Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for today and yesterday:

TELEVISION

Actor Justin Chatwin (Shameless) has joined the cast of Orphan Black for the show’s upcoming third season on BBC America, but there no details on who he will be playing, though. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

Actor Sebastian Pigott (Pacific Rim, Bomb Girls and Being Erica) has landed a recurring role on Revenge where he will play Lyman Ellis, Louise’s (recurring guest star Elena Satine) brother, a driven politician. (The Deadline Team)

Veteran actor William Shatner will appear in a multi-episode arc of Haven, playing a pivotal character that has the potential to forever impact the fate of the town of Haven and its Troubled residents. (Shaw Media Press Release)

MINI-SERIES NEWS

Actor Mike Vogel (Under the Dome and Bates Motel) has joined the cast of the upcoming Syfy six-hour mini-series Childhood’s End that is being adapted from the Arthur C. Clarke novel that follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious “Overlords,” whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture. Vogel will appear as Ricky Stormgren, a mid-western farmer whose life is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the sole representative on Earth for the Overlords. The cast of the mini includes Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and it will debut sometime next year. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Matt Smith (Doctor Who) will star alongside Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) in the box office film Patient Zero. The film will focus on an unprecedented global pandemic of a super strain of rabies that results in the evolution of a new species driven by violence. An inexplicably immune human survivor with the ability to communicate with this new species must spearhead a hunt for Patient Zero in order to find a cure to save his infected wife and humanity. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a terrific weekend!