Rueben's Ramblings

Here is a list of programming option to expect on TV this coming week:

The new series Timeless will debut on NBC on October 3 at 10 PM. This action-adventure series is about Garcia Flynn (Goran Visnijc from ER), a mysterious criminal who steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist named Rufus (Malcolm Barrett from Better Off Ted), a soldier named Wyatt (Matt Lanter from Star Crossed and 90210) and a history professor named Lucy (Abigail Spencer from Suits and Rectify), who use the machine’s prototype to travel back in time to critical events, hoping to stop Flynn.

Also on October 3, the two-hour season premiere of Scorpion will air on CBS at 9 PM. The show will move to its regular 10 PM timeslot next week.

The new ABC drama Conviction will also debut on October 3 at 10 PM. Lawyer and former First Daughter Hayes Morrison (Hayley Atwell from Marvel’s Agent Carter) is about to accept a job offered from her sexy nemesis, NY District Attorney Wayne Wallis (Eddie Cahill from CSI: NY and Under the Dome), to avoid jail time for cocaine possession and avoid hurting her mother’s Senate campaign. Working with his team at the new Conviction Integrity Unit will let her use her brilliant mind to turn over cases where there is credible suspicion of wrongful conviction, and give her a chance to turn things around with her high-powered political family.

On October 4, the season premiere of The Flash will air on The CW at 8 PM followed by the debut of the new dramedy No Tomorrow at 9 PM. No Tomorrow follows a woman name Evie (Tori Anderson from Sacred Heart and Killjoys) who becomes involved with a free-spirited guy named Xavier (Joshua Sasse from Galavant and Rogue), who inspires her to make an “apocalyst,” a list of things to do before the world ends, which he claims will be in eight months and twelve days.

The season premiere of Arrow will air on The CW on October 5 at 8 PM followed by the debut of the new drama Frequency at 9 PM. Frequency is set in 2016, focusing on NYPD Detective Raimy Sullivan (Peyton List from The Flash and The Tomorrow People) discovers that she is able to speak to her deceased father Frank Sullivan (Riley Smith from Nashville and True Blood) in 1996 via his old ham radio. Her attempts to save his life trigger the “butterfly effect,” changing the present in unforeseen ways. To fix the damage, she must work with her father across time to solve a decades-old murder case.

On October 8, the new Hallmark Channel movie Autumn in the Vineyard will debut at 9 PM. When Frankie Baldwin (Rachael Leigh Cook from She’s All That) and Nate Deluca (Brendan Penny from Motive and Chesapeake Shores) both have a claim to ownership of Sorrento Farm, they are forced to divide the vineyard right down the middle and work the fields alongside each other to bring in the harvest leading up to the Best Wine competition at the annual Autumn Harvest Festival — only this rivalry won’t be settled in the fields, because in spite of their contentious bickering, the simplest way to settle this particular legal dispute is with a romance.

The Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Gourmet Detective: Death Al Dente will debut on October 9 at 9 PM. Dylan Neal and Brooke Burns are on the case again this time investigating the murder of Henry’s friend, a well-known local chef found dead in his kitchen. As they begin to unravel an old family secret, Maggie has to stay one step ahead of a mysterious man in the shadows who appears to be stalking her, while her blossoming relationship with Henry is threatened by the arrival of an ex-love from Maggie’s past. The film also stars Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Samantha Ferris (Supernatural) and Chris William Martin (Cedar Cove).

Mark your calendars!