Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Tony-winning actress Laura Benanti will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Good Wife, playing the new fiancée of wife killer and Lockhart/Gardner client Colin Sweeney (Dylan Baker). (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)

Veteran actor Louis Gossett, Jr. will appear in this summer’s new CBS drama Extant that will star Halle Berry, as an astronaut trying to reconnect with her family after a year in outer space. Gossett will play Molly’s affable but undependable father, Quinn, a retired doctor living out his days in an isolated island community, out of touch with the world and estranged from his daughter. Extant will now premiere on July 9 – a week later than originally announced. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actor Mason Dye (Lifetime’s recent adaptation of Flowers in the Attic) will join the cast of the MTV thriller Teen Wolf, playing Garrett, a new student and lacrosse play at the high school. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Clancy Brown (Sleepy Hollow) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot Agatha, that centers on Agatha (Bojana Novakovic), a former convict-turned-big-city criminologist who is brought in to help local police crack a case involving a perplexing disappearance. The chief detective she’s been hired to help is her father, Detective Hank McAuliffe (Brown) — and they haven’t spoken in 15 years. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead (A Good Day To Die Hard) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot Exposed that centers on Anna, an investigative journalist who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, including making questionable alliances. Winstead will play the lead role. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Tom Verica (American Dreams) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot How To Get Away With Murder that centers on ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor, Annalise Dewitt (Viola Davis), who become entangled in a murder plot that could rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Verica will play Annalise’s husband Tom, a psychology professor who comes from a long line of academic royalty. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Kaitlin Doubleday (Catch Me If You Can) has joined the cast of the FOX drama pilot Empire that centers on Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), a charismatic, savvy music superstar who is about to take his company, Empire Entertainment, public. Doubleday will play Rhonda, the wife of Lucious’ oldest son Andre (Trai Byers), a sexy, manipulative woman who shares Andre’s Ivy League background and intends to help him scrap his way to the head of Empire. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Nora Dunn (Saturday Night Live alum) has joined the cast of The CW drama pilot iZombie that centers on a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity, but with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories. Dunn will play Eva Moore, mother to the lead character Olivia (a role that has yet to be cast) and a hospital administrator. (The Deadline Team)

That’s it. Enjoy!