Rueben's Ramblings

On June 26, the new Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted will debut at 9 PM.

Abby Knight (Brooke Shields) is a beautiful ex-attorney and proprietor of Bloomers, a quaint Illinois flower shop. As a bridesmaid and the floral arranger at her impulsive cousin’s wedding, Abby hopes Jillian won’t once again run from the altar. When the ceremony concludes without a hitch, Abby breathes a sigh of relief. But things take a mysterious turn when Abby and Marco (Brennan Elliott), a handsome bar owner and former private investigator, discover the body of Jack Sutcliff, an unscrupulous grifter who attempted to crash the wedding. While the police tape off the crime scene and a coroner examines the body, Abby’s curiosity gets the better of her and she sets out to conduct her own murder investigation and solve the case.

With Marco’s help, Abby assembles an eclectic list of murder suspects — including her “black sheep” relatives, various wedding party members and even the groom’s socialite mother — and uncovers the surprising ways they were connected to the victim. As Abby interrogates the suspects, a budding romance develops between herself and Marco. While Abby’s investigation unfolds, one of the murder suspects turns up dead from an apparent suicide. But when Abby suspects this death was a homicide — and closes in on the killer — she finds herself trapped in a dangerous showdown. Now the former-lawyer-flower-shop-ownerturned-sleuth must scramble to bring the killer to justice, without becoming another victim.

Here is a trailer for Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted.

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The Wedding March is the new Hallmark Channel movie that will debut on June 25 at 9 PM.

When former college sweethearts Olivia Parsons and Mick Turner are unexpectedly reunited the weekend of Olivia’s wedding, the former couple initially locks horns but as the events of the weekend unfold, Olivia and Mick find old feelings rising to the surface. Will the bride-to-be walk down the aisle as planned or will she decide to give her first love a second chance?

The cast includes Jack Wagner (When Calls the Heart), Emily Tennant (Cedar Cove) and Josie Bissett (Melrose Place)

Here is a trailer for The Wedding March.

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On June 25, the Lifetime movie Center Stage: On Pointe will debut at 8 PM.

Jonathan Reeves (Peter Gallagher) is tasked with infusing more contemporary styles and modernism into the American Ballet Academy and enlists his top choreographers Charlie (Sascha Radestsky), Cooper (Ethan Stiefel) and Tommy (Kenny Wormald) to recruit dancers to compete at an intensive camp where the winners will be selected to join the Academy.

Bella Parker (Nicole Munoz from Defiance), who has always lived in the shadow of her hugely successful sister Kate, finally gets her chance to step into the limelight as one of the dancers selected for the camp.

Here is a trailer for Center Stage: On Pointe:

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The five-episode mini-series Thirteen will debut on BBC America on June 23 at 10 PM.

The mini-series explores how to pick up the threads of a life half-lived, while questioning who to trust when you can’t even trust yourself. It follows Ivy Moxam (Jodie Comer from Doctor Foster) on the day she escapes from the cellar that has been her prison for the last 13 years. It’s the day she’ll return to her home, to her family, to her life – but that day is only the beginning.

The Moxam family had given up all hope when suddenly their loved one was thrust back into their lives – now the family struggles to piece back together the version of their lives that existed before Ivy disappeared.

Here is a trailer for Thirteen.

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On June 19, Murder She Baked: A Deadly Recipe is the new Hallmark Movies & Mysteries movie will debut at 9 PM.

Bakery owner Hannah Swensen (Alison Sweeney) just can’t keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose. For Hannah, life seems to be lacking a certain flavor lately. Maybe it’s the local sheriff’s election that’s got her down. For years, Sheriff Grant’s been the iron hand in town. But now, Hannah’s brother-in-law Bill is giving the old blowhard the fight of his long, dubious career—and Grant’s not taking it well, especially once the polls show Bill pulling ahead. But before anyone can taste victory, things go sour.

While Hannah’s emptying the trash, she makes a very unappetizing discovery: Sheriff Grant’s body in the Dumpster behind the high school where she’s teaching her cooking class. And as if that weren’t bad enough, the poor man still has fudge frosting on his shirt from one of her cupcakes. The number one—and only—suspect is Bill, but Hannah’s not swallowing it. Plenty of people had reason to hate Sheriff Grant. Soon, Hannah’s dishing up scandalous secrets, steaming hot betrayals, and enough intrigue to keep the gossip mill at The Cookie Jar going through several pots of decaf. And the closer Hannah gets to the truth, the closer she gets to finding the murderer with a calorie-laden, nasty recipe for silencing people.

The cast includes Cameron Mathison, Gabriel Hogan and Barbara Niven.

Here is a trailer for Murder She Baked: A Deadly Recipe.

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