The new Amazon streaming series Modern Love will debut online on October 18
An unlikely friendship. A lost love resurfaced. A marriage at its turning point. A date that might not have been a date. An unconventional new family. These are unique stories about the joys and tribulations of love, each inspired by a real-life personal essay from the beloved New York Times column “Modern Love.”
The ensemble cast includes Andrew Scott, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Brandon Victor Dixon, Catherine Keener, Cristin Milioti,Dev Patel,John Slattery, Julia Garner,Olivia Cooke, Shea Whigham, Sofia Boutella and Tina Fey.
On October 15, the new USA Network drama Treadstone will debut at 10 PM.
This new series explores the origin story and present-day actions of the infamous covert program that uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. The story follows sleeper agents across the globe as they’re mysteriously “awakened” to resume their deadly missions.
The cast includes Brian J. Smith, Jeremy Irvine, Michael Gaston, Michelle Forbes and Patrick Fugit.
New York Comic Con 2019 took place over this past weekend, featuring lots and lots of panels and celebrities, focusing on all things pop culture on the big screen and on TV [and so much more].
The following are just some of the cool happenings at NYCC:
The new drama Nancy Drew will debut on The CW on October 9 at 9 PM.
Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenaged detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine – until her mother’s untimely death derails Nancy’s college plans. Devastated by her mother’s passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while crossing off the days until she can re-apply to college.
But when a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group of other teens present at the scene: Nancy’s nemesis from high school, George Fan (Leah Lewis); a rich girl with a mysterious past, Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani); Nancy’s secret boyfriend, Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim), and amiable burnout Ace (Alex Saxon). The five of them must team up to clear their own names – encountering emotional entanglements and even more mysteries along the way. Nancy’s reawakening brings her into conflict with her widowed father, Carson Drew (Scott Wolf), who is dating Detective Karen Hart (Alvina August).
The new DC series Batwoman will debut on The CW at 8 PM on October 6.
Kate Kane (Ruby Rose) never planned to be Gotham’s new vigilante. Three years after Batman mysteriously disappeared, Gotham is a city in despair. Without the Caped Crusader, the Gotham City Police Department was overrun and outgunned by criminal gangs. Enter Jacob Kane (Dougray Scott) and his military-grade Crows Private Security, which now protects the city with omnipresent firepower and militia. Years before, Jacob’s first wife and daughter were killed in the crossfire of Gotham crime. He sent his only surviving daughter, Kate, away from Gotham for her safety. After a dishonorable discharge from military school and years of brutal survival training, Kate returns home when the Alice in Wonderland gang targets her father and his security firm, by kidnapping his best Crow officer Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy).
Although remarried to wealthy socialite Catherine Hamilton-Kane (Elizabeth Anweis), who bankrolls the Crows, Jacob is still struggling with the family he lost, while keeping Kate at a distance. But Kate is a woman who’s done asking for permission. In order to help her family and her city, she’ll have to become the one thing her father loathes: a dark knight vigilante. With the help of her compassionate stepsister, Mary (Nicole Kang), and the crafty Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson), the son of Wayne Enterprises’ tech guru Lucius Fox, Kate continues the legacy of her missing cousin, Bruce Wayne, as Batwoman. Still holding a flame for her ex-girlfriend, Sophie, Kate uses everything in her power to combat the dark machinations of the psychotic Alice (Rachel Skarsten), who’s always somewhere slipping between sane and insane.
The new Netflix series Raising Dion will debut online on October 4.
A single mom (Alisha Wainwright from Shadowhunters) must hide her young son’s (Ja’Siah Young) superpowers to protect him from exploitation while investigating their origins and her husband’s death.
The cast includes Michael B. Jordan and Jason Ritter.
On October 2, the new drama Almost Family will debut on FOX at 9:01 PM.
An only child (Brittany Snow from the Pitch Perfect franchise) finds her life turned upside down when her father (Timothy Hutton from Leverage) reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own sperm to conceive upwards of a hundred children, including two new sisters (Megalyn Echikunwoke from The Following and 90210 and Emily Osment from Young & Hungry). As these three young women slowly embrace their new reality, they will attempt to form an untraditional bond as sisters, even as they must welcome a tidal wave of new siblings into their rapidly expanding family.
The new EPIX drama Godfather of Harlem will debut on September 29 at 10 PM.
Inspired by the story of infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker), who in the early 1960s returned from 10 years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy must take on the Genovese crime family to regain control.
The show will also star Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil), Giancarole Esposito (Breaking Bad) and Ilfenesh Hadera (Deception) and Lucy Fry (Vampire Academy).
The new Netflix streaming series The Politician will debut online on September 27.
Payton Hobart (Broadway star Ben Platt) has known since childhood that he’s going to be President of the United States; but first he’ll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
The cast includes Gwyneth Paltrow,Judith Light, Zoey Deutch and Bette Midler.
On September 26, the new thriller series Evil will debut at 10 PM on CBS.
The series focuses on a skeptical female psychologist (Katja Herbers from Manhattan and Westworld) who joins a priest-in-training (Mike Colter from Luke Cage) and a carpenter (Aasif Mandvi from Blue Bloods and A Series of Unfortunate Events) as they investigate the Church’s backlog of unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions and hauntings. Their job is to assess if there is a logical explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
The cast includes Kurt Fuller (Supernatural and Psych) and Michael Emerson (Person of Interest and Lost).
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