Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the last 10 days:

TELEVISION

Actor Michael Weatherly will be leaving the long-running NCIS franchise at the end of this current season on CBS. (Debra Birnbaum at Variety)

E! has renewed The Royals for a third season. (Elizabeth Wagmeister at Variety)

Being Mary Jane has been renewed for a fourth season by BET. (Elizabeth Wagmeister at Variety)

TNT has decided to pull the plug on its long-running drama Rizzoli & Isles after the upcoming 7th season. (Elizabeth Wagmeister at Variety)

Actress Jewel Staite (Firefly and Stargate Atlantis) has landed a guest-starring role in the upcoming CW drama Legends of Tomorrow, playing Rachel Turner, a tech genius and roboticist from the future who just so happens to be a descendant of an established DC Universe character. (Sadie Genis at TV Guide)

Actress Summer Glau (Firefly and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and legendary actor Gerald McRaney (the recently defunct Agent X) will both appear in upcoming episodes of Castle. Glau will guest star in one episode, playing Kendall Frost, a provocative private detective in Los Angeles who competes with Castle to solve a deadly mystery. On the other hand, McRaney will appear in multiple episodes as Mason Wood, the head of a legendary and secretive private detective society. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Wes Brown (Hart of Dixie) will take over the role of Gaston on Once Upon a Time, appearing in a flashback episode chronicling “an ostensibly sexier, more chiseled slice of Belle’s life. (Mark Snetiker at Entertainment Weekly)

The SundanceTV drama Rectify will end after its upcoming 4th season that will air this fall. (Variety)

Actress Maya Stojan (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Castle) will appear in a February episode of NCIS as one of four privately commissioned deep sea divers who, after a retired petty officer dies under fishy circumstances, must remain in the diving chamber for four days to decompress (alongside the deceased’s body) while the NCIS team attempts to crack the case from land. She will also appear in an upcoming episode of Grey’s Anatomy in a role that has yet to be revealed. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

WEB SERIES NEWS

Actor Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) has landed the male lead in the Hulu original drama Shut Eye that takes a darkly comedic look at the underground world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. The story revolves around a disgruntled player in the organization who finds his cynical world view challenged when he starts to experience visions that may or may not be real. Donovan will play Charlie Haverford, a failed magician who now works as a psychic/conman overseeing a number of fortune telling parlors in Los Angeles. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

MINI-SERIES NEWS

Actor Michiel Huisman (Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of the upcoming Discovery Channel mini-series Harley and the Davidsons. He will play Walter Davidson. The story of the mini-series will follow how Milwaukee schoolyard pals built, and rode, the machines that rule the road. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

That’s it. Enjoy!