Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Brennan Elliott has been promoted to series regular for the second season of Cedar Cove, the first original scripted drama on the Hallmark Channel. He plays wealthy home developer Warren Saget. The series will be back sometime next year. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Showtime has given a second season order to the new drama Masters of Sex and a fourth season order to Homeland. (Cynthia Littleton at Variety)

Actress Jill Marie Jones (Girlfriends) will have a recurring role on the new FOX thriller Sleepy Hollow, playing Cynthia, the ex-wife of Captain Frank Irving (series regular Orlando Jones). She will first appear in the November 25 episode. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

TNT is developing a new action-driven drama pilot called Anonymous that will be about an ex-special ops soldier who discovers a global cover-up that forces him to go off the grid to help those who cannot help themselves. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Cynthia Watros (Lost) will co-star in the MTV drama pilot called Finding Carter that centers on teenage Carter, who has the perfect life with her fun-loving single mom Lori until a police bust reveals that Lori abducted her as a toddler. Now Carter must return to the family who thought they had lost her, including her biological mother Elizabeth (Watros), a tough police detective who was devastated by the disappearance of her daughter and will stop at nothing to catch her kidnapper. As she navigates brand-new parents, a twin sister, high school and boys, Carter vows to find Lori before the police capture the only mom she’s ever known and put her behind bars. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Janeane Garofalo (Reality Bites) will co-star in the drama pilot from cable network Bravo called The Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce from executive producer Marti Noxon. The hour-long dramedy is based on the book series by executive producer Vicki Iovine that follows the best-selling author of a self-help book series, Vicki (Lisa Edelstein from House), who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband (Paul Adelstein from Private Practice) and starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40s in Los Angeles. She begins to side with and take advice more often from her divorced friends rather than her married ones, and it leads her to some unexpected life-changing experiences. Garofalo will play Lyla, Vicki’s friend and a legendary entertainment lawyer who is a real shark but also fiercely maternal and involved with the people she loves. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

That’s it. Enjoy!