Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Wes Ramsey (CSI: Miami) will have a recurring role in Pretty Little Liars during the end run of the shows current season that will air in early 2014. He will play Rosewood High’s newest guidance counselor Jesse. The summer finale of the show airs this coming Tuesday. (Leanne Aguilera at E! Online)

Actor Shaun Sipos (Life Unexpected and the rebooted Melrose Place) will have a recurring role on The Vampire Diaries this fall, playing Aaron, who comes to college to escape his tortured past. It’s there that he meets Elena and the two will bond over the fact that they’ve both experience and survived dark family tragedies. (Jenna Mullins at E! Online)

Actor Nicholas Gonzalez (Off the Map) will have a recurring role on the new FOX thriller Sleepy Hollow, playing Luke, Abbie’s (series lead Nicole Beharie) ex-boyfriend who works for the Sleepy Hollow Police Department. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Meta Golding (The Hunger Games) has been cast in the new CW drama The Tomorrow People, playing a sexy intimidating new partner to series lead Robbie Amell. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Joshua Gomez (Chuck) will make a guest appearance on Castle this fall as a murder suspect who claims to have traveled from the future to prevent a cataclysmic event from happening. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Navid Negahban (who played Abu Nazir on Homeland) will play the latest “big bad” on Arrow this fall. He will play a new villain named Al-Owal, who has major ties to a group of baddies DC Comics fans know very well, which also connects him to Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman). (Tierney Bricker at E! Online)

Legendary actor Keith Carradine (Dexter) has joined the cast of The Following in the recurring role of Barry, a friend of Ryan Hardy (series lead Kevin Bacon). (Liz Raftery at TV Guide)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The Discovery Channel has ordered a remake of the classic mini-series North and South based on the book trilogy by John Jakes. The original made-for-TV movie aired on ABC back in 1985, starring the late Patrick Swazye as well as James Read in the lead roles. The story follows the epic storyline of two families – the Hazard family, northern factory owners from Pennsylvania, and the Main family, southern plantation owners. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) has joined the cast of the upcoming Cinderella film to be directed by Kenneth Branagh. She will play Cinderella’s real mother at the beginning of the story. (NME.com and Dark Horizons)

Actress Maria Bello (A History of Violence) is set to play the wife of actor Kevin Costner in the true story sports drama called McFarland that follows high school coach Jim White (Costner), who loses his job as a football coach. He moves his family to the predominantly poor Latino-dominant town of McFarland where he creates a championship-winning cross country team. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

First Teaser Trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘Pompeii’ Action Movie

Q&A SECTION (with E! Online)

Question: Clearly, Emily is faking her own death this season of Revenge, because there is no way they would kill off the star, right? – Phoebe

E! Online: We wouldn’t be so sure about that. Emily VanCamp did tell us that this season is “the beginning of the end of Emily Thorne.” Ominous, no? True, it’s a long shot that ABC would ever get rid of their leading lady, but it sounds like the writers do have some old tricks up their sleeves. “It’s going back to season one,” VanCamp says, adding that the love square or “rhombus” is back in full force. “It refocuses her conflict with the Graysons,” she reveals. As for Nolan, Gabriel Mann tells us that his character’s new trend this season will be “orange for prison jumpsuits.” Orange Is the New Nolan? We dig it.

Question: Any romance scoop on Teen Wolf? – Keegan

E! Online: Anyone else shipping Mama McCall and Sheriff Stilinski? ‘Cause we are! And yes, executive producer Jeff Davis is aware that fans want to see BFF Scott’s and Stiles’ parents get together. “We have talked about that. We’ve talked about it a lot in the writers’ room,” he tells us. “We’re not sure yet. though. I can say maybe, maybe not. If the chemistry builds and it’s there, who are we to stop it?”

Question: What is going to happen in Hart of Dixie, Parenthood or Castle? Ahhhh, withdrawals going on! – @Reneebrown84

E! Online: Eenie, meenie, miney… Hart of Dixie! By episode five, we’ll be meeting a number of new Bluebell residents, including Maisie, a gossipy tween who less interested in school and is more interested in Zoe and George’s love lives. There’s also a new member of the Belles sashaying into the group, tulle and all. Sadie is a bubbly yet quick-witted southern sweetheart who takes her position as one of Bluebell’s elite very very seriously

Question: Anything Pretty Little Liars-related will make my day! – Angela

E! Online: Red Coat may still be on the loose, but that’s not the only problem that the liars will be facing when the show returns in January. It’s easy to forget, but in between their text-message tormenting, our pretty little foursome are still in their senior year of school. And who is feeling the brunt of the scholastic pressures? Spencer, of course! Cue Brenda, an academic overachiever with a dirty little secret for her success. She’s willing to share of course, but only for a hefty price. Let’s just say that soon Emily won’t be the only Rosewood student with a history of popping pills.

Question: Any White Collar scoop would make me happy! (Anything on Peter getting out of prison would make me VERY happy!) – @Coffee2Go_Girl2m

E! Online: You would think that Peter would be giving Neal the silent treatment for that whole murder charge thing, but we hear by the middle of the season at the latest, Peter will not be in prison and the guys will be back on speaking terms. Those speaking terms might be of the angry and pissed off persuasion, but speaking terms nonetheless.

Question: That teaser you guys shared for Ravenswood was so good! I can’t wait to finally see how creepy that town really is! Any scoop to tide us till October? – Chloe

E! Online: According to Ravenswood creator Marlene King, the mysterious new cast is gearing up for their first official day of filming for the highly anticipated pilot, but we’re already focusing all our attention on the second episode! Why, you ask? Brace yourselves, PLL fans, because it looks like Ravenswood is going to be a billion times darker than those silly antics we’ve been following in Rosewood. Prepare to meet Olivia and Luke’s mother, Rochelle Matheson, a once confident woman who is now the main suspect in her husband’s murder. Damn! They’re really not messing around in Ravenswood.

That’s it. Enjoy!