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.

Do You Remember?: Hindsight

Some programs air on TV for what is called a “blink and you miss them” moment in time. That is truly the case for the comedy-drama Hindsight that aired on VH1 back in 2015. Blink…and you missed it! Hindsight was created by Emily Fox, who worked on the other short-lived ABC Family (now known as Freeform) series Jane By Design …

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Paley Preview Parties 2019

For many years now, the Paley Center for Media has been hosting the Paley Preview Parties, the center’s fall screenings and receptions for many of the new TV shows that will be debuting on the major networks, some of the cable networks and some of the streaming services this fall. These screenings give audiences a chance to see the pilot …

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Breaking News: Outlander Premiere Date Announced and NYCC Panel

My Fellow Sassenachs!!! The news is finally here!! Season 5 of Outlander will premiere on Starz on Sunday, February 16. The end of Droughtlander is in sight (well, sort of). If you can’t wait until February, and you can get yourself to New York for New York Comic Con, hit up Madison Square Garden this October for the Outlander panel …

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September 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 September: September 3 – The 4th season premiere of Greenleaf will air on OWN at 10 PM September 3 – Mayans M.C. will air its …

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My Top Choices for September TV

With the fall TV season nearly upon us, it’s time to take a look at my top choices for September, including returning network shows, more made-for-TV movies, some newcomers and the final episodes of a handful or so summer series. SO LONG TIL NEXT TIME The following shows will be bidding adieu (one of them for good – BUMMER!) throughout …

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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Sarah Treem

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is focused on theatre playwright, TV writer, producer and series creator Sarah Treem. Sarah was born in Boston, Massachusetts, but grew up in New Hampshire, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Connecticut and North Carolina. She considers New Haven, Connecticut to be her hometown. Sarah has been writing since she was very young, starting with poetry when …

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Good Witch Recap: “The Graduation”

The season finale of Good Witch aired on Sunday night, bringing the popular Hallmark Channel series to a close for its fifth season. The main focus of the episode, as its title inferred, was the graduation of Grace Russell and Nick Radford as well as the rest of their classmates at Middleton High School. As we learned last week, Grace …

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Throwback Tuesday: The One New Pilot You Won’t See on TV This Year (But Maybe You Should)

Here is a Throwback Tuesday article that I wrote back in January 2017, as a part of my “dream” pilots that would be great to see on TV if only they were real. Enjoy! For the past seven years, I have been creating “dream” pilots for each new TV season for the major and/or cable networks, focusing either on remakes …

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Do You Remember: life as we know it

Back on October 7, 2004, the teen drama life as we know it debuted on ABC. The series, created by Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah (the guys behind NBC’s The Night Shift) and based on the novel “Doing It” by British writer Melvin Burgess, was set at Woodrow Wilson High School in Seattle, Washington, focusing on three high best friends: …

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Good Witch Recap: “The Comet”

The penultimate episode of Good Witch aired on the Hallmark Channel last night, focusing on the return of a special comet that can only be seen every 100 years in the skies of Middleton. Legend has it that everyone can make a wish on the comet, but not all of those wishes come true. Of course, the comet’s return was …

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