Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Carmine Giovinazzo (CSI: NY) will have a recurring role on the USA Network drama Graceland when it returns this summer for its second season. He will play Sid Markham, the head of LAPD’s Gang Task Force. Sid is more mind than muscle and uses his intelligence and ability to read people as a way to build relationships and close cases; but that doesn’t mean he’s not prone to acts of violence here and there. Briggs (series regular Daniel Sunjata) grows close to him, seeing Sid as a helpful tool in taking down a cartel. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Perrey Reeves (Entourage) will have a recurring role on the USA Network drama Covert Affairs, playing Caitlin, the no-nonsense COO of Ryan McQuaid’s (actor Nicholas Bishop from Body of Proof) security company. (Andy Swift at TV Line and E! Online)

Actress Michelle Borth will be leaving the CBS remake Hawaii Five-0 at the end of this current season. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Trailer: Words and Pictures (New Rom-Com with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche)

ME: Does this mean we may finally start to see a return to REAL rom-coms at the box office or just a tease of what could be if the movie industry would actually relearn what rom-coms really are? Just my opinion!

Q&A SECTION (with Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: Longtime reader, first time question. I’m a huge Scandal junkie and would love some scoop. —Kristen

Ausiello: This Thursday, we will meet the Grant teens, and the family dynamic is far from The Brady Bunch. “We had many happy years as a family, but they have been through a rocky road these last few years,” First Lady Bellamy Young previews. “You read ugly things about your parents in the paper and on the Internet, so yeah, we’ll meet them in a fraught moment. You can imagine teenagers in this situation and how they might react!” Of Lost alums Dylan Minnette and Madeline Carroll, Young raves, Scandal has “incredible, formidable actors who are so capable of carrying this complicated material” — and complicated it shall be. Notes the actress with a laugh, “It so humanizes Fitz and Mellie to see them try and parent! Nothing can undo you like your own teenagers.”

Question: I’m liking The Tomorrow People more and more, but its future isn’t looking too bright. Anything you can say to make me feel better about the odds of a second season? —Joseph

Ausiello: If the Season 1 finale turns out to be TTP‘s swan song, the show is going out with a bang… and a fair amount of nudity. According to exec producer Phil Klemmer, here’s a preview of what’s going down in the May 5 closer: “Someone will die. Someone will be stuck in limbo. The entire world might be ending or might not. [Robbie Amell] will be shirtless [and] will kick some very, very serious ass. Someone will lose his or her powers. A couple that we’ve never seen be intimate will become intimate. Someone will possibly lose their memory…. they’ll be turned into, like, a grotesque automaton version of their former selves.”

Question: Have anything good about Arrow? —KE

Ausiello: EP Marc Guggenheim told Matt Mitovich that next week’s episode is titled “Deathstroke” because it revolves around “the first huge move that Slade Wilson is going to make in his plan to exact revenge.” He also said that as the last episode leading into a brief spring break, it ends on a “bittersweet” — and “very messy” — note.

Question: Any chance we might see an NCIS episode featuring Gibbs and Tony undercover together? If not them, what about Tony taking McGee on his first undercover operation? —Julia

Ausiello: Asked about any such capers, show boss Gary Glasberg would only say, “There’s a bit of an undercover aspect to the McGee storyline with Delilah that’s coming up [on April 8]. We have some fun there.”

That’s it. Enjoy!