Rueben's Ramblings

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

There will be a marathon of Major Crimes episodes, leading up to the mid-season premiere on November 24 at 9 PM on TNT.

That same night Gotham will air its fall finale at 8 PM followed by part 1 of the Sleepy Hollow fall finale at 9 PM on FOX.

On November 29, the second season of Transporter: The Series on TNT will start at 9 PM.

Christmas Under Wraps is the new Hallmark Channel movie that will debut on November 29 at 8 PM. When a driven doctor doesn’t get the prestigious position she planned for, she unexpectedly finds herself moving to a remote Alaskan town. While she meets the locals and even starts a new romance, she has to learn to let the life she planned for give way to a love she never could have imagined, and finds this festive small town is hiding one big holiday secret. Candice Cameron-Bure stars.

On November 30, the original UP Channel movie The Tree That Saved Christmas will debut at 7 PM. Imaginative, hard-working Molly Logan (Lacey Chabert from Party of Five) grew up on her family’s generations-old Christmas tree farm in rural Vermont and would often write stories about individual trees as they shipped out, her favorite being a “Charlie Brown” tree struggling to grow. One day, after hearing the roar of buzz saws used to clear the woods of sickly saplings, nine-year-old Molly ran to save her favorite – even after her father Gordon and his crew had made a gash in its trunk. She knew that someday this little tree would have a tale to tell. Now 29, Molly is pursuing her writing career in Manhattan. Unfortunately as Pendant Publishing CEO Walter Dunlap’s assistant, Molly has no life and little chance to write. She’s devastated to learn from her architect brother Ryan that the bank is foreclosing on her parents’ heritage tree farm. This will be her family’s last Christmas there. However, a frustrated Molly can’t make it home thanks to obligations to her boss and his young daughters. Much to her shock, Molly discovers that the Christmas tree she ordered for the Dunlap home is that same one she saved years ago. Certain that it is the same tree from her youth – and a sign – Molly drags the pine back to her Vermont home and embarks upon a plan to save the family farm – with some surprising, inventive help from her brother and former boyfriend/banker Lucas.

The ION holiday movie A Christmas Mystery will air on November 30 at 9 PM. While searching through her late mother’s attic, Rebecca uncovers sealed cards from a mysterious suitor that had been addressed to her widowed Mom over the past 12 Christmases. As she begins to wonder the identity of man, Rebecca hires a handsome, yet mysterious detective Andrew to help solve the mystery behind the letters. While working to unravel the family mystery, Rebecca and Andrew begin to fall for one another, but soon learn there’s more to the case than either expected. The cast includes Esmé Bianco, Ryan Bittle and John Ratzenberger.

Also on November 30, the next Hallmark Hall of Fame movie One Christmas Eve will air on the Hallmark Channel at 8 PM. Anne Heche stars as a recently divorced mom who wants her two kids’ first Christmas “without dad” to be perfect. An entertaining but unfortunate series of Christmas Eve mishaps ensures that won’t happen – unless perfect means the family has its most memorable and heartwarming Christmas ever.

The Mentalist will return for its final season on November 30 on CBS at 9 PM, taking over the timeslot of The Good Wife

Mark your calendars!