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.

NIKITA Recap: “Falling Ash”

Maggie Q at Nikita

In a seemingly quiet park in Simsbury, Connecticut a father and son are having a conversation about the fact that he is doing better after some sort of past difficulty. The son has his own small business – a soft-serve ice cream truck that is stationed near an outdoor event for some kind of literacy program. As he tends to …

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LOST GIRL Recap: “Mirror Mirror”

Be very careful what you wish for especially when you have imbibed a bit too much. This is a valuable lesson that Kenzi and, unwittingly (at first), Bo learn when they drink to excess because of Dyson. After seeing Dyson with a date at Trick’s bar, and despite putting on a brave face, Bo (as well as Kenzi) drink too …

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October TV Calendar

Welcome back for more of the 2011-2012 Fall TV season with more new shows debuting this month, a few cable shows returning and some ending their summer runs. And, there are a handful of made-for-TV movies that will be debuting as well. So, get your calendars out as it’s going to be another busy month: October 1 – The two-hour …

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Let the Insanity of Fall TV Begin (Conclusion)

As I mentioned in my column last week, the official start of the 2011-2012 fall TV season got underway. And, this week just adds on even more programming to an extremely busy landscape for the TV viewer (avid or otherwise). In addition to the already jam-packed Monday night which includes stiff competition at 10 PM with Castle and Hawaii Five-0, …

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NIKITA Recap: “Game Change”

A dark-haired woman wearing a trench coat saunters into a seemingly non-descript neighborhood store called Harbor Meats. The woman, of course, is Nikita (Maggie Q). She asks the man behind the counter for 3 pounds of Haggis, cheap and bloody. Without saying a word he escorts her to a backroom that is revealed to actually be a secret, obviously, illegal …

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Lost Girl Recap: “Scream a Little Dream”

Kenzi and household chores: two subjects that should never be mixed especially when a simple broom gets the better of our favorite succubus sidekick. It seems that Bo, in an effort to clean out the “wolf who shall not be named” from her life, has made Kenzi an unwillingly assistant in cleaning the apartment, which looks like a complete disaster. …

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Getting a Look Inside FOX Through the Paley Preview Party

The last Fall TV Preview Party recently held by the Paley Center for Media was for FOX. These annual events honor a different network each night where the Paley hosts a screening of some of the network’s new shows and holds a panel discussion with some of the talent and creative minds behind those new shows. Representing FOX were Terra …

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Bones Baddie To Appear on Body of Proof

According to the folks at TV Line, actress Deidre Lovejoy, who played serial killer Heather Taffet – aka The Gravedigger – on Bones will appear as “exhausted and a bit grouchy wife” of Detective Bud Morris (John Carroll Lynch) on Body of Proof. This could potentially become a recurring role. Body of Proof aired its season premiere on September 20 …

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Women Behind the Scenes: Tawnia McKiernan

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Director Tawnia McKiernan, who is the daughter of the late (great) Stephen J. Cannell, the creator of TV shows like Hardcastle and McCormick, The A-Team and The Greatest American Hero [among many others]. Tawnia has amassed an impressive list of directorial credits since the mid-1990s, but she got her start in …

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Let the Insanity of Fall TV Begin (Part 1)

This week is the official start of the 2011-2012 Fall TV season and what a crazy week of programming it will be for every TV viewer no matter how little or how much TV you actually watch each week. Last night we saw the returns of the dramas Castle and Hawaii Five-0, the debut of The Playboy Club and the …

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