Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items for this past week:

RENEWALS

Blood & Treasure has been renewed by CBS for a second season. (Variety)

One Day at a time has been rescued by Pop for a 4th season after being cancelled by Netflix. (TV Line)

MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu will star in the movie Goodbye, Vitamin – based on the 2017 debut novel from Rachel Khong, which follows Ruth Young (Wu in lead role), who discovers that her father, a renowned history professor, has lost his job after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She decides to return home and work with her father’s former student to stage a fake class so he can continue to teach. (Variety)

Former Superman Henry Cavill is set to star as Sherlock Holmes in the box office movie Enola Holmes, which will star Stranger Things youngster Millie Bobby Brown in the title role, which is based on the Nancy Springer book series that follows Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes’ much younger sister. (TV Line)

TV CASTING NEWS

Actor Matt Lauria (Kingdom and Friday Night Lights) will join Paul Wesley in season two of Tell Me a Story on CBS All Access. Also joining the cast will be actor Eka Darville (Netflix’s Jessica Jones) and actress Ashley Madekwe (Revenge). Season 2 will put fresh twists on the princess-themed tales Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Lauria will play Jackson, the black sheep of a family who is torn between his demons and the desire to be a better man. Darville will play stoic and honorable Beau, whose adherence to a moral code has recently blown up both his personal and professional life. And, Madekwe will play the Cinderella-esque Simone who, upon returning home after her father’s untimely death, is forced to come face-to-face with the life she purposefully left behind. The cast also includes Odette Annable (Supergirl) as Maddie, the piece-keeping, overachieving middle child in a broken family; and Natalie Alyn Lind (The Gifted) as Ashley, a rising country music star who survives a brutal attack, then confines herself to her home. Tell Me a Story Season 2 is slated to bow later this year on CBS All Access. (TV Line)

Actor Henry Ian Cusick (Lost and The 100) has joined the cast of MacGyver for the show’s 4th season, playing the series regular role of Russ, a handsome and quick-witted ex-military man described as a master manipulator and salesman, who is skilled in propaganda and lie detection, and boasts an extremely high emotional intelligence. (TV Line)

That’s it. Enjoy!