Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

CASTING NEWS

Actress Archie Panjabi (The Good wife) will have a guest appearance in an upcoming episode of Bull, playing Arti Cander, a trial scientist as well. (TV Line)

Actress Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies and Alias) has been added to the cast of the upcoming FOX medical drama The Resident that centers on a tough, brilliant senior resident who guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine. Dungey will play the hospital’s tough and pragmatic CEO Claire Thorpe. The cast of the series includes Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife and Gilmore Girls), Emily VanCamp (Revenge) [among others]. (Deadline)

Actor Matthew Del Negro (Scandal and Teen Wolf) will have a key recurring role in the upcoming second season of the Amazon original series Goliath, playing Danny Loomis, a charismatic yet devious political operator and consiglieri to the city’s power elite under the guise of being a “financial analyst.” (Deadline)

Actress Lindsey Gort (The Carrie Diaries) has joined the cast of the upcoming digital series Titans, the DC Comics live-action adaptation, which will follow Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites from the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film) as he emerges from Batman’s shadow to become the leader of a fearless band of young, soon-to-be superheroes recruited from every corner of the DC Universe. The cast includes Anna Diop (24: Legacy), Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) and Alan Ritchson (Blood Drive). (TV Line)

Legendary actress Betty Buckley (Eight Is Enough) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Supergirl as the adoptive mother of Samantha aka Reign (Odette Annable from Pure Genius and Banshee). (TV Line)

Newcomer Yadira Guevara-Prip (from the Amazon series Mad Dogs) has been added to the cast of the Supernatural spin-off The Wayward Sisters that will follow Sheriff Jody Mills (recurring Supernatural guest star Kim Rhodes) and a group of troubled young women orphaned by supernatural tragedy. Guevara-Prip will play flinty and haunted Kaia, who lost her family at a young age. (Entertainment Weekly and TV Line)

CANCELLATION

SpikeTV has cancelled the drama series The Mist after only one season. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!