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.

Experience the Magic of Two Turtle Doves on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

The latest holiday movie, part of Miracles of Christmas on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, is Two Turtle Doves. Neuroscientist Dr. Sharon Harper (Nikki DeLoach from the Hallmark Channel movies A Dream of Christmas and Reunited at Christmas), who studies loss, grief and how to heal from trauma, returns to her quaint, small-town, Christmas-obsessed childhood home in Pine Springs following the …

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Spend the Holidays Like a Nostalgic Christmas

Brooke D’Orsay (Royal Pains and Christmas in Love) stars as Anne Garrison whose annual holiday visit to the small town in Maine where she grew up is somewhat bittersweet this year. With her dad set to sell his toy store and retire from his wood-carving career, and the town’s lumber mill up for sale, this will probably be her last …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Nicole Kassell

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on film and television director Nicole Kassell. Nicole was born in Philadelphia and received her degree from the Tisch School of the Arts and New York University. While a student there, she made three short films, one of which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. Two years later, she …

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Throwback Tuesday: What TV Character Will You Be This Halloween?

Four years ago, I posted the following article in celebration of Halloween, and now seemed like the right time to revisit the piece. Truth be told, Halloween has never been a big deal to me. Sure, I dressed up for a few years when I was a kid, but growing up in a pretty strict church-going home, Halloween was not …

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November 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 November: November 1 – The new Apple TV+ series Dickinson will debut online today Show Synopsis: This is a darkly comedic coming-of-age story, exploring the …

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It’s a Wonderful Lifetime with No Time Like Christmas

The Lifetime holiday movie No Time Like Christmas will focus on what happens after Emma (Kyla Pratt from Dr. Dolittle franchise) finds her college boyfriend’s engraved watch at a vintage jewelry shop. Her sister Bronwyn (newcomer Rachael McLaren) believes it is a sign, and decides to secretly play cupid by sending Emma to the same bed and breakfast in Vermont …

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Enter A Christmas Movie Christmas on UPtv

The first of 10 holiday movies to debut on UPtv is A Christmas Movie Christmas. Eve (Lana McKissack from A Cinderella Christmas) is a Christmas movie fanatic and dreams of having a movie-perfect Christmas with a movie-perfect boyfriend. On Christmas Eve, when Eve and her cynical sister Lacy (Kim Hidalgo-Daugherty) make wishes to Santa, they wake up in Christmas Town …

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Join Marla Sokoloff and Rob Mayes in The Road Home for Christmas

Two rival musicians, Lindsay (Marla Sokoloff from Fuller House and The Fosters) and Wes (Rob Mayes from Mistresses and Frequency), who perform in a dueling piano show, suddenly find themselves without a gig on Christmas Eve and decide to road trip to their neighboring hometowns together. During the drive, the mismatched pair find themselves surrounded by Santa conventioneers, saving a …

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Countdown to Christmas with Jill Wagner and Matthew Davis

Former interior designer Abbey Fuller (Jill Wagner from the Mystery 101 franchise) traded the uncertainties of running a small business for a 9-5 job that lets her keep a consistent schedule for her five-year-old son Max (newcomer, youngster Wyatt Hunt). Her talent and passion for the work are undeniable and her friend, wealthy widow Caroline Sinclair (veteran actress Donna Mills …

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A Million Little Things: Austin

Our thoughts on this week's A Million Little Things

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