Rueben's Ramblings

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

On May 5, the season finale of The Tomorrow People will air on The CW at 9 PM while the two-hour premiere of 24: Live Another Day will air on FOX at 8 PM. The 12-episode series will then move to its regular timeslot of 9 PM on May 12 and there will be encores of every episode of 24: Live Another Day on Friday nights at 8 PM, starting May 9.

Also on May 5, Bates Motel will air its season finale on A&E at 10 PM followed by the special “Bates After Hours”.

The season finale of CSI will air on CBS on May 7 at 10 PM.

On May 9 Unforgettable, Hawaii Five-0 and Blue Bloods will both air their season finales on CBS at 8, 9 and 10 PM respectively.

The second season of the BBC America 6-part mini-series In the Flesh will return at 10 PM on May 10. And that same night, the Hallmark Channel original movie Mom’s Day Away will debut at 8 PM. The movie is about a stay-at-home mom (Bonnie Somerville) who decides to finally chase her dreams and spends Mother’s Day weekend away from home. The film also star James Tupper (Revenge).

On May 11, the Showtime thriller Penny Dreadful will debut at 10 PM. This psychosexual newthriller will focus on some of literature’s most famously terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, all set in Victorian London. The cast includes Josh Hartnett (Black Hawk Down), Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, License to Kill), Eva Green (Casino Royale), Reeve Carney (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) and Billie Piper (Doctor Who, Secret Diary of a Call Girl).

That same night, Once Upon a Time will air its two-hour season finale at 8 PM on ABC followed by the one-hour season finale of Revenge at 10 PM.

Also on May 11, the four-hour adaptation of the 1967 best-selling suspense novel Rosemary’s Baby will debut at 9 PM on NBC. The film centers on a young married couple (Zoe Saldana and Patrick J. Adams from Suits) who move into a Paris apartment that has a haunted past. After getting pregnant, the wife becomes increasingly suspicious that both her husband and their neighbors will have ulterior motives when her child is born. The second part of the movie will air on May 15 at 9 PM.

Lastly, on May 11, the new UP Channel movie My Mother’s Future Husband will debut at 7 PM. The film is about Headly Anderson, a precocious 15-year-old who is extremely close to her mother Rene (Lea Thompson from Switched at Birth), especially since her father passed away three years earlier. Headly and Rene jog together, get manicures together and watch movies together. They also hang out often at the diner that Rene owns. When Headly falls for a boy at school, she realizes that she has no time to cultivate her social life – she is always with her mother. She wants her mother to find love again and she wants to get her first real kiss so it is clear what she needs to do – find her mother a husband.

Mark your calendars!