Rueben's Ramblings

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

The Blacklist will air its fall finale on November 10 on NBC at 10 PM.

On November 12, Hell on Wheels will return to AMC at 9 PM.

The third season of Ripper Street will now air on Netflix, starting on November 14.

On November 15, the Hallmark Channel movie Northpole will debut at 8 PM. Northpole, the magical city where Santa and his elves live and work is in trouble. Families around the globe have gotten too busy to enjoy the season together, and Northpole depends on their holiday happiness to keep running. In the hopes of turning things around, a determined young elf befriends a little boy with a lot of spirit. His skeptical journalist mom doesn’t have room in her heart for anything but the facts, so it’s going to take a little nudge from his charming teacher to create an unbeatable Christmas team to turn around this town and share the importance of the season with the whole world. The cast includes Tiffani Thiessen (White Collar), Josh Hopkins (Cougar Town), Bailee Madison (Once Upon a Time), Max Charles (The Amazing Spider-Man and Neighbors) and legendary actors Robert Wagner and Jill St. John.

That same night, the eight-part mini-series The Missing will debut on Starz at 9 PM. The series centers on the psychological fallout and ensuing years-long manhunt resulting from the sudden disappearance of five-year-old Oliver Hughes while on holiday with his parents in France in 2006. The cast includes James Nesbitt (The Hobbit trilogy), Tcheky Karyo (Goldeneye) and Frances O’Connor (Timeline and Mr. Selfridge).

The second season of Atlantis will be back on BBC America on November 15 at 9 PM.

On November 16, the UP Channel original movie Paper Angels will debut at 7 PM. Abused wife Lynn (Josie Bissett from Melrose Place), leaves her alcoholic husband Darryl (Russell Porter), with her two kids, Thomas and Sara, moving to another town where she works as a waitress to make ends meet. In that same town, we meet Kevin (Matthew Settle from Gossip Girl), whose Marketing & Design company is on the brink of shutting down due to the economy. Plus, Kevin’s wife Jenny (Kendra Anderson) is in a difficult pregnancy with twins. Thomas starts a new school and becomes the target of a bully who is threatened by how well he plays basketball. Unable to join the high school team, Thomas goes to the community center where he meets Kevin and the two of them become unlikely friends through pickup basketball games. Little do they know the tremendous impact they will have on each other’s families this Christmas through The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree Program.

The Hallmark Channel original movie Angels and Ornaments will debut on November 16 at 8 PM. Corrine’s (Jessalyn Gilsig from Glee) holiday season gets an unexpected dose of romance when she meets the mysterious Harold, who is on a deadline from a higher power to help Corrine find her true love by Christmas Eve. As the clock ticks down to Harold’s deadline, Corrine must decide if she will open up to Christmas love. The cast includes Sergio Di Zio (Flashpoint).

Mark your calendars!