Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

GENERAL NEWS

Congratulations are extended to all the winners at last night’s Grammy Awards, including (but not limited to) the following: Goyte, Mumford & Sons, fun., Adele, Kelly Clarkson, The Black Keys, Carrie Underwood and the Zac Brown Band.

TELEVISION

Arrow, Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries have been each given an early renewal order by The CW for next season. (Give Me My Remote)

Actress Lisa Edelstein (House) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Scandal, but no details are known on who she will play. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Holliday Grainger (The Borgias) and actor Emile Hirsch will play the infamous bank-robbing couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde, an upcoming four-hour mini-series on Lifetime. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Syfy has finalized a deal to adapt the Philip K. Dick Hugo Award-winning novel “The Man In The High Castle” into a 4-hour mini-series. The story is set in a world in which Nazi Germany and Japan were victorious in World War II. The year is 1962 and the Axis Powers occupy the United States, where fascism rules and the few surviving Jews hide under assumed names. (The Futon Critic)

Actor Chris Cooper will star in the first-ever, scripted mini-series on the Discovery Channel called Klondike (the working title), playing the role of Father Judge. The mini-series is based on the Charlotte Gray novel “Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich in the Klondike”, bringing to life the tale about six strangers and their collective fight for survival and wealth in a small, frontier town in the remote Klondike. (The Futon Critic)

Actress Kim Raver (24 and Revolution), actor Scott Grimes (Party of Five and ER) and actress Gillian Alexy (Damages) have all joined the cast of the NCIS: Los Angeles spin-off. Raver will play the female lead, Special Agent Paris, opposite the previously announced John Corbett (Northern Exposure and The United States of Tara). Grimes will play Dave, a highly capable agent who has an eye for clues, a nose for lies and is the team’s forensic specialist while Alexy will play Special Agent Claire, who graduated at the top of her class at Harvard and trained with the Navy SEALs, lived with a British SAS soldier and loves all things military. Actor Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho) will have a potential recurring role as well. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline and Philiana Ng and Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Australian actress Adelaide Kane (Neighbors and the online series Pretty Tough and will be seen in a major recurring role in the upcoming season of Teen Wolf) has landed the lead role in the CW drama pilot Reign that chronicles the rise to power of Mary Queen of Scots when she arrives in France as a 15-year-old, betrothed to Prince Francis. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top ten box office movies for this past weekend based on estimates from Deadline:

1. Identity Thief – 36 million
2. Warm Bodies – 11.7 million
3. Side Effects – 9.4 million
4. Silver Linings Playbook – 6.4 million
5. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – 5.7 million
6. Mama – 4.2 million
7. Zero Dark Thirty – 3.9 million
8. Argo – 2.4 million
9. Django Unchained – 2.1 million
10. Top Gun 3D – 2 million

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

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

Question: Anything on Fitz and Olivia! – Tina

Team Watch with Kristin: They broke up, so they are done. Forever. Fake out! Of course Fitz and Olivia’s story is far from over (have you ever watched a Shonda Rhimes show?! This will-they-or-won’t-they dynamic is her bread and butter!) We can tell you that Fitz’s new secretary is not starting off on a good foot with Mellie when the First Lady finds out she’s been making time in the president’s schedule for phone meetings. We repeat: Phone meetings, which is totally Fitz and Olivia’s thing, no? Hurts. So. Good.

Question: Any Hart of Dixie scoop would be lovely! – Marissa

Team Watch with Kristin: We’re going to be meeting Tansy’s three older brothers in an upcoming episode, and you’ll never guess what their names are: Rudy, Rocket and Chicken! Rudy is the oldest and a Chris Pratt-type who is the family’s protector, Rocket is a little quieter than the others, at least until he starts drinking, and Chicken is a little off, the “odd duck.” Good luck, George!

That’s it. Enjoy!