Rueben's Ramblings

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

On February 17, the drama The Gone will air its season finale on Acorn TV online.

The Britbox limited series A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story will debut online on February 17. This 4-part series follows the story of Ruth Ellis (Lucy Boynton), her lifestyle as a young nightclub manager, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged. The ensemble cast includes Toby Stephens, Toby Jones, Juliet Stevenson, Jessie Carter, Laurie Davidson and Arthur Darvill.

On February 19, the new CW drama Good Cop/Bad Cop will debut at 9 PM. This one-hour procedural dramedy centers around Lou (Leighton Meester) and Henry (Luke Cook), an odd couple sister and brother detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force. They must contend with colorful residents, a serious lack of resources and their very complicated dynamic with each other and with their police chief, Big Hank (Clancy Brown), who just happens to be their father. Philippa Northeast co-stars.

The season three premiere of Reacher will air online on Amazon Prime on February 20.

Also on February 20, the new limited series Zero Day will debut online . Robert De Niro stars as respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the NetflixZero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities. As disinformation runs rampant and the personal ambition of power brokers in technology, Wall Street and government collide, Mullen’s unwavering search for the truth forces him to confront his own dark secrets while risking all he holds dear. The ensemble cast includes Angela Bassett, Bill Camp, Clark Gregg, Connie Britton, Dan Stevens, Gaby Hoffman, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen, Lizzy Caplan, Matthew Modine and McKinley Belcher III.

The second season premiere of Surface will air online on Apple TV+ on February 21 also that same day, the season finale of The Couple Next Door will air on Starz at 9 PM.

Also on February 21, the new drama A Thousand Blows will debut online on Hulu. Inspired by the true life stories of a group of characters battling for survival in the brutal East End of London in the 1880s. Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby)and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends on the run from Jamaica, find themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London’s thriving bare-knuckle boxing scene. As Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham), determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.

The UP Faith & Family movie The Love Club Moms: Harper will debut online on February 21. Single mom Harper (Genelle Williams) teams up with Colin, a single dad seeking community councilor re-election, but when he takes credit for an initiative, Harper throws her hat in the election ring. The cast includes Mark Taylor and Sage Arrindell.

On February 22, the Hallmark Channel movie Sisterhood Inc. will debut at 8 PM. Corporate exec Megan (Rachael Leigh Cook) starts a board of directors to improve her younger sister’s chaotic life and finds romance with a psych professor who uncovers her tough demeanor. The movie also stars Daniella Monet and Leonidas Gulaptis.

The 56th Annual NAACP Image Awards will air on February 22 at 8 PM on CBS and BET.

On February 23, the second season premiere of 1923 will air online on Paramount+; while that same day, the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will air on Netflix. Also on February 23, the season finales of All Creatures Great and Small and Funny Woman will air on PBS at 9 and 10 PM respectively; and that same night, the season finale of Rogue Heroes will air on MGM+ at 9 PM.

Lastly, the debuts of Suits LA and Grosse Pointe Garden Society will air on NBC on February 23 at 9 and 10 PM respectively. For Suits LA, the series is about Ted Black (Stephen Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point, and in order to survive, he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives. All of this is going on while we slowly unravel the events that years ago led Ted to leave behind everything and everyone he loved. The series also stars Josh McDermitt, Bryan Greenberg and Lex Scott Davis. As for Grosse Pointe Garden Society, the series follows four members of a suburban garden club who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above. The ensemble cast includes Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, AnnaSophia Robb, Nancy Travis and Matthew Davis.

Mark your calendars!