Rueben’s Ramblings

Wow! What a weekend I had and what a busy few weeks I will have upcoming. I attended the annual Paley Festival this past Saturday, getting to participate in their salute to the ABC series Lost. I will have more coverage on that event in a separate article to be posted here at NiceGirlsTV very soon; but I can say …

As many of you know, the annual PaleyFest, coordinated by the Paley Center for Media, will be held starting this Friday. This yearly two-week event is guaranteed to be entertaining, filled with unexpected appearances and revelations. Fortunately three of us from NiceGirlsTV will be attending well over half of the events this year, bringing coverage of those panels to our …

Tis the season for pilots to be cast and filmed followed by the networks making the decisions as to which pilots will be picked up for their respective fall prime-time line ups. At the same time, the fate of shows that are currently hanging by a thread – aka the bubble shows, or more to the point the shows that …

With each TV season comes a crop of new pilots, hoping to be picked up by a major network for at least an initial 13 episode run. If things go well for said pilot – such as decent ratings (obviously) as well as fan, and sometimes even critic, acclaim – the series could potentially be picked up for a full …

Tonight is the beginning of the end. The innovative series Lost – that has consistently combined drama and sci-fi – will air the two-hour season premiere of its sixth and final season, starting at 9 PM on ABC. What exactly will happen in the premiere is anyone’s guess, as the shows executive producers, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, have been …

This past weekend was an interesting one for me and several friends as we had the chance to see the SAG award-winning performance of Jeff Bridges in the theatrical release Crazy Heart a day before he was hailed by his peers as Male Actor in a Leading Role in Film. This indie movie chronicles the life of aging country singer …

As an avid couch potato, it is hard to say these words: there are some TV favorites I have never watched. Phew, that was hard! Okay, maybe you think that’s silly; but when you are as avid a TV viewer as me, admitting you didn’t get on the bandwagon of a particular well-done, but in most cases, highly overlooked show, …

Last week I had the chance to attend the Paley Center’s salute to the 100th episode of the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother. As a non-watcher of TV comedies, this event might seem like an odd event for me to attend; but as a long-time fan of Alyson Hannigan (dating back, obviously, to her days on Buffy, the …

Happy New Year Everyone! Did all of you have nice holidays with your family and/or friends? I sure hope each was just what you hoped they would be and that 2010 brings all of our readers nothing but the best. I can happily report that I brought the new year in with, well, not flair, but at least with some …

Tradition has it that you make resolutions at the beginning of each new year, marking goals for yourself and attempting to achieve them the best that you can. Since TV is such an important part of life for us here at NiceGirlsTV, it only makes sense to have resolutions that relate to our viewing options. But my column today is …