Rueben's Ramblings

The Paley Center for Media – both in Los Angeles and New York – will be presenting some interesting panels next month. For those of you in Los Angeles, the following two events are upcoming:

The cast and crew of the USA Network series Royal Pains will participate in a panel on November 8. The featured panels are cast members Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Jill Flint and Reshma Shetty and Executive Producers Michael Rauch and Andrew Lenchewski.

The show, which returns on January 20 with all new episodes, is about idealistic New York emergency room doctor Hank Lawson (Feuerstein) who is unjustly fired from his job, ending up in the Hamptons with his pleasure-seeking accountant brother Evan (Costanzo). There he ends up as a concierge doctor to the rich and richer with his own physician’s assistant Divya (Shetty) and an on-again, off-again girlfriend in the form of local hospital administrator Jill (Flint).

There might still be tickets available for this event here. Members are $10 while the general public is $15.

A few days later, on November 10, a special reunion will be held. The event is called One from the Hart: A Hart to Hart Reunion will be featured with guest panelist being none other than the perennially leads of the much-beloved 1980’s series Stefanie Powers and Robert Wagner.

The series, created by Sidney Sheldon, was about millionaire business executive Jonathan Hart (Wagner) and his freelance journalist wife, Jennifer (Powers) who worked as amateur detectives. Running for five seasons on ABC, the series remained popular through eight reunion movies.

If you would like to see if there are any tickets still available, please visit here. Again, tickets for members are $10 and tickets for the general public are $15.

For fans in the Big Apple, the New York Paley Center will host a night with the cast and creative team behind the Showtime hit comedy The Big C on November 1. The panelist will include cast members Laura Linney, Oliver Platt, Gabourey Sidibe, Phyllis Somerville and John Benjamin Hickey as well as Executive Producer/Creator Darlene Hunt and Executive Producer Jenny Bicks.

This series is the highly unconventional look at a buttoned-up Minneapolis school teacher – Cathy Jamison (Linney) – who decides it is time to start living after learning she has Stage Four melanoma. She decides to tell no one, including her immature husband (Platt), obnoxious teenage son and outspoken, homeless (by choice) brother (Hickey). Meanwhile, she is dealing with her students, including stubborn Andrea (Sidibe), with a renewed aplomb and getting to her cranky neighbor Marlene (Somerville).

You can try to get tickets here. Tickets for members are $20 and tickets for the general public are $25.

To learn more about the Paley Center for Media, please visit their website.