Rueben's Ramblings

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

Finding Carter will return for its second season on MTV on March 31 at 10 PM. That same night and continuing on April 1 will be the two-night event The Dovekeepers on CBS at 9 PM (both night). The four-hour miniseries event is based on the acclaimed historical novel by Alice Hoffman about four extraordinary women whose lives intersect in a fight for survival at the siege of Masada.

On April 2, the new Syfy drama Olympus will debut at 10 PM. The series focuses on the dangerous courage of a few brave men and women who banished the Gods to the realm of the unconscious – a place they called the Underworld or the Kingdom of Hades. Also on that night is the Sundance series The Red Road, which returns for its second season at 10 PM.

The Droughlander is over! Outlander will be back from its extended mid-season break on Starz on April 4 at 9 PM. Also on April 4 will be the simultaneously airing of the new made-for-TV movie Aurora Teagarden: A Bone to Pick, which will air at 9 PM on both Hallmark Movies and Mysteries AND the Hallmark Channel. Candace Cameron Bure stars as a librarian with a sharp mind for murder, who is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery haunting her neighborhood.

On April 5, Salem will be back for season 2 on WGN America at 10 PM. That same night, the six-part PBS mini-series Wolf Hall will debut at 10 PM. Mark Rylance (Twelfth Night) and Damian Lewis (Homeland) will star as Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII in this adaptation of the Hilary Mantel prize-winning novels, which charts the shrewd and brilliant rise of Cromwell in the Tudor court from a blacksmith’s son to Henry VIII’s closest advisor.

Also that night will find the third movie in the Lifetime V.C. Andrews film adaptations – If There Be Thorns – airing at 8 PM. This made-for-TV movie follows Christopher (Jason Lewis from Sex and the City and Brothers & Sisters) and Cathy Dollanganger (Rachael Carpani from McLeod’s Daughters and the short-lived Against the Wall) as they live together as man and wife with Cathy’s two sons who are unaware of the incestuous nature of their parents’ relationship. Following that movie on Lifetime will be the debut of the limited series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles at 10 PM. This 8-episode limited series will fictionalize actual events and people surrounding Lizzie Borden’s life after her controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of her father and stepmother in 1892.

NBC will also debut two new dramas on April 5. First, there is the event series A.D. The Bible Continues, airing at 9 PM. This is the follow-up to the high-rated mini-series The Bible, chronicling the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion. And then at 10 PM there is American Odyssey, which follows Sgt. Odelle Ballard (Anna Friel from Pushing Daisies), a soldier, mother, wife and the unit’s only female member, who discovers computer files that suggest a major U.S. corporation is funding the Jihadists. But before she can tell anyone, her team is attacked and left for dead.

Mark your calendars!