By Rick Gables
SHOWTIME will premiere its new half-hour comedy series Moonbase 8 on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 11 p.m. ET/PT. The series stars Emmy nominee Fred Armisen, Tim Heidecker and Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee John C. Reilly. Set in the isolated desert of Winslow, Arizona, at NASA’s Moon Base Simulator, the series follows eager astronauts Skip, Rook and their leader Cap as they attempt to qualify for their first lunar mission. While working vigorously to complete their training, a series of unexpected circumstances forces the astronauts to question their own mental sanity, trust in each other and whether or not they’re cut out for space travel.
HBO’s new eight-episode drama series Industry debuts Monday, Nov. 9, at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The series follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited number of permanent positions at a leading international investment bank in London. Starring Myha’la Herrold, Marisa Abela, Harry Lawtey, David Jonsson and Nabhaan Rizwan as “The Graduates” and Conor MacNeill, Freya Mavor, Will Tudor and Ken Leung as “Management,” Industry gives an insider’s view of the blackbox of high finance through the eyes of an outsider, Harper Stern (Herrold), a talented young woman from upstate New York. The series examines issues of gender, race, class, and privilege in the workplace as these impressionable young minds begin to forge their identities within the pressure cooker environment and sensory blitz of Pierpoint & Co’s trading floor, where meritocracy is promised but hierarchy is king.
Hallmark Channel will premiere its new original movie, One Royal Holiday, on Saturday, Oct. 31, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, as a part of the network’s annual Countdown to Christmas programming event. Laura Osnes, Aaron Tveit, Krystal Joy Brown, Victoria Clark and Tom McGowan star. Just before a Christmas blizzard hits, Anna offers a suddenly stranded mother and son a place to stay at her father’s B&B in rural Connecticut. What Anna doesn’t yet know is that Gabriella and James are, in fact, the Royal Family of Galwick. What begins as a “one night” stay keeps extending as Anna and Prince James unexpectedly begin to fall in love.