Passion that will follow Dickinson’s life from precocious schoolgirl to tortured recluse who saw only seven of her 1,000+ poems published in her lifetime. After her death though, Dickinson was recognized as one of the greatest American poets of all time. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Actor Peter Facinelli (the Twilight franchise) will star in the upcoming supernatural horror flick called Gallows Hill where he will play an American, widowed from his Colombia-born wife, who flies to Bogota with his new fiancée (Sophia Myles) to retrieve his rebellious teenage daughter Jill (Nathalia Ramos). After a car accident leaves them stranded in a rundown isolated inn, they discover the old innkeeper has locked a young girl in the basement and their decision to set her free has unintended consequences. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

Q&A SECTION (with Tierney Bricker and Team Watch with Kristin at E! Online)

Question: I am literally counting down the minutes until the season two premiere of Scandal! Give me some good news about my favorite couple Fitz and Olivia?! – Kasey

Tierney: The fact that his wife is expecting obviously complicates his relationship with Olivia as well, and in the season two premiere, we learn the two haven’t spoken in quite some time. However, they do share a moment that left us breathless…and they aren’t even face-to-face. Yeah, their chemistry is that good.

Question: Downton Abbey spoilers if you got them! – Christina

Tierney: Elizabeth McGovern says the world of Downton Abbey will be dealing with “massive change” in the new season. “There is starting to be a lot more movement between classes and that is funny, heartbreaking, disturbing, and wonderful. You find out a lot more about the characters because you see how they react to a changing world,” she tells us. “The kids who are growing up of course in the ’20s, [when] everything started to be much more liberated. There were a lot more possibilities for those girls than had been at the start of the series. They’re now looking to maybe have careers. So, that is the sort of dramatic thrust of a lot of the stories in Season three.”

Question: What’s next for Stiles on Teen Wolf?! While I like the more serious stuff with his dad, I kind of miss the funny side of him! – Sarah

Team WWK: Fret not, Stiles fan, you’ll be seeing all the sides of Stiles in season three. “They can expect him to get back to being funny, which is another reason we wanted that space of four months,” executive producer Jeff Davis says of what the show’s four-month time jump will mean for Scott’s partner-in-crime. “We could kind of hit the reset button on the characters and put them back into a place where they begin to feel human again after all these inhuman events. We’ll definitely get back to him being funny, but he’s going to have more drama ahead and probably some more complications with Scott now that Scott has changed so much, too.”

Question: Do you have anything on the NCIS premiere? I hear it’s going to be epic. – David

Team WWK: Michael Weatherly let us in on all the season premiere secrets. “It’s going to be an awesome thing. I’m stuck in an elevator with the beautiful Cote de Pablo. Tony and Ziva stuck in an elevator. TiVo that,” he insists. “It’s a massive season premiere. I would be hugely surprised if there was one person on the planet earth that didn’t like it. I’d be hugely shocked.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

PS: Please remember to honor all those we lost 11 years ago on that fateful 9-11.