Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the past week:

RENEWALS/CANCELLATIONS

AMC has renewed Into the Badlands for an expanded 16-episode third season. (Variety)

The Hallmark Channel has renewed When Calls the Heart for a 5th season. (Twitter)

MTV has canceled Sweet/Vicious after only one season. (Variety)

The Amazon series Z: The Beginning of Everything will return for a second season. (Press Release)

CASTING NEWS

Actor Dule Hill (Psych) has joined the cast of Suits for a season-long arc. He will play Alex Williams, a longtime friend of Harvey’s (series lead Gabriel Macht), who is currently a senior partner at rival law firm Bratton Gould, where he maintains an enviable roster of clients. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Additional cast members have been added to the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery that will air on CBS All Access. They include Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica), who will play Commander Landry, the security officer of the Starship; Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho) will now play Kol, a commanding officer in the Klingon Empire; Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful) who will shift from the role of Kol to Lieutenant Tyler, a Starfleet officer in the Federation; Damon Runyan (Gangland Undercover), who will play Ujilli, a leader in the Klingon Empire. (Deadline)

Actors Patrick Sabongui (Homeland) and Troy Garity (Ballers) as well as actress Jaina Lee Ortiz (Rosewood) will have recurring in the second season of Shooter that follows the journey of Bob Lee Swagger (Ryan Phillippe), a highly decorated veteran who must confront a nemesis from his past in order to return to a life of normalcy. Sabongui will play Yusuf Ali, a core member of Swagger’s original Marine team; Garity is Jeffrey Denning, a seasoned investigative journalist who cares deeply about justice being served and Ortiz will play Angela Tio, a Marine and part of Bob Lee’s former unit. (Deadline)

Actor Mark Consuelos (Pitch) has been cast as a series regular on Riverdale, playing Hiram Lodge, a ruthless, handsome, charismatic businessman who is coming back to Riverdale after weathering a financial scandal that almost destroyed him. (TV Line and Deadline)

Oscar winner Hilary Swank has landed a leading role in the upcoming FX limited series called Trust, which is set to air in January 2018. The series is set in 1973, when J. Paul Getty, III is kidnapped in Rome and his mafia captors are banking on a huge ransom. Swank will appear as Gail Getty, mother of the kidnapped boy. Donald Sutherland is also part of the cast. (Variety)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE CASTING

Actress Lyndie Greenwood (Sleepy Hollow) will star opposite Queen Latifah in the Lifetime original movie Flint about the water-contamination crisis in Flint, MI. Greenwood will play the daughter of Queen Latifah’s character who works as a medical assistant and is uniquely positioned to view firsthand the effects of the Flint water crisis. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!