Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today, few though they may be:

TELEVISION

Actress Alex Kingston (Doctor Who and ER) will reprise her role of Dinah Lance, the mother of Laurel Lance (series regular Katie Cassidy) on Arrow later this season. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actress Sydney T. Poitier (Veronica Mars and the daughter of legendary actor Sidney Poitier) has landed a five episode arc on the upcoming NBC sequel series Chicago PD, playing a new detective, a role that will cross over on Chicago Fire. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Matthew Goode (Watchmen and Leap Year) will have a major recurring role on The Good Wife, playing a prosecutor who befriends Alicia (series lead Julianna Margulies) after having a crisis of faith and deciding to chart a new direction for his career. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Martin Donovan (Homeland and Boss) and actress Salli Richardson-Whitfield (The Newsroom and Eureka) will both have roles in the Lifetime dystopian thriller pilot The Lottery that features a world staring down the barrel of impending extinction. Remarkably, 100 embryos are successfully fertilized and a national lottery is held to pick the surrogates. As conflict, control and mystery unfold over this important scientific breakthrough, government interests and power begin to dominate one of the most personal and basic elements of humanity: the right to have a family. Donovan will play the series regular role of Darius Hayes, the calculating director of the country’s Fertility Commission who is willing to use any strategy to achieve what he believes is the greater good. Meanwhile, Richardson-Whitfield will recur as Gabrielle, the first lady of the United States who is desperate to have a child of her own. The show has yet to be given a greenlight to series by the network. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

That’s it. Enjoy!