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.

2016 Paley Preview Parties

For the past ten years the Paley Center for Media has been hosting what they call the Paley Preview Parties. Much like their annual Paley Fest, which salutes specific TV shows over the course of two weeks, the Preview Parties allows the major networks to spotlight some of their new fall programming, giving attendees the chance to see an advanced …

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Do You Remember: The Others

For the past seven seasons, actor Gabriel Macht has starred as legal eagle Harvey Specter on the USA Network drama Suits, but how many of you remember the short-lived NBC series that Gabriel starred in back in the early days of 2000 called The Others? Please don’t mistake this TV show for the 2001 box office film of the exact …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Jennifer Gwartz

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Executive Producer Jennifer Gwartz. Jennifer, a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania, got her start as a production assistant at Lorimar Television before she transitioned into feature films at Silver Pictures. She later moved over to the Miramax-based production company Woods Entertainment where she helped develop the Scream movie franchise as …

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Web Series Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party

Back in the fall of 2013, Shipwrecked Comedy, a sketch comedy channel on YouTube created by Yulin Kuang, Sinead Persaud and Sean Persaud, introduced their new mini web series “A Tell Tale Vlog,” which featured the aforementioned Sean as literary legend Edgar Allan Poe and Sinead as lady ghost Lenore, who haunts his study. As of last week, Poe and …

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Outlander: Who Will Play Lord John Grey?

Australian actor David Berry (best known down under as James Bligh on A Place to Call Home, but new to American audiences) has landed the role of Lord John Grey in season three of Outlander. As readers of the tome on which the show is based [that would be the third book in the franchise, “Voyager,”], Grey is the former …

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September TV Calendar

The following list provides the dates of all the returning and debuting major and cable network dramas for the 2016-2017 TV season, new streaming dramas, season/series finales for summer dramas as well as made-for-TV movies that will air during September: September 2 – The season finale of Killjoys will air on Syfy at 9 PM September 2 – The second …

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My Top 10 Choices for September TV

The 2016-2017 TV season will be starting in about three weeks and there will be a lot of programming options on the major networks in September whether it is returning dramas, new dramas, made-for-TV movies and/or limited or event series. This time around I have decided to highlight my top 10 choices of what to watch in September. They appear …

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Throwback Tuesday: What Does Television Mean to You

It was over seven years ago that I first joined the staff of NiceGirlsTV and I thought given how popular “Throwback” looks have become I would take a look back at the very first Rueben’s Ramblings column that I posted back on June 2, 2009. Here is that column entitled “What Does Television Mean To You?”: What does television mean …

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Introducing CHESAPEAKE SHORES

The new Hallmark Channel drama Chesapeake Shores, based on the best-selling novels of the same name by Sherryl Woods, will debut on Sunday, August 14 at 9 PM. The series focuses on a multi-generational family, specifically Abby O’Brien (Meghan Ory from Once Upon a Time and Intelligence), a high-powered career woman, divorcee and mother to twin daughters, who makes a …

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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face: Young Stars Edition

It’s been nearly a year since I’ve taken a look at the first roles as well as the biggest roles of some of the more familiar faces of movie stars. This time around we take a look at younger actors who have made it big on the small and big screen. Zoe Saldana THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW HER …

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