Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Adrian Pasdar (Heroes and The Lying Game) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, playing Glenn Talbot, an old school member of Bruce Banner’s supporting cast. (Eric Goldman at IGN)

Looks like A&E has pulled the plug on their new thriller Those Who Kill after only two episodes. However, It looks like the cabler wants to give the show another shot with a re-launch at another time. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

CBS has renewed the following dramas: NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Person of Interest, CSI, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, Criminal Minds, Elementary and The Good Wife. However, ne word has come down yet on the new drama Intelligence and the long-running The Mentatlist. (CBS Press Release)

Actor Jorge Garcia (Once Upon a Time and Lost) has been promoted to series regular on Hawaii Five-0 for the show’s recently announced fifth season. He plays Jerry Ortega, a conspiracy theorist and former high school classmate of Detective Lt. Chin Ho Kelly (series regular Daniel Dae Kim). (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Janina Gavankar (True Blood and Arrow) has joined the cast of the NBD drama pilot The Mysteries Of Laura that follow the life and relationships of Laura Diamond (Debra Messing), a female homicide detective who can handle murderous criminals, but not her hell-raising twin children. Gavankar will play Meredith, a tightly wound and perfectly coiffed detective who sees herself as far more sophisticated than her fellow detective and rival Laura Diamond, and it annoys her to no end that Laura is the precinct’s golden child. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Maggie Grace (Lost and Californication) has landed the female lead in the currently untitled CBS Wall Street drama pilot (that includes John Cusack as one of its executive producers. The pilot centers on Jackson, a smart, sophisticated, Wall Street hedge fund trader. Grace will play Jaime, a newly hired in-house legal counsel at the hedge fund who is smart, ambitious, savvy and has a conscience. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Justin Baldoni (Everwood and Undercover Bridesmaid) has been cast in The CW drama pilot Jane The Virgin that centers on Jane (Gina Rodriguez), a hardworking religious girl who, due to a series of outrageous events, is accidentally artificially inseminated. Baldoni plays Rafael, a former playboy whose life is at a crossroads. When he finds out his sperm has been mistakenly used on the wrong woman, he is forced to reexamine everything. (The Deadline Team)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actresses Maggie Grace (Lost) and Famke Janssen (X-Men) will reprise their roles in the next Taken sequel. (Mike Fleming, Jr. and Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Carla Gugino (Political Animals) will appear in the upcoming box office movie San Andreas where she will play the ex-wife of a Special Ops firefighter (Dwayne Johnson) who treks with him from Los Angeles to San Francisco to rescue his daughter after the Big One hits. (The Deadline Team)

Actors Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride and Psych), Jason Momoa (The Red Road and Stargate Atlantis), Drew Roy (Falling Skies and Shane Coffey (Pretty Little Liars and Perception and actress Haley Webb (Teen Wolf) will appear in the comedy/thriller Sugar Mountain that centers on two down-on-their-luck brothers who fake a disappearance in the wilderness so they’ll have a great survival story to sell. But the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned. (The Deadline Team)

That’s it. Enjoy!