Rueben's Ramblings

Here are the NBC pilots up for consideration for the 2017-2018 TV season:

For God and Country: This pilot is a heart-pounding look into the complex world of the country’s bravest military heroes who make personal sacrifices while executing the most challenging and dangerous missions behind enemy lines.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Dean Georgaris, Peter Traugott and Rachel Kaplan.

CAST: Anne Heche (Men in Trees and Aftermath), Demetrius Grosse (Justified and Game of Silence), Noah Mills (2 Broke Girls), Sofia Pernas (Jane the Virgin), Mike Vogel (Under the Dome) and Tate Ellington (Quantico).

Good Girls: Explores what happens when three “good girl” suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances — they decide to stop playing it safe, and risk everything to take their power back.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Jenna Bans.

CAST: Manny Montana (Graceland and Conviction), Reno Wilson (Mike & Molly), Kathleen Rose Perkins (Colony), Matthew Lillard (The Bridge), Retta (Parks and Recreation), Mae Whitman (Parenthood), young actress Lidya Jewett (Hidden Figures),

Redliners: Based on a series of short stories by author Charlaine Harris (True Blood), this high-octane series mixes humor, romance and espionage centering on a pair of former their undercover lives.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Kelly Sue DeConnick and Shaun Cassidy.

CAST: Jason Ensler (Red Band Society), Hannah Ware (Hitman: Agent 47 and Betrayal), newcomer Alan Powell, Greg Germann (Ally McBeal and Once Upon a Time), Jerod Haynes (Southside With You), Jenny Wade (Wedding Band), Tommy Flanagan (Sons of Anarchy) and Quinn Shephard (Hostages).

Reverie: A grounded and dramatic thriller about a former detective specializing in human behavior who is brought in when the launch of an advanced virtual reality program has dangerous and unintended consequences.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Mickey Fisher (Extant), Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey and Brooklyn Weaver.

CAST: Sarah Shahi (Person of Interest and Fairly Legal), Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes and Covert Affairs), Jessica Lu (Awkward), Kathryn Morris (Cold Case) and Dennis Haysbert (24 and Incorporated).

Rise (formerly Drama High): Based on the book by Michael Sokolove, the pilot is inspired by the true story of high school drama teacher Lou Volpe, centering around the incredible students who come alive under a passionate teacher and family man whose dedication to the program galvanizes the entire town.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Jason Katims.

CAST: Auli’i Cravalho (the voice of Moana), Amy Forsyth (Defiance and The Path), Rosie Perez, newcomer Rarmian Newton, Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother), Shirley Rumierk (Collateral Beauty), relative newcomers Damon J. Gillespie, Joe Tippett, Ted Sutherland and Taylor Richardson; Shannon Purser (Stranger Things) and Marley Shelton (The Lottery).

Shelter (formerly called Salvation): A “real-time extreme event” medical series that follows the nurses and doctors of an understaffed Brooklyn hospital that becomes the borough’s last viable trauma center after a catastrophic hurricane wreaks havoc on the city. On a holiday weekend with few doctors on call, the medical staff will be pushed to make the most difficult life-and-death choices as they work to save their patients and themselves.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Warren Leight, Paul Haggis and Charles McDougall.

CAST: Newcomer Paola Lazaro, Matthew James Thomas, Rachel Griffiths (Brothers & Sisters and Six Feet Under), Nikki M. James (The Book of Mormon, Braindead and The Good Wife), JJ Feild (Turn), Latarsha Rose (The Hunger Games), Jamie McShane (Bloodline and The Fosters) and Nadia Gan (Mr. Robot).

MOST LIKELY TO BE PICKED-UP: Rise

WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE: Reverie and For God and Country

LONG SHOT: Good Girls

Here are the FOX pilots up for consideration for the 2017-2018 TV season:

Behind Enemy Lines: A military soap thriller where a group of U.S. soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines. The “distinctly patriotic series” is a multi-perspective narrative that closely follows our soldiers on the ground, and the officers and service men and women on a nearby aircraft carrier, along with intelligence officers in D.C., as they attempt to bring our heroes home safely and under the radar.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Nikki Toscano, McG, Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, John Davis and John Fox.

CAST: B.J. Britt (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Marg Helgenberger (CSI), Gabriel Chavarria (East Los High), Melia Kreiling (Tyrant), Nestor Carbonell (Bates Motel), Colm Feore (The Amazing Spider-Man 2), Willa Fitzgerald (Scream and Royal Pains), Dylan Bruno (Numb3rs), Benito Martinez (American Crime and Supernatural) and Gabriel Chavarria (East Los High).

The Resident: The pilot centers on an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern-day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore, Roshan Sethi, Antoine Fuqua and Oly Obst.

CAST: Manish Dayal (The Hundred-Foot Journey), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife and Gilmore Girls), Shaunette Renee Wilson (Billions), Emily Van Camp (Revenge) and Valerie Cruz (The Following).

Untitled Marvel Action-Adventure Pilot(also known as Gifted): The pilot revolves around two ordinary parents who discover their children possess mutant powers. Forced to go on the run from a hostile government, the family joins up with an underground network of mutants and must fight to survive.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Matt Nix, Lauren Shuler Donner, Simon Kinberg, Jeph Loeb, Jim Chory and Bryan Singer.

CAST: Blair Redford (Switched at Birth and Satisfaction), Natalie Alyn Lind (The Goldbergs), Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time), Sean Teale (Incorporated), Stephen Moyer (True Blood), Amy Acker (Angel and Person of Interest), Coby Bell (Burn Notice), Emma Dumont (Bunheads and Aquarius)

Untitled University Project (formerly titled Controversy): The pilot follows the Junior Counsel of a prestigious Illinois university who must deal with an out-of-control scandal when a young co-ed accuses several star football players of sexual assault. From the football coaches and boosters who wield outsize influence to a university administration under siege, the project explores the type of high-profile controversy all too familiar on today’s college campuses, as well as the corrosive, dangerous nature of institutional power.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Judy Smith, Jennifer Klein, Charlie Gogolak, Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air), John Requa and Glenn Ficarra.

CAST: Austin Stowell (Whiplash), Christine Lahti, Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife and Blindspot), Erin Moriarty (Jessica Jones), Saycon Sengbloh (Scandal), Griffin Freeman (Paper Towns), Anthony Edwards (ER), Robbie Jones (Bosch and 90210) and Vince Nappo (Reign and NCIS).

MOST LIKELY TO BE PICKED-UP: Untitled Marvel’s Pilot

WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE: Behind Enemy Lines

LONG SHOT: The Resident (seems a bit too much like House, to an extent)

Here are the CBS pilots up for consideration for the 2017-2018 TV season:

Instinct: Based on the upcoming James Patterson novel, a former CIA operative who has since built a “normal” life as a gifted professor and writer is pulled back into his old life when the NYPD needs his help to stop a serial killer on the loose.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Michael Rauch (Royal Pains), Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Alan Cumming, James Patterson, Bill Robinson and Leopoldo Gout.

CAST: Alan Cumming (The Good Wife), Bojana Novakoic (Shameless and Rake), Daniel Ings (The Crown), Naveen Andrews (Lost) and Khandi Alexander (CSI: Miami).

Mission Control: The next generation of NASA astronauts and scientists juggle both their personal and professional lives during a critical mission with no margin for error.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Andy Weir (The Martian), Courtney Conte, Quan Phung, Simon Kinberg (The Martian), Aditya Sood and Charles Eglee (Dexter).

CAST: Levi Fiehler (The Fosters), David Giuntoli (Grimm), Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace and Unforgettable), Ricardo Chavira (Desperate Housewives and Jane the Virgin), Peyton List (Frequency) and Wunmi Mosaku (Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice).

Perfect Citizen: Revolves around the former General Counsel for the NSA who, after his involvement as a whistleblower in an international scandal, embarks on a new career at a storied law firm in Boston. There, he faces the reality that while half the country thinks he’s our greatest patriot, the other half thinks he’s a traitor.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Craig Turk (The Good Wife)

CAST: Lenny Platt (Quantico and How to Get Away With Murder), Noah Wyle (ER and The Librarians), Shanley Caswell (The Conjuring), newcomer Adrienne Warren, Stephanie Szostak (Satisfaction), Kristin Chenoweth (Pushing Daisies and Glee) and Brian Stokes Mitchell (The Path and Mr. Robot).

S.W.A.T.: Inspired by the 1975 TV series of the same name, the series follows a locally born and bred S.W.A.T. lieutenant who is torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he’s tasked to run a highly-trained unit that is the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Aaron Thomas Shawn Ryan, Marney Hochman, Neal Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Danielle Woodrow and Justin Lin.

CAST: Stephanie Sigman (Spectre), Shemar Moore (Criminal Minds), Lina Esco (Kingdom), Kenny Johnson (Bates Motel and Secrets and Lies), Jay Harrington (Better Off Ted and Code Black), Peter Onorati (Murder in the First) and Australia actor Alex Russell.

The Get: This workplace drama centers on a team of tireless internet journalists who pursue and expose the stories of injustice using their unconventional investigative techniques in today’s anything-goes world of reporting.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Bridget Carpenter.

CAST: Emayatzy Corinealdi (Hand of God), Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), Jeananne Goossen (The Night Shift), newcomer Alex Fitzalan, Michael Rady (UnReal and Jane the Virgin) and Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy and Private Practice).

Untitled Jenny Lumet Project (formerly known as Higher Ground): The pilot focuses on an elite team of investigators for the Northeast Regional U.S. Hate Crimes Unit, who solve a myriad of crimes against humanity as they confront their own biases.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Jenny Lumet and Katie Couric.

CAST: Brad William Henke (Orange Is the New Black), Zach Appleman (Sleepy Hollow), Grace Rex (The Good Wife), Kevin Daniels (Sirens), Sharon Leal (Supergirl) and Omar Metwally (The Affair).

Untitled Navy SEALs Pilot: The pilot follows the lives of the elite Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions the country can ask.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Ben Cavell (Justified), Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly.

CAST: Neil Brown, Jr. (Straight Outta Compton), Max Theriot (Bates Motel), Toni Trucks (Franklin & Bash), A.J. Buckley (Supernatural and CSI: NY), David Boreanaz (Bones and Angel) and Jessica Pare (Mad Men).

Wisdom of the Crowd: Based on the Israeli television series of the same name, the pilot tells the story of a tech innovator who, inspired by the notion that a million minds are better than one, creates a cutting edge crowdsourcing hub to solve his own daughter’s murder, as well as revolutionizing crime solving in San Francisco.

THOSE BEHIND THE SCENES: Ted Humphrey.

CAST: Jeremy Piven (Entourage and Mr. Selfridge), Richard T. Jones (Judging Amy), Blake Lee (Mixology), Monica Potter (Parenthood), Natalia Tena (Game of Thrones) and Jake Matthews (Bosch).

MOST LIKELY TO BE PICKED-UP: Instinct and Mission Control

WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE: S.W.A.T. and Untitled Navy SEALs Pilot

LONG SHOT: Wisdom of the Crowd