Rueben's Ramblings

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

Major Crimes will return for its third season on TNT at 9 PM followed by the debut of the new drama Murder in the First at 10 PM. The series follows homicide detectives Terry English (Taye Diggs from Private Practice) and Hildy Mulligan (Kathleen Robertson from Boss) as they investigate two seemingly unrelated murders. The mystery deepens, however, when they find both murders have a common denominator in a Silicon Valley wunderkind (Tom Felton from the Harry Potter franchise).

On June 10, Pretty Little Liars will be back for its fifth season on ABC Family at 8 PM followed by the series debut of Chasing Life at 9 PM. The series follows April (Italia Ricci from Unnatural History), a smart, twenty-something, aspiring journalist who tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom, Sara (Mary Page Keller), rebellious little sister, Brenna (Haley Ramm), and her grandmother, Emma (Rebecca Schull) while keeping the secret that she has cancer. That same night, Royal Pains will return for its sixth season on the USA Network at 9 PM.

The season finale of new drama The 100 will air on The CW on June 11 at 9 PM; meanwhile, Suits and Graceland will both return for new seasons on the USA Network at 9 and 10 PM respectively.

A few nights later on June 14, the BBC America mini-series In the Flesh will air its season finale at 10 PM.

On June 15, the season finale of Game of Thrones will air on HBO at 9 PM. Elsewhere, the 2-part PBS Masterpiece Mystery The Escape Artist will also air that night at 9 PM, running 90 minutes. The mini stars David Tennant (Doctor Who) as a brilliant defense lawyer with a storybook family and a potent nickname, “The Escape Artist,” for his ability to spring the obviously guilty. Then he gets a trial that changes his life forever.

And, the Lifetime Movie Network movie My Daughter Must Live will also debut on June 15 at 8 PM. Katie O’Malley (Madeleine Martin from Californication) is a promising dancer. When she has trouble keeping up with the rest of the dance troupe during rehearsals for an upcoming competition, her mother, Meghan (Joelle Carter from Justified) suspects she might be using drugs. When her father, Stu (Paul Popowich from Cracked), finds Katie unconscious in her room, she is rushed to the hospital. The doctors determine that Katie’s liver is not functioning and without a partial liver transplant, she will die. Meghan, Stu and all of their close relatives agree to be tested as potential donors but no one qualifies. When Meghan questions how neither parent could be a match, she is told the blood tests reveal that Stu is not Katie’s biological father. Meghan pieces together the timeline of her pregnancy and realizes that the one night stand she had with her old boyfriend, Dan (Sergio Di Zio from Flashpoint), at a high school reunion when she was 22 (and engaged to Stu) means that Dan is Katie’s biological father. Meghan begins searching for him but he has disappeared. When she finally tracks Dan down, she discovers that he has moved away and changed his name. He agrees to be tested but when he turns up a match, he refuses to become a donor.

Mark your calendars!