Rueben's Ramblings

So far this week I covered the dramas that are up for consideration at both ABC and CBS for the upcoming 2013-2014 TV season; and now today I will focus on the dramas at FOX.

They are listed in alphabetical order below:

Boomerang – This pilot is about a family business fraught with tension, except in this case it’s a family of assassins.

THOSE BEHIND THE SHOW: Davey Holmes (Awake and Pushing Daisies) will write and executive-produce with fellow John Wells and Andrew Stearn (Shameless).

CAST: Felicity Huffman (Desperate Housewives) will play Margie Hamilton, the matriarch of the Hamilton clan and a briskly professional assassin who can kill and dispose of a suspected terrorist in the afternoon then switch to wife and mother mode without a hitch. Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace) will play patriarch Bill, Margie’s husband. Michael Stahl-David (Cloverfield) and Patrick Heusinger (Royal Pains) will play brothers Sam and Carl, Maggie’s sons. S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order) will guest star as a mysterious agency bureaucrat while Rosa Salazar (Parenthood) will play Olive Chatsworth, the ex-girlfriend who Sam (Stahl-David) has never forgotten. Stephanie Jacobsen (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) will play Carl’s wife Angela and mother of their two boys, who is unaware of her husband’s real job.

Delirium – This pilot is based on the best-selling trilogy about a world in which love is deemed illegal. The main focus will be on Lena Holoway, who does the unthinkable just 95 days before a scheduled treatment will remove her ability to love: She meets a great guy.

THOSE BEHIND THE SHOW: Karyn Usher (Prison Break) will write and executive-produce with Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope (New Girl)

CAST: Emma Roberts (Nancy Drew) will play the lead role of Lena Holloway while Daren Kagasoff (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) will play Lena’s love interest Alex who is a police officer. Billy Campbell (The Killing) will play wealthy political leader Thomas Fineman, who is the head of a lobbying organization called Deliria Free America who supports the use of the brain modification that prevents citizens from falling in love and leads to a peaceful, ordered society. Corey Reynolds (The Closer) will play Tack, the strategic, no-bullshit leader of the Resistance Movement. Gregg Sulkin (Pretty Little Liars) will play Julian Fineman, the prep-school heart-throb son of Thomas. Jeanine Mason (Bunheads and So You Think You Can Dance) will play y Lena’s best friend Hana. Michael Michele (ER) will play Senator Elyse Hargrove, an ambitious widow with three children and Presidential aspirations who has a growing opposition to the political insurrection. Brenda Koo (Bling Ring) will play Ren, the best friend of Alex (Kagasoff), a covert revolutionary and opponent of the anti-Deliria operations. Melinda McGraw (Men Of A Certain Age) will play Lydia, the image-conscious wife of Thomas Fineman.

Gang Related – This pilot is about a gang member named Ryan Lopez who is sent in to infiltrate the San Francisco Police Department, rising through its ranks who must balance his obligations to his crime family with an increasing sense of loyalty to his new “family”: the SFPD’s Gang Task Force.

THOSE BEHIND THE SHOW: Writer Chris Morgan (Fast Five) will write and executive-produce with Scott Rosenbaum and Brian Grazer (both from V).

CAST: Ramon Rodriguez (Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen) will play the lead role of Ryan Lopez. Sung Kang (Fast Five franchise) will play Tae Kim, an Asian gang specialist on loan from the FBI who refuses to celebrate Ryan’s achievements because he considers Ryan’s tactics as dangerous and wasteful. Actress Inbar Lavi (Underemployed) will play Vanessa “Vee” Hicks, the youngest member of the Gang Task Force. Jay Hernandez (Last Resort) will play Dante Acosta, Ryan’s best friend since childhood and the son of gang lord Javier Acosta. Cliff Curtis (Missing and Trauma) will play Javier Acosta who runs La Familia Sud, one of the most dangerous and powerful Latino gangs in San Francisco. Shantel VanSanten (One Tree Hill) will play a doctor who treats Ryan for his bullet wound injuries and the daughter of the gang task force’s captain. Terry O’Quinn (Lost) will play Sam Chapel, a tough, dynamic police chief who oversees the Gang Task Force.

Human – This pilot is an action-packed buddy cop drama set in a future in which LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. The focus will be on cop John Kennex and his android partner Dorian.

THOSE BEHIND THE SHOW: As stated J.H. Wyman (Fringe) will write and team with J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk (Lost) as executive producers.

CAST: Michael Ealy (Common Law) will play a lead role as Dorian, a decommissioned DRN-0167 robot that is thrust back into service when his “memories” provide critical intelligence on a newly revived drug cartel. Lily Taylor (Six Feet Under) will play Maldonado, an ambitious and determined police captain who is willing to make sacrifices for the greater good. Michael Irby (The Unit) will play top LAPD Detective Richard Paul who blames Kennex for the death of fellow officers in the traffic mission that casts a pall over the department while British actor Mackenzie Cook (Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise) will play Rudy Lom, the eccentric and underpaid designer of the LAPD’s robotics squad. Minka Kelly (Friday Night Lights) will play Valerie Stahl, a uniformed cop with a strong moral compass who believes the best of people. Karl Urban (Dredd) will play cop John Kennex, who is a respected police officer who has shut down emotionally after a tragic mission left him critically injured. Mekia Cox (Undercovers and 90210) will play the ex-lover to John Kennex.

The List – This pilot is about a U.S. Marshal who leads the hunt for the person who stole “The List,” a file that reveals the identities of everyone in the Federal Witness Security Program, who begin showing up dead.

THOSE BEHIND THE SHOW: Paul Zbyszewski (Daybreak) will write and executive-produce

CAST: Richard T. Jones (Nikita and Judging Amy) will play Elston Rayburn, a Special Agent for the FBI who gets sucked into the search while Michael Pena (End of Watch) will play Dan Soto née Shaker, an Inspector with the U.S. Marshal Service who’s tasked with finding the person who stole the file. Jessica Szohr (Gossip Girl) will play Special Agent Natalie Voss, a fearless FBI agent who detests dealing with the Witness Security Program, but is intrigued by Soto. Gary Cole (Chuck) will play Soto’s boss, Chief Inspector Bob McKinnon, a stand-up, loyal guy who goes to bat for Soto when his maverick inspector gets into hot water, yet again. Tamsin Egerton (Camelot) will play Delilah, a conniving charmer and deadly international operator while Hilarie Burton (One Tree Hill) will play Maddie Soto, Soto’s ex-wife and the mother of his two kids, who is a psychologist.

Rake – This pilot is about Keegan Joye, a brilliant, charming defense attorney whose biggest challenges all exist outside the courtroom: money owed to the IRS and a bookie, overlapping affairs, a cranky kid and his exhausted ex-wife.

THOSE BEHIND THE SHOW: Peter Duncan (creator of the original Australian series on which this pilot is based) and Peter Tolan (Rescue Me) will write and executive produce.

CAST: Greg Kinnear (As Good As It Gets) will star in the lead role while Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings franchise) will play Keegan’s ex-wife Maddy. Necar Zadegan (Emily Owens, M.D.) will play Scarlet Meagher, an Assistant DA of the City of Lo Angeles who is old friends of Keegan’s. Bojana Novakovic (Drag Me to Hell) will play Mikki a high-priced prostitute who’s had a five-year relationship with Keegan. John Ortiz (Luck) will play Ben, Keegan’s friend from law school. They are yin and yang and they know it. Ben is conservative, not flashy, an extremely decent family man who recognizes that Keegan is the performer of the two. Together they make quite a team, in and out of court. David Harbour (Pan Am) will play David Potter, the bane of Keegan’s life, a scrupulously honest tax attorney determined to prove Keegan hasn’t been paying his taxes. Tara Summers (Boston Legal) will play Leanne Zander, Keegan’s extremely put-upon but no-nonsense assistant.

Sleepy Hollow – The pilot finds Ichabod Crane transported from the Revolutionary War to present day Sleepy Hollow to be partnered with Detective Abbie Archer to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil.

THOSE BEHIND THE SHOW: Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe) will write and executive-produce.

CAST: British actor Tom Mison (Salmon Fishing In the Yemen) will play the lead role of Ichabod Crane while Nicole Beharie (Shame) will play Abbie Archer, who is about to leave for the FBI Academy when she witnesses the brutal murder of someone close to her, and her story is corroborated by only one person — a man called Ichabod Crane. Katia Winter (Dexter) will play Katrina Crane, Ichabod’s stunningly beautiful wife who works as a civilian nurse in the 37th Regiment. Orlando Jones (MADTv) will play Frank Williams née Luis Mendez, a Lieutenant with the Westchester Sheriff’s department who transfers to Sleepy Hollow in order to coordinate the investigation into a double homicide. John Cho (Go On and FlashForward) will play Andy Dunn, a likeable officer who stumbles across Crane in the present day. Katia Winter (Dexter) will play Katrina Crane and Orlando Jones (Men in Trees) will play Lt. Frank Williams.

MOST LIKELY TO BE PICKED-UP: Delirium and Sleepy Hollow

COULD MAYBE GET AN ORDER: Boomerang and Rake

LONG SHOT (but sure would be cool to see it): Human

NOT GONNA HAPPEN: The List