Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Columbus Short, whose character Harrison Wright has been on the show since season 1, will not be returning for Scandal‘s upcoming fourth season. The series has not officially been renewed yet, but it is pretty much a given that it will be. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Jake Weber (Medium) has joined the cast of the AMC western drama Hell on Wheels where he will play Harlan Fell, the chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad. AMC renewed the series for a fourth season this past November and it will return this summer for an expanded 13-episode season. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

TV SERIES TRAILER

Hot TV Trailer: HBO’s The Leftovers

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

FOX is jumping into the TV musical arena with the announcement they will put on a three-hour live presentation of Grease sometime in 2015. (Whitney Friedlander at Variety)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Jude Law will join actor Colin Firth and actress Nicole Kidman in the upcoming box office film called Genius that will recount the relationship between literary icon Thomas Wolfe (Law) and renowned editor Max Perkins (Firth) that changed both men forever. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1. The Other Woman – 24.7 million
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 16 million
3. Heaven Is for Real – 13.8 million
4. Rio 2 – 13.6 million
5. Brick Mansions – 9.6 million
6. Transcendence – 4.1 million
7. The Quite Ones = 4 million
8. Bears – 3.606 million
9. Divergent – 3.600 million
10. A Haunted House 2 – 3.2 million

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

Question: Give us some scoop on Supernatural (please)? – Brandon T.

TV Scoop Team: Prepare for a Supernatural first and a major cliffhanger in the finale. “We leave our guys in a situation they’ve never faced before, which after nine seasons, it kind of narrows it down a little bit,” supervising producer Andrew Dabb teases. “I think once they see the last frame of the last episode, I think people are going to be incredibly excited for Season 10.”

Question: Got any Pretty Little Liars secrets you can spill? – Benzoholic345

TV Scoop Team: Ah, you caught us, we always carry pretty little spoilers in our fanny pack. (Hey, don’t judge—they’re still cool!)As you know, creator Marlene King already spilled that a PLL movie is the goal, but just when will that happen? ABC Family has already renewed the dark drama for a fifth season, but could that be the end of our Rosewood residents on the small screen? “I don’t think the end of season five is the end of our story,” King says. “We know what that ending is already and it definitely sets us up for some more stories to tell in season six, but of course we have to rely on ABC Family for that, but I think they’ll think so too.” Are you excited for more potential PLL seasons?!

Question: I’m obsessed with Under the Dome, please tell me that I’m not alone? – Joseph

TV Scoop Team: Heck no! We found ourselves trapped by all the soapy-goodness last summer and we’ve got some brand new scoop on what’s ahead. Prepare to meet Hunter, he’s a confident teen who is particularly savvy when it comes to all things technology. He’ll definitely be helping out our dome detainees in season two to warn you—don’t get on his bad side!

Question: I’m stoked that Awkward is back, but I’m just waiting for Jenna to screw up her life again. Got any info on what’s ahead? – Sydney

TV Scoop Team: Jenna may be a ticking time bomb of bad choices, but Natalie sure isn’t! Who is Natalie, you ask? She’s a sexy single mom in her late twenties who helps give one P.V. senior his sexy mojo back at a New Year’s Eve party. (But we’re not spilling who!) We’ll be seeing a lot from Natalie in future episodes, so you better start learning to like her now…

Question: My mind is still blown from Saturday’s episode of Orphan Black. Helena is a…what?! – Emma

TV Scoop Team: Spoiler Alert: She’s a mirror twin! Her internal organs are the exact opposite of Sarah’s—pretty wild right? We chatted with Orphan Black’s genius creators to get the scoop on this twist. Graeme Mason explains, “Somewhere along in my research I discovered what a mirror twin was, and I told John and we both just flipped and said ‘That’s it!'” Executive producer John Fawcett adds, “It’s perfect because Sarah and Helena are kind of a yin/yang thing, and that worked exactly for our concept. And we loved it as a reveal for season two. We had never ever had any plans to dispatch of Helena.”

That’s it. Enjoy!