Rueben's Ramblings

Here is a list of the programming options to expect on TV this week:

On August 12, King & Maxwell will air its season finale on TNT at 10 PM.

The Hallmark Channel movie This Magic Moment will debt on August 17 at 9 PM. When Hollywood star Helena Harris (Diane Neal from Law & Order: SVU) films her newest movie, “This Magic Moment,” in the small town of Stone’s Throw, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with local video store owner Clark Gable (Travis Schuldt from Scrubs). Helena, who recently broke up with her current co-star Roberto Molinez (Vincent Spano), asks her new friend Clark to pretend to be her love interest in order to make Roberto jealous. Clark agrees and in exchange, Helena helps him pursue his screenwriting career. While this agreement benefits both Clark and Helena, it also complicates the relationship between Clark and his newly single, former high school sweetheart, Emily McIntyre (Alaina Huffman from Stargate Universe). As Helena and Clark’s fake romance successfully brings out the green monster in Roberto, the jealous Roberto decides to win Helena back and give Clark a taste of his own medicine by using his own fame to pursue Emily. The cast includes Charles Shaughnessy.

Also on August 17, the Lifetime movie Baby Sellers will debut at 8 PM. Exposing the dark international crime enterprise of infant trafficking, Baby Sellers stars Kirstie Alley as Carla Huxley, a well-respected, influential owner of a major U.S.-based adoption agency that helps prospective parents fulfill their dream of having a family. While presenting an innocent veneer of kindness and good intentions to her trusting clients, behind-the-scenes Huxley functions as a ruthless international kingpin, controlling an expansive syndicate spanning the world and manned by subordinates authorized to use any means necessary to procure children for her business. Jennifer Finnigan stars as Nicole Morrison, the dedicated, tough-as-nails Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who believes Hughes is fueling a global business that stops at nothing to find the right child for the right owner – at the right price – and goes undercover to bring her sordid operation down.

And also on August 17, Being Human, the UK original, will air its series finale on BBC America at 10 PM.

And, on August 18, the Masterpiece Mystery movie The Lady Vanishes will debut on PBS at 9 PM. A young socialite (Tuppence Middleton) suspects foul play when a woman inexplicably disappears from a train.

Mark your calendars!