On October 7, the new CBS drama Fire Country will debut at 9 PM.
Max Thieriot (SEAL TEAM) stars as Bode Donovan, a young convict seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence by joining an unconventional prison release firefighting program in Northern California, where he and other inmates are partnered with elite firefighters to extinguish massive, unpredictable wildfires across the region
The series also stars Billy Burke, Diane Farr, Jordan Calloway and Kevin Alejandro.
The spin-off prequel series Walker: Independence will debut on The CW on October 6 at 9 PM.
The prequel series is set in the late 180os, following Abby Walker (Katherine McNamara from Shadowhunters and Arrow), an affluent and tough-minded Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West.
After crossing paths with Calian (Justin Johnson Cortez from 911: Lone Star), a curious Apache tracker, Abby arrives in the town of Independence, Texas, where she encounters diverse and eclectic residents running from their pasts, chasing their dreams, and keeping their own secrets.
The cast includes Katie Findlay (The Carrie Diaries), Lawrence Kao (Wu Assassins) and Matt Barr (Blood & Treasure and Walker) [among others].
On October 6, the new ABC drama Alaska Daily will debut at 10:01 PM.
Hilary Swank stars as Eileen Fitzgerald, a recently disgraced reporter who leaves her high-profile New York life behind to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.
The cast includes Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Craig Frank and Grace Dove.
On October 4, the new series Sherwood will debut online on Brtibox.
Lesley Manville stars as Julie Jackson, the wife of a former union activist, whose 2004 murder in Nottinghamshire, England kicks off this drama about a small, fractured community shattered by two unexpected killings and the manhunt that followed. The investigation also unearths historic divisions among lifelong neighbors and the police force that resulted from a union strike three decades before.
The cast includes David Morrissey and Joanne Froggatt.
The CBS drama East New York will debut on October 2 at 9:30 PM.
Amanda Warren will star as Deputy Inspector Regina Haywood, the newly promoted boss of the 74th Precinct, in East New York – a working-class neighborhood on the edge of Brooklyn in the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification. With family ties to the area, Haywood is determined to deploy creative methods to protect her beloved community with the help of her officers and detectives. But first, she has the daunting task of getting them on board, as some are skeptical of her promotion, and others resist the changes she is desperate to make.
The ensemble cast includes Jimmy Smits, Richard Kind, Ruben Santiago Hudson and Kevin Rankin [among others].
On October 2, the Canadian drama Family Law will debut on The CW at 8 PM.
The series centers around Abigail Bianchi (Jewel Staite), a high-paid personal-injury lawyer who’s good at blaming others – particularly when it comes to her own problems. After Abby’s husband kicks her out of the family home because of her drinking, she goes on a bender, shows up drunk in court and pukes on a client. The law society’s punishment is swift. She’s suspended, fined, and can only practice law again if she finds a senior lawyer who is willing to take her on and mentor her for a one year probationary period.
Only one man is willing to take that risk: Harry Svensson (Victor Garber), who runs the top family law practice in the city. He also happens to be Abby’s estranged father, who left Abby and her complicated mother for his secretary when Abby was seven. Now, not only does Abby have to work for her father, she also has to work with her half siblings: Daniel (Zach Smadu), from Harry’s subsequent marriage and Lucy (Genelle Williams), from Harry’s third marriage.
On October 2, the new thriller series Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire will debut on both AMC+ and AMC at 10:06 PM.
The series follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Bailey Bass) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).
Here is a trailer for Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire:
On September 29, the new CBS drama So Help Me Todd will debut at 9:01 PM.
Marcia Gay Harden stars as razor-sharp, meticulous attorney Margaret Wright and Skylar Astin is Todd, her talented but scruffy, aimless son whom she hires as her law firm’s in-house investigator. As the black sheep of the well-heeled Wright family, Todd is a laid-back, quick-thinking, excellent former private detective who fell on hard times after his flexible interpretation of the law got his license revoked.
Margaret’s penchant for excellence and strict adherence to the law is at complete odds with Todd’s scrappy methods of finding his way through sticky situations: by the seat of his wrinkled pants. When Todd inadvertently teams with his mother on a case, she’s surprised to find herself duly impressed by – and proud of – his crafty ability to sleuth out information with his charm and his wide-ranging tech savvy.
The new 8-part series Suspect will debut on BritBox on September 27.
This half-hour drama stars James Nesbitt as Detective Danny Naylor who turns up at a hospital for a routine ID check in the mortuary. However, he finds out that the person is his estranged daughter Christina. He refuses to accept that his daughter died by suicide, so he sets out on a mission to uncover the real details. We get to watch the investigation in “real time,” learning who Christina was connected to and figuring out that she wasn’t as innocent as he wanted to believe.
The cast includes Richard E. Grant, Sam Heughan and Joely Richardson.
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