Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY EVERYBODY!!

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Some new faces will be seen on the upcoming 5th season of Downton Abbey, as new cast members were recently announced. Actor Richard E. Grant (Doctor Who) will play Simon Bricker, who visits the estate as a guest of the Granthams while actress Anna Chancellor (The Hour) will have a guest appearance as Lady Anstruther. Actor Rade Sherbedgia (The Saint and Taken 2) will play Russian refugee, Kuragin, who has fled the Russian revolution after World War I. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)

Actress Sunny Mabrey (Memphis Beat and The Client List) has landed the role of Glinda the Good Witch of the South on Once Upon a Time, which returns for the rest of its current season on ABC on March 9. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor-singer Nick Jonas and actress Kiele Sanchez (The Glades and Lost) have joined the cast of DirecTV’s gritty new drama series Navy St. that is set against the backdrop of Navy Street, a Venice, CA-based mixed martial arts (MMA) gym owned by Alvey Henderson (actor Frank Grillo from The Gates), a former fighter who never made it big due to a drug addiction but is now sober. Jonas will play Nate Henderson, Alvey’s youngest son and the prized fighter at the gym while Sanchez will play Lisa Prince Alvey’s long-time girlfriend. Navy St. has a 10-episode order and is set to air this coming fall. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Jason Isaac (Harry Potter franchise) will star in the six-episode USA Network event series called DIG that centers Peter (Isaacs), an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating a murder of a woman archeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2000 years in the making that threatens to change the course of history. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Meagan Good (Deception) has been cast in the NBC drama pilot Babylon Fields that is about a town’s residents who coming back from the dead. Good will play Janine Beltran, a local doctor with an edge to her. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Leslie Hope (24, Revolution and The River), who be seen in the upcoming FX series The Strain, will appear in the upcoming box office film Crimson Peak, playing the gossipy mother of Charlie Hunnam’s character in the gothic horror story that also stars Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska and Tom Hiddleston. (The Deadline Team)

Hollywood is looking at producing a feature film about the long love affair between screen legends Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, who starred in nine films together, were madly in love off screen despite Tracy being married. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

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

Question: Where does Teen Wolf go from here?! Please tell me Stiles isn’t going to die, I’m hearing rumors! – Stacey

TV Scoop Team: Silly, silly TV viewers. Don’t you know rumors are for kids? Or, um, fans on Tumblr and Twitter? “It’s about dealing with are we going to be OK with that if [Stiles] does [die] and the fallout of this evil spirit being in him and what is the consequence of that,” Holland Roden spills of the rest of the season at Guess’ Fall 2014 Road to Nashville collection at New York Fashion Week. But will this evil spirit squash any chances of a Lydia-Stiles romance for the time being? Roden teases, “Lydia likes bad boys, so now that Stiles is one…dot, dot, dot.”

Question: Any Switched at Birth scoop would be much appreciated! – Lauren

TV Scoop Team: A definitive answer to one of this season’s burning questions: Will Bay and Emmett finally get together? “This is a very juicy season. Bay has this ongoing romantic, not romantic, will-they-or-won’t-they relationship with Emmett,” Vanessa Marano previews at Guess’ celebration for the Fall 2014 Road to Nashville collection during NYFW. “But it definitely ends up somewhere.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a nice long holiday weekend (for those in the US who celebrate Presidents’ Day!)