Rueben's Ramblings

On September 25, the new NBC drama The Irrational (one of the few new dramas from the 2023-2024 TV season) will debut at 10 PM.

Alec Mercer (Broadway vet and The Flash alum Jesse L. Martin) is a world-renowned leader in behavioral science who lends his expertise to an array of high-stakes cases involving governments, law enforcement and corporations with his unique and unexpected approach to understanding human behavior.

The cast includes Arash DeMaxi, Maahra Hill, Molly Kunz and Travina Springer.

Here is a trailer for The Irrational:

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The Apple TV+ dramedy Still Up will debut online on September 22.

This almost romantic comedy is set in the after-hours world of insomniacs Danny (Craig Roberts) and Lisa (Antonia Thomas) who have no secrets except their feelings for each other.

Here is a trailer for Still Up:

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On September 22, the prequel series The Continental: From the World of John Wick will debut online on Peacock.

The three-part event will explore the origin behind the iconic hotel-for-assassins centerpiece of the John Wick universe through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell), as he’s dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970’s New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the hotel’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the hotel where he will eventually take his future throne.

Mel Gibson also stars.

Here is a trailer for The Continental: From the World of John Wick:

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Neighbours – Key Art

On September 18, the revival of the Australian series Neighbours: A New Chapter will debut online on Freevee.

Located in the fictional Melbourne suburb of Erinsborough, the series follows the loves and challenges of the residents of Ramsay Street.

New and returning series regulars include Alan Fletcher, Annie Jones, Candice Leask, Emerald Chan, Georgie Stone, Jackie Woodburne, Lloyd Will, Lucinda Armstrong Hall, Lucinda Cowden, Marley Williams, Naomi Rukavina, Rebekah Elmaloglou, Riley Bryant, Ryan Moloney, Sara West, Shiv Palekar, Stefan Dennis, Tim Kano and Xavier Molyneux.

Guy Pearce will guest-star as will new cast addition Mischa Barton.

Here is a trailer for Neighbours: A New Chapter:

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The new Paramount+ series The Gold will debut online on September 17.

The mini-series is inspired by the real-life events that took place on November 26, 1983, when six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as ‘a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery, according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft – at the time the biggest in world history – but for its wider legacy. The disposal of the bullion caused the birth of large-scale international money laundering, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue and white collar criminals, and left controversy and murder in its wake.

The cast includes Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Jack Lowden (Slow Horses), Dominic Cooper (The Preacher), Charlotte Spencer (Cinderella) and Tom Cullen (Black Mirror) [among others].

Here is a trailer for The Gold:

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On September 15, the new drama Wilderness will debut online on Amazon Prime Video.

Liv’s (Jenna Coleman) “happily-ever-after” quickly turns into a living nightmare upon discovering her husband Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is having an affair. She becomes the actress starring in Will’s bad dreams after she learns about his betrayal, and her heartbreak is swiftly followed by another emotion: fury.

The couple embarks on an American road trip that Liv has fantasized about since she was little, from the Grand Canyon on through Yosemite, before ending up with a hedonistic weekend in Las Vegas. For Will, it’s a chance to make amends; for Liv, it’s a very different prospect – a landscape where accidents happen all the time. The perfect place to get revenge.

The cast includes Ashley Benson, Eric Balfour, Jonathan Keltz and Talia Balsam.

Here is a trailer for Wilderness:

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The Hulu thriller series The Other Black Girl will debut online on September 13.

Nella (Sinclair Daniel), an editorial assistant, is tired of being the only Black girl at her company, so she’s excited when Hazel (Ashleigh Murray) is hired. But as Hazel’s star begins to rise, Nella spirals out and discovers something sinister is going on at the company.

The cast includes Bellamy Young, Eric McCormack, Hunter Parrish and Garcelle Beauvais.

Here is a trailer for The Other Black Girl:

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On September 12, the new drama The Swarm will debut on The CW at 9 PM.

Based on the best-selling novel by Frank Schatzing, the story goes around the world, focusing on strange happenings, borne out of the oceans: Whales destroy boats, deep sea crabs attack beaches, mussels block container ships. An unknown ice worm destabilizes continental slopes and triggers tsunamis. A deadly pathogen spreads into the drinking water. Across the globe, lives are increasingly imperiled, the situation worsening by the day – and yet, nobody can draw a connection between the seemingly random attacks.

Except for a group of scientists who come together through their shared sense that something bigger is at play: an intelligent life force, dwelling in the deep – capable of manipulating the ocean, and everything that resides in it. A being which has borne witness to our destruction of the seas and has decided to drive us to extinction. But hardly anyone believes their findings. And so, the group are forced to undertake a life-threatening mission, tracking the intelligent life force within the Arctic Ocean.

Here is a trailer for The Swarm:

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On August 31, the new Hulu teen fantasy series Spellbound will debut its first 13 episodes online.

When Cece Parker Jones (Hailey Melody Romain), a vivacious 15 year old relocates from a small town in the US to France to study at the Paris Opera Ballet School, she’s on top of the world, but things turn upside down when she discovers a book of family spells in the back room of her Aunt Ginger’s (Raven Dauda) apothecary. While snooping through the book, she unknowingly casts the antidote to a protection spell that has been hiding her identity since she was a little girl. Turns out, she comes from a line of powerful witches called the Wizens, and in doing so, she summons her nemesis, the Mystics, who are after her magic. This spit-fire teen must now juggle the pressures of an elite ballet school, learning new techniques she’s never studied before, keeping up with her intense academics, not to mention her new friendships and maybe a cute boy or two, as well as her incredible ability to activate magic, while keeping this a secret for only her closest friends.

Here is a trailer for Spellbound:

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The 10-episode live-action pirate adventure story One Piece, based on the best-selling manga by Eiichiro Oda, will debut online on Netflix on August 31.

The story follows Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and his loyal crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, as they embark on a journey to the most dangerous oceans in the world. Even though this crew is generally good-natured and fun-loving, they’re sort of the exception in the world of dastardly, infamous pirates hunting the One Piece and collecting sizable bounties from the World Government.

Here is a trailer for One Piece:

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