New TV Trailers: Ransom Canyon, RoboForce, Doctor Who: Season 2, Spy High, and Overcompensating
Take a peek at some of the latest trailers for upcoming TV shows.
“Ransom Canyon” Trailer: Netflix Saddles Up with Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly for a Contemporary Western Series Full of Love, Land, and Lone Star Drama — Premieres April 17th
Okay, take a cup of Yellowstone, a spoonful of Friday Night Lights, a dollop of Landman, and a pinch of Walker, Texas Ranger. Throw it all in a bowl, mix it up, and serve it with a plate of barbecue brisket—and you’ve got yourself Ransom Canyon, Netflix’s latest answer to a Taylor Sheridan knockoff.
Which isn’t to say it doesn’t look good. It actually looks like a lot of fun. And with Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly leading the cast, it can’t be all that bad. So, if you’re in need of a Yellowstone fix while Paramount gets its act together and figures out the next spinoff, Ransom Canyon just might do the trick in the meantime.
Based on Jodi Thomas’s sprawling romantic novels, this new contemporary western saga revolves around three ranching families in Texas Hill Country. The series follows each family dynasty as they become locked in a heated battle for control—over the land and over one another. And you better believe there’ll be plenty of Texas football, BBQ, bull riding, and cowboys getting into fights and falling for the wrong women. Yeehaw!
Co-starring Lizzy Greene, James Brolin, and Eoin Macken, and created by April Blair (Jane by Design), this romance-fueled Texan drama is set to saddle up and ride into town in a couple of weeks. So, expect Ransom Canyon to gallop onto Netflix on Thursday, April 17th.
Side note: that song featured in the trailer? That little ditty is called Texas Sun, a smooth, soulful track born from a collaboration between Texan musical trio Khruangbin and Fort Worth-based neo-soul singer Leon Bridges. It’s a nice remix, if you ask us.
“RoboForce” Trailer: Misfit Alien Bots Take on a Deadly Tech Virus in New Animated Series From Producers Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, and Brian Volk-Weiss — Premieres April 12th on Tubi
Don’t sleep on Tubi. As a streaming platform, it might not be as popular as Netflix or Disney Plus, but it’s definitely our go-to ad-supported service with a surprisingly wide range of movies and TV shows. Heck, it’s a solid free alternative to many paid platforms with a comparable catalog. And with its popularity growing by the day, Tubi is pushing further into original content—slowly but surely making its mark. It just might be the home of the next breakout hit.
Enter RoboForce, a new animated comedy series and the latest original to premiere on the free, ad-supported streamer. The show appears to be a loving spoof of Transformers and GoBots, and it hails from the same universe as the cult 1990s cartoon series Biker Mice from Mars.
Inspired by the original 1980s robot action figures, the series is set in 2089 Detroit and follows a unit of misfit alien robots who have become the last line of defense against a mysterious code virus infecting the planet’s most powerful hero bots. Now it’s up to the RoboForce to rise to the occasion and save the universe.
Consisting of six half-hour episodes, RoboForce is produced by Brian Volk-Weiss’s The Nacelle Company (The Toys That Made Us, The Movies That Made Us), with Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions (Red One) also on board as executive producers.
Written by Gavin Hignight (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012, Transformers: Cyberverse) and Tom Stern (Freaked), RoboForce is set to premiere Saturday, April 12th on Tubi.
“Doctor Who: Season 2” Trailer: Ncuti Gatwa Returns as the Fifteenth Doctor for New Time-Bending Adventures With Varada Sethu — Premieres April 12th on Disney+ and BBC
Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education, Barbie) returns for his second outing as the Doctor in the latest season of the long-running British sci-fi adventure series, Doctor Who.
Gatwa plays the Fifteenth Doctor, the newest incarnation of the ancient, time-and-space-traveling extraterrestrial known as the Time Lord. Piloting the iconic TARDIS—a ship disguised as a vintage British police call box—the Doctor regenerates into new forms, with fresh personalities and faces each time.
This time around, Gatwa’s Doctor embarks on new adventures from a futuristic 51st-century setting, joined by his new companion Belinda Chandra, played by Varada Sethu (Andor). Their journey begins with a mission to get Belinda back to Earth—but a mysterious force is blocking their path. As a result, the time-traveling duo must face greater dangers, bigger enemies, and wilder terrors than ever before.
In a first for the franchise, this season will also feature an entirely animated episode, with the Doctor and his companion transformed into cartoon characters.
Returning to the TARDIS is Millie Gibson as former companion Ruby Sunday, while guest stars include Alan Cumming, Freddie Fox, Jonah Hauer-King, Jemma Redgrave, Rose Ayling-Ellis, and Christopher Chung.
Acclaimed writer-producer Russell T Davies is back as showrunner, executive producer, and main writer, continuing to guide the series into bold new territory.
Doctor Who: Season 2 premieres Saturday, April 12th on Disney+ (where available), and exclusively on the BBC and BBC iPlayer in the UK. New episodes from the eight-part season will debut weekly.
“Spy High” Trailer: Prime Video Docuseries Exposes Shocking Case of High School Webcam Surveillance and the Fight for Student Privacy – Streaming April 8th
Did you ever feel like the administrative staff at your high school had way too much private and sensitive information about you—so much so that it felt like they were spying on you?
Well, maybe they were.
That’s exactly what happened to 15-year-old Blake Robbins, who was accused of selling drugs by his high school principal. The so-called evidence? Photos taken from his laptop’s webcam—a laptop issued by the school, used not just for classwork but for personal use at home.
This incident raises some major red flags: Can a school legally spy on its students without their knowledge? Where is the line between security and surveillance? And more importantly—can that line be crossed as easily (and quietly) as it was here?
Spy High is a new four-part documentary series on Prime Video that dives into the explosive lawsuit filed by Blake Robbins and his family against his prestigious public high school after they uncovered that administrators were secretly using school-issued laptops to spy on underage students.
The series not only unpacks the Robbins family’s legal battle, but also zooms out to explore the broader issue of digital privacy. As our lives become more connected and digital data more prevalent, Spy High examines how these tools, meant to enhance education, can also sometimes become weapons of surveillance, raising critical questions about children's rights and consent.
Executive produced by Mark Wahlberg, Archie Gips, and Stephen Levinson, working under their production label Unrealistic Ideas (McMillions, MoviePass MovieCrash), Spy High premieres globally on Tuesday, April 8 on Prime Video. All four episodes will be available to stream.
So, just be glad you never had to go to high school during the digital age—and if you are, make sure to cover those laptop lenses. Or, better yet, just pull the plug.
“Overcompensating” Teaser Trailer: Benito Skinner Stars as a Closeted Jock in New Raunchy College Comedy Series — Streaming May 15th on Prime Video
Social media star Benito Skinner has built such a massive online following that he’s managed to parlay his viral success into a brand-new comedy series for Amazon. And knowing how the entertainment industry works today, with everything driven by likes and shares, well, Instagram and TikTok stars getting their own shows seems to be the world we’re living in now. And if Mr. Beast can get his own Prime show, who's to say this Benito kid can't? But here's the real test: TV shows need actual viewers to keep them going—they don’t just randomly land on your For You Page to get views. Let’s see how this turns out, shall we?
Overcompensating, a college-set coming-of-age sex comedy, was created by and stars Benito Skinner as a closeted former football player and homecoming king. He becomes fast friends with a socially awkward misfit (Wally Baram) on a mission to fit in at all costs, as they try to conquer college the only way they know how: booze, hookups, and sowing their wild oats.
Co-starring Mary Beth Barone, Adam DiMarco, and Rish Shah, with recurring guest appearances from Connie Britton, Kyle MacLachlan, Kaia Gerber, Maddie Phillips, Andrea Martin and popstar Charli XCX, Overcompensating is a collaboration between A24 and Amazon MGM Studios. All eight episodes will be streaming on Thursday, May 15th, on Prime Video. So, it's time to relive those college days from the safety of your couch—without the hangovers!
