On September 27 the new drama Blood & Oil will debut on ABC at 9 PM.
Billy and Cody Lefever (Chace Crawford from Gossip Girl and Rebecca Rittenhouse from Red Band Society) dream of a new life beyond their working class roots and move to “The Bakken” in North Dakota, booming after the biggest oil discovery in American history. They’re soon pitted against a ruthless tycoon (Don Johnson) who forces them to bet big and put everything on the line, including their marriage.
The cast includes Adan Canto (The Following), Amber Valletta (Revenge), Scott Michael Foster (Chasing Life and Once Upon a Time), India de Beaufort (Jane By Design) and Delroy Lindo (Believe).
On, September 24, the new NBC drama The Player will debut at 10 PM.
Box office star Wesley Snipes and Philip Winchester (Strike Back) star in this action-packed Las Vegas thriller about a former military operative turned security expert who is drawn into a high-stakes game where an organization of wealthy individuals gamble on his ability to stop some of the biggest crimes imaginable from playing out. Can he take them down from the inside and get revenge for the death of his wife, or is it true what they say: The house always wins.
The cast includes Charity Wakefield (Sense & Sensibility and Mockingbird Lane), Daisy Betts (The Last Resort and Persons Unknown) and Damon Gupton (Rake and The Divide).
On September 24, the new reboot series Heroes Reborn will debut for two hours at 8 PM on NBC.
The 13-episode event series chronicles the lives of ordinary people who discover they possess extraordinary abilities. A year ago, a terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas, left the city decimated. Blamed for the tragic event, those with extraordinary abilities are in hiding or on the run from those with nefarious motives.
The cast includes Zachary Levi (Chuck) [playing very much against type] and Judith Shekoni (the Twilight franchise) are a married couple seeking to avenge a tragic loss; Jack Coleman returns as Noah Bennet (aka H.R.G.), who has gone off the grid; Henry Zebrowski (A to Z) plays a conspiracy theorist Quentin Frady, who finds Noah and opens his eyes to the truth behind the Odessa tragedy; Robbie Kay (Once Upon a Time) play Tommy, an awkward teen, who just wants to be normal; Gatlin Green (Criminal Minds) is Emily, the girl of Tommy’s dreams; Danika Yarosh (Shameless) plays Malina, a very sheltered, bold and ethereal teenager, who has been told she is destined for greatness; Kiki Sukezane (Death Yankee 3) plays Miko, a quiet and unique young woman, who is trying to track down her missing father; Ryan Guzman (Pretty Little Liars and The Boy Next Door) plays Carlos, a former soldier; Rya Kihlstedt (Masters of Sex) plays Erica, the head of the highly successful tech conglomerate Renautas, who has an agenda of her own.
Cast members from the original series who will reprise their roles include Greg Grunberg, Masi Oka, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Noah Gray-Cabey, Cristine Rose and Sendhil Ramamurthy; and other cast members include Cle Bennett (Rookie Blue and Lost Girl), Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black) and Nazneen Contractor (Covert Affairs).
The new drama Rosewood will air its series premiere on FOX at 8 PM on September 23.
The series focuses on Dr. Beaumont Rosewood, Jr. (Morris Chestnut from Legends and Nurse Jackie), the most brilliant private pathologist in Miami, who uses his wildly sophisticated autopsy lab to perform for-hire autopsies to uncover clues that the Miami PD can’t see. His new partner-in-crime is Detective Villa (Jaina Lee Ortiz from The After), a Miami PD detective with attitude and demons to spare.
The cast includes Domenick Lombardozzi (Breakout Kings), Maggie Elizabeth Jones (Ben and Kate and We Bought a Zoo) and Lorraine Toussaint (The Fosters and Forever).
The new thriller Scream Queens will air its two-hour series debut at 8 PM on FOX on September 22.
Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts from American Horror Story: Freak Show).
But when anti-Kappa Dean Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis from Halloween and True Lies) decrees that sorority pledging must be open to all students, and not just the school’s silver-spooned elite, all hell is about to break loose, as a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc, claiming one victim, one episode at a time.
The cast includes Lea Michele (Glee), Abigail Breslin (Zombieland), Oliver Hudson (Nashville), Skyler Samuels (American Horror Story: Coven and The Nine Lives of Chloe King), Keke Palmer (Masters of Sex), Diego Bonita (Pretty Little Liars and Rock of Ages), Niecy Nash (The Soul Man), singer-actor Nick Jonas (Kingdom) and actress-singer Ariana Grande [among others].
NOTE: The series will move to its regular timeslot at 9 PM on September 29.
On September 22, the new CBS drama Limitless, based on the feature film, will debut at 10 PM.
The drama is about Brian Finch (Jake McDorman from Greek), who discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced by the FBI into using his extraordinary cognitive abilities to solve complex cases for them.
The cast includes Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter), Hill Harper (CSI: NY) and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (Grimm).
The new FOX drama Minority Report, based on the film of the same name, will debut on September 21 at 9 PM.
The series follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future (Stark Sands from Inside Llewyn Davis) and a cop (Meagan Good from Californication and the short-lived Deception) haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen.
The cast includes Wilmer Valderrama (That 70’s Show), Nick Zano (What I Like About You) and Laura Regan (Mad Men).
On September 21, the new NBC drama Blindspot will debut at 10 PM.
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe (Jaimie Alexander from Kyle XY and the Thor films), completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos, is discovered naked in Times Square with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there’s one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller (Sullivan Stapleton from Strike Back), emblazoned across her back. “Jane,” Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.
The cast includes Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace), Ukweli Roach (The Royals), Audrey Esparza (Black Box), Rob Brown (Treme) and Ashley Johnson (Growing Pains and Spooked).
The two-hour debut of The Bastard Executioner will air on September 15 on FX at 10 PM.
The epic medieval series tells the story of Wilkin Brattle (newcomer Lee Jones), a 14th century warrior, whose life is forever changed when a divine messenger beseeches him to lay down his sword and lead the life of another man: a journeyman executioner.
Set in northern Wales during a time rife with rebellion and political upheaval, Wilkin must walk a tight rope between protecting his true identity while also serving a mysterious destiny. Guided by Annora, a mystical healer whose seeming omniscience keeps Wilkin under her sway; manipulated by Milus Corbett, a devious Chamberlain with grand political aspirations; and driven by a deepening connection with the Baroness Lady Love, Wilkin struggles to navigate political, emotional and supernal pitfalls in his quest to understand his greater purpose.
The cast includes Katey Sagal (Sons of Anarchy) and Stephen Moyer (True Blood) [among others].
On September 4, the Amazon series Hand of God will debut online.
The show centers on Judge Harris (Ron Perlman from Sons of Anarchy), a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl named Tessie Graham (Emayatzy Corinealdi from Middle of Nowhere) on the side, who suffers a mental breakdown and goes on a vigilante quest to find the rapist who tore his family apart.
There is much more to Judge Harris than that, though. After his son PJ (relative newcomer Johnny Fero) is forced to watch his wife Jocelyn (Alona Tal from Supernatural and Burn Notice) be raped repeatedly, he attempts suicide. Barely clinging to life, the judge’s wife Crystal (Dana Delany from China Beach and Body of Proof) and Jocelyn, know it is time to allow PJ to die. However, the judge believes that his son will miraculously awaken and then he begins to experience visions that the thinks will lead him to the person responsible; someone who has never been caught.
Enter Reverend Paul Curtis (Julian Morris from Pretty Little Liars and Once Upon a Time), a money-grubbing pastor, with a very shady past, who exploits the judge’s grief and Alicia (Elizabeth McLaughlin from Betrayal), who is more than just Paul’s disciple.
When KD (Garret Dillahunt from Raising Hope), a former white supremacist who, too has found Jesus (like the judge), passes through Pernell’s court, the judge convinces KD to serve as his “personal avenger”.
And then there is Robert ‘Bobo’ Boston (Andre Royo from The Wire), who is the slick mayor of the fictional city of San Vicente, California, ruled by generations of the Harris family.
Here is a trailer for Hand of God:
Dana Delaney and Ron Perlman
Alona Tal
Garret Dillahunt
Elizabeth McLaughlin and Julian Morris
Andre Royo
Emayatzy Corinealdi
All 10 episodes of Hand of God can be viewed on Amazon and Amazon Prime on September 4.
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