Rueben's Ramblings

Intruders will debut on BBC America on August 23 at 10 PM.

The series is about a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others, focusing on Jack Whelan (John Simm from Doctor Who), a former LAPD cop with a troubled and violent history, who finds the quiet idyllic life he has crafted with his wife, Amy (Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino) shattered when she goes missing.

While Jack is consumed with an investigation, which threatens his very core, a sinister agent named Richard Shepherd (James Frain from True Blood) is embarking on a series of lethal executions. Meanwhile, a distraught little girl named Madison (Millie Brown from Once Upon a Time in Wonderland) runs away from home into a world of danger.

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On August 13, the new TNT drama Legends will debut at 9 PM.

Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) stars as a deep-undercover FBI agent who may be losing his grip on reality.

The cast includes Ali Larter (Heroes), Tina Majorino (Veronica Mars) and Morris Chestnut (V).

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On August 9, the new Starz drama Outlander will debut at 9 PM.

Based on the book by Diana Gabaldon, the series will follow the story of Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

NOTE: The first eight (8) episodes of the 16-episode debut season will air consecutively from Saturday August 9 through Saturday, September 27. Then the show will go on winter hiatus, with the remaining eight episodes set to air on Starz in early 2015.

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The Sundance TV original 8-part mini-series The Honorable Woman will debut on July 31 at 10 PM.

The film follows Nessa Stein (Maggie Gyllenhaal), whose father was a Zionist arms procurer; as children, she and her brother witness his assassination. Years later, after inheriting her father’s company, she dramatically inverts its purpose from supplying arms to laying high-spec data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank.

Now in her thirties, her sudden appointment to the House of Lords, apparently due to her tireless promotion of projects for reconciliation between the Israelis and Palestinians, creates an international political maelstrom.

The cast includes Janet McTeer (Damages), Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and Tobias Menzies (the upcoming Outlander).

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On July 27, the second original scripted series at WGN America, Manhattan, will debut at 10 PM.

The series is set in the 1940s in a town whose very existence is classified. Frank Winter (John Benjamin Hickey from The Big C) and his team of brilliant but flawed scientists have been recruited to work on a project even they could know nothing about until their arrival.

The cast includes Olivia Williams (Dollhouse) and Daniel Stern (Home Alone).

Here is a trailer for Manhattan.

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