Rueben's Ramblings

Here are the FOX pilots up for consideration for the 2019-2020 TV season:

Deputy – Deputy Bill Hollister is a career lawman who’s very comfortable kicking down doors and utterly lost in a staff meeting. But when the LA County Sheriff drops dead, Bill becomes acting sheriff of Los Angeles County, in charge of 10,000 sworn deputies policing a modern Wild West.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES:  Will Beall, Chris Long and Cedar Park

CAST: Stephen Dorff (True Detective), Yara Martinez (Jane the Virgin), Brian Van Holt (Cougar Town), Bex Taylor-Klaus (Arrow), Siena Goines (Grey’s Anatomy, Jericho), Mark Moses (Desperate Housewives) and Shane Paul McGhie (Sacred Lies)

Filthy Rich – A larger-than-life Southern Gothic dramedy about two strong, sharp women who will go to any length to protect their loved ones and get their due. When the wealthy CEO of the world’s largest Christian network dies in a plane crash, his wife and adult children are stunned to discover he has grown, illegitimate kids who are also in his will. When the matriarch of the family tries to pay them to go away, these newly legitimized heirs have very different ideas and insist on not only staying in town, but becoming part of the family empire. (Based on the New Zealand series of the same name.)

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES:  Tate Taylor, John Norris, Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo

CAST: Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City), Gerald McRaney (This Is Us), Steve Harris (The Practice), Melia Kreiling (Salvation, Tyrant), Aubrey Dollar (Battle Creek, Women’s Murder Club), Corey Cott (The Good Fight), Mark L. Young (Ten Days in the Valley), David Denman (The Office), Olivia Macklin (LA to Vegas) and newcomer Benjamin Levy Aguilar

Lovestruck – A structurally inventive dramedy, in which the entire first season takes place over the course of single night at a wedding. As we get to know the wedding party, we’ll learn surprising reveals about both their present and past. We’ll see that things aren’t always what they seem and explore the complicated bonds of love, friendship and family at different stages of life.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES:  Tom Kapinos, Sanaa Hamri, Sharon Levy, Francois-Xavier Demaison and Nicolas Coppermann

CAST: Rachel Bilson (Hart of Dixie), Steve Kazee (Nashville, Shameless), Andie MacDowell (Cedar Cove), Kathleen Turner (Californication), Richard Roxburgh (Rake), Usman Ally (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Beth Riesgraf (Leverage), Jeffery Self (Search Party), Linda Park (Bosch) and Madeline Wise (Crashing)

Next – A propulsive, fact-based thriller grounded in the latest A.I. research features a brilliant but paranoid former tech CEO who joins a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent and her team to stop the world’s first artificial intelligence crisis: the emergence of a rogue AI with the ability to continuously improve itself. Marrying pulse-pounding action with a layered examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand, the series also presents us with a villain like we’ve never seen before, one whose greatest weapon against us is ourselves.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES:  Manny Coto and Charlie Gogolak

CAST: John Slattery (Mad Men), Eve Harlow (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Michael Mosley (Sirens), Jason Butler Harner (Ozark) and Elizabeth Cappuccino (Jessica Jones)

Prodigal Son – Malcolm Bright has a gift. He knows how killers think, how their minds work. Why? His father was one of the worst — a notorious serial killer called “The Surgeon.” That’s why Bright is the best criminal psychologist around; murder is the family business. He will use his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve crimes and stop killers, all while dealing with a manipulative mother, annoyingly normal sister, a homicidal father still looking to bond with his prodigal son, and his own constantly evolving neuroses.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES:  Chris Fedak, Sam Sklaver, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter

CAST: Tom Payne (The Walking Dead), Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex), Bellamy Young (Scandal), Lou Diamond Phillips (Longmire), Halston Sage (The Orville), Keiko Agena (Gilmore Girls), Aurora Perrineau (Chasing Life) and Frank Harts (The Path, Billions)

Untitled Annie Weisman/Jason Katims Project – Only child Julia Beckley has her life turned upside down when it’s revealed that her father, a pioneering Nobel Prize-winning fertility doctor, used his own sperm to conceive dozens of children over the course of his career. Reeling from this explosive revelation, Julia discovers two new sisters — her former best friend and an ex-Olympic athlete. Against all odds, the women attempt to form an untraditional family and lean on each other as they grapple with their own identity crises. Based on the Australian series Sisters.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES:  In addition to Weisman and Katims, Jeni Mulein, Imogen Banks and Sharon Levy

CAST: Timothy Hutton (The Haunting of Hill House, How to Get Away With Murder), Brittany Snow (American Dreams), Emily Osment (Young & Hungry) Megalyn Echikunwoke (Damien, Arrow), Mo McRae (Empire, Pitch) and Victoria Cartagena (Manifest, Gotham)

MOST LIKELY TO BE PICKED-UP: Prodigal Son

WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE: Lovestruck and Untitled Weisman/Katims Project

LONG SHOT: Deputy and Next