Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The new CW remake of The Tomorrow People (which debuts on October 9) will be welcoming back one of the original cast members of the original UK series. Nicholas Young, who played John in the original series, will have a recurring role, playing Aldus Crick, the scientist who first discovered and studied the original generation of Tomorrow People. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)

Actress Shannon Lucio (The O.C.) will guest star in Supernatural as April Kelly, a love interest for Castiel (series regular Misha Collins). Supernatural is back on The CW on October 8. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress Sally Pressman (Army Wives) will have a multi-episode arc on Scandal. There are no details on who she will be playing, though, but it is known that she will debut in November. Scandal will be back on ABC on October 3. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me and the failed NBC drama Do No Harm) will appear in the final five episodes of the current season of White Collar, playing Conrad Worth, a rogue stock broker who sees an opportunity to exploit the world of high-frequency trading on Wall Street. White Collar will be back on the USA Network on October 17. (Mandi Bierly at Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Kyle Schmid (Copper) and Linda Hamilton (the original Beauty and the Beast and the Terminator franchise) will be guest starring in Lost Girl when the series returns for its fourth season on Syfy in 2014. Schmid will appear in a multi-episode arc, but there are no details on what character he will play. Meanwhile, Hamilton will reprise her role of Acacia, the tough, sexy and ruthless assassin. (Shaw Media Press Release)

The Bridge is given a second season renewal by FX. (Variety)

Legendary actress Vanessa Redgrave will co-star opposite actress Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes) in the upcoming ABC 13-episode limited drama series called The Black Box. The series centers Elizabeth Black (Reilly), a world-renowned neuroscientist who appears to have it all, but is constantly haunted by her own struggle with mental illness. And that is not the only secret she’s kept locked away from her family and her new fiancé. Redgrave will play Dr. Hartramph, Elizabeth’s psychiatrist and the only one who knows all her secrets. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Zuleikha Robinson (Homeland) will have a recurring role in the upcoming CBS mid-season series Intelligence that stars Josh Hollway as Gabriel Black, a high-tech operative – the first of his kind – who has a microchip implanted in his brain. Robinson will play Amelia, Gabriel’s wife, an intelligence officer who has been missing from duty for some time. Intelligence will debut on CBS on February 24. (Jennifer Arellano at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

It looks like CBS is trying again for a spin-off from NCIS, this time possibly set in New Orleans. The planted pilot, which means an episode centered around the characters in the spin-off will be the focus of an NCIS episode – is set to air next spring and will be executive produced by NCIS star Mark Harman and NCIS executive producer Gary Glasberg. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Anthony Stewart Head (Buffy and Merlin) along with three relative unknown actors/actresses have joined the Syfy pilot called Dominion, based on characters from the 2010 box office film Legion, is set 25 years later in the aftermath of a catastrophic war between mankind and an army of angels. Head will play the president of the Senate of Vega, one of the few cities left standing. (The Deadline Team)

The CW is developing a western/sci-fi drama called Red from Bruno Heller (creator of The Mentalist that will be about the first human settlement on Mars and life on this new frontier, centering on the relationships between the town’s female sheriff, a doctor and a criminal. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Oscar-winning director Robert Zemeckis and The Glades creator Clifton Campbell have teamed up for a FOX drama project called Billy Ray about a family thrown into chaos when the child who was stolen from them as a baby is returned 16 years later after being raised in rural Alabama by someone with a questionable past. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is developing a drama project from Hart Hanson (the creator of Bones) and Andrew Miller called The Good Thief’s Guide, which is based on the best-selling book series by British author Chris Ewan. The project will follow the charming and unpredictable Charlie Howard as he travels the world, blogging about his adventures while stealing for fun and profit. Each season is set in a new exotic city and centers around one perfect heist that usually turns into a tangled web of lies and double crosses. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Starz is developing a one-hour drama called Gringo that is inspired by the non-fiction book “The Shadow Center” that chronicles a Mexican-American Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent who infiltrates one of Mexico’s most deadly drug and human smuggling cartels. (The Futon Critic)

Q&A SECTION (with Tierney Bricker at E! Online)

Question: Still in denial over Ezra being bad on PLL! What’s going to happen next?! – Beth

Tierney: Prepare yourselves because Rosewood High is currently in the market for a new substitute teacher. Yes, the ABC Family hit is casting a pretty new sub in her 40s, so it looks like Ezra may once again be losing the title of Hottest English Teacher on TV. The episode’s title, by the way, is called “She’s Come Undone”. Could that be in reference to our dear Aria?!

Question: How about some scoop on my favorite new show from last year, Arrow? What can we expect when it returns? – Jeff

Tierney: Even badder baddies! “Craziness, mayhem. We’re taking it up a level. Season one ended with literally a bang and this is going to get even bigger,” David Ramsey teases of what’s to come in season two. “A lot of bad guys, Bronze Tiger, Black Canary, a lot of stuff is going to happen. All the bad guys in season one, if they were nine, this season they’re 12.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

PS: Don’t miss out on all the new and returning programming that will be on tonight: Night Two of the Official Fall TV Season!