Rueben’s Ramblings

Every New Year people make personal resolutions to improve their health, their future and their overall happiness. For those of us here at NiceGirlsTV, the personal resolutions we tend to make are related to our love of television. Now I could make a list of things that I would like to see improved on TV in terms of certain types …

Every family has special holiday traditions that they follow each year; whether it’s decorating their home in specific ways, having a special meal on the big day or visiting family and friends for holiday parties. As I was growing up back in Pennsylvania, my family gathered around the tree every Christmas morning to open gifts and enjoy all the wonders …

As the old saying goes, “Christmas comes but once a year“; but when it does arrive – or to be more precise – when December gets here, things in my life just seem to go nuts. And I am sure that is the case for all of you out there, right? For most of you, you are probably trying to …

Last Christmas, I provided a gift guide full of 25 vampire-themed items to consider buying for your friends, family or even for yourself. And, for a little over a week now, NiceGirlsTV has been providing gift guides in a number of different categories. For my gift guide this year, though, I thought I would stick to a specific theme – …

Television is that wonderful invention that was created nearly 90 years ago when a Scottish engineer and inventor by the name of John Logie Baird unveiled the world’s first working television system in Hastings, England in 1923. The system was successful enough that it became commercialized with the BBC using this system and beginning the world’s first regular television broadcasts …

At this time of year everyone typically gives thanks for the important things in their lives. We here at NiceGirlsTV are no different, but we do have a slight slant to the things for which we are thankful. As you can imagine, those things tend to be TV related and the following list is just a small sample of the …

The current issue of TV Guide highlights the “2010 Hot List” – the shows, characters, themes and story ideas that were the hottest things to grace our TV screens this year. And, while there were countless categories to wade through as I flipped the pages of that issue, the thought occurred to me that I should come up with my …

What makes a web series a success? If the web series, now weekly TV series, Sanctuary is any example, its success lies in a devoted fan base, its creator Damian Kindler (the man behind Stargate SGI-1 and Stargate Atlantis), fantastical CGI-enhanced scenes and elaborate storylines and a cast that includes Amanda Tapping, Robin Dunne, Ryan Robbins and Christopher Heyerdahl. You …

For about eight years now, I have been a member of the Paley Center for Media (formerly known as the Museum of Television and Radio). Back in 1975, one of the most powerful men in the television industry, William S. Paley, founded an organization to collect, preserve and interpret television and radio programming and to make these programs available to …

What is up with fall TV this year? Or more to the point, what is up with the new programs this fall? Each of the major networks introduced their normal pre-requisite amount of new dramas over the course of the last month or so. But, have any of them performed well? Three of them have already been canceled after airing …