Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Leslie Hope (24 and Revolution) has landed a recurring role on the FX drama Tyrant, playing Lea Exley in the final three episodes of the season. (The Deadline Team)

Veteran actor Raymond J. Barry (Justified) will have a recurring role on The CW drama The 100 this fall, playing Dante Wallace, a passionate painter and leader, but no other specifics on his role have been revealed. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Elizabeth Rodriguez (Orange Is the New Black) will appear this fall on Grimm, playing Special Agent Chavez, one of four FBI agents assigned to investigate the recent homicide of Weston (recurring guest star C. Thomas Howell). (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor John Boyd (24) has landed a recurring role on Bones, playing James Aubrey, a junior FBI agent working under Booth (series lead David Boreanaz). (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Veteran actor Robert Forster (Alcatraz and Last Man Standing) will appear in the upcoming mid-season FOX drama Backstrom that centers on Everett Backstrom (series lead Rainn Wilson), an overweight, offensive, irascible detective who’s engaged in a constant struggle with his self-destructive tendencies. Forster will play Everett’s dad, Sheriff Blue Backstrom. (The Deadline Team)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actor Peter Shinkoda (Falling Skies and the recent Godzilla remake) will have a major recurring role on the Netflix drama series Daredevil, based on the Marvel Universe character, that is set to premiere in 2015. Shinkoda will play the character Hachiro. (The Deadline Team)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Cote de Pablo (NCIS) will star in the upcoming four-hour CBS mini-series event The Dovekeepers that is expected to air in 2015. The event series is based on the acclaimed historical novel by Alice Hoffman about four extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada. de Pablo will play Shirah, one of the four women, who is a sensual, mysterious and fiercely independent single mother with uncanny insights and a quiet and mysterious power. (The Futon Critic)

TV TEASER TRAILER

Q&A SECTION (with Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Question: Anything on The Blacklist? — Michelle

Natalie: While everyone has been focused on the mystery of Liz’s father, Season 2 will also explore who Liz’s mother was. “If the part about my dad wasn’t true, what is the truth, if any, that I need to learn about my mom?” executive producer John Eisendrath says of Liz’s mindset this year. In other news, there will be a small time jump when the show returns, but Berlin will still very much be in the picture as the main villain in the “first portion of the year,” Eisendrath adds.

Question: Will Molly’s alien boyfriend Marcus pop up again on Extant? — George

Natalie: Yes, and the fact that whatever this entity is appeared to Molly as her dead first love is key to the big mystery of the show. “She’s reminded that her past is as important as what’s going on in her present because it’s all relative,” Sergio Harford, who plays Marcus, says. “You’ll slowly start to figure out their past and the relationship that they had makes sense to what’s going on currently in her situation, even with her family.”

Question: Is it too much to hope that Caity Lotz will be back on Arrow next season? — Katrina

Natalie:  Even though our favorite Canary passed off her leather jacket to Laurel and disappeared into the ether with Nyssa, I hear Sara will be back for the Season 3 premiere.

Question: Anything on the new season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? — Denise

Natalie:  Let’s play a game. I’ll give you a description and you guess which Marvel character this newcomer might be. I hear they’re casting for a ruggedly handsome, physically fit actor to play a character who can escape any situation, is a bit of a wild card and, though he’s mostly interested in personal gain, always ends up doing the right thing.

Question: Will Felicity ever make her way over to The Flash? — Manuel

Natalie:  “That’s our hope,” executive producer Greg Berlanti tells me. “Our hope is to get some crossovers going sooner rather than later with all the shows.” Interestingly enough, the producers had discussed the possibility of Felicity and Barry dating across shows — a la Lindsay and Severide on the Chicago shows — but it sounds like they have something else in mind. “We have all sorts of romantic possibilities for both of them on both shows,” he says. “Hopefully the first time Felicity comes to town, we’ll deal with all that stuff.”

Question: When are we going to meet that new alien race Defiance promised us? — Kithma

Natalie:  Soon! Episode 7 will introduce us to the Gulani, a sexy, energy-based race of aliens. “They’re kind of like the boogie man,” Grant Bowler says. “They’re what everybody is terrified of. The Gulani were never meant to come to Earth.” But when one of the Gulani escapes their energy prison on The Ark, it goes on the run around Defiance wreaking havoc.

That’s it. Enjoy!