Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for the past week:

CASTING NEWS

Netflix’s upcoming Sabrina the Teenage Witch series has cast another key character from the comic books as a lead opposite Kiernan Shipka. Miranda Otto (Homeland) has been tapped to play Zelda Spellman on the show. Also Actor Richard Coyle (Covert Affairs and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time) has been cast in the role of Father Blackwood, the High Priest of the Church of Night and Dean of the Academy of the Unseen Arts. (Deadline)

Actor Charles Michael Davis, who plays Zane Anders, has been promoted to series regular for the fifth season of the dramedy Younger on TV Land. (TV Line and The Futon Critic)

Actress April Bowlby (Drop Dead Diva) has been cast as Rita Farr, a.k.a. Elasti-Girl, on the upcoming series Titans. (Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Chris Johnson (47 Meters Down) has landed a recurring role in the upcoming second season of The Orville. (Deadline)

Actors Brandon Flynn (13 Reasons Why) and Michael Graziadei (Good Girls Revolt) will recur in the third season of the HBO crime anthology True Detective. Flynn will play Ryan Peters and Graziadei will portray Dan O’Brien. No further character information was provided. Also, actresses Sarah Gadon (Alias Grace) and Emily Nelson (Code Black) will also recur in the series. Gadon will play Elisa Montgomery and Nelson will portray Margaret. No additional character information has been provided for their characters either. The third season of the series tells the story of a macabre crime in the heart of the Ozarks, and a mystery that deepens over decades and plays out in three separate time periods. (Deadline)

Actress Mia Maestro (Alias and The Strain) and veteran actor Ronny Cox will both have recurring roles in Nashville on CMT when it returns for the rest of its final season in June. Maestro will play Rosa, a true-believer member of The Movement for Coherent Philosophy who is starting to doubt her involvement in the organization. Cox will play Deacon’s father, Gideon Claybourne. (TV Line)

Actor Robbie Amell will appear as Kevin the Freak in the second season of A Series of Unfortunate Events, which will air on Netflix started at the end of March. (Twitter)

Actress Alyssa Diaz (Ray Donovan) has landed a series regular role on the ABC light drama The Rookie – that stars Nathan Fillion in the lead role. She will play Angela, an LAPD Training Officer on the cusp of making detective-trainee. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!