Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the past week:

RENEWAL

FOX has renewed The Orville for a second season. (Variety)

TV CASTING NEWS

Hip-hop/R&B artist Romeo Miller (aka Lil’ Romeo) will recur in the second season of the Freeform series Famous in Love, playing Pablo $$ (pronounced “Pablo Money). (TV Line)

Actress Peyton List (Frequency and The Flash) will take over the role of Ivy Pepper/Poison Ivy on Gotham in early 2018. (TV Line)

Actress Tiera Skovbye (Polly Cooper on Riverdale) has landed a recurring role on Once Upon a Time as the grown up Robin, daughter of Zelena and Robin Hood. She will debut in the 10th episode of the show’s current season. Also, actor Nathan Parsons (The Originals, True Blood and Bunheads) has booked a recurring role on the show, playing Nick, a charismatic slacker-turned-successful lawyer, who might be a potential love interest for one of the regular characters. (TV Line and Entertainment Weekly)

Veteran actor Bruce McGill will appear in MacGyver, but he won’t be reprising his role of Jack Dalton (from the original series). He will play Detective Greer, a seasoned LAPD veteran who reads MacGyver his Miranda Rights for a murder. (Deadline)

Actress Paula Malcomson (Ray Donovan) will have a guest-starring role and actor Blake Ritson (Da Vinci’s Demons) has been added as a series regular on the upcoming Superman prequel series Krypton that is set to premiere in 2018 on Syfy. The series is set two generations before the destruction of the legendary Man of Steel’s home planet, following Superman’s grandfather (relative newcomer Cameron Cuffe), whose House of El was ostracized and shamed, as he fights to redeem his family’s honor and save his beloved world from chaos. Malcomson will play Charys, the matriarch of House El while Ritson will play Brainiac, a parasitic, hyper-advanced alien android of immense intelligence, Brainiac is one of Superman’s oldest and most dangerous foes. (Deadline)

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has added some new cast members for its upcoming 5th season, including Eve Harlow (The 100), who will play Tess, a resourceful young woman striving to be self-sufficient in very desperate circumstances and Pruitt Taylor Vince (The Mentalist), who will play Grill, a gruff taskmaster, who lords over those under his command with an unforgiving temperament. He is not easily fooled, nor crossed [among others]. (TV Line)

That’s it. Enjoy!