Here is a list of all of the programming options, including finales, to expect on TV this week:
On May 26, the two-hour TV movie Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy will air on Reelz Channel at 9 PM. Under constant pressure to turn out more bombs, as well as work on a new secret sonar line, the women of Victory Munitions band together in a tight bond of support and friendship. But when a disturbing menace appears in the form of a saboteur among the factory workers, Gladys Witham (Jodi Balfour), a fiery young woman from privilege, is covertly recruited by Allied Intelligence to find the traitor, forcing her to spy on her best friends, co-workers and fellow agents and call into question everyone and everything she trusts.
That same night (May 26), Hit the Floor is back for its second season on VH1 at 9 PM.
And also on May 26, the Lifetime original movie Petals on the Wind, based on the V.C. Andrews book, will debut at 8 PM. Actress Rose McIver (Once Upon a Time) will take over the role of Cathy Dollanganger while actor Wyatt Nash (Pretty Little Liars) will take over the role of Christopher Dollanganger in the small screen adaptation of the classic novel that picks up a decade after the conclusion of Flowers in the Attic. The cast returning for this second film include Heather Graham, Dylan Bruce and Ellen Burstyn.
The new NBC summer series The Night Shift will debut on May 27 at 10 PM. The series focuses on the men and women who work the overnight shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. They are an irreverent and special breed, particularly adrenaline junkie T.C. Callahan (Eoin Macken from Merlin). After three grueling tours of duty in Afghanistan, T.C. is about to learn that his toughest battles will be fought right here at home. He and his team of late-night docs, including best friend Topher (Ken Leung from Lost ) and protégé Drew (Brendan Fehr from Roswell), know how to let off steam with the casual prank or two, but when lives are at stake, they are all business. Unfortunately, the night shift is now under new senior management and boss Michael Ragosa (Freddy Rodriguez from Six Feet Under), who has to balance the real-world pressures of cutting costs while battling the stigma that he is more interested in saving money than helping people. The cast includes Jill Flint (Royal pains), Daniella Alonso (Revolution) and Jeananne Goossen (Alcatraz).
Also on May 27, a new season of The Haves and Have Nots will start on Oxygen at 9 PM.
The second season of the DirecTV drama Rogue will air on May 28 at 10 PM.
Then on May 30, the new NBC summer series Crossbones will debut at 10 PM. It’s 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence where the diabolical pirate Blackbeard (screen legend John Malkovich) reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors. Part shantytown and part marauder’s paradise, New Providence is a mounting threat to international commerce. To gain control of this fearsome society, assassin Tom Lowe is sent to the buccaneers’ haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple. The cast includes Richard Coyle (Covert Affairs), David Hoflin (Alcatraz and Touch) and Claire Foy (Upstairs/Downstairs).
The Hallmark Movie Channel will debut the film The Color of Rain on May 31 at 9 PM. Inspired by the true story of Gina Kell and Michael Spehn, the film follows both families as they become one after cancer tragically claims both Gina’s husband and Michael’s wife just six weeks apart. When young husband and father Matt Kell succumbs to a terminal cancer diagnosis on Christmas day 2005, his widow, Gina (Lacey Chabert from Party of Five and Mean Girls) and two young boys are left to cope with the pain of his loss while their close church community gathers around them for support. Wanting to be close to her kids, Gina starts to volunteer at their elementary school and meets the Spehn children, Jack, Danny and Charlotte. In a gut-wrenching coincidence, just weeks after Matt’s death, the Spehn’s mom, Cathy, is also suddenly taken by cancer, leaving her distraught husband, Michael (Warren Christie from Alphas and October Road), to care for their three kids on his own. Sensing the hopelessness in Michael she so recently saw in herself, Gina reaches out to Michael and his kids and the two families begin to forge an unlikely friendship. During the year that follows, their lives become intertwined as they learn to lean on each other during, at-times, insurmountable obstacles, tears and adversity. They begin to heal with laughter, compassion and faith. And, when Gina and Michael realize their newfound bond could be more than just friendship, they struggle against surprising resistance from their families and community to unite their two grieving families as one, and eventually learn to open their hearts to love again.
Also on May 31, the season finale of Da Vinci’s Demons will air on Starz at 9 PM.
The new AMC period drama Halt and Catch Fire will debut on June 1 at 10 PM. Set in the early 1980s, roughly one year after IBM all but cornered the market with the release of its first major product: the IBM PC. It is also the same year people realize the IBM PC’s fatal flaw, which quickly makes personal computing anyone’s game. The cast includes Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies), Scoot McNairy (Argo), Mackenzie Davis (Smashed), Kerry Bishé (Argo) and Toby Huss (Cowboys & Aliens).
And also on June 1, the new UP Channel movie Love Finds You in Sugarcreek will debut at 7 PM. Rachel Troyer (Sarah Lancaster from Chuck) is a smart, focused, single policewoman in the quaint town of Sugarcreek, nicknamed “The Little Switzerland of Ohio” and located about an hour south of Akron, in the heart of Amish country. She frequently looks in on her three kindly Amish aunts Bertha (Kelly McGillis from Top Gun), Anna (Marianna Alacchi) and Lydia (Annie Kitral), who raised Rachel from girlhood after she was orphaned and are the proprietors of a picturesque, although faded, farmhouse inn. When a mysterious stranger, Joe (Tom Everett Scott from That Thing You Do), shows up on the inn’s doorstep with his five-year-old son, Bobby (Thomas Kapanowski), the aunts insist on taking the pair in as a matter of faith and good will. Rachel’s police instincts immediately tell her that this seemingly broke outsider is much too refined to be the drifter he presents himself to be. So, while the aunts welcome Joe as a handyman and enjoy having a child around the Sugar Haus Inn again, a wary, suspicious – yet attracted – Rachel becomes determined to uncover his identity. Her digging not only reveals his surprising identity, but the fact that he’s run away from his home, his life, and a shocking unsolved murder. Unfortunately, Rachel’s digging doesn’t go unnoticed, which brings Joe’s past – and its violence – right into this quiet Amish community.
Mark your calendars!
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