Rueben's Ramblings

On August 23, the new Disney+ series Star Wars: Ahsoka will air online.

Set after the fall of the Empire, the series follows the former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) as she investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy.

The ensemble cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead, David Tennant, Lars Mikkelsen and the late Ray Stevenson.

Here is a trailer for Star Wars: Ahsoka:

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This 10-part period piece drama The Winter King will debut on MGM+ (formerly EPIX) at 9 PM on August 20.

This bold, revisionist take on the well-loved Arthurian legend, and based on the Warlord Chronicles series from Bernard Cornwell, the series is set in the 5th Century long before Britain was united. It’s a brutal land of warring factions and tribes where lives were often fleeting and follows Arthur Pendragon (Iain De Caestecker from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) as he evolves from outcast to legendary warrior and leader.

The series also stars Eddie Marsan, Andrew Gower and Simon Merrells (among others).

Here is a trailer for The Winter King:

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On August 18, the Amazon 8-episode limited series Harlen Coben’s Shelter will debut online.

The show follows the story of Mickey Bolitar (Jaden Michael) after the sudden death of his father leads him to start a new life in Kasselton, New Jersey. Mickey quickly finds himself tangled in the mysterious disappearance of a new student at his school, Ashley Kent, which leads to uncovering unimaginable secrets within their quiet suburban community. With the help of his friends, the inventive Spoon (Adrian Greensmith) and the secretive Ema (Abby Corrigan), Mickey pulls back the sleepy facade of Kasselton to reveal a dark underground that may hold the answers to decades of disappearances, deaths, and legends and perhaps even his own complex family history.

Constance Zimmer co-stars.

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On August 10, the 6-part Netflix limited series Painkiller will debut online.

The causes and consequences of America’s opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.

The cast includes Uzo Aduba, Matthew Broderick and Taylor Kitsch.

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On August 4, the new 7-part drama The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart will debut online on Amazon.

Based on the best-selling novel by Holly Ringland, the series tells the emotionally compelling story of Alice Hart (Alycia Debnam-Carey). When Alice was 9-years-old she tragically lost her parents in a mysterious fire and was taken to live with her grandmother June Hart (Sigourney Weaver) at Thornfield flower farm, where she learns that there are secrets within secrets about her and her family’s past.

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On July 27, the new half-hour action series Twisted Metal will debut online on Peacock.

Based on the classic PlayStation game, the series is a high-octane action comedy about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.

The show stars Anthony Mackie, Stephanie Beatriz, Thomas Haden Church, the voice of Will Arnett and Richard Cabral.

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The Paramount+ series Special Ops: Lioness will debut online on July 23.

Joe (Zoe Saldana) attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the spear in the CIA’s war on terror. She enlists Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira), a Marine Raider, as an undercover operative in the Lioness Program.

The ensemble cast includes Nicole Kidman, LaMonica Garrett, Michael Kelly, Morgan Freeman, Jill Wagner and Dave Annable.

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The reboot series Justified: City Primeval will premiere its first two episodes on FX at 10 PM on July 18.

Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl (played by Olyphant’s own daughter Vivian Olyphant). His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit.

There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell’s lawyer, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder (Aunjanue Ellis), has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well.

The cast includes Marin Ireland, Norbert Leo Butz, Vondie Curtis Hall, Ravi Patel and Adelaide Clemens.

Here is a trailer for Justified: City Primeval:

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On July 13, the new limited series Full Circle will debut online on Max.

An investigation into a botched kidnapping uncovers long-held secrets connecting multiple characters and cultures in present day New York City.

The ensemble cast includes Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, Dennis Quaid, CCH Pounder, Jim Gaffigan and Zazie Beetz.

Here is a trailer for Full Circle:

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On July 9, the new PBS police drama D.I. Ray will debut at 10 PM.

D.I. Rachita Ray (Parminder Nagra), a British Asian policewoman new to homicide, is assigned to investigate the suspected honor killing of a young Muslim man.

Here is a trailer for D.I. Ray.

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