Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

It’s been a very busy month news wise and I became terribly behind in following all of it. So the following are just some of the top news items for the month of November.

TV RENEWALS AND CANCELLATION

Fargo renewed for a 3rd season by FX. (Variety)

FX has canceled The Bastard Executioner after one season. (Variety)

ABC pulled Wicked City from the line-up after three episodes. (Variety)

Syfy has renewed Z Nation for a third season. (The TV Addict)

Blindspot has been given a second season order by NBC. (Variety)

NBC has also given renewals to Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. (Variety)

American Horror Story has been given a sixth season renewal by FX. (Variety)

Murder in the First has been given a third season order by TNT. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

TELEVISION

Actor Bailey Chase (Longmire) has landed a recurring role on Grimm, playing Lucien Petrovich, the leader of a Wesen revolutionary group. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Arjay Smith (Perception) has landed a recurring role on Major Crimes, playing Dennis Price, but no other details are available on his character. (Denise Petski at Deadline)

Actor Tom Amandes (Everwood) will appear in a multi-episode arc on Arrow, playing Noah Kuttler (The Calculator), a criminal mastermind and technical genius, who uses his advanced skills in computer science and internet manipulation to blackmail Roy (Colton Haynes) out of retirement to do his bidding, which leads to an epic battle with Team Arrow. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Matthew Morrison (Glee) will appear on the second season of Younger on TV Land. (Rebecca Iannucci at TV Line)

Actor Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights) has landed a guest starring role in Friday Night Lights, playing Charlie Napier, an Army sergeant who has something mysterious in common with Jane Doe (lead star Jaimie Alexander). (Rebecca Iannucci at TV Line)

Actress Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings) has joined the cast of the new ABC drama Quantico, playing FBI Agent Hannah Wyland. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)

Actor James McDaniel (NYPD Blue) will appear in Sleepy Hollow as Ezra Mills, the absentee father of Abbie and Jenny. Sleepy Hollow will be back on FOX on February 5. (Erik Pedersen at Deadline)

Actor Blake Jenner (Glee) will join his real-life wife Melissa Benoist in Supergirl, appearing as Adam Foster, a handsome stranger from Cat Grant’s (series regular Calista Flockhart) past whose arrival in National City tests Kara and Cat’s relationship like never before. He will be a potential new love interest for Kara. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Syfy has picked up a 13-episode sci-fi small screen adaptation of Van Helsing that will center on Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing, who is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. The series is set to premiere in Fall 2016. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Supernatural and Extant) will play the infamous villain Negan on The Walking Dead. Negan is the leader of the Saviors, a ruthless group that demands food and supplies from other communities in “exchange” for protection from the walkers. (Maane Khatchatoruian at Variety)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actress Sonia Braga has joined the cast of the Netflix online series Marvel’s Luke Cage. She will play Soledad Temple, the mother of Claire Temple (Rosario Dawson). (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

Actor Jason Mamoa (Game of Thrones and The Red Road) will star in the Netflix online series Frontier that is an action-packed adventure drama following the chaotic and violent struggle to control wealth and power in the North American fur trade in the late 18th century. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Matt Bomer (White Collar and American Horror Story Hotel) will star in the Amazon pilot called Tycoon, based on the unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Last Tycoon. Bomer will play 1930s movie mogul Monroe Stahr. The series will follow Monroe’s rise as a studio executive, a journey which eventually puts him at odds with studio head Pat Brady — who also happens to be Monroe’s mentor. (Andy Swift at TV Line)

That’s it. Enjoy!