Previews of the fall, midseason, and summer crops of TV shows
IMDbTV Leverage: Redemption In this new iteration and new world, the Leverage crew have watched as the rich and powerful continue to take what they want without consequence. Grifter Sophie Devereaux, thief Parker, hitter Eliot Spencer, and hacker Alec Hardison … Continue reading July TV Preview – Streaming (Hey! Guess Who Misread Leverage’s Premiere Date as June Instead of July?)
Disney+ Loki Loki features the God of Mischief as he steps out of his brother’s shadow in a new series that takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame. Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi … Continue reading June TV Preview – Streaming (Rejoice! The Rebel Penguin Nature Documentary Has Arrived)
The CW Republic of Sarah The bucolic tranquility of Greylock, New Hampshire is upended when a massive vein of coltan – an incredibly valuable mineral used in tech – is discovered under the town. State-backed mining company Lydon Industries swoops … Continue reading June TV Preview – Network & Cable (We Steal a Weird Amount of Game Shows From England)
Amazon The Underground Railroad From Academy Award® winner Barry Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the … Continue reading May TV Preview – Streaming (Did You Know Tom Arnold’s Sister Had a Meth Empire?)
Fox Crime Scene Kitchen Hosted by actor and comedian Joel McHale, Crime Scene Kitchen is a culinary guessing game in which bakers are tasked with decoding what type of dessert was made when all that’s left are the crumbs, flour … Continue reading May TV Preview – Network & Cable (Yet Another Month of Trying to Figure Out Where the Spectrum Shows Go)
Apple TV+ Mosquito Coast Adapted from the best selling novel, The Mosquito Coast is a gripping adventure and layered character drama following the dangerous journey of a radical idealist and brilliant inventor, Allie Fox, who uproots his family for Mexico … Continue reading April TV Preview – Streaming (Surprise! It’s A Mark Wahlberg Reality Show)
NBC Law and Order: Organized Crime Elliot Stabler returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss. However, the city and police department have changed dramatically in the decade he’s been away, and he must adapt … Continue reading April TV Preview – Network & Cable (I Mean, At Least There Are No Surprise Mark Wahlberg Reality Shows Here)
Disney+ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Sam Wilson/Falcon and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier team up in a global adventure that tests their abilities—and their patience—in Marvel Studios’ The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Starring: … Continue reading March TV Preview – Streaming (We Need To Talk About the Country Sound of Music Sitcom)
NBC Debris When mysterious wreckage starts falling from the sky, a secretive international agency is tasked with figuring out what it is, where it came from, and most importantly… what it can do. British agent Finola Jones and American agent … Continue reading March TV Preview – Network & Cable (Yep. These Are Definitely Shows)
HBO Max The Head The Head is a six-episode survival thriller set in an isolated and inaccessible Antarctic research station in which winter has fallen on the South Pole, and the sun will soon disappear for the next six months. … Continue reading February TV Preview – Streaming (Okay, Fine. I’ll Acknowledge Discovery+’s Existence)
CBS The Equalizer Robyn McCall, an enigmatic woman with a mysterious background, uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn. McCall comes across to most as an average single mom who is quietly raising her teenage … Continue reading February TV Preview – Network and Cable (Now With 3 Extra The Rocks)
I learned my lesson with Quibi. Disney+ WandaVision Wanda Maximoff and Vision —two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems. Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Teyonah Parris, Kathryn Hahn, Kat Dennings, … Continue reading January TV Preview – Streaming (I’m Gonna Pretend That Discovery+ Doesn’t Exist)
NBC Mr. Mayor When retired Los Angeles businessman Neil Bremer decides to run for mayor of his beloved city, he surprises everyone and wins the seat. With great ideas and commitment to the community, he optimistically sets out to get … Continue reading January TV Preview – Network (Why Do You Hate Putting Trailers On YouTube, ABC?)
Showtime Your Honor The series follows a New Orleans judge who is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family. As a storm of vengeance, … Continue reading December TV Preview (A Network/Cable/Streaming Combo Because There Are Not Enough Shows For Two Posts)
Hulu The Mighty Ones The Mighty Ones, follows the hilarious adventures of a group of creatures: a twig, a pebble, a leaf and a strawberry. These best friends, self-named The Mighty Ones, live in an unkempt backyard belonging to a trio … Continue reading November TV Preview – Streaming (Hello. I Already Did The Quibi Entries and Refuse To Remove Them.)
No! ABC Big Sky Private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt join forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt, to search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. … Continue reading November TV Preview – Network & Cable (Did WordPress Fix Their Weird Spacing Issue?)
Sorry about the weird spacing. WordPress decided to be a jackass about embedded videos this week. Amazon Truth Seekers The series follows a team of part-time paranormal investigators who team up to uncover and film ghost sightings across the UK, … Continue reading October TV Preview- Streaming (What in the Everloving Hell is AMC+?)
NBC Connecting… An ensemble comedy about a group of friends trying to stay close (and sane) through video chats as they share the highs and lows of these extraordinary times. Starring: Ely Henry, Jill Knox, Keith Powell, Otmara Marrero, Parvesh … Continue reading October TV Preview – Network & Cable (Time At Last For The Alexa Murders People Show)
Hulu Woke Inspired by the life and work of artist Keith Knight, comedy series Woke takes an absurdly irreverent look at identity and culture as it follows Keef, an African-American cartoonist finally on the verge of mainstream success when an … Continue reading September TV Preview – Streaming (There’s Two Muppet Talk Shows Now)
I chose a hell of a year to start doing these month by month. NBC Transplant The series centers on Dr. Bashir “Bash” Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine who fled his country with his younger … Continue reading September TV Preview – Network and Cable (I’m Just So Tired)
CBS All Access Star Trek: Lower Decks The animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks follows the support crew on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler (Jack Quaid), Rutherford and Tendi have … Continue reading August TV Preview – Streaming (Where Do All The Shows Go If Quibi Dies?)
