Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Adam Brody (The O.C.) will guest star in two episodes of House of Lies, which returns to Showtime on January 13. He will play the owner of an adult toy company who forms a relationship with Jeannie (Kristen Bell). (The Futon Critic)

Actor Rob Benedict (best remembered as Chuck the prophet on Supernatural) will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Mentalist, playing Paul Friedman, an adjunct professor and PhD candidate who works in the same lab where a student was murdered. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

AMC has picked up the pilot Low Winter Sun for a 10-episode season. The series is based on the 2006 British mini-series that starred Mark Strong, who is reprising his role in this version. The series follows the story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption that starts with the murder of a cop by fellow Detroit detective Frank Agnew (Strong). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The USA Network is developing a new project with Law & Order vet Rene Balcer called DarkNet, which is a cautionary tale about trans-humanism inspired by something Ray Bradbury said. (Stuart Levine at Variety)

Actresses Amber Valletta and Tina Majorino and actor Rob Mayes will star opposite Sean Bean in the TNT drama pilot Legends, which centers on Martin Odum (Bean), a deep-cover CIA operative who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. Valletta will play Martin’s ex-wife. Mayes will play Troy, a former Special Ops guy with a “mission-first mentality” who now works as a federal agent with the DCO. Majorino will play Maggie, the newest member of the DCO field support team. (Variety and Fanhattan)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Mireille Enos (The Killing) and actor Scott Speedman (Last Resort) will star alongside Ryan Reynolds in the box office film Queen Of the Night, a psychological thriller. Reynolds will play a father who discovers a series of disturbing clues eight years after his daughter is abducted, a trail that leads him to believe the now 17-year-old girl is alive. Enos will play his wife, who dutifully checks in with police each year on her daughter’s birthday, and realizes that disturbing memorabilia left at her workplace is not merely there to taunt her but could offer clues to her daughter’s whereabouts. Speedman will play the cop searching for the missing daughter. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!