Rueben's Ramblings

The new ABC drama Kevin (Probably) Saves the World will debut on October 3 at 10 PM.

Kevin Finn (Jason Ritter from Parenthood), a cluelessly self-serving person, is on a dangerous path to despair. In a downward spiral, he returns home to stay with his widowed twin sister (JoAnna Garcia Swisher from Once Upon a Time) and niece (Chloe East from Liv and Maddie). On his first night there, an unlikely celestial being named Yvette (Kimberly Hebert Gregory from Vice Principals) appears to him and presents him with a mission: to save the world.

The cast also includes Dustin Ybarra (Us & Them and The Goldbergs), India de Beaufort (Jane By Design and Younger) and  J. August Richards (Angel and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).

Here is a trailer for Kevin (Probably) Saves the World:

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On October 2, the Ovation drama Halcyon will debut at 10 PM.

Set in 1940, the series shows London life through the prism of war and the impact it has on families, politics, relationships and work across every social strata.

The cast includes Steven Mackintosh (Luther), Olivia Williams (Dollhouse), Hermione Corfield (King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and Matt Ryan (Constantine).

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The new FOX series The Gifted will debut on October 2 at 9 PM.

The series tells the story of a suburban couple whose ordinary lives are rocked by the sudden discovery that their children possess mutant powers. Reed and Caitlin Strucker (Stephen Moyer from True Blood) and (Amy Acker from Person of Interest) are typical middle-class parents dealing with the realities of raising a family. However, when their teenage kids, Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind from GOTHAM) and Andy (Percy Hynes White from Night at the Museum 3), are involved in an incident at their high school which reveals they are mutants, Reed and Caitlin do all in their power to protect their children.

The cast includes Blair Redford (Satisfaction), Coby Bell (Burn Notice), Emma Dumont (Bunheads), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time) and Sean Teale (Incorporated).

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The new drama Ten Days in the Valley will debut on ABC on October 1 at 10 PM.

Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) stars as Jane Sadler, an overworked television producer and single mother in the middle of a separation whose life is turned upside down when her young daughter goes missing in the middle of the night. Just like her controversial police TV show, everything is a mystery, everyone has a secret and no one can be trusted.

The cast includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost), Erika Christensen (Parenthood), Josh Randall (Ed) and Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Major Crimes) [among others].

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On October 1, the new CBS drama Wisdom of the Crowd will debut at 8 PM.

Jeremy Piven stars as visionary tech innovator Jeffrey Tanner, who creates a cutting-edge crowdsourcing app to solve his daughter’s murder, and in doing so, revolutionizes crime solving in the process. The original cop who searched for his daughter’s killer, Det. Tommy Cavanaugh (Richard T. Jones) is recruited to work with him.

The cast also includes Monica Potter (Parenthood) and Natalia Tena (Game of Thrones and the Harry Potter franchise).

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