Rueben

Using her favorite online handle, Rueben is an East Coast-bred gal who is now a permanent Californian and a lifelong tv-oholic. She watches at least 25 TV shows a week, goes to the movies as often as possible, listens to music every waking moment, reads every day and “plays” on the internet every chance she can. Some of her current favorite TV shows are Outlander, Sweet Magnolias, Wednesday, High Potential, Will Trent, Reacher, The Gilded Age, Fire Country, Matlock, Miss Scarlet, Skymed, The Rookie, Bridgerton, Virgin River and School Spirits. She is looking forward to season three of Silo on Apple TV; season two of Ransom Canyon on Netflix; season five of Harry Wild on Acorn TV and the debuts of Lanterns on HBO Max and Anna Pigeon on USA Network. Follow her on Bluesky @ruebensramblings.bsky.social or contact her at rueben@nicegirlstv.com. Please also check out Rueben's Ramblings website for even more entertainment news.

Outlander News: Season 4 Casting Announcement

Outlander Fans! Another important role has been cast for season 4 of the popular Starz drama Outlander. U.K. actor Colin McFarlane has been cast in the role of Ulysses, the butler of the River Run plantation in North Carolina. Ulysses is a well-educated and musically inclined man who was sold into slavery when he was young. He was acquired by …

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9-1-1: Thoughts on the Pilot Episode

The new drama 9-1-1 debuted last night on FOX. The series is a “fast-paced exploration into the lives and careers of first responders — including police officers, paramedics and firefighters — the individuals who put their lives on the line every day to save others. The show draws from real-life, high-pressure experiences of emergency response providers who regularly face heart-stopping …

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My Top 10 Holiday Movies

The holiday season always gets started so early whether it is at the retail stores – you see Christmas decorations on the shelves before Halloween has even taken place – or on the small screen with the Countdown to Christmas movies starting on the Hallmark Channel [and its sister network Hallmark Movies & Mysteries] right after Halloween. For avid TV …

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Do You Remember: Threshold

The short-lived CBS sci-fi series Threshold debuted on September 16, 2005, focusing on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species. The series starred Carla Gugino (Wayward Pines and the box office film San Andreas) as Dr. Molly Caffrey, a high-level government crisis management consultant from the Blackwood Institute whose job is to create contingency plans …

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January TV Calendar

The following list provides the dates of the new dramas that will air on streaming services as well as the major and cable networks and the made-for-TV movies and more that will all air during January: January 1 – The winter premiere of Valor will air on The CW at 9 PM January 1 – Lucifer and The Gifted will …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Aline Brosh McKenna

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Writer, Producer and Director Aline Brosh McKenna. Aline was born in France, but moved along with her family to New Jersey. She later graduated with great honors from Harvard University, and went to New York City to find a job in publishing, ending up doing some freelance writing. A script she …

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Happy New Year

Much like my Christmas column where I looked back at Christmas past, as the New Year draws closer, I am – once again – looking back to my past for a fond memory of celebrating the new year with my parents. When I was a little girl, my parents and I would travel a few miles outside of my hometown …

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Merry Christmas

Regardless of how you celebrate or observe the holidays, I am pretty sure that everyone has a good memory (or two) from their childhood. A memory that makes you think fondly of times gone by; a memory that brings a chuckle to your day or a memory that surprises you in its intensity. Truth be told, I haven’t celebrated Christmas …

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Roundtable Discussion: Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “A Life Earned”

The next new episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. aired on ABC, introducing us to a new Inhuman, learning what Kasius is really up to and being reunited with a lost member of the team. Here is the official tagline for the episode entitled “A Life Earned”: “Coulson and the team discover their captors’ true intentions.” Please join Roz, Rueben …

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Blindspot Roundtable: “Fix My Present Havoc”

Blindspot aired a new, twisty episode on Friday night that started out finally showing us what really happened to poor Stuart and giving us an answer to the tattoo that he was researching (which caused his death) as well as telling us the identity of the one-eared man. Here is the official tagline for the episode entitled “Fix My Present …

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