Rueben's Ramblings

The 10-episode psychological thriller Wayward Pines will debut on FOX at 9 PM on May 14.

Based on the best-selling novel by Blake Crouch, the series focuses on a Secret Service agent on a mission to find two missing federal agents in the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, Idaho.

The series stars Matt Dillon (Crash), Melissa Leo (The Fighter), Terrence Howard (Crash and Empire), Carla Gugino (Entourage), Shannyn Sossamon (Moonlight), Toby Jones (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Reed Diamond (24 and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D), Tim Griffin (Prime Suspect) and Juliette Lewis (Secrets and Lies).

Here is a trailer for Wayward Pines:

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The Messengers, the new drama on The CW, will debut on April 17 at 9 PM.

In the New Mexico desert, scientist Vera Buckley (Shantel VanSanten from Gang Related) watches in fascination as a mysterious object plummets to Earth and explodes, sending out a shock wave that briefly stops her heart. But Vera is not the only one affected: she is instantly connected to four other strangers, who also collapsed only to miraculously come back to life hours later.

Then a mysterious figure known only as “The Man” (Diogo Morgado from the mini-series The Bible) comes and offers Vera the chance to be reunited with her kidnapped son, if she helps him with one morally complicated task. Now, this group of strangers might be the only hope for preventing the impending Rapture or causing it.

The cast includes Sofia Black-D’Elia (Betrayal and Gossip Girl), JD Pardo (Revolution), Joel Courtney (Super 8) and Craig Frank (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries).

Here is a trailer for The Messengers.

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The new NBC drama American Odyssey will debut at 10 PM on April 5.

After a team of American soldiers battles Jihadists in North Africa, they’re shocked to find that one of the men they killed is Al Qaeda’s top man. Sgt. Odelle Ballard (Anna Friel from Pushing Daisies), a soldier, mother, wife and the unit’s only female member, discovers computer files that suggest a major U.S. corporation is funding the Jihadists. But before she can tell anyone, her team is attacked and left for dead. News is reported that the unit was wiped out, but the truth is that Odelle survived and is the only witness to her unit’s assassination by a private military group.

In New York, former U.S. Attorney Peter Decker (Peter Facinelli from Nurse Jackie) is working on a merger deal for the same company that was funneling money to the Jihadists.

Meanwhile, Harrison Walters (Jake Robinson from The Carrie Diaries), a political activist and trust fund kid, meets a hacker who claims to have unearthed a massive military-industrial conspiracy.

The cast includes Treat Williams (Everwood), Jay O. Sanders (Person of Interest and The Day After Tomorrow), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost), Daniella Pineda (The Vampire Diaries), Sarah Wynter (24), Jim True-Frost (Treme), newcomers Sadie Sink and Omar Ghazaoui and Elena Kampouris (Men, Women & Children).

Here is a trailer for American Odyssey.

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The new NBC event series A.D. The Bible Continues will debut at 9 PM on Easter Sunday, April 5.

The follow-up to the high-rated mini-series The Bible, this series will chronicle the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion as the tiny band of followers fight for survival while they try to spread the Word to the world. But they have hope and soon they have power: the amazing miracle of the resurrection and the arrival of the Holy Spirit upon them.

The cast includes Richard Coyle (Crossbones), Vincent Regan (Atlantis and The Royals), Adam Levy (Before I Go to Sleep), Joanne Whalley (The Borgias), James Callis (Battlestar Galactica), Reece Ritchie (Hercules), Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey), Chipo Chung (Fortitude) and Greta Scacchi (Agatha Christie) [among others].

The event series comes from Mark Burnett and his actress wife Roma Downey (Touched By An Angel).

Here is a sneak peek at A.D. The Bible Continues.

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The new Netflix 13-episode series Bloodline will debut online on March 20.

When the eldest brother and black sheep of the Rayburn family returns home, he exposes the emotional demons that lie at the core of the family, threatening to tear them apart.

The cast includes Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Linda Cardellini (Freaks and Geeks and ER), Norbert Leo Butz (The Deep End), Jacinda Barrett (Suits and Zero Hour), Jamie McShane (Murder in the First and The Fosters), Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace) and veteran actors Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard.

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On March 15, the new scripted drama The Royals will debut at 10 PM on E!

Show Synopsis: The series focuses on the lives of a fictional modern-day monarchy in England.

The cast includes Elizabeth Hurley (Gossip Girl) as Queen Helena, Vincent Regan (Atlantis) as King Simon, William Moseley (The Chronicles of Narnia franchise) as Prince Liam, Alexandra Park (Home and Away) as Princess Eleanor and Merritt Patterson (Ravenswood) as Ophelia, Liam’s American lover.

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Powers, the first original live-action series on PlayStation Network, will debut the first three episodes on March 10.

The series is set in a world full of people with superhuman abilities, where all of those powers are just another catalyst for mayhem and murder. It follows detectives Christian Walker (Sharlto Copley from District 9 and The A-Team) and Deena Pilgrim (Susan Heyward from The Following), who are assigned to protect humans like us and investigate cases involving Powers, who can glide through the sky on lightning bolts and fire and clash above cities in epic battle, oblivious to the mortals below.

The cast includes Michelle Forbes (The Killing), Eddie Izzard (The Riches and Hannibal), Noah Taylor (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider), Logan Browning (Hit the Floor) and Olesya Rulin (Greek).

NOTE: A new episode will then air every Tuesday.

Here is a lenghty behind-the-scenes look at Powers:

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