The new CBS drama Ransom will debut at approximately 8:30 PM on January 1 after an NFL double-header.
This series is a crime drama about a world-renowned crisis and hostage negotiator whose team is brought in to resolve the most difficult kidnap and ransom cases.
The cast includes Brandon Jay McLaren (Graceland), Luke Roberts (Black Sails), Nazneen Contractor (Covert Affairs) and Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful).
NOTE: The show will move to Saturdays at 8 PM starting on January 7.
On December 14, FOX will air a special sneak peek premiere of the new drama Star at 9 PM.
The show follows three talented young singers – desperate for a new start and with ambitions of stardom – as they navigate the cut-throat music business.
The cast includes Queen Latifah and Benjamin Bratt as well as newcomers Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O’Grady and Amiyah Scott.
NOTE: Star will move to its regular time slot on January 4.
On December 7, the new Hulu series Shut Eye will debut online.
Charlie Haverford (Jeffrey Donovan from Burn Notice) is a scammer with a small chain of fortune-telling storefronts and contracts building tricks for a family that controls the business in the greater chunk of Los Angeles. A blow to the head from a client’s angry boyfriend intersects with a hypnosis session while auditioning a new “clairvoyant,” and suddenly, a man whose entire life has been based on fraud begins to see and feel some very real and fundamental truths.
Charlie’s wife Linda (Kadee Strickland from Private Practice) is sick and tired of their mediocre life and wants to break away from Fonso, the single father who runs the Marks family’s psychic empire and controls the Haverford’s future.
The cast includes Emmanuelle Chriqui (Murder in the First) and Isabella Rossellini.
On November 30, the new Syfy series Incorporated will debut at 10 PM.
Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, Ben Larson (Sean Teale from Reign) is a young executive who conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves. But he’ll soon learn that he’s not the only one whose secrets may have deadly consequences.
The cast includes Allison Miller (Terra Nova and Kings), David Hewlett (Stargate Atlantis), Dennis Haysbert (24), Damon Harriman (Justified) and Julia Ormond (Witches of East End).
The new BBC America series Undercover will have a two-night premiere on November 16 and November 17 airing at 8 PM both nights.
This six-part series, which stars Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda) and Dennis Haysbert (24), is a bold political thriller told through a family on the brink of destruction. Pulled from factual events in UK history, the series tackles hot buttons issues including government espionage and race relations to weave a tale of corruption, betrayal, and miscarriages of justice.
The cast also includes Adrian Lester (Hustle) and Angel Coulby (Merlin).
On November 16, the new DirecTV crime drama Ice will debut at 8 PM.
This high-impact, serialized crime drama follows the Green Family, as they plunge into the underbelly of the Los Angeles diamond trade. Jake (Cam Gigandet from The O.C. and Burlesque) and Freddy (Jeremy Sisto from Suburgatory) are half-brothers brought together by their father Isaac (Raymond J. Barry from Justified and The 100), the patriarch behind G&G Diamonds and their uncle Cam (Ray Winstone from The Departed).
After wildcard Freddy kills a prominent diamond dealer, his brother Jake must bail him out and save the family business from a crime lord of the Los Angeles diamond trade (Judith Shekoni from Heroes Reborn). Jake must endure all of this while maneuvering amongst jewelry thugs, blood diamond deals, false certificates, the Feds, and Pieter Van De Bruin (veteran actor Donald Sutherland), a ruthless Afrikaanz diamond merchant who now heads up an Antwerp-based diamond cartel with the same cutthroat skills he applied as a surgeon in the South African armed forces.
The USA Network series Shooter, based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Hunter and the 2007 film that starred Mark Wahlberg, will debut on November 15 at 10 PM.
Ryan Phillippe (Secrets and Lies) takes over the lead role in the story that follows the courageous journey of Bob Lee Swagger, a highly-decorated ex-marine sniper who is coaxed back into action after he learns about a plot to kill the President.
The cast includes Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Arrow and The Accountant), David Marciano (Due South and Homeland), Omar Epps (House and Resurrection), Shantel VanSanten (The Messengers and The Flash) and Tembi Locke (Eureka).
On November 15, the new TNT series Good Behavior will debut at 9 PM.
Downton Abbey’s Michelle Dockery (she played Lady Mary) stars very much against type as Letty Dobesh, a thief and con artist, who is released from prison and reunited with her 10-year-old son, who is being raised by her mother. While she regularly sees her substance-abuse counselor, whose motives for helping her are questionable, she soon overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife and sets out to prevent it, which puts her on a collision course with the killer to the point of starting a relationship with him.
The Netflix 10-part drama The Crown will debut online on November 4.
The drama tells the inside story of Queen Elizabeth II’s early reign, revealing the personal intrigues, romances and political rivalries behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th Century.
The cast includes Claire Foy (Wolf Hall) as Queen Elizabeth II and Matt Smith (Doctor Who) as Prince Phillip as well as John Lithgow, Jared Harris and Jeremy Northam.
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