Rueben's Ramblings

On February 3, the new Apple TV+ drama Dear Edward will debut online.

Adapted from the best-selling novel by Ann Napolitano, the series is a heartbreaking, life-affirming and uplifting story about survival, resilience, connection and the examination of what makes us human.

The ensemble cast includes Taylor Schilling, Connie Britton, Amy Forsyth and Maxwell Jenkins [among others].

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On February 1, the new sci-fi series The Ark will debut on Syfy at 10 PM.

Created by Dean Devlin (Leverage and Leverage: Redemption), the series takes place 100 years in the future when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race. The first of these missions on a spacecraft known as Ark One encounters a catastrophic event causing massive destruction and loss of life. With more than a year left to go before reaching their target planet, a lack of life-sustaining supplies and loss of leadership, the remaining crew must become the best versions of themselves to stay on course and survive.

The cast includes Reece Ritchie, Christie Burke, Richard Fleeshman, Ryan Adams and Stacey Read.

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On January 30, the new thriller series The Watchful Eye will debut on Freeform at 9 PM with a new episode also airing at 10 PM, the show’s regular timeslot.

The series follows Elena Santos (Mariel Molino), a young woman with a complicated past, maneuvering her way into working as a live-in nanny for an affluent family in Manhattan. She quickly learns that everyone in the mysterious building has deadly secrets and ulterior motives. What they don’t know, however, is that Elena has some shocking secrets of her own.

The series also stars Amy Acker, Warren Christie, Kelly Bishop and Jon-Michael Ecker.

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On January 27, the Netflix series Lockwood & Co. will debut online.

A girl (Ruby Stokes) with extraordinary psychic abilities joins two gifted teen boys (Cameron Chapman and Ali Hadji-Heshmati) at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting London.

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The new series Wolf Pack will debut online on Paramount+ on January 26.

The series follows a teenage boy and girl whose lives are changed forever when a California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature and drives it to attack a highway traffic jam beneath the burning hills. Wounded in the chaos, the boy and girl are inexplicably drawn to each other and to two other teenagers who were adopted sixteen years earlier by a park ranger after another mysterious wildfire. As the full moon rises, all four teens come together to unravel the secret that connects them – the bite and blood of a werewolf.

The cast includes Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rodrigo Santoro, Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson and Tyler Lawrence Gray.

Here is a trailer for Wolf Pack:

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On January 22, the new FOX drama Accused will debut at 9 PM.

This series is a collection of 15 intense, topical and exquisitely human stories of crime and punishment. Each episode is a fast-paced provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city, with an entirely original cast. Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, the show holds a mirror up to current times with evocative and emotional stories.

Among the cast who will be feature include Aaron Ashmore, Abigail Breslin, Aisha Dee, Ian Anthony Dale, Jack Davenport, Jill Hennessy, Kyle Schmid, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Margo Martindale, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Megan Boone, Michael Chiklis, Molly Parker, Rachel Bilson, Rhea Perlman, Robert Wisdom, Wendell Pierce and Whitney Cummings.

Here is a trailer for Accused:

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