Rueben's Ramblings

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

The season finale of Longmire will air on August 4 at 10 PM on A&E.

On August 5, the new legal thriller Sequestered will debut on Crackle with six episodes premiering. The series stars Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) as a juror forced to choose between her beliefs and the safety of her family. Co-stars include Jesse Bradford (Bring It On) as an attorney who discovers a big conspiracy as he defends a man accused of murdering the 8-year-old son of a state governor. Another six episodes will premiere on October 14.

The season finale of Rectify will air on Sundance on August 7 at 9 PM.

On August 8, the new Cinemax period drama The Knick will debut at 10 PM. The series centers on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff, who push the bounds of medicine in a time (New York in 1900) of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics. The cast includes Clive Owen, Andre Holland (Friends with Benefits), Jeremy Bobb (Hostages) and Eric Johnson (Smallville and Rookie Blue).

The new Starz drama Outlander will debut on August 9 at 9 PM. Based on the book by Diana Gabaldon, the series will follow the story of Claire Randall (Caitriona Balfe), a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

NOTE: The first eight (8) episodes of the 16-episode debut season will air consecutively from Saturday August 9 through Saturday, September 27. Then the show will go on winter hiatus, with the remaining eight episodes set to air on the cabler in early 2015.

Also on August 9, the Hallmark Channel movie Stranded in Paradise will debut at 9 PM. Tess Nelson (Vanessa Marcil from General Hospital) is a poised and confident human resources executive who is aiming for a well-deserved promotion. But when her boss informs her she’s being laid off instead, Tess is furious and worried about letting down her demanding mother, Mona (Cindy Pickett). Determined to use a business trip to an HR convention in Puerto Rico to score a new job, she is discouraged when the trip is a disaster from the start, and an approaching hurricane makes it impossible to fly home. But after bumping into a handsome fellow traveler, Carter (James Denton from Desperate Housewives), Tess opens up to the possibilities beyond her desk job, and the couple’s adventures on the island bring them closer while the hurricane rolls in.

Mark your calendars!