Rueben's Ramblings

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

On August 28, the second season of Harry Wild will premiere online online on Acorn TV.

The season finale of Justified: City Primeval will air on FX on August 29 at 10 PM.

On August 31, the season finale of Dark Winds will air online on AMC+.

The Netflix movie Choose Love will debut online on August 31. This interactive rom-com focuses on Cami Conway (Laura Marano) as she looks back on her goals and relationships as she struggles with her future. While she seemingly has it all, a job she loves as a recording engineer and her great boyfriend Paul (Scott Michael Foster), she questions if there is another career out there for her and if a past, or possible, relationship may be the better choice. Avan Jogia plays Rex Galier, a rockstar Cami works with and a potential love interest, while Jack Menna (Jordi Webber) is her first love. Who will Cami choose? It’s up to you.

Also on August 31, the 10-episode live-action pirate adventure story One Piece, based on the best-selling manga by Eiichiro Oda, will debut online on Netflix. The story follows Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and his loyal crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, as they embark on a journey to the most dangerous oceans in the world. Even though this crew is generally good-natured and fun-loving, they’re sort of the exception in the world of dastardly, infamous pirates hunting the One Piece and collecting sizable bounties from the World Government.

The new Hulu teen fantasy series Spellbound will debut its first 13 episodes online on August 31. When Cece Parker Jones (Hailey Melody Romain), a vivacious 15 year old relocates from a small town in the US to France to study at the Paris Opera Ballet School, she’s on top of the world, but things turn upside down when she discovers a book of family spells in the back room of her Aunt Ginger’s (Raven Dauda) apothecary. While snooping through the book, she unknowingly casts the antidote to a protection spell that has been hiding her identity since she was a little girl. Turns out, she comes from a line of powerful witches called the Wizens, and in doing so, she summons her nemesis, the Mystics, who are after her magic. This spit-fire teen must now juggle the pressures of an elite ballet school, learning new techniques she’s never studied before, keeping up with her intense academics, not to mention her new friendships and maybe a cute boy or two, as well as her incredible ability to activate magic, while keeping this a secret for only her closest friends.

On September 1, The CW series Family Law will air two episodes tonight at 8 and 9 PM with the final hour being its season finale; while that same day, the second season of The Wheel of Time will premiere online on Amazon; and also on that same day, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart will air its season finale online on Amazon; and the second season premiere of Power Book IV: Force will air at 8 PM on Starz followed by the season finale of Men in Kilts at 9:30 PM will also air that day.

The Great American Family movie Learning to Love will air at 8 PM on September 2. Harry (Philip Boyd from The Haves and The Have Nots) and his two daughters lose faith after his wife and daughters’ mom passes. The family hires a nanny and are pleasantly surprised by Steph (Ina Barrón from Grey’s Anatomy and Royal Pains) who brings never-ending warmth, positivity, and faith into the home.

On September 2, the new movie Love in the Great Smoky Mountains: A National Park Romance will debut at 8 PM on the Hallmark Channel. Former sweethearts (Arielle Kebbel from Midnight Texas and 9-1-1and Zach Roerig from The Vampire Diaries) reunite at an archeological dig in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As they work together competing for the same research grant, they discover they might still have feelings for one another.

The season finale of Special Ops: Lioness will air online on September 3 on Paramount+; while that same day the second season premiere of Professor T will air on PBS at 8 PM followed by the 5th season premiere of Unforgotten at 9 PM and then the third season premiere of Van der Valk at 10 PM; and also that same day, the finale of Dark Winds will air on AMC at 9 PM.

Lastly also on September 3, the new western film Far Haven will debut on the Cowboy Way Channel will debut at 8 PM. In 1887 in Far Haven, Arizona, wrongfully accused Hunter Braddock (Bailey Chase) has just served two years in Yuma Territorial Prison and attempts to start over with his two young children. But when his father-in-law (Bruce Boxleitner) is brutally attacked by an unidentified raiding party, Braddock must take on the corrupt forces strangling the town to protect what he loves most. The movie also stars A Martinez, Martin Kove, Amanda Righetti and Nancy Stafford.

Mark your calendars!