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.

The NiceGirlsTV CASTING COUCH

Here are the casting couch features for this past week: The new drama series, the first for the cable network Bravo, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, which will star Lisa Edelstein (House) as a self-help book author who hides the fact that she’s separated from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her early …

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On the Beat: The Evolution of Crime Drama Heroines at the Paley Center for Media

“I LOVE THIS WOMAN!” Those words, repeatedly quoted by the one and only S. Epatha Merkerson (from Law & Order fame), encapsulate the feeling from last night’s Paley Center for Media‘s panel entitled “On the Beat: The Evolution of Crime Drama Heroines” that not only paid tribute to the 40th Anniversary of the groundbreaking 1974 TV series Police Woman and …

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OUTLANDER Is Coming to San Diego Comic Con 2014

“Get your kilt on at Comic-Con”! Starz will be hosting a red carpet premiere of the highly anticipated new TV series Outlander, which is based on the international best-selling book of the same name by Diana Gabaldon, during the San Diego Comic Con this year. In attendance at the big event – that will be held on Friday, July 25 …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Greer Shephard

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on TV writer, producer and director Greer Shephard. Greer grew up in the entertainment industry as the daughter of Harvey Shephard, who was the head of programming at CBS during her childhood then became the President of Warner Bros. Her dad helped provide Greer with great role models by developing shows like …

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Celebrating Five Years at NiceGirlsTV

Back on June 2, 2009 I posted my very first weekly column here at NiceGirlsTV entitled “What Does Television Mean to You?” – which you can find here. Five years later and I still feel the same now as I did then: I love television! Whether it is watching a new made-for-TV movie on Hallmark, a mini-series on PBS or …

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The NiceGirlsTV CASTING COUCH

Here are the casting couch features for this past week: Actor Thom Barry (Cold Case) has landed a recurring role on the TNT series Perception, playing Special Agent In Charge William Parsons, the skeptical and no-nonsense special agent in command of the Chicago FBI office and Kate Moretti’s (series lead Rachel Leigh Cook) boss. Perception will be back for a …

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FINALE: The 100

Back on March 19, the new sci-fi series The 100 debuted on The CW, telling the story of the small band of survivors of a nuclear Armageddon that decimated planet Earth 97 years earlier, who live on the “Ark” – the 12 combined international space stations where all of the inhabitants have orbited the Earth for three generations. But, with …

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Web Series Spotlight: The Autobiography Of Jane Eyre

The story of Jane Eyre, the once-abused child raised by a hateful aunt and ruthless cousins who eventually becomes a nanny and falls in love with her much older and rather creepy employer, has been adapted countless times on the stage, on TV and in film. Each adaptation, of course, has based adapted from the classic 1847 novel by English …

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BREAKING NEWS: Revenge Promotes Actor

For the past three seasons on the ABC soap opera Revenge, actor James Tupper has appeared in flashbacks as David Clarke, the dead father of Emily Thorne aka Amanda Clarke (series lead Emily VanCamp), but as anyone who watched the season finale of the series this past May knows all too well [SPOILER ALERT!], it would appear that Daddy David …

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The NiceGirlsTV CASTING COUCH

Here are the casting couch features for this past week: Actress Sonja Sohn (The Wire and Body of Proof) has landed a recurring role on The Originals, play Lenore, a powerful salt-of-the-Earth in New Orleans, who will prove to be quite a foe for Klaus (series lead Joseph Morgan). The Originals will be back for its second season on The …

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