Rueben's Ramblings

The new limited series A Taste for Murder will debut online on April 7 on Britbox.

Show Synopsis: Set amidst the steep cliffs and fast tides of Capri, this new drama features classic Italian cuisine as the main ingredient to each episode’s central murder mystery, revealing the power of food to foster connection, community, and healing after devastating loss.

Downton Abbey alum Phyllis Logan is among the cast as well as Warren Brown from Luther and Strike Back.

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The new small screen adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo will debut on PBS on March 22 at 10 PM.

Young sailor Edmond Dantès (Sam Clafin from Daisy Jones and the Six and The Hunger Games) is betrayed by those he trusts most and is torn from his fiancé and thrown into a nightmarish prison. But fortune favors patient Dantès: he escapes, claims a hidden treasure, and transforms himself into the enigmatic Count of Monte Cristo to exact thrilling revenge. Can Dantès reclaim justice?

The cast includes legendary actor Jeremy Irons and Blake Ritson (The Gilded Age).

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On March 22, the new period piece drama The Forsytes will debut on PBS at 9 PM

Based on the John Galsworthy Nobel Prize winning book series, The Forsytes focuses on a wealthy solicitor who becomes obsessed with a woman who rejects him despite his riches. After they marry, she remains distant, driving him to extreme lengths to control her in this epic early-20th-century family saga.

The series stars Millie Gibson, Joshua Orpin, Francesca Annis, Danny Griffin, Eleanor Tomlinson, Jack Davenport, Stephen Moyer, Tuppence Middleton and Tom Durant Pritchard.

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The new prequel series Hope Valley 1874 will debut on Hallmark+ on March 21.

The When Calls the Heart prequel will follow Rebecca Clarke (Bethany Joy Lenz), who travels from Chicago to the Western Canadian frontier with her 11-year-old daughter (Mila Morgan) but must accept help from local rancher Tom Moore when her wagon breaks down.

The cast includes Benjamin Ayres, Jill Hennessy, Roan Curtis, Lachlan Quarmby, Chelsea Hobbs and Ryan Robbins.

NOTE: Hope Valley: 1874 will then move to its regular night, Thursdays, on March 26.

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