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.

Summer Season Finales: Warehouse 13

The popular Syfy series Warehouse 13 will come to a close from its summer run on September 21 at 9/8c. The series, which is in its second season, follows the misadventures of United States Secret Service agents Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) and Peter Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) who were reassigned to the government’s secret Warehouse 13, which houses supernatural artifacts for …

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Fall TV Overload

Every September the new fall TV season easily provides any couch potato (or the even the regular viewer) with an overload of shows to watch. And, this fall is no different. There will be the returning favorites as well as all those new shows that will try to capture the attention of viewers. Whether these new shows catch on with …

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The Weekly Round-Up for Sept. 13 to 17

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: NEWS Glee, Modern Family, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie and the box office movie Precious were named winners of the 2010 Humanitas Prize, an honor given to films and TV shows that explore the human condition in a nuanced, meaningful way. Congrats to all of those involved in these projects. …

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Advance Looks at the New ABC Fall Shows

On Wednesday night I attended the Paley Center for Media’s 6th Annual Fall TV Preview Party saluting ABC. The night started off with a Q&A panel featuring Eileen Heisler, the creator of the half-hour comedy The Middle as well as series star Atticus Shaffer; Noah Hawley, the creator of the new series My Generation and executive producer Jon Harmon Feldman …

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They Deserve Their Own Show (Part 67)

Here is the next installment of actors and actresses who are under-appreciated, deserving of more attention or perhaps even their own show: Cristine Rose – Cristine has a long resume, starting out with roles in Kate & Allie, Spenser: For Hire, Matlock, My Sister Sam, Moonlighting, St. Elsewhere, Murder She Wrote and Newhart. She also appeared in the TV version …

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Show Killers

A few weeks ago, I was out with some friends, attending the free screening of the upcoming movie “Easy A”. While waiting in line, we talked about different television-related subjects, which is actually a typical topic when I’m out with friends. One of those topics was “show killers”. Except this wasn’t an examination of actors who play murderers or the …

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Summer Season Finales: The Closer

Recent Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick, in the guise of her character Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the hit TNT series The Closer, has spent the summer investigating gruesome murders in Los Angeles as part of the Major Crimes Division. Throughout the summer episodes, the search for a new Chief of Police has been conducted with Brenda’s name entered into …

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The Weekly Round-Up for Sept. 6 to 10

Here are the entertainment news items for this past week: NEWS Paul McCartney, Oprah Winfrey, country legend Merle Haggard, composer and lyricist Jerry Herman, and director and choreographer Bill T. Jones are this year’s recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. Universal Pictures and NBC will produce a three part film franchise and a TV series based on the Stephen King …

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Summer Season Finales: Eureka

After traveling back in time to 1947 during the season premiere of Eureka and dealing with all the ramifications when they were able to return to their own timeline – albeit a timeline in a Eureka universe very much like their own yet not quite the right one – Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson), Allison Blake (Salli Richardson-Whitfield), Jo Lupo (Erica …

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Inside the World of Caprica: A Look At What’s To Come

Back in July (while attending Comic Con), I had the chance to join other bloggers and entertainment writers inside the Syfy press room for their new series Caprica, getting to interview the creative minds behind the show – David Eick and Ronald Moore– as well as speak with some of the actors – Sasha Roiz and James Marsters – who …

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