Hey All,
Here are the news items for this past week:
TELEVISION
Quantico is the second new fall drama to receive a full season order. (Variety)
Rosewood is the third new fall drama to receive a full season order. (Variety)
The CW has announced that Beauty and the Beast will have one more season, its fourth, and then it will end. (Variety)
Defiance has been cancelled by Syfy after three seasons on the air. (Variety)
ABC has cancelled Rookie Blue after six seasons on the air. (Will Robinson at Entertainment Weekly)
Actor Kris Polaha (Life Unexpected) has landed a recurring role on Castle, playing Caleb Brown, an idealistic public defender whose criminal clients put him at odds with Beckett (series lead Stana Katic) and the 12th Precinct. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actor Aaron Tveit (Graceland) has landed a role in the CBS sci-fi drama BrainDead that is expected to air next summer. The comic thriller centers on brain-eating aliens who attack Washington, D.C. Tveit will play Gareth, a Republican operative who serves as the legislative director to a top Republican senator. (Kate Stanhope at The Hollywood Reporter)
Q&A SECTION (with Natalie Abrams at Entertainment Weekly and Matt Mitovich at TV Line)
Question: Excited to see Whitney Frost (actress Wynn Everett) on Agent Carter. Is there anything you can share about her character? — Janie
Natalie: “She’s our villain this year with our Cinematic Universe/1940s spin on the character sort of like we did with Dr. Fenhoff, who was a more modern character, and we’re pulling her through time,” executive producer Chris Dingess tells me. “She and Peggy’s stories compliment and inform one another.” Of course, she won’t initially be the bad guy. “She’s a very complicated person,” adds EP Tara Butters. “Through the course of the season, you get to see how she moves to that side. It’s not a very simple question of her being a villain.”
Question: Do you have details on the Once Upon a Time episode featuring Merida, Mulan and Ruby? — Natasha
Natalie: Much will be revealed during the outing, which takes place during the two-parter slated to air during November sweeps. “We’re going to get to see more of Merida’s backstory in it,” EP Edward Kitsis says. “It’s an epic adventure.” As for how Mulan and Ruby factor into that, Horowitz teases coyly, “You will have fun and adventure,” he says. “We do address where Ruby has been all this time, and that’s part of the story.”
Question: I doubt they’re going to kill off Jane Doe, but that trailer for next week’s Blindspot freaked me out a little bit. What can you tease? — Heather
Natalie: Yes, big bad Carter does take aim at Jane with a sniper rifle during a highly tense situation involving terrorists in a graveyard, but a surprising person will come to her rescue.
Question: What does Jay Garrick’s role on The Flash look like moving forward? — Sam
Natalie: I’ll let Teddy Sears take this one: “Jay finds himself wonderfully ingratiated into the group at S.T.A.R. Labs,” he says. “He becomes an extra spoke in the wheel for their doing battle with the metahuman-of-the-week. Jay’s background as a scientist allows him to accomplish things in a way that perhaps the team wasn’t able to do before. That said, Caitlin Snow is also a scientist and the two of them find themselves teaming up on whatever needs to be done to help defeat the villains, and they also begin to share a closeness that neither one of them could’ve anticipated.”
Question: Do you happen to have any spoilers about the winter episodes of Major Crimes? Especially about the development of Sharon and Andy’s relationship? –Maayan
Mitovich: It appears that a work-related injury will somewhat sideline Andy for a few episodes… and find him convalescing at a certain female colleague’s apartment. Other storylines include a super-twisty murder mystery with a long, disparate list of suspects (airing Nov. 2); the return of Sharon’s ex-husband Jack (on Nov. 9); and a suspicious death during the taping of a reality-TV show.
Question: What’s going to be learned about Jenny this season on Sleepy Hollow? –Bella
Mitovich: We, too, wanted to know more about how Jenny would be woven into Season 3, so we went straight to the source: Lyndie Greenwood. “The writers this year have found a really organic way of bringing her into the fold,” the actress told TVLine, adding that she’s been in every episode this season “so far.” She teased a special moment for the Mills sisters, in Episode 7, that highlights that “it’s not all tension and sadness and all that anymore. We see some good times with them, as well… They’re a good unit, and I think there are quite a few moments the fans can enjoy.”
Question: (Do you have) any Scorpion scoop. Anything is welcome, but I was wondering if we will see more of Happy’s dad this season? —Amanda
Mitovich: We will definitely be seeing more of Happy’s dad as the season progresses. What’s more, in an upcoming episode we see Toby’s first boxing match that goes… well, just about as you’d expect it to… while the big secret Happy’s been hiding from the team is finally revealed.
Question: Please make my day with some scoop on Blindspot‘s Weller and Jane aka Taylor please. —Naazneen
Mitovich: EP Martin Gero says that an eventual romance ‘tween the two is not off the table. After all, he points out, “They’re arguably the most important person in [each other’s] lives, and that’s a heady, heavy, complicated thing. So, seeing them try to navigate that is a lot of fun. They’re going to make a lot of mistakes, there are going to be some ups and downs, and there will be some really confused emotions. It’s a roller coaster.”
Question: I can cross my fingers for a Ray/Sara hookup on Legends of Tomorrow? I think Caity Lotz and Brandon Routh have a good chemistry already! –Jenny
Mitovich: EP Phil Klemmer all but confirmed a Ray/Sara pairing during the midseason series’ New York Comic Con panel, when he said in addressing a fan Q on that topic, “Any time you’re in in close, life-or-death quarters [about a time-traveling vessel], weird things happens with people.” Bonus scoop: Legends Episode 6 is casting a hulking, brawny a character who is poised to “pick up his father’s mantle and become a powerful villain,” as well as an African-American or biracial male who “decides to put on the uniform of a missing hero who once stood for justice and hope.”
That’s it. Enjoy!
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