Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Martin Donovan (Unnatural History, DirecTV’s Rogue and the short-lived The Firm) will appear in the NBC thriller Hannibal in the potential recurring role of Jack Crawford’s (Laurence Fishburne) therapist at the FBI. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Victor Garber (Alias) will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Good Wife, playing a strict and meticulous judge. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

CBS has purchased two drama projects from Greg Berlanti’s Warner Bros TV-based company. The first is called The Shrine, which is based on the upcoming book by the show’s executive producer Nicholas Wootton’s father, Gareth Wootton, and is about a struggling Catholic hospital in Los Angeles that becomes a sensation when patient after patient is miraculously cured of cancer. Could it truly be divine intervention? A young female doctor investigates these “miracles,” only to discover that there may be a murderous impostor in the hospital. The second project is called Black Oak from writer/executive producer Julia Hart that centers on a woman who inherits the haunted hotel that has plagued her family with a curse for generations, forcing her to confront her dysfunctional family’s secrets, ghosts, and demons. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Shawn Ryan (the creator of The Shield and the short-lived Terriers) is working on a new drama project that has landed a pilot commitment at FOX. The untitled project is set in 1957 in the Territory of Hawaii, which is on a path to become the 50th state in the Union two years later. Statehood and tourism are about to make a few men very rich, and when the brother of a small-time Hawaiian hustler is murdered, he resolves to wage war on the most powerful man on the island. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

NBC has teamed with executive producers Lawrence Trilling and Shaun Cassidy on the family thriller project called Empowered that will be set in the pharmaceutical world that revolves around Charlotte Davis, the public face of Omni Health, a massive pharmaceutical company with its tentacles in everything from bioengineering and nanotechnology to the U.S. military. When Charlotte’s father is tragically killed and a mysterious stranger shows up on her doorstep claiming that Omni, and Charlotte’s husband , are responsible, she finds herself torn between her search for the truth and the company that’s always been her family. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

CBS is bringing the international best-selling book The Never List by Koethi Zan to the small screen. The story revolves around four kidnapped young women — three of whom are rescued. The book centers on Sarah Farber, who 10 years after the ordeal, is now a top trauma doctor at a prestigious New York City hospital in the TV version, living life on her own while continuing to unravel the mystery of the missing girl’s disappearance. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Amanda Seyfried will join actor Russell Crowe for the box office film Fathers and Daughters that will deal with two different time periods in the lives of a father and daughter who live in Manhattan. The first period is in the 1980’s in which a famous novelist and widower (Crowe) struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year old daughter. The second follows that now 30-year old daughter (Seyfried) who battles her own turbulent childhood demons in contemporary New York. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actresses Blake Lively and Ellen Burstyn will star in the upcoming supernatural romance flick called The Age of Adaline that will be about a 29-year-old woman who is rendered ageless after an accident. After years of a solitary life, she heads out on an epic but isolated journey, until she meets a man who might be worth losing her immortality. (First Showing)

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Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online)

Question: Revenge is so good this season! What can I look forward to? – Shawn D.

TV Scoop Team: You have until episode ten to find a wedding gift because that’s when an extremely posh wedding ceremony will be going down. One so big that reporters are even waiting outside of the church. The episode’s title? “Exodus.” Chills!

Question: Will Sam or Dean get a real love interest this season on Supernatural? And if so, where can I audition?! – Chloe

TV Scoop Team: Though Castiel will have a love interest this season, don’t expect to see either of the Winchester brothers find a special lady, with Jeremy Carver telling us, “I think you’re going see a little bit of everything. I mean I can’t quite comment on everything down the line here, but as far as the boys are concerned, there’s not a lot of time for [romance], at least here in the early going.”

Question: I really hate baseball season right now because it means three weeks without my new obsession Sleepy Hollow! Any scoop to make me feel better? – Amy

TV Scoop Team: We’ll finally start learning more about Irving! Viewers will meet his ex-wife Cynthia and teen daughter Mae. While they have a good relationship, Cynthia worries about Irving’s relationship with his daughter since he started working in Sleepy Hollow. Expect to see them stick around for a few episodes.

That’s it. Enjoy!