Rueben's Ramblings

On January 31, the PBS 3-part series The Long Song will debut at 10 PM.

Based on a novel by Andrea Levy, this series is set during the final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica. It follows the hardships and survival of plantation slave July (Tamara Lawrence) and her odious mistress Caroline (Hayley Atwell).

The cast includes Jack Lowden.

Here is a trailer for The Long Song.

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On January 27, the new Syfy drama Resident Alien will debut at 10 PM.

Sci-fi favorite Alan Tudyk stars as Harry Vanderspeigle, an alien that crash lands on Earth and passes himself off as a small-town human doctor. Arriving with a secret mission to kill all humans, Harry starts off living a simple life, but things get a bit rocky when he’s roped into solving a local murder and realizes he needs to assimilate into his new world.

The cast includes Corey Reynolds and Elizabeth Bowen.

Here is a trailer for Resident Alien:

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On January 24, the EPIX drama Bridge and Tunnel will debut at 9 PM

Show Synopsis: The six, half-hour episodes, set in 1980, revolve around a group of recent college grads setting out to pursue their dreams in Manhattan while still clinging to the familiarity of their working-class Long Island home town.

The cast includes Ed Burns, Caitlin Stasey, Sam Vartholmeos, Gigi Zumbado, JanLuis Castellanos, Brian Muller and Isabella Farrell.

Here is a trailer for Bridge and Tunnel:

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The new Netflix fantasy 6-episode series Fate: The Winx Saga will debut online on January 22.

Show Synopsis: The series is a live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon’s 2004 animated series Winx Club, which follows Bloom (Abigail Cowen from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as she adjusts to life in the Otherworld (a boarding school for fairies), where she must learn to control her dangerous magical powers.

The cast includes Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey) and a slew of newcomers.

Here is a trailer for Fate: The Winx Saga:

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On January 22, the limited series The Sister will debut on Hulu.

One rainy evening, Nathan (Russell Tovey) is surprised by an unwelcome face from the past. Nathan has never been able to forget the worst night of his life: a party that led to the sudden, shocking death of a young woman. Only he and Bob (Bertie Carvel), an eccentric old acquaintance, know what really happened and they’ve resolved to keep it that way.

But years later, Bob appears at Nathan’s door with terrifying news that threatens to tear Nathan’s world apart. Because Nathan has his own secrets now. Secrets that could destroy everything he has desperately fought to build for himself and his family.

Here is a trailer for The Sister:

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On January 21, the new drama Walker will debut on The CW at 8 PM.

Supernatural alum Jared Padalecki stars as Cordell Walker, a widower and father of two with his own moral code, who returns home to Austin after being undercover for two years, only to discover there’s harder work to be done at home.

He’ll attempt to reconnect with his creative and thoughtful son (Kale Culley) and his headstrong, somewhat rebellious teen-aged daughter (Violet Brinson) and navigate clashes with his family: an ADA brother (Keegan Allen) who stepped in during Walker’s absence, his perceptive mother (Molly Hagen) and his traditional rancher father (Mitch Pileggi).

The cast includes Coby Bell, Lindsey Morgan and Jeff Pierre.

Here is a trailer for Walker:

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The long-in-the-waiting Marvel drama WandaVision will finally debut on Disney+ on January 15.

Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) are two super-powered beings, who are living idealized suburban lives, but begin to suspect everything is not as it seems.

The cast includes Kat Dennings, Kathryn Hahn, Randall Park and Teyonah Parris.

Here is a trailer for WandaVision:

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The CW will debut the Canadian transplant series Trickster at 9 PM on January 12.

Based on the best-selling novel, the series follows Jared (newcomer Joel Oulette), an Indigenous teen struggling to keep his dysfunctional family above water, but when he starts seeing strange things – talking ravens, doppelgängers, skin monsters – his already chaotic life is turned upside down.

The cast includes Crystle Lightning, Kalani Queypo, Anna Lambe, Joel Thomas Hynes, Craig Lauzon, Gail Maurice and Georgina Lightning.

Here is a trailer for Trickster:

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On January 10, the PBS 7-part drama All Creatures Great and Small will debut at 9 PM.

Based on the beloved best-selling books, the story follows James Herriot (newcomer Nicholas Ralph) at the start of his storied career in rural Yorkshire in the 1930s.

The cast includes the late great Dame Diana Rigg, Samuel West, Rachel Shenton, Anna Madeley, Callum Woodhouse and Matthew Lewis.

Here is a trailer for All Creatures Great and Small:

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The high-stakes insider trading British drama Cleaning Up makes its US debut on Sundance Now on December 31.

British actress Sheridan Smith stars as Sam Cook, a cleaner at Kramer Lowe, a financial company in Canary Wharf. Struggling to get by on her zero-hour contract with Xenco Clean, she is drowning in debt, addicted to gambling, and faces her ex-husband trying to get full-time custody of their two daughters. After overhearing a stockbroker who is being blackmailed into insider trading, she plunges herself into a shady world of finance.

Here is a first look at Cleaning Up (courtesy of its home network ITV):

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