Rueben’s Ramblings

On August 25, NBC will air the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, presenting awards to honor the best in television programming from June 1, 2013 through May 31, 2014 as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Regardless of how any of us feel about the lack of diversity in the nominations over and over again, the following …

In my ongoing look at some of the familiar faces on TV, looking at the first time ever I saw their face on the small screen, here are just some of the actors who have appeared on Wednesday night shows and where I first saw. Charles Esten: WHO HE PLAYS NOW: He plays country singer-legendary guitarist Deacon Claybourne on the …

For the past 12 consecutive years I have been attending a “little” event known as the San Diego Comic Con; and with each passing year this annual fete that salutes all things pop culture related has grown incrementally every year. Each year there have been more and more panels added to the four-day schedule, stretching out of the San Diego …

This year will mark my 12th straight year attending the annual pop culture event known as San Diego Comic Con; and this time around NiceGirls Media will have the biggest contingency of staff attending than ever before, representing its websites NiceGirlsTV, the Fairy Tale site and TrueBlood.net. And just like last year, we will be renting an amazing house located …

We are halfway through the year (WOW!) and there are still plenty of new and returning dramas as well as made-for-TV movies and/or mini-series airing on the major and cable networks throughout next month. The following are just some of the programming options coming up in August: The final season (all 6 episodes) of The Killing will air on Netflix …

Later this summer a new web series called Necrolectric will debut online that is a romantic paranormal series with some elements and similar tones to The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural, Lost Girl and Teen Wolf. Needless to say, this new web series will appeal to a lot of viewers for a lot of great reasons. Necrolectric tells the story of a …

With the Fourth of July only a few days away, I am sure that plenty of folks all over the United States are planning their weekend celebrations (since the holiday is on Friday this year) whether it be preparing for a family picnic or barbeque, town parade or carnival or the big fireworks show. For folks like me, though, who …

About two weeks ago thanks to the Facebook post made by a friend, I stumbled upon two new web series featuring characters from classic literature revised to modern times; and I knew I had to share the discovery with our readers here at NiceGirlsTV. The first new web series is The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy, which is a …

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 …

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 …