Rueben's Ramblings

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

The fourth and final season of Strike Back will get underway on Cinemax on July 31 at 10 PM. That same night the Disney movie Descendants will debut at 8 PM. The story, set in the idyllic kingdom of Auradon, playfully presents the unexpected possibilities of what happens after the “happily ever after.” As it unfolds, Ben, the benevolent teenage son of the King and Queen (Beast and Belle from “Beauty and the Beast”), is poised to take the throne. His first proclamation is to offer a chance at redemption to Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay, the trouble-making offspring of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella de Vil and Jafar, who have all been sequestered on the forbidden Isle of the Lost for 20 years.

On August 2, the PBS mini-series Poldark will air its season finale at 9 PM. And that same night the new Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place To Die will debut at 9 PM. When a journalist is found murdered during a gourmet food conference at a luxurious resort, chef-turned-sleuth Henry Ross (Dylan Neal from Cedar Cove) teams up with beautiful, no-nonsense police detective Maggie Price (Brooke Burns) to solve the culinary crime. Together, they work to untangle a web of mystery – involving the journalist, a movie star and high profile fixtures of the San Francisco restaurant scene – and solve the murder before the killer gets away.

Mark your calendars!