Rueben's Ramblings

The new AMC period piece Turn will air its 90-minute series debut on April 6 at 9 PM.

Set in the summer of 1778, this new series tells the story of New York farmer Abe Woodhull (Jamie Bell from Billy Elliot), who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.

The cast includes Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise), JJ Feild (Austenland), Angus Macfayden (Braveheart) and Amy Gumenick (Supernatural).

Here is a trailer for Turn.

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On March 19, the new drama The 100 will debut on The CW at 9 PM.

Ninety-seven years ago, nuclear Armageddon decimated planet Earth, destroying civilization. The only survivors were the 400 inhabitants of 12 international space stations that were in orbit at the time. Three generations have been born in space, the survivors now number 4,000, and resources are running out on their dying “Ark” – the 12 stations now linked together and repurposed to keep the survivors alive. Draconian measures including capital punishment and population control are the order of the day, as the leaders of the Ark take ruthless steps to ensure their future, including secretly exiling a group of 100 juvenile prisoners to the Earth’s surface to test whether it’s habitable.

The cast includes Australian newcomer Eliza Taylor, Paige Turco (Person of Interest), Thomas McDonell (Suburgatory), Marie Avgeropoulos (Cult), Kelly Hu (Arrow), Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy) and Henry Ian Cusick (Lost and Scandal).

Here is a trailer for The 100.

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The series premiere of the new NBC drama Crisis will debut on March 16 at 10 PM.

To bring the most powerful people in the world to their knees, threaten what they hold most dear. It’s field trip day for the students of Ballard High, a school that educates the children of DC’s elite, but when their bus is ambushed on a secluded rural road, the teenagers and their chaperones are taken, igniting a national crisis.

The cast includes Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s Wedding), Lance Gross (House of Payne) and Rachael Taylor (666 Park Avenue).

Here is a trailer for Crisis.

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The new ABC drama Resurrection will debut on March 9 at 9 PM

The people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones suddenly start to reappear. An 8-year-old American boy (Landon Gimenez) wakes up alone in a rice paddy in a rural Chinese province with no idea how he got there. Details start to emerge when the boy, who calls himself Jacob, recalls that his hometown is Arcadia, and an Immigration agent, J. Martin Bellamy (Omar Epps from House), takes him there. The home he claims as his own is occupied by an elderly couple, Henry (Kurtwood Smith from That 70’s Show) and Lucille Langston (Frances Fisher from Eureka), who lost their son, Jacob, more than 30 years ago. While they look different, young Jacob recognizes them as his parents. Those closest to the family try to unravel this impossible mystery, including Sheriff Fred Langston (Matt Craven from NCIS), whose wife Barbara, drowned 30 years ago while trying to save Jacob. But this boy, who claims to be the deceased Jacob, knows secrets about his own death that no one else knows — secrets that Fred’s daughter, Maggie Langston (Devin Kelly from The Chicago Code), will begin to investigate and discover to be true.

The cast also includes Samaire Armstrong (The O.C.) and Mark Hildreth (V).

Here is a trailer for Resurrection.

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