Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the past week:

CASTING NEWS

Actor Tim DeKay (White Collar) has landed a recurring role on the ABC anthology series American Crime that will explore labor issues, economic divides and individual rights in North Carolina. (Deadline)

Actor Jackson Rathbone (Finding Carter and the Twilight movie franchise) has joined the cast of The Last Ship. He will recur as Giorgio, a rich, Greek-American playboy who is charming but also is a dangerous thug. He uses his considerable wealth and power to make the Mediterranean his playground. (Deadline)

Actor Denis O’Hare (American Horror Story and True Blood) will recur on This Is Us, but character details are not available. (Entertainment Weekly and TV Line)

Actress Stana Katic (Castle) is expected to star in the crime drama Absentia, the straight-to-series order from Sony Pictures Television Networks’ AXN. The series follows a female FBI agent who, while hunting down one of Boston’s most notorious serial killers, vanishes without a trace and is declared dead. Six years later, the G-woman is found in a cabin in the woods, clinging onto life and with no memory of her missing time. Returning home, she not only discovers that her (stupid, stupid) husband has remarried, she also finds herself implicated in a series of murders. (Deadline and TV Line)

TV NEWS

ABC has reduced the episode order of its new drama Notorious from 13 episodes to 10 episodes. This isn’t an outright cancellation, but it’s not a good sign. (Deadline)

TRAILERS

That’s it. Enjoy!