Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Ivan Sergei will guest star in an episode of Body of Proof, which returns to the ABC line-up during mid-season. He will play a mysterious Ukrainian who catches the eye of Kate (Ryan) at a political event. Unfortunately, they quickly get drawn into the murder of a young Russian girl. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Martin Henderson (Off the Map) has landed the lead role in the NBC pilot The Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives. He will play Kyle Dunn, a former flight surgeon and astronaut who returns from a long absence to finds something is different about the life he left behind. (Lesley Goldberg and Michael O’Connell at The Hollywood Reporter)

The CW has picked up a sci-fi pitch from Alloy Entertainment (the folks behind The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars) called The Hundred, which is set a hundred years after mankind destroyed itself; space-bound survivors take the first step to re-colonize Earth as 100 juvenile delinquents are released to the surface of a wildly changed planet, with the survival of the human race entirely in their hands. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Director-Executive Producer Michael Cuesta (Homeland) has teamed with Carol Mendelsohn (Executive Producer for CSI) for a new drama project at CBS called Second Sight. The potential series centers on a homicide detective going blind who turns his affliction into an advantage – using his heightened senses and intuition to solve crimes. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The 2011 Australian short-run series The Slap is being made into an NBC programming event. The story examines what happens when a man slaps a child (unrelated to him) at a suburban barbecue. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Chris Fedak, co-creator of Chuck will adapt the Midnighters book series by Scott Westerfield for FOX with fellow co-creator Josh Schwartz. The book series consists of The Secret Hour, Touching Darkness and Blue Noon; all of which revolve around a 15-year-old girl named Jessica Day who learns that she’s a “Midnighter” and able to access “Blue Time,” the 25th hour of the day. The FOX adaptation will revolve around a small group of people who are all born at the stroke of midnight who have access to the 25th hour of the day. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Legendary actor Martin Landau and actress Virginia Madsen will star opposite actress Agnes Bruckner (Private Practice) in the Lifetime original movie The Anna Nicole Story, which is a biopic based on the true life story of Vickie Lynn Hogan, a pretty but plain girl growing up in a small Texas town who transforms herself into Anna Nicole Smith – a voluptuous, Marilyn Monroe-esque Playboy pin-up and model. Madsen will play Vickie’s mom Virgie who raised her while Landau will play oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall who married then-stripper Smith when he was 89 and she was 26. He died a year later, and Smith spent the following decade in a legal battle with Marshall’s sons over his estate. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actors Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Christian Bale as well as actress Amy Adams have been cast in an as-yet titled David O. Russell feature film that is based on the true story of a financial con artist (Bale) and his mistress/partner in crime (Adams), who were forced to work with an out of control federal agent (Cooper) to turn the tables on other con artists, mobsters, and politicians. At the epicenter of the entire tale, is the passionate and volatile leader of the New Jersey state assembly (Renner) who is also the local hero and mayor of impoverished Camden. (Liza Foreman at The Wrap)

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend!