The new Amazon series Patriot will debut online on February 24.
The show follows the complicated life of intelligence officer John Tavner (Michael Dorman from Wonderland) whose latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, which requires him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous “non-official cover” – that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
The cast includes Terry O’Quinn (Lost), Kurtwood Smith (That 70’s Show), Michael Chernus (Manhattan Project) and Kathleen Munroe (Call Me Fitz and Resurrection).
On February 23, the new CMT series Sun Records will debut at 10 PM.
Set in Memphis and inspired by true events, the series will focus on a chance meeting in December 4, 1956 by Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins who stumbled into an impromptu jam session that turned out to be a seminal moment in modern music history.
The cast includes Kevin Fonteyne (Melissa & Joey) as Johnny Cash; newcomer Drake Milligan as Elvis Presley; Christian Lees (the British sitcom Parents) as Jerry Lee Lewis and Dustin Ingram (Lab Rats and True Blood) as Carl Perkins.
One Tree Hill alum Chad Michael Murray will star as the legendary Sam Phillips and Billy Gardell (Mike & Molly) as the one and only Colonel Tom Parker.
The spin-off series The Blacklist: Redemption will debut on NBC on February 23 at 10 PM.
The world’s most elusive criminals from Raymond “Red” Reddington’s infamous list come together to form an elite mercenary team as they try to regain their self-worth after a lifetime of inflicting damage on the world. Seeking redemption for their past transgressions, this new group solves problems governments don’t dare touch.
Blacklist undercover operative Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) joins the team’s brilliant and cunning chief, Susan “Scottie” Hargrave (Famke Janssen), as well as lethal assassin and Tom’s nemesis Matias Solomon (Edi Gathegi), as they aim to be a force for good and right dangerous wrongs. Along with highly skilled members Nez Rowan (Tawny Cypress) and hacker Dumont (Adrian Martinez), they will undertake seemingly impossible missions – all in the hopes of repairing their damaged souls.
On February 19, the new HBO limited series Big Little Lies will debut at 9 PM.
Based on Liane Moriarty’s best-selling book of the same name, the series is a subversive, darkly comedic drama that tells the tale of three mothers of first-graders whose seemingly perfect lives unravel to the point of murder.
The cast includes film stars Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley as well as Alexander Skarsgard (True Blood), Laura Dern (Jurassic Park), Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), Zoe Kravitz (the Divergent franchise), James Tupper (Revenge and Aftermath) and Jeffrey Nordling (Arrow and Body of Proof).
The new CBS All Access series The Good Fight will debut on February 19 at 8 PM.
An enormous financial scam has destroyed the reputation of a young lawyer, Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie from Game of Thrones and Downton Abbey), while simultaneously wiping out her mentor and godmother Diane Lockhart’s (Christine Baranski from The Good Wife) savings. Forced out of Lockhart & Lee, they join Lucca Quinn at one of Chicago’s pre-eminent law firms.
The cast includes stage star Bernadette Peters, film star Delroy Lindo, Erica Tazel (Justified), Justin Bartha (The Hangover franchise) and Paul Guifoyle (CSI).
The new CBS drama Doubt will debut on February 15 at 10 PM.
Katherine Heigl stars as Sadie Ellis, a brilliant attorney at a boutique firm who starts to fall for her charismatic client, Billy Brennan (Steven Pasquale from The Good Wife and Bloodline), an altruistic pediatric surgeon recently accused of murdering his girlfriend 24 years ago.
The cast includes Elliott Gould (Ray Donovan), Dulé Hill (Psych), Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), Dreama Walker (The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU) and Kobi Libii (Madam Secretary, Jessica Jones).
On February 10, the new Amazon series The Collection will debut online.
The series is a gripping family saga where scandal and betrayal plague the Sabine family’s relentless pursuit of success. Set in a post-war Parisian fashion house, the Sabines have been tasked with restoring the city’s supremacy as the haute couture capital. The series explores the grit behind the glamour of a rising business run by two clashing brothers. Paul (Richard Coyle from Coupling and Crossbones), is the face and the business sense while Claude (Tom Riley from Da Vinci’s Demons), is the creative genius. They’re nothing without each other but their rivalry, deception and the hateful bargains they made to survive the Nazi occupation could threaten to topple this “first family” of fashion’s empire at any moment. The season explores the constant question, will their tenuous relationship and the ghosts of their past destroy their meteoric success?
The cast includes Mamie Gummer (Emily Owens, MD and The Good Wife) and Frances de la Tour (Harry Potter franchise and Outlander)
The small screen adaptation of the box office film Legion will debut on February 8 on FX at 10 PM.
The series is about David Haller (Dan Stevens from Downton Abbey), a troubled young man who may be more than human. Diagnosed as schizophrenic as a child, David has been in and out of psychiatric hospitals for years. Now in his early 30s and institutionalized once again, David loses himself in the rhythm of the structured regimen of life in the hospital: breakfast, lunch, dinner, therapy, medications, sleep.
David spends the rest of his time in companionable silence alongside his chatterbox friend Lenny (Aubrey Plaza from Parks and Recreation), a fellow patient whose life-long drug and alcohol addiction has done nothing to quell her boundless optimism that her luck is about to change. The pleasant numbness of David’s routine is completely upended with the arrival of a beautiful and troubled new patient named Syd (Rachel Keller from Fargo). Inexplicably drawn to one another, David and Syd share a startling encounter, after which he must confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees are the result of him being a mutant.
On February 6, the new FOX drama APB will debut at 9:01 PM.
This series focuses on sky-high crime, officer-involved shootings, cover-ups and corruption in the over-extended and under-funded Chicago Police Department. Enter billionaire engineer Gideon Reeves (Justin Kirk from Tyrant and Weeds), who – after his best friend is murdered in a botched attempted robbery and the killer remains at large – demands justice. Putting up millions of dollars of his own money, he makes an unprecedented deal to take charge of the troubled 13th District – and reboot it as a technically innovative police force: better, faster and smarter than anything seen before. With Gideon himself having created the department’s cutting-edge technology, this eccentric yet brilliant outsider challenges the city’s police force to rethink everything about the way they fight crime.
The cast includes Natalie Martinez (Kingdom and Under the Dome), Caitlin Stasey (Reign), Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters), Taylor Handley (Vegas and Southland) and Tamberla Perry (Boss).
On February 2, the debut of the small screen adaptation of Training Day will air on CBS at 10 PM.
Detective Frank Rourke (film actor Bill Paxton) is the maverick head of the Special Investigation Section that hunts the city’s most dangerous criminals, and one of the finest investigators the department has ever produced. But, when the LAPD brass notices Rourke’s penchant for operating in a gray area to fight the war on crime, they assign Kyle Craig (relative newcomer Justin Cornwell), a heroic, untarnished cop, to pose as Frank’s trainee to spy on him and report on his off-book methods.
The members of Frank’s loyal team include Rebecca Lee (Katrina Law from Arrow), a formidable officer with killer aim and a dark past, and Tommy Campbell (Drew Van Acker from Pretty Little Liars and Devious Maids), a former pro surfer who follows Frank’s orders without hesitation. The team’s cases find Frank and Kyle often crossing paths with Detective Valeria Chavez (Christina Vidal from Code Black), one of the LAPD’s top investigators. Providing Frank with intel is his girlfriend, Holly Butler (Julie Benz from Dexter and Angel), a well-connected, unapologetic Hollywood madam.
While LAPD Deputy Chief Joy Lockhart (Marianne Jean-Baptiste from Blindspot and Without a Trace) coolly puts Kyle in danger in her mission to take down Frank, Kyle’s schoolteacher wife, Alyse (Lex Scott Davis from the made-for-TV movie Toni Braxton: Unbreak My Heart), worries her husband’s resolve to avenge the murder of his father, a cop, may be his undoing.
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