Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do!) will have a recurring role on The CW mid-season series Star-Crossed. He will play Castor, the uncle of Roman (series lead Matt Lanter). (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

TNT has announced the renewal of Rizzoli & Isles, Major Crimes and Perception. (Variety)

Actor Bill Miller (The Young and the Restless) will guest star in an episode of Castle this fall, playing Mickey Gerhardt, a hot-headed Wall Street banker who gets caught in a hostage situation. (Marissa Roffman at Give Me My Remote)

Actress Eva La Rue (CSI: Miami) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Criminal Minds, playing Agent Mays, but there are no details on her character at this time. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)

Actress Mena Suvari will have a recurring role on the NBC drama Chicago Fire, playing Isabella, a close friend of Dawson (Monica Raymond) who is enlisted to help Mouch (Christian Stolte) with his campaign as President of the Chicago Firefighters Union. But although Mouch and Isabella have a strictly professional relationship, things heat up between Isabella and one of Mouch’s fellow firefighters. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

ABC is developing a drama project called Forever from former Chuck executive producer Matthew Miller. The project centers on Dr. Henry Morgan, the most over-qualified pathology associate in the world who has experienced it all — wars, love, even smallpox and malaria — but there is one feat that he can’t seem to accomplish: dying. Morgan is a 200-year-old man who spends his days working in the New York City Morgue trying to find a key to unlock the curse of his immortality. His investigative work with hard-nosed NYPD detective Jo Martinez will reveal elements of Morgan’s colorful life. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) and newcomer Mason Dye will play the lead roles in the Lifetime original movie Flowers In The Attic based on the best-selling novel by V.C. Andrews that tells the gothic tale of four young siblings, two boys and two girls, who, after the tragic death of their father, are subjected to cruel emotional and physical abuse resulting from a dark, long-hidden family secret. Abandoned by their mother (Heather Graham) and forced to endure unimaginable treatment living in the attic of their grandparents’ mansion, the children form a family unit of their own. But as the oldest boy (Dye) and girl (Shipka) come of age emotionally and physically while caring for their younger brother and sister, their family’s sordid past entraps them further as they try to survive and escape from the harsh conditions in which they live. Ellen Burstyn will play the children’s grandmother, Olivia. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Jeremy Piven (Mr. Selfridge) has joined the case of the Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt upcoming box office film Edge Of Tomorrow (formerly known as All You Need Is Kill). He will play Col. Walter Marx. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Actresses Elizabeth Banks and Chloe Sevigny and actor Josh Lucas have joined the cast of the independent film Little Accidents, which is about a 14-year old boy who disappears in an American coal town that has already seen its share of tragedy after a mining accident. The disappearance draws together three local residents from very different walks of life to struggle to navigate the web of secrets surrounding the boy’s death, unaware of how connected they truly are. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Actor Sam Trammell (True Blood) will play the father to the character to be played by Shailene Woodley in the upcoming box office film The Fault in Our Stars, which is based on the John Green best-selling novel that follows two cancer-stricken teens (Woodley and Ansel Elgort) who strike up a romantic relationship as they face an uncertain future. (The Wrap and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!