Rueben's Ramblings

On April 22, the Amazon 3-part series A Very British Scandal will debut online.

The original drama focuses on Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (Claire Foy) and Ian Campbell, the 11th Duke of Argyll (Paul Bettany) whose ugly divorce in 1960s England set a new standard for scandal.

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The debut of 10-episode series The First Lady will air on Showtime on April 17 at 9 PM.

This new drama is a revelatory reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House.

Gillian Anderson will play Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, Viola Davis as Michelle Obama, Ellen Burstyn as Sara Delano Roosevelt, Regina Taylor as Marian Shields Robinson, Lily Rabe as Lorena “Hick” Hickok, Kate Mulgrew as Susan Sher, Judy Greer as Nancy Howe and Dakota Fanning as Susan Elizabeth Ford.

Also starring are Aaron Eckhart as Gerald Ford, Jackie Earle Haley as Louis McHenry Howe, O-T Fagbenle as Barack Obama and Keifer Sutherland as Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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The Netflix anthology series Anatomy of a Scandal will debut online on April 15.

The 6-episode limited series focuses on powerful politician James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend) and how the privileged life of his wife Sophie Whitehouse (Sienna Miller) unravels when scandalous secrets surface, and he stands accused of a shocking crime.

The cast includes Downton Abbey alum Michelle Dockery.

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On April 15, The Roku Channel original drama (original set to air on the now defunct Quibi) Swimming with Sharks will debut online.

The 6-episode thriller depicts the intense relationship between an arrogant film studio boss, Joyce Holt (Diane Kruger), and a lowly assistant, Lou Simms (Kiernan Shipka).

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On April 15, the new female-driven 8-episode anthology series Roar will debut online on Apple TV+.

Based on the short stories by Cecelia Ahern, the series offers an insightful, poignant, and sometimes hilarious portrait of what it means to be a woman today. It will feature a unique blend of magical realism, familiar domestic and professional scenarios, and futuristic worlds.

Among the cast are Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Cynthia Erivo, Issa Rae, Merrit Wever and Nicole Kidman.

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The new Amazon drama Outer Range will debut online on April 15.

The series centers on Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin), a rancher fighting for his land and family, who discovers an unfathomable mystery at the edge of Wyoming’s wilderness. This thrilling Western examines how we grapple with the unknown. At the onset of the series, the Abbotts are coping with the disappearance of daughter-in-law Rebecca. They are pushed further to the brink when the Tillersons (the gaudy owners of the neighboring profit-driven ranch) make a play for their land.

The cast includes Will Patton, Lili Taylor, Shaun Sipos and Imogen Poots.

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The new drama 61st Street will debut online on April 10 on AMC+ and on AMC at 10 PM.

This drama will show what courses through the dark heart of the infamous Chicago criminal justice system as police and prosecutors investigate a deadly drug bust that threatens to unravel the police department’s code of silence.

Courtney B. Vance leads an ensemble cast that includes Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard and NCIS: Los Angeles), Mark O’Brien (City on a Hill), Holt McCallany (Mindhunter) and Tosin Cole (Doctor Who).

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The HBO Max drama Tokyo Vice will debut online on April 7.

Loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, the crime drama series, filmed on location in Tokyo, captures Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo in the late ’90s, where nothing and no one is truly what or who they seem.

The cast includes Ken Watanabe.

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The Spectrum Original drama Long Slow Exhale will debut on April 4.

The drama follows J.C. Abernathy (Rose Rollins), a successful Head Coach of a competitive women’s college basketball team who finds herself in the middle of a potentially career shattering sexual abuse scandal. As she tries to find the truth among the many secrets she uncovers, she has to make hard decisions that will affect her, her family and the team of female athletes who all rely on her.

The cast includes Josh Lucas, Ian Harding, Famke Janssen, Lyriq Bent and Brent Sexton.

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On April 1, the Amazon drama Slow Horses will debut online.

The six-episode drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 – Slough House.

Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of the spies who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes.

The cast includes Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Lowden and Olivia Cooke.

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