Rueben's Ramblings

The new AMC period piece Turn will air its 90-minute series debut on April 6 at 9 PM.

Set in the summer of 1778, this new series tells the story of New York farmer Abe Woodhull (Jamie Bell from Billy Elliot), who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

The cast includes Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise), JJ Feild (Austenland), Angus Macfayden (Braveheart) and Amy Gumenick (Supernatural).

Here is a trailer for Turn.

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On March 19, the new drama The 100 will debut on The CW at 9 PM.

Ninety-seven years ago, nuclear Armageddon decimated planet Earth, destroying civilization. The only survivors were the 400 inhabitants of 12 international space stations that were in orbit at the time. Three generations have been born in space, the survivors now number 4,000, and resources are running out on their dying “Ark” – the 12 stations now linked together and repurposed to keep the survivors alive. Draconian measures including capital punishment and population control are the order of the day, as the leaders of the Ark take ruthless steps to ensure their future, including secretly exiling a group of 100 juvenile prisoners to the Earth’s surface to test whether it’s habitable.

The cast includes Australian newcomer Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco (Person of Interest), Thomas McDonell (Suburgatory), Marie Avgeropoulos (Cult), Kelly Hu (Arrow), Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy) and Henry Ian Cusick (Lost and Scandal).

Here is a trailer for The 100.

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The series premiere of the new NBC drama Crisis will debut on March 16 at 10 PM.

To bring the most powerful people in the world to their knees, threaten what they hold most dear. It’s field trip day for the students of Ballard High, a school that educates the children of DC’s elite, but when their bus is ambushed on a secluded rural road, the teenagers and their chaperones are taken, igniting a national crisis.

The cast includes Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding), Lance Gross (House of Payne) and Rachael Taylor (666 Park Avenue).

Here is a trailer for Crisis.

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The new ABC drama Resurrection will debut on March 9 at 9 PM

The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear. An 8-year-old American boy (Landon Gimenez) wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who calls himself Jacob, recalls that his hometown is Arcadia, and an Immigration agent, J. Martin Bellamy (Omar Epps from House), takes him there. The home he claims as his own is occupied by an elderly couple, Henry (Kurtwood Smith from That 70’s Show) and Lucille Langston (Frances Fisher from Eureka), who lost their son, Jacob, more than 30 years ago. While they look different, young Jacob recognizes them as his parents. Those closest to the family try to unravel this impossible mystery, including Sheriff Fred Langston (Matt Craven from NCIS), whose wife Barbara, drowned 30 years ago while trying to save Jacob. But this boy, who claims to be the deceased Jacob, knows secrets about his own death that no one else knows — secrets that Fred’s daughter, Maggie Langston (Devin Kelly from The Chicago Code), will begin to investigate and discover to be true.

The cast also includes Samaire Armstrong (The O.C.) and Mark Hildreth (V).

Here is a trailer for Resurrection.

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On February 25, the new ABC drama Mind Games will debut at 10 PM.

With a little bit of science, a dash of con-artistry, plus a smattering of Jedi Mind Tricks, brothers Ross (Christian Slater) and Clark Edwards (Steve Zahn) can tailor a plan to influence any life-altering situation, thereby making their clients’ dreams come true and their nightmares go away. They are partners in Edwards and Associates, an unusual business based on the belief that people’s decisions are influenced by their environment in ways they’re not aware.

The cast includes Megalyn Echikunwoke (The 4400) and Jaime Ray Newman (Eureka and Red Widow)

Here is a trailer for Mind Games.

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The new CW drama Star-Crossed will debut on February 17, focusing on teenager Emery (Aimee Teegarden from Friday Night Lights), who when she was 6 years old, an alien spacecraft crash-landed in her small town. In the midst of the conflict with the Atrians, Roman, a 6-year-old Atrian boy, found his way to a shed behind Emery’s house, where she protected him from harm, bringing him food, comfort and friendship. In their brief time together, Emery and Roman forged a deep bond, but the authorities wasted no time tracking Roman down and capturing him in a violent confrontation. Emery has grown up believing that Roman was killed that day.

Ten years later, the Atrians have been acclimated to life on Earth, but they are interned in a heavily-guarded camp known as the Sector to keep them separate from humans. Now, for the first time, a group of Atrian teens will enroll in a suburban human high school, with the goal of testing the feasibility of human/alien integration. In the mayhem of the first day, Emery is amazed to learn that Roman (Matt Lanter from 90210 was not killed by the authorities and is, in fact, one of the Atrian students. Their childhood bond is quickly rekindled – in a school and a society that distrusts everything about the Atrians, Emery and Roman have found each other again. However, their relationship is threatened by the small-mindedness of their respective communities and the political agendas of people in power.

The cast includes Grey Damon (The Secret Circle), Natalie Hall (Pretty Little Liars), Malese Jow (The Vampire Diaries) and Greg Finley (The Secret Life of the American Teenager).

Here is a trailer for Star-Crossed.

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The new Canadian series Bitten will debut on Syfy on January 13 at 10 PM.

Based on the novels by Kelley Armstrong, the series is an emotionally charged supernatural thriller that stars Laura Vandervoort (Smallville) as Elena Michaels, the lone female werewolf in existence.

Desperate to escape both a world she never wanted to be part of and the man who turned her into a werewolf, Elena has abandoned her Pack and taken refuge in a new city. There, she works as a photographer and hides her werewolf existence from her new boyfriend. When bodies start turning up in her Pack’s backyard, Elena finds herself back at Stonehaven, the werewolves’ ancestral domain. Torn between two worlds and two loves, she quickly realizes that – when push comes to shove – she’ll stop at nothing to defend her Pack.

The cast includes Greg Bryk (XIII The Series), Greyston Holt (Alcatraz) and Paul Greene (The Client List).

Here is a trailer for Bitten.

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