Rueben's Ramblings

On April 23, the new series Sugarcreek Amish Mysteries will debut on UPtv at 9 PM.

Cheryl Cooper (Galadriel Stineman) escapes to an Amish community in Sugarcreek, Ohio, to manage a gift shop after a failed engagement. Drawn into one mystery after another, Cheryl quickly realizes her sharp instincts and outsider perspective are exactly what this tight-knit community needs. With the help of the unlikely friendships she forges among her Amish neighbors, Cheryl uncovers more than just answers. She begins to piece together a new sense of home, belonging, and even the fragile possibility of love.

The cast includes Denise Gossett, Kevin Joy, Riley Beeson, Lance Nichols, Ryan O’Quinn and Candace Kirkpatrick.

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The new drama The Audacity will debut online on AMC+ and also on AMC at 9 PM on April 12.

The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power.

The cast includes Lucy Punch, Meaghan Rath, Paul Adelstein, Randall Park, Simon Helberg, Zach Galifianakis and Rob Corddry [among others].

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The Peacock series The Miniature Wife will debut online on April 9.

This dramedy is based on the short story written by Manuel Gonzales, which examines the power (im)balances between spouses Lindy (Elizabeth Banks) and Les (Matthew Macfadyen) after a technological accident induces the ultimate relationship crisis.

The cast includes O-T Fagbenle and Zoe Lister-Jones.

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On April 8, The Handmaid’s Tale prequel series The Testaments will debut online on Hulu.

The series follows young teens Agnes (Chase Infiniti), dutiful and pious, and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead’s borders. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives, a place where obedience is instilled brutally and always with divine justification, their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, their present, and their future.

The cast also includes Amy Seimetz, Ann Dowd and Rowan Blanchard [among others].

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The new limited series A Taste for Murder will debut online on April 7 on Britbox.

Show Synopsis: Set amidst the steep cliffs and fast tides of Capri, this new drama features classic Italian cuisine as the main ingredient to each episode’s central murder mystery, revealing the power of food to foster connection, community, and healing after devastating loss.

Downton Abbey alum Phyllis Logan is among the cast as well as Warren Brown from Luther and Strike Back.

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The new small screen adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo will debut on PBS on March 22 at 10 PM.

Young sailor Edmond Dantès (Sam Clafin from Daisy Jones and the Six and The Hunger Games) is betrayed by those he trusts most and is torn from his fiancé and thrown into a nightmarish prison. But fortune favors patient Dantès: he escapes, claims a hidden treasure, and transforms himself into the enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo to exact thrilling revenge. Can Dantès reclaim justice?

The cast includes legendary actor Jeremy Irons and Blake Ritson (The Gilded Age).

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On March 22, the new period piece drama The Forsytes will debut on PBS at 9 PM

Based on the John Galsworthy Nobel Prize winning book series, The Forsytes focuses on a wealthy solicitor who becomes obsessed with a woman who rejects him despite his riches. After they marry, she remains distant, driving him to extreme lengths to control her in this epic early-20th-century family saga.

The series stars Millie Gibson, Joshua Orpin, Francesca Annis, Danny Griffin, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jack Davenport, Stephen Moyer, Tuppence Middleton and Tom Durant Pritchard.

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The new prequel series Hope Valley 1874 will debut on Hallmark+ on March 21.

The When Calls the Heart prequel will follow Rebecca Clarke (Bethany Joy Lenz), who travels from Chicago to the Western Canadian frontier with her 11-year-old daughter (Mila Morgan) but must accept help from local rancher Tom Moore when her wagon breaks down.

The cast includes Benjamin Ayres, Jill Hennessy, Roan Curtis, Lachlan Quarmby, Chelsea Hobbs and Ryan Robbins.

NOTE: Hope Valley: 1874 will then move to its regular night, Thursdays, on March 26.

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The new drama Imperfect Women will debut online on Apple TV on March 18.

Based on the novel by Araminta Hall, the series examines a crime that shatters the lives of three women in a decades-long friendship. The unconventional thriller explores guilt and retribution, love and betrayal, and the compromises we make that irrevocably alter our lives. As the investigation unravels, so does the truth about how even the closest friendships may not be what they seem.

The ensemble cast includes Elisabeth Moss, Kate Mara, Kerry Washington, Joel Kinnaman, Keith Carradine, Corey Stoll, Rome Flynn, Wilson Bethel, Ana Ortiz, Jill Wagner, Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sheryl Lee Ralph.

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