Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Sonya Walger (Lost) has landed a potentially recurring role on Scandal, but details are being kept under wraps as to her she will be playing. (Natalie Abrams at Entertainment Weekly)

Sundance TV has given a third season order to their series Rectify. (Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter)

Doctor Who alum Frazer Hines will guest star in an upcoming episode of the Starz drama Outlander based on the Diana Gabaldon novel. According to Gabaldon, she was inspired to write the books while watching an episode of Doctor Who where Hines played a Scottish lad name Jamie McCrimmon who was companion to the second Doctor. Hines will play Sir Gordon Fletcher, the English warden of Wentworth Prison in Scotland. Claire (series lead Caitriona Balfe) meets Fletcher when she pretends be a relative of Jamie’s (series lead Sam Heughan) and tries to convince Fletcher to let her see him. (Robyn Ross at TV Guide)

Actress Teri Polo (The Fosters) will guest star alongside Stacy Keach on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit this fall. Polo will play Cordelia, the lawyer daughter of Orion Bauer (Keach), the esteemed owner of a family-run sportswear empire. The Bauers’ lives and livelihood are turned upside-down when the face of their best-selling clothing line is charged with serial rape. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)

Actor Nestor Serrano (Graceland) will have a recurring role on Revenge this fall, playing Edward Alvarez, a commanding and perceptive police chief who’s (surprisingly) in Victoria’s (series lead Madeleine Stowe) corner. (Andy Swift at TV Line)

British actress Rose Williams has joined the cast of Reign in the recurring role of Princess Claude, the royal daughter of Catherine de Medici (series regular Megan Follows) and the deceased King Henry and sister to the newly crowned King Francis (series lead Toby Regbo). (Nina Terrero at Entertainment Weekly)

FX has given The Strain a second season order of 13 episodes. (Tim Kenneally at The Wrap)

Actress Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Light) will appear on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this fall, playing Barbara “Bobbi” Morse (aka the costumed operative known as Mockingbird). (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter and Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

MTV has given a second season 12-episode order to their new drama Finding Carter. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Matt Ward (Hellcats) will appear in an upcoming episode of Arrow this fall, playing Simon Lacroix (aka Komodo). He will be the “villain-of-the-week” in episode 2, but Team Arrow will pursue him over a season-long storyline. (Craig Byrne at GreenArrowTV.com)

TV TRAILER

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FOX is developing a 10-hour limited series called No Ordinary Time that will be based on the Doris Kearns Goodwin Pulitzer Prize-winning book that chronicles the third term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Sigourney Weaver will join actress Felicity Jones and actor Liam Neeson in the film adaptation of the Patrick Ness award-winning children’s fantasy novel “A Monster Calls” that follows a young boy who attempts to deal with bullying at the hands of his classmates; and the terminal illness of his mother (Jones), by escaping into a fantastical world through the guidance of a tree monster (Neeson). Weaver will play his grandmother. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock and Star Trek) will provide the voice of Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger and villain in the upcoming adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling classic tale Jungle Book. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!