Rueben's Ramblings

On November 14, the Australian spin-off series NCIS: Sydney will debut on CBS at 8 PM.

With rising international tensions in the Indo-Pacific, a brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multinational taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.

The cast includes Olivia Swann, Todd Lasance, Tuuli Narkle, Sean Sagar, Mavournee Hazel and William McInnes.

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The three-part special event BlackBerry will debut at 10 PM on AMC, airing on November 13, November 14 and November 15.

This series tells the story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world’s first smartphone.

The cast includes Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Cary Elwes, Martin Donovan, Saul Rubinek, Rich Sommer and Michael Ironside.

NOTE: All 3 parts of this special event series will also be available on AMC+ on November 13.

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The new Showtime series The Curse will debut on November 12 at 10 PM.

This genre-bending series explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple (Emma Stone and Nathan Fielder) as they try to conceive a child while co-starring in their new home-improvement show.

Benny Safdie also stars.

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The new sci-fi drama Beacon 23 will debut on November 12 at 9 PM on MGM+ (formerly EPIX) followed by another new episode at 10 PM.

Based on the best-selling book by Hugh Howey, the series takes place in the farthest reaches of the Milky Way, following Aster (Lena Headey), a government agent and Halan (Stephan James), a stoic ex-military man, whose fates become entangled after they find themselves trapped together inside one of many Beacons that serve as a lighthouse for intergalactic travelers.

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The new 8-episode Apple TV+ period drama The Buccaneers will debut online on November 8.

Inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished novel, the series focuses on girls with money and men with power. New money and old secrets.

A group of fun-loving young American girls explode into the tightly corseted London season of the 1870s, kicking off an Anglo-American culture clash as the land of the stiff upper lip is infiltrated by a refreshing disregard for centuries of tradition.

Sent to secure husbands and titles, the buccaneers’ hearts are set on much more than that and saying “I do” is just the beginning.

The cast is led by Mad Men alum Christina Hendricks as well as Kristine Frøseth, Alisha Boe, Josie Totah, Aubri Ibrag and Imogen Waterhouse.

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On November 5, the Paramount+ western series Lawmen: Bass Reeves will debut online.

The series follows the journey of Bass Reeves (David Oyelowo) and his rise from enslavement to law enforcement as the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting over 3,000 outlaws during the course of his career, the weight of the badge was heavy, and he wrestled with its moral and spiritual cost to his beloved family.

The ensemble cast includes Dennis Quaid, Donald Sutherland, Garrett Hedlund, Shea Whigham, Barry Pepper, Dale Dickey, Mo Brings Plenty, Lonnie Chavis and Margot Bingham.

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The new Netflix limited series All the Light We Cannot See will debut online on November 2.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti), a blind French girl and Werner Pfenning (Louis Hofmann), a young German soldier’s paths collide during WWII.

The cast includes Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie.

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The first three episode of the new drama Black Cake will debut online on Hulu on November 1.

Based on The New York Times-bestselling book by Charmaine Wilkerson, the story takes place in Jamaica, Italy, Scotland, England and Southern California. In the late 1960s, a runaway bride named Covey (Mia Isaac) disappears into the surf off the coast of Jamaica and is feared drowned or a fugitive on the run for her husband’s murder.

In present day California, a widow named Eleanor Bennett (Chipo Chung), loses her battle with cancer, leaving her two estranged children, Byron (Ashley Thomas) and Benny (Adrienne Warren), a flash drive that holds previously untold stories of her journey from the Caribbean to America.

These stories, narrated by Eleanor, shock her children and challenge everything they thought they knew about their family’s origin.

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On October 27, the new limited series Fellow Travelers will debut online on Paramount+ with Showtime.

After a chance encounter in Washington D.C. in the 1950s, Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer) and Timothy Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey) start a volatile romance that spans the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco hedonism of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, while facing obstacles in the world and in themselves.

The cast also includes Allison Williams, Linus Roache and Chris Bauer.

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On October 19, the new series Bodies will debut online on Netflix.

Four detectives. Four timelines. One victim. In order to save the future, they’ll need to solve the murder that altered the course of history first.

The cast includes Shira Haas, Stephen Graham, Kyle Soller, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd and Amaka Okafor.

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