Rueben's Ramblings

The new Hulu series The Hardy Boys, based on the classic story, will debut online on December 4.

After a family tragedy strikes, Frank Hardy (Rohan Campbell), 16, and his brother Joe (Alexander Elliot), 12, are forced to move from the big city to their parent’s hometown of Bridgeport for the summer.

Staying with their Aunt Trudy (Bea Santos), Frank and Joe’s quiet summer quickly comes to a halt when they discover their dad, detective Fenton Hardy (James Tupper) has taken on a secret investigation. Realizing that their Dad may be onto something the boys take it upon themselves to start an investigation of their own, and suddenly everyone in town is a suspect.

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On December 4, the new series Selena, based on the legendary, late Tejano singer, will debut on Netflix.

As Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla (Christian Serratos) comes of age and realizes her dreams, she and her family make tough choices to hold on to love and music.

Her parents will be played by Ricardo Chavira and Seidy Lopez.

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The Australian streaming series The Commons will make its US and Canadian premiere on Sundance Now on December 3.

Set in a gripping vision of a near future, the series stars Joanne Froggatt as Eadie, who just wants a normal life, but the world around her won’t let her have it. A brilliant, 38-year-old neuropsychologist, she longs to have a child with her vector biologist husband, Lloyd (David Lyons), but multiple unsuccessful IVF treatments have put her dreams of motherhood on hold. Meanwhile, the world around her is in chaos, as global warming and parasitic diseases have made the divide between rich and poor even greater.

The show also stars Rupert Penry-Jones.

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On November 26, the new 8-episode dark comedic thriller series The Flight Attendant will debut on HBO Max.

NOTE: Two episodes will air each on December 3 and December 10 with the finale set to air on December 17]

A flight attendant (Kaley Cuoco) wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man (Michiel Huisman) – and no idea what happened.

The cast includes Bebe Neuwirth, Merle Dandridge, Michelle Gomez, Colin Woodell, Nolan Gerard Funk, Rosie Perez, T.R. Knight and Zosia Mamet.

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The new Hulu drama No Man’s Land will debut online on November 18.

The series dives into the depths of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine (Felix Moati), a young French man in search of his estranged, presumed to be dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, piece by piece, Antoine ends up joining forces with a unit of Kurdish female fighters, fierce women and ISIS’ biggest nightmare, and travels with them in ISIS occupied territory. Antoine’s journey crosses paths with adventurers and anarchists, spies and innocent victims, and provides a unique look at the tragic events in Syria, and the way they affect the entire world.

The cast includes James Purefoy and Melanie Thierry.

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On November 17, the new ABC drama Big Sky will debut at 10:01 PM.

Private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt (Kyle Bunbury and Ryan Phillippe) join forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), to search for two sisters (Natalie Alyn Lind and Jade Pettyjohn) who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. But when they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

The cast includes John Carroll Lynch, Valerie Mahaffey, Dedee Pfeiffer, Brian Geraghty and Jesse James Keitel.

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The new series Alex Rider, based on the popular book series, will debut on IMDBtv on November 13.

Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) is a London based teenager who has unknowingly been trained since childhood for the dangerous world of espionage. Pressured to help investigate his uncle’s death, and how it connects to the assassination of two high-profile billionaires, Alex reluctantly assumes a new identity and goes undercover in a remote boarding school called Point Blanc. Isolated far above the snowline in the French Alps, Point Blanc claims to set the troubled teenage children of the ultra-rich back onto the right track. As Alex digs deeper, he discovers the students are in fact the subjects of a disturbing plan which Alex will have to risk his life to stop.

The cast includes Andrew Buchan, Ronke Adekoluejo, Brenock O’Connor and Stephen Dillane.

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On November 13, the Nickelodeon series The Astronauts will debut at 7 PM.

The series follows a group of kids who embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they are mistakenly launched into space. The spacecraft Odyssey II is set to launch on a mission to retrieve a foreign object that could potentially save mankind. The plan quickly goes awry when five untrained kids use their parents’ security clearances to sneak onto the empty ship. Soon after they board, the onboard AI system triggers the launch sequence. Unable to stop the ship from blasting off, the kids must assume their new role as astronauts and brave harrowing tasks, as their parents rush to find a way to take control of the situation.

The kid astronauts will be played by Miya Cech, Bryce Gheisar, Keith L. Williams, Kayden Grace Swan and Ben Daon.

The adult actors who are part of the cast include Bethany Brown, Erica Cerra, Ben Cotton, Ryan Robbins, Nathalie Boltt and Garfield Wilson.

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On November 11, the new Netflix 4-episode animated limited series The Liberator will debut online.

Based on true events, a diverse, dedicated, rough-and-tumble squad of soldiers spearheads the Allied invasion of Italy during World War II.

The cast includes Bradley James (Merlin).

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