Rueben’s Ramblings

The 2012-2013 TV season gets its official start in about two weeks, but that doesn’t mean that the major and cable networks aren’t gearing up for the start of the fall season beginning tonight and throughout the next two weeks. In an effort to help our readers decide what new dramas to check out this TV season, I wanted to …

The Paley Center for Media will be holding its annual Paley Preview Parties from September 5 to September 11 this year, saluting what each of the major networks have to offer TV viewers this fall. The first night – Wednesday, September 5 – will focus on NBC and the night will begin at 6 PM with the screening of The …

Fall may not technically begin until September 22 according to our current calendar and summer is still hanging around for a few more weeks; but when you look at the TV calendar we are essentially at the end of the summer TV season and we are a mere week or two from the start of the fall TV season. So …

Last week the Paley Center for Media saluted, for the first time, a web series that has been making strides for same sex couples. That online series is Husbands, which comes from the creative minds of TV producer-writer extraordinaire Jane Espenson and actor-writer Brad Bell. The first season of Husbands debuted online on September 13, 2011 and told the story …

The latest channel on You Tube called WIGS, which debuted back in May of this year, comes from filmmakers Jon Avnet (Black Swan, Fried Green Tomatoes and Risky Business) and Rodrigo Garcia (Albert Nobbs and In Treatment). What is so special about WIGS is that it’s an innovative online series of short films, scripted series and documentaries starring all female …

Ever since The Guild debuted online back in 2007 and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog hit the online airwaves in 2008, countless web series have come and gone; but the latest online series – H+ The Digital Series – just might the next ‘big thing’ to hit computer screens. This new web series is set in an apocalyptic future where technology …

There was a point in time on television when characters from various shows would do crossover visits with shows on their home network and, more specifically, shows that aired on the same night. Back when there was still programming on Saturday nights, CBS once aired a crossover of a hurricane hitting the shows Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Early Edition and …

This past Thursday the nominations for the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards were announced and, to be honest, many of the nominations didn’t really come as any great surprise; but the fact that not one single major network drama was chosen as a Best Drama Series nominee was rewarding to say the least. The cable shows that received a nomination …

Well, I survived yet another Comic Con! As usual (at least over the past 11 years anyway) I traveled to San Diego for the annual Comic Con that was held last week, getting back to Los Angeles on Sunday night. Over the course of the of those five days, I – along with over 130,000 other nerds, pop culture fans …

Next Monday, July 16, the science fiction television series Eureka will air its series finale on Syfy, bringing to an end a popular show after five fantastic seasons. Given that the end is so near, it only seemed right to pay a special tribute to the show that changed the face of television for the better. Back on July 18, …