Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Lyndie Greenwood (Sonya on Nikita) has landed a recurring role on the new FOX drama Sleepy Hollow. She will play Jenny Mills, the sister of Abbie Mills (series lead Nicole Beharie). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Roma Maffia (Nip/Tuck and Pretty Little Liars) will make a guest appearance on NCIS, playing Vera Strickland, an experienced, tough Special Agent who is on the cusp of retirement, who just might have some history with Gibbs (series lead Mark Harmon). (Liz Raftery at TV Guide)

The French TV channel TF1 is working on a 12-episode drama series called Taxi: Brooklyn South that will be set and filmed in the US with the following American TV stars: Chyler Leigh (Grey’s Anatomy), Jennifer Esposito, Ally Walker (Profiler), James Colby (Body Of Proof) and Bill Heck (Person Of Interest) and American film stars Jacky Ido (Inglorious Basterds) and Jose Zuniga (Twilight). The drama series will center on Caitlyn Sullivan (Leigh), a brilliant investigator at the Brooklyn Police Station whose stubborn character and recklessness behind the wheel have made her an outcast within the NYPD. She teams with Marseille-born Leo Romba, a happy New York Taxi driver full of energy and care for his clients, to form the most improbable and efficient partnership to solve crimes and mysteries around Brooklyn. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Tobias Menzies (Game of Thrones) has landed a role in the upcoming Starz adaptation of Outlander, based on the book series by Diana Gabaldon. Outlander follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. Menzies will play Claire’s 20th century husband Frank Randall, a professional historian with a deep interest in the 18th century and his own genealogy. He also will play Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall, Frank’s ancestor from the 18th century, a Captain in the English Army posted into Scotland during a time when rebellion was rife. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Steven Culp (Desperate Housewives) will have a recurring role on Revolution, playing clean-cut Edward Truman, a dignified authority figure. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

CBS has ordered a straight-to-series sci-fi thriller called Extant from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studio. The new series will chronicle a female astronaut struggling to adapt to life on earth after a year in space. (Lucas Shaw at The Wrap)

ABC has ordered an untitled cop from Dana Calvo that is under the umbrella of Shondaland. The series will be set in one of America’s most eclectic and vibrant cities, following an unorthodox detective and his methodical new partner as they solve cases that only seem to happen in the neon wilds of Miami. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actress Jordana Spiro (The Mob Doctor) has joined the cast of the FX drama pilot Tyrant that includes actor Justin Kirk (Weeds) as part of the cast. The drama will revolve around an unassuming American Family, Barry, Molly and their kids, who are drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Spiro will play Dana, the wife to John Tucker (Kirk) and with whom she works at the American Embassy as a cultural attaché. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Kimberly Elise (VH1’s Hit the Floor) has joined the cast of the upcoming Lifetime movie A Day Late & A Dollar Short that will star Whoopi Goldberg and Ving Rhames. The movie is about a woman (Goldberg) who finds out that she has only weeks to live and sets about finding a way to get her dysfunctional but loving adult children to reconcile with each other. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Judy Greer will star alongside George Clooney, Hugh Laurie (House) and Britt Robertson (Under the Dome) in the upcoming box office film called Tomorrowland. Details on her role as well as background on the movie, however, are being kept under tight wraps. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

Actress Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film The Road Within that will follow a young man with Tourette’s (Robert Sheehan from this month’s The Mortal Instruments), who breaks out of a residential home with an anorexic woman (actress Zoe Kravitz from X-Men: First Class) and his OCD roommate (Dev Patel from The Newsroom and Slumdog Millionaire) to take his mother’s ashes to the ocean. Sedgwick will play Dr. Mia Rose, who runs the clinic where the trio are patients. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)

Actress Kate Winslet will star in the upcoming box office film called The Dressmaker that follows Tilly Dunnage, who returns after many years in Europe to her Australian outback hometown. But this isn’t your average return trip home as Dunnage has revenge on her mind. Dunnage, a talented dressmaker, is coming home after she ran away as a child, somehow being accused of murder; hoping to make amends with her eccentric mother, who will be played by Judy Davis. The film is based on Rosalie Ham book of same name. (The Hollywood Reporter and First Showing)

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Q&A SECTION (with E! Online)

Question: Loved the Scandal stories! I’m dying for it to come back. Can you fix my withdrawal with some spoilers? – Tammie in St. Louis:

E! Online: Darby Stanchfield tells us she really wants Abby to get some loving this season. “It would be nice for Abby to be happy. She’s had the school of hard knocks,” she says. “Especially at the end of last season, it was a bitter pill to swallow that David pulled one over on all of them. And what she doesn’t like is liars and cheaters!” So there’s no hope for Abby and David? “It would be interesting to see more of Abby and David, but I also want her to branch out and try someone new,” Stanchfield reveals.

Question: Will Beckett accept Castle’s proposal?! Sept. 23 is too far away! – Kasaraleann:

E! Online: We totally agree, so here’s some Caskett info to feed your frenzy in the meantime! We recently caught up with Seamus Dever and asked him if he thinks that Beckett will say “I do!” to Castle’s proposal. “I think she is going to search deep into her heart and I think she is going to consider all her possibilities and she’s going to do what’s best for Beckett,” he said. Come on Dever, you’ve gotta give us a little more than that! After a bit of soul-searching, Dever admitted, “I hope she says…The fact that they’re in love and they’re good at what they do is all about the future of this show and the idea that all these things can coexist.” Woo-hoo! Let’s hope Castle finally puts a ring on it this season.

That’s it. Enjoy!