Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the news items from this past week:

CANCELLATIONS

The first casualty of the fall TV season is the comedy Sunnyside followed closely by NBC announcing that the new Jimmy Smits drama Bluff City Law will not get a full season order, airing only the 10 episodes it was initially given. (Variety)

RENEWALS

CBS All Access has given Why Women Kill a second season renewal. (Variety)

The CW sci-fi series Pandora has been given a second season renewal. Also, The Outpost has been renewed for a third season. (WorldScreen.com, Deadline and The Futon Critic)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Actress Zoe Kravitz (Big Little Lies) will play Catwoman in the upcoming box office movie The Batman that will star Robert Pattinson as Batman. (Variety)

Actor Neil Patrick Harris has joined the ensemble cast of the upcoming installment of the Matrix franchise that will find Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss reprising their roles. No plot details are available and Harris’s role has yet to be specified. (Variety)

Actress DeWanda Wise (Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It) will star alongside Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in the third installment of Jurassic World that will find Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum returning too. (Variety)

TV MOVIE CASTING NEWS

Actresses Carey Mulligan and Lily James and actor Ralph Fiennes have been cast in the Netflix film The Dig that revovles around a wealthy widow and the amateur archaeologist who make a historic discovery when excavating the burial mounds on her estate. (The Futon Critic and Twitter)

FIRING

Kurt Sutter, co-showrunner of Mayans M.C., has been fired from his post on the show. (Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

It looks like CBS TV Studios is planning to reboot Clueless that makes Cher Horowitz the subject of a mystery. The story would center on Dionne (played by Stacey Dash in both previous iterations), Cher’s best friend and lifelong right-hand woman. When Cher disappears, Dionne must take on the pressures of being the new most popular girl in school while also unraveling the mystery of what happened to her friend. (The Hollywood Reporter)

TV CASTING NEWS

Actor David Anders (iZombie and Alias) will guest star in upcoming season of Roswell, New Mexico on The CW, playing Travis, a bootmaker, banjo player and bovine enthusiast who offers Alex (series regular Tyler Blackburn) and Maria (series regular Heather Hemmens) some help when their car breaks down miles from civilization. (TV Guide)

Actor Aidan Turner (The Hobbit and Poldark) has been cast as Leonardo da Vinci in the Frank Spotnitz drama series about the celebrated Renaissance artist’s life and work. The series doesn’t have a network yet and only has the working title of Leonardo. (Deadline)

Actor Greg Kinnear and actress Heather Graham have joined the cast of the upcoming CBS All Access limited event series The Stand based on the Stephen King novel. Kinnear will play Glen Bateman, a widowed professor when the superflu hits, who was accustomed to a solitary life. When he encounters other survivors, his curiosity is piqued by Mother Abagail’s (Whoopi Goldberg) visions. Graham will playRita Blakemoor, a wealthy woman who is ill prepared for the end of the world and attempts to escape superflu-infested New York City. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)

Actors Tom Everett Scott and William Sadler will both guest star on God Friended Me. Scott will play Cara’s stepfather Paul Levine while Sadler will play Reverend Elias, a leader within the Episcopal Church with whom Arthur finds himself at odds. (TV Line)

Actress-singer Renee Elise Goldsberry (Altered Carbon and Broadway’s Hamilton) will have a recurring role on the CBS series Evil, playing Renee Harris, a dynamic, hard-driving attorney who works for the Catholic Church. She has a past connection with David: She’s the sister of his late girlfriend Julia. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)

Actress Tricia Helfer will be back for Lucifer’s upcoming final season on Netflix. (TV Line and The Futon Critic)

Actor Justin Kirk will recur on the latest adaptation of Perry Mason, that will air on HBO as a limited series. The role he will play has not been revealed yet. (Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!