Rueben's Ramblings

On March 1, the new CBS drama Battle Creek will debut at 10 PM.

Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas) and Dean Winters (Oz) star as two mismatched law enforcement officers whose polar opposite views of the world and crime-solving breed frustration, disdain, humor and possibly a grudging respect as they clean up the hardscrabble streets of Battle Creek, Michigan.

The cast includes Janet McTeer (The White Queen), Kal Penn (House), Aubrey Dollar (Women’s Murder Club), Damon Herriman (Justified) and Liza Lapira (NCIS).

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The new ABC drama Secrets and Lies will air its two-hour debut on March 1 at 9 PM.

This is the American version of the Australian series that follows Ben Garner (film star Ryan Phillippe), a family man who discovers the body of a young boy and quickly becomes the prime suspect in his death. Ben then goes in search of the real killer in order to clear his name.

The cast includes Juliette Lewis (The Firm), Kadee Strickland (The Practice), Natalie Martinez (Under the Dome), Dan Fogler (Fan Boys) and Indiana Evans (Home and Away).

The show will move to 9 PM, its regular timeslot, next Sunday.

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The two-hour series premiere of Good Witch will air on February 28 at 8 PM on the Hallmark Channel.

The series will take viewers on a new magical journey with Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) and her bright, young-teenage daughter Grace (Bailee Madison from Once Upon a Time and Northpole), who shares her mom’s special intuitive charm. When Sam, a doctor (James Denton from Desperate Housewives), and his teenage son Nick (newcomer Rhys Matthew Bond) move in next door to Grey House, they are immediately charmed by the ‘magical’ mother-daughter duo.

Reprising their roles from the movies include Catherine Disher as Martha Tinsdale, Peter MacNeill as George O’Hanrahan, Hannah Endicott-Douglas as Lori Russell and Noah Cappe as Derek Sanders.

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The new NBC series The Slap, based on the Australian series of the same name, will debut on February 12 at 8 PM.

As Hector (Peter Sarsgaard from An Education) tries to navigate family politics, awkward friendships and the young woman he is dangerously captivated by, the built-up tension explodes when Hector’s hot-headed cousin slaps another couple’s misbehaving child. Everyone is understandably stunned, and the party abruptly ends with the child’s parents vowing legal action. But what the hosts and guests don’t know is that this moment will ignite a chain of events that will uncover long-buried secrets within this group of friends and family.

The cast includes Peter Sarsgaard (An Education) Thandie Newton (Rogue), Melissa George (Alias and the original The Slap), Zachary Quinto (Star Trek and Heroes), Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom), Uma Thurman (Kill Bill), Brian Cox (The Game), Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl) and Marin Ireland (The Divide).

You can see the trailer for The Slap at the show’s official page.

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