Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

BBC America has renewed Orphan Black for a third season and the mini-series Broadchurch for a second season. (Tierney Bricker at E! Online)

Actress Gina Gershon (Rescue Me) will guest star in an episode of Elementary when it returns this fall on CBS. She will play Elana March, a socialite whom Joan (series lead Lucy Liu) suspects of running a notorious drug cartel. Unable to prove Elana’s ties to the cartel’s operations, Joan hopes to turn one of Elana’s accountants into a key witness for the prosecution. But Joan’s pursuit of Elana quickly becomes personal, with Elana demonstrating the lengths to which she’s willing to go in order to avoid prison. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actor Ryan Kennedy (Caprica and Defiance) will play Ricky Raydor, the son of Capt. Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell) on Major Crimes. Ricky is a Stanford grad and software engineer on the verge of his first big payday. However, Ricky comes back home to weigh in on some of his mom’s recent personal decisions. Those decisions will undoubtedly involve the recently out-of-the-closet Rusty (series regular Graham Patrick Martin) and Sharon and Ricky may not see eye to eye. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)

El Rey Network has already given a 13-episode second season order to their new drama Matador before the series has even debuted on the network. It will air its series premiere on July 15. (The Deadline Team)

The sixth and final season of the FOX musical dramedy Glee will consist of 13 episodes, which will run consecutively in mid-season. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Lifetime has ordered a drama pilot for The Clan of the Cave Bear that is based on the Jean M. Auel series of best-selling novels. The books take place at a time in prehistory more than 25,000 years ago when Neanderthals shared the Earth with the first early modern humans and a band of cave dwellers adopt blond and blue-eyed Ayla, a child of the “Others.” As Ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage, she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of Broud, who will one day be clan leader. The pilot is set for a potential 2015 launch. (The Futon Critic)

Syfy has given a green light to a pilot for The Magicians that is an adaptation of the best-selling fantasy book trilogy by Lev Grossman, which revolves around a group of New York twentysomethings who, while studying magic, discover the fantasy world they read about as children is all too real and poses a grave danger to humanity. (The Deadline Team)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Actress Rebecca Ferguson (The White Queen) will play the female lead opposite Tom Cruise in the upcoming film Mission: Impossible 5. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

That’s it. Enjoy!