Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week:

TV CASTING NEWS

Eoin Macken and Andrew Liner, who played father and son Davis and Reid Collins, in season 1 of Ransom Canyon will not be returning for the show’s upcoming second season. (Deadline)

Hallmark hunk Kristoffer Polaha has joined the cast of the upcoming MGM+ series American Hostage that will star Jon Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi. The show is a psychological thriller whose ’70s-set first season tells the harrowing true story of Fred Heckman (Hamm), a beloved Indianapolis radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker Tony Kiritsis demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Polaha will star as Dick Hall, the president of Meridian Mortgage who is taken hostage by Tony Kiritsis (Ribisi), who publicly accuses him of being a greedy and cutthroat monster. But the real human being is more complicated than that. (Deadline)

Allison Janney and Bradley Whitford have been promoted to series regulars for the 4th season of The Diplomat on Netflix. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Star Trek: Discovery alum David Ajala has joined the cast of Law & Order, playing an NYPD detective. (The Hollywood Reporter)

24 alum Elisha Cuthbert will star in the Amazon Prime series Every Year After, the series adaptation of the novel by Carley Fortune. She will appear in the recurring role of Sue Florek. Told over the course of six years and one week in Barry’s Bay – the quintessential lake town – the series is a romantic, nostalgic story of first loves and the people and choices that mark us forever. (Variety)

Lucy Liu will star in the upcoming Peacock crime drama Superfakes that will focus on a small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer (Liu), who enters a dangerous black-market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family. (Variety)

SERIES ORDER NEWS

FOX has given a 12-episode straight-to-series order for a reboot to Baywatch for the 2026-2027 season. The new version will remain Southern California, featuring adrenaline-fueled rescues, tangled relationships, complicated chemistry and beachside heroics that defined the original. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE CASTING NEWS

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown will star as Olympic champion gymnast Kerri Strug in the upcoming box office film Perfect tha will be directed by Gia Coppola. Strug was a member of the 1996 USA gymnastics team dubbed “the Magnificent Seven.” (Deadline)

The classic 1987 sci-fi parody Spaceballs is getting a sequel, and Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement to reprise his role of Lord Dark Helmet alongside Bill Pullman as Lone Starr, Mel Brooks as the Yoda-esque being Yogurt, Daphne Zuniga as Princess Vespa and George Wyner as Colonel Sandurz. Other cast members of Spaceballs 2 will include Josh Gad, Keke Palmer, Lewis Pullman and Anthony Carrigan. (Variety)

Black-ish alum Yara Shahidi will star opposite Jason Statham in The Beekeeper 2, the sequel to the Miramax hit action movie. Details about her character and what the movie will focus on are being kept under wraps. (Variety)

That’s it. Enjoy!