Now that it has hit midnight, I want to wish all of you a very Happy New Year.
I hope you enjoyed your holiday celebrations and will have a great time today and throughout the first week of the New Year.
Enjoy!
Archive for the ‘Holiday’ Category
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Holiday Auction
Posted in Auction, Charity Event, Geekdom, Holiday, News, Shopping, Television on December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Need a great Christmas gift for that TV fan in your life?
Well, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation just might have what you are looking for – as long as you can win their holiday auction that is.
Among the auction items that are available for bid are as follows:
Tickets to Season 6 Premier Party of HBO’s True Blood
Tickets to 2013 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards
Lunch in Santa Monica, CA with ABC’s Private Practice actress KaDee Strickland and director Ed Ornelas
Personal session with Cartoon Network VP Casting and Talent Development
Red Carpet VIP Package for the College Television Awards Dinner and Gala
Cast Signed TNT’s Leverage messenger bag with built-in electronics charger
Sons of Anarchy autographed helmet
Signed Primetime Emmys T-shirt
Big Bang Theory Bazinga and Soft Kitty swag bags
Falling Skies signed poster and comic book
Cartoon Network tote and show swag
Rookie Blue signed poster and DVD sets
Malibu Country autographed script
Porky the Pig Voicemail message created exclusively by Bob Bergen
I Love Lucy mint Hamilton Collection plates
The bidding opened on December 3 and will run through December 13. You can learn more about the Holiday Auction right here.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation is the charitable arm of the Television Academy and all auction proceeds will support its education and archival programs. Bid on these and many other items benefitting the Television Academy Foundation’s scholarship, educational outreach and preservation efforts hosted by eBay Giving Works.
MESSAGE: Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted in Holiday, Messages on November 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you enjoy the time with your friends and family over this long holiday weekend.
Please know that while I am obviously observing the holiday, the news waits for no man or woman, which means I will be posting as often as I can over the weekend, bringing ratings results as they are released, daily news items as I discover them and any other tidbits that come along over the next 4 days.
Please stay tuned and I hope you will visit as often as you can over the holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving!!
MESSAGE: Happy Fourth of July
Posted in Holiday, Messages on July 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Fourth of July Everyone!
I wanted to the time to wish all of the readers here at Rueben’s Ramblings a very Happy Fourth of July.
Please enjoy the holiday safely!
MESSAGE: Happy Memorial Day
Posted in Holiday, Messages on May 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of Memorial Day, we all need to take the time to pay tribute to all of the members of the armed forces who protect our country everyday and to those who have put their lives on the line or sacrificed their lives for our security and liberty.
Happy Memorial Day!
Happy New Year
Posted in Holiday, Messages on December 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year
Now that it has hit midnight, I want to wish all of you a very Happy New Year. I hope you enjoyed your holiday celebrations and will have a great time over the holiday weekend.
Enjoy!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Posted in Holiday, Messages on December 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas!
I want to to wish all of you a very blessed and wonderful Christmas Day! Regardless of how you celebrate this most precious of holidays, I hope it is a truly terrific day spent with your families and friends.
Be well, drive safely and have a spectacular Christmas!!
Thank you SO VERY MUCH for spending the past year and a half visiting my site and I hope you will continue to visit as often as you can!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Happy Thanksgiving
Posted in Holiday, Messages on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Comic Con Report: The Last Stand for NBC’s Chuck
Posted in Comic Con, Holiday, News, Television on August 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Yvonne Strahovski and Zachary Levi (Photo Credit: Jennifer Schadel)
One of the best panels that I was able to attend at last month’s Comic Con in San Diego was the (presumed) last time the cast and creative minds behind the NBC series Chuck would be taking the stage as a collective group.
It was a bittersweet moment to see nearly the entire cast – except for an absent Sarah Lancaster (bummer!) – and Executive Producer Chris Fedak take the stage after another hysterical video presentation of Awesome training Morgan to deal with now being the holder of the intersect.
Joshua Gomez (Photo Credit: Rueben)
To the resounding sound of Zachary Levi as Chuck stating, “we’re doomed” in reference to Morgan being the intersect, the video came to an end with the cast being individually introduced to the stage to thunderous applause by the over-capacity audience.
The panel consisted of Mark Christopher Lawrence (Big Mike), Scott Krinsky (Jeff Barnes), Vik Sahay (Lester Patel), Ryan McPartlin (Devon “Captain Awesome” Woodcomb), Adam Baldwin (John Casey), Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah Walker), Zachary Levi (Chuck Bartowski), Joshua Gomez (Morgan Grimes) and Executive Producer Chris Fedak.
Adam Baldwin (Phot Credit: Rueben)
Like I said in one of my other Comic Con reports, a picture says a thousand words, so I will be providing a number of pictures from the panel and press room for folks to enjoy and will share some of thegreat tidbits from the panel, including the following:
• When asked what having this final season means to him, Zachary said, “We get to say goodbye to you”;
• When asked about Morgan now being the intersect Joshua said “holy crap”;
• When asked if he could share any spoilers for the final season, EP Chris Fedak shared that there will be a romantic interest for Casey – which was revealed a few weeks later to be actress Carrie-Anne Moss; Mark Hamil from Star Wars fame will be the first villain of the final season; the team (Chuck, Sarah, Casey and Morgan) will run afoul of people they ‘worked with’ in the past and it may not always end pretty with those people; General Beckman (Bonita Friedericy) will be back; he would love to have Linda Hamilton back on the show; he would love to do an episode where Chuck actually goes to Comic Con since there has been a poster for the event in Chuck’s room since the beginning of the show and he shared that “someone might not survive this season”;
• When asked what Chuck will do without the “Chuck Fu” (aka the intersect), Zachary shared that, “Chuck has to be far greater and be a real spy now”;
• When asked if Awesome would be getting back into Chuck’s spy world, Ryan said that he would be, but now “with Clara (he and Ellie’s little baby) the stakes are pretty high”;
• Scott shared that, “this is the season where there (will be) a war between Jeff and Lester;
• Yvonne joked with both Zach and Joshua about the faces they make when they “flash” (aka get information from the intersect in their brains) that had the audience laughing heartedly;
Ryan McPartlin (Photo Credit: Jennifer Schadel)
• When asked by an audience member who would win – Casey or Jayne (the character Adam played in the short-lived Firefly series), he answered, “this is a Chuck panel so Casey would win” and,
• When asked what his favorite memory is from Comic Con, Zach shared it was the first time Chuck was there for a panel back in 2007 before the show debuted; the pilot episode was played to a packed room (one that was much smaller than the room this year’s panel was held in) and he loved how the fans were supportive even then, giving the show a standing ovation
Each of the cast had a chance to say how they think the final season of Chuck will end and here are their answers:
Zachary: “Awesomely!”
Joshua: “I don’t (think it will end).”
Yvonne: “I don’t have a say in things so…”
Adam: First he joked it would end with the death of Vik Sahay (Lester), but then he turned serious and said, “I’m still not convinced it will end this year”.
Ryan: He believes there will be a “feature trilogy ahead”.
Vik: (It will) go out with a glorious death, preferably in slow-mo”.
Scott: He stated he thinks there will be a “mini Jeffster created.”
Mark: “It (will) end funny”.
Mark Christopher Lawrence, Scott Krinsky and Vik Sahay (Photo Credit: Rueben)
Before the panel came to a close it was very touching to see Zach get a little emotional because this was the last panel they would be doing for Chuck at Comic Con and he shared whole-heartedly how appreciative he and the entire cast are for fans’ continual support all these years. And with those kind words and lots of waves to the audience, the Last Stand for Chuck came to a close.
Chuck will be back for its fifth and final season starting on its new night Friday, October 21 at 8 PM.
