Rueben's Ramblings

The new Peacock drama Dr. Death will debut online on July 15.

Based on the hit podcast, the series is inspired by the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead.

As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), as well as Dallas prosecutor Michelle Shughart (AnnaSophia Robb), set out to stop him.

Grace Gummer also stars.

Here is a trailer for Dr. Death:

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The new Spectrum Original series Eden (an Australian thriller) will debut online on July 12.

As each episode unfolds from a different character’s perspective, this series will explore a multi-generational tale of events that happened before, during and after a young woman goes missing one warm, summer night. The small beach community’s long buried dark secrets of love, lust, dashed dreams and power struggles are dragged wide open as the truth is revealed – a truth that will shake the town and the people (who survive) forever.

The cast includes Christopher James Baker (DC’s Stargirl and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD), Keiynan Lonsdale (The Flash and the Divergent movie franchise) and Cody Fern (American Horror Story).

Here is a trailer for Eden:

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The HBO Max (formerly DC Universe) superhero series Titans will make its network TV debut on TNT on July 12 at 10 PM.

Show Synopsis: The first season of the series loosely based on Teen Titans, the focus is on vigilante Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites) leaves Gotham City for Detroit in an effort to distance himself from his mentor Bruce Wayne (Iain Glen). When the mysterious Rachel Roth (Teagan Croft) comes to Dick for protection from dangerous forces pursuing her, Dick finds himself thrust into action as he struggles to distance himself from his Robin persona and control his violent urges. Joined by Kory Anders (Anna Diop), an amnesiac woman with solar-based powers, and Gar Logan (Ryan Potter), an animal shapeshifter, the four battle a threat that puts the entire world at risk.

The cast also includes Alan Ritchson as Hank Hall aka Hawk, Minka Kelly as Dawn Granger aka Dove, Conor Leslie as Donna Troy aka Wonder Girl and Curran Walters as Jason Todd aka (the new) Robin (later Red Hood).

Here is a trailer for season one of Titans:

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On July 11, the 6-episode limited series The White Lotus will debut on HBO at 9 PM.

The series follows the vacations of various hotel guests over the span of a week as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise. But with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.

The ensemble cast includes Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Molly Shannon, Steve Zahn, Jon Gries, Jake Lacy, Brittany O’Grady, Alexandra Daddario and Jolene Purdy [among others].

Here is a trailer for The White Lotus:

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The return of Leverage – known now as Leverage: Redemption – will premiere on IMDb TV online on July 9.

Eight years after the original series, Sophie (Gina Bellman), Parker (Beth Riesgraf), Eliot (Christian Kane), and Hardison (Aldis Hodge) are going after the rich and powerful.

Now, they’re joined by Harry (Noah Wyle), a corporate lawyer looking for redemption after realizing he’s been on the wrong side of the table his entire career, and Hardison’s sister Breanna (Aleyse Shannon), who has a knack for computers, robotics, and getting into trouble.

The world might have changed, but the crew is still here to steal what the bad guys take back and provide…leverage.

Here is a trailer for Leverage: Redemption:

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The reboot of Gossip Girl will debut online on HBO Max on July 8.

Heading back to the Upper East Side, the series focuses on a new generation of New York private school teens being introduced to social surveillance nine years after the original blogger’s website went dark.

Kristen Bell, once again, voices Gossip Girl with well-known actors Donna Murphy, Elizabeth Lail and Laura Benanti appearing in the show alongside mostly newcomers, including Jordan Alexander, Eli Brown, Thomas Doherty, Tavi Gevinson, Emily Alyn Lind, Evan Mock, Zion Moreno, Whitney Peak and Savannah Lee Smith.

Here is a trailer for Gossip Girl:

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On July 7, the animated series Monsters at Work will debut online on Disney+.

Set after the events of Monsters, Inc., the city of Monstropolis is making the transition to be fuelled by the sound of laughter. Tylor Tuskmon (Ben Feldman from Superstore and Drop Dead Diva), a recent Scare Major graduate from Monsters University, working as a mechanic in the Facilities Team, dreams of working alongside his idols, Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. “Sulley” Sullivan (John Goodman).

Other voices will be provided by John Ratzenberger, Jennifer Tilly, Mindy Kaling, Henry Winkler, Lucas Neff, Alanna Ubach, Aisha Tyler, Bonnie Hunt and Curtis Armstrong.

Here is a trailer for Monsters at Work:

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The new 6-part drama The Beast Must Die will debut on AMC+ online on July 5.

After learning the police investigation into the fatal hit and run of her young son Martie has been dropped, Frances Cairnes (Cush Jumbo from The Good Fight) takes matters into her own hands. Posing as a novelist researching a new murder-mystery, Frances ingratiates herself with the family of George Rattery (Jared Harris from Chernobyl), the man she suspects is responsible, and sets a plan in action to kill him.

NOTE: This series will then debut on network TV on AMC at 10 PM.

Here is a trailer for The Beast Must Die:

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On June 25, the new drama Sex/Life will air on Netflix online.

A woman’s daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can’t stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.

Sarah Shahi and Mike Vogel star.

Here is a trailer for Sex/Life:

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The Disney+ drama The Mysterious Benedict Society will debut online on June 25.

Placed undercover at a boarding school known as The Institute, a group of orphans must foil a nefarious plot with global ramifications while creating a new sort of family along the way. Based on the best-seller by Trenton Lee Stewart.

Tony Hale plays dual roles (as twin brothers) along with Kristen Schaal and an ensemble of young, new actors.

Here is a trailer for The Mysterious Benedict Society:

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