Rueben's Ramblings

Here is the list of the programming options to expect on TV this coming week:

The third season premiere of Snowpiercer will air on TNT at 9 PM on January 24.

On January 24, the new drama Promised Land will debut on ABC at 10:01 PM. The series is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.

The HBO period piece drama The Gilded Age will debut on January 24 at 9 PM. The series begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Christina Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon). Accompanied by Peggy Scott (Denee Benton), an aspiring writer seeking a fresh start, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon).

On January 25, the season finale of Our Kind of People will air on FOX at 9 PM.

The second season of Resident Alien will premiere on Syfy on January 26 at 9 PM followed by the debut of Astrid & Lilly Save the World at 10 PM. For Astrid & Lilly Save the World, high school is hard enough when you’re different, but when outcast BFFs Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) accidentally crack open a portal to a terrifyingly quirky monster dimension, it gets a lot more complicated. It’s up to them to vanquish the creepy creatures and save the world, becoming the badass heroes they were meant to be. That is, if they can survive the horrors of high school.

The animated movie The Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild will debut online on January 28 on Disney+. The movie continues the hilarious escapades of the beloved sub-zero heroes as they create more prehistoric pandemonium. Eager for a little independence, the thrill-seeking possum brothers Crash and Eddie (Vincent Tong and Aaron Harris respectively) set out to find a place of their own, but quickly find themselves trapped beneath the ice in a massive cave inhabited by dinosaurs. They are rescued by the one-eyed, adventure-loving weasel Buck Wild (Simon Pegg), and together, with the help of some new friends, embark on a mission to save the Lost World from dinosaur domination.

On January 28, the new Netflix 8-episode drama In From the Cold will debut online.  A mom’s (Margarita Levieva from Revenge) life turns upside down when she must choose between putting her family at risk and returning to her past as a bioengineered Russian agent.

The Netflix movie The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window will debut online on January 28. The dark comedy centers around heartbroken Anna (Kristen Bell), for whom every day is the same. She sits with her wine, staring out the window, watching life go by without her. But when a handsome neighbor moves in across the street, Anna starts to see a light at the end of the tunnel. That is until she witnesses a gruesome murder…or did she? The cast includes Tom Riley, Shelley Hennig and Michael Ealy.

On January 29, the Hallmark Channel movie Butlers in Love will debut at 9 PM. In a prestigious butler academy, passionate Emma (Stacey Farber) and rebellious Henry (Corey Cott) train to become royal butlers where the competition is fierce and sparks fly.

Lastly, on January 30, the UPtv movie Love & Where To Find It will debut at 7 PM. Two local coffee shop business owners (Elise Gatien and Clayton James) despise each other in real life, but fall in love while unknowingly sending each other messages through a dating app on their friends’ behalf.

NOTE: The FOX drama Monarch has been postponed until this fall (rather than debuting on January 30) and the Grammy Awards, which were to air on CBS on January 31, have been postponed due to the pandemic.

Mark your calendars!