Rueben's Ramblings

The new drama Suspicion will debut online on Apple TV+ on February 4.

When the son of a prominent American businesswoman (Uma Thurman) is kidnapped from a New York hotel, the eye of suspicion quickly falls on four seemingly ordinary British citizens (Elizabeth Henstridge, Elyse Gabel, Georgina Campbell and Kunal Nayyar) who were at the hotel on the night in question. As they find themselves in a trans-Atlantic cat and mouse race to evade the combined forces of the National Crime Agency and the FBI to prove their innocence, it becomes apparent that not everyone can be trusted. Who is really behind the mysterious abduction, and who is only guilty of being in the wrong place at the wrong time?

The cast includes Angel Coulby and Noah Emmerich.

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The new Amazon series Reacher, based on the Lee Childs books, will debut online on February 4.

Reacher (Alan Ritchson) is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served. When he arrives in the small town of Margrave, Georgia, he finds a community grappling with its first homicide in 20 years. The cops immediately arrest him and eyewitnesses claim to place Reacher at the scene of the crime. While he works to prove his innocence, a deep-seated conspiracy begins to emerge, one that will require Reacher’s keen mind and hard-hitting fists to deal with. One thing above all is for sure: They picked the wrong guy to take the fall.

The cast includes Willa Fitzgerald, Malcolm Goodwin, Kristin Kreuk, Harvey Guillen, Marc Bendavid, Bruce McGill and Currie Graham.

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On February 2, the comedic 8-episode limited series Pam & Tommy will debut on Hulu.

The true story behind the release of the first ever viral video in history – the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee – is played out on the small screen with Downton Abbey and Cinderella star Lily James as Anderson and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier alum Sebastian Stan as Lee.

The cast includes Paul Ben-Victor, Andrew Dice Clay, Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling, Pepi Sonuga and Seth Rogan.

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On January 28, the new Netflix 8-episode drama In From the Cold will debut online.

A mom’s (Margarita Levieva from Revenge) life turns upside down when she must choose between putting her family at risk and returning to her past as a bioengineered Russian agent.

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On January 26, the new Syfy series Astrid & Lilly Save the World will debut at 10 PM.

High school is hard enough when you’re different, but when outcast BFFs Astrid (Jana Morrison) and Lilly (Samantha Aucoin) accidentally crack open a portal to a terrifyingly quirky monster dimension, it gets a lot more complicated. It’s up to them to vanquish the creepy creatures and save the world, becoming the badass heroes they were meant to be. That is, if they can survive the horrors of high school.

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The HBO period piece drama The Gilded Age will debut at 9 PM on January 24.

The series begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Louisa Jacobson) moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Christina Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon).

Accompanied by Peggy Scott (Denee Benton), an aspiring writer seeking a fresh start, Marian inadvertently becomes enmeshed in a social war between one of her aunts, a scion of the old money set, and her stupendously rich neighbors, a ruthless railroad tycoon and his ambitious wife, George (Morgan Spector) and Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon).

The ensemble cast includes Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Nathan Lane, Taissa Farmiga, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Debra Monk, Bill Irwin, Amy Forsyth, Katie Finneran and Blake Ritson.

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On January 24, the new drama Promised Land will debut on ABC at 10:01 PM.

The series is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.

The cast includes John Ortiz, Bellamy Young and Christina Ochoa.

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On January 20, the new AMC+ series La Fortuna will debut online.

Álex Ventura (relative newcomer Alvaro Mel) is a young diplomat who ends up becoming the leader behind a collective effort to recover an underwater shipwreck seized by Frank Wild (Stanley Tucci), a treasure hunter.

Clark Peters also stars.

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The HBO Max drama Peacemaker will debut online on January 13.

John Cena returns as Peacemker, a compellingly vainglorious man, who believes in peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it.

The cast includes Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Robert Patrick, Christopher Heyerdahl and Lochlyn Munro.

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On January 11, the new drama Naomi will debut on The CW at 9 PM.

Based on the DC characters, the series follows the journey of a cool, confident, comic book-loving teenager (relative newcomer Kaci Walfall) as she pursues her hidden destiny. When a supernatural event shakes her small hometown of Port Oswego, Naomi sets out to uncover its origins, with a little help from her fiercely loyal best friend Annabelle (Mary-Charles Jones from Kevin Can Wait).

The cast includes Barry Watson (7th Heaven) and Mouzam Makkar (The Vampire Diaries).

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