Thursday, January 21, 2010

Around the Tubes vol. XXXV


I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post will include blurbs on Caprica, How to Make it in America, Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Screen Actors Guild Awards, Ice Road Truckers, Men of a Certain Age, Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! and the Winter Olympics.

- The wait is over for Battlestar Galactica fans as the premiere of the prequel Caprica is tomorrow on SyFy at 9:00 (unless of course you already bought/rent the DVD, downloaded it on iTunes or streamed on Hulu, if so, be sure to return next week for a new episode). Below is the trailer. Fans will also want to check out the Caprica Facebook page.

New Caprica Trailer


- HBO is launching their new series next month, here is the trailer for How to Make it in America which will featuring the acting talents of Bryan Greenberg (Prime, HBO's Unscripted), Victor Rasuk (Lords of Dogtown, Raising Victor Vargas), Luis Guzman (Anger Management, HBO's Oz), Lake Bell (Boston Legal, What Happens in Vegas) and hit recording artist Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi (Man on The Moon, MOTOWN Records).


How to Make it in America Tease (HBO)


- A Week before the return of Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Showtime is airing an interview where the star of the show Billie Piper talks to the former call girl that her character is based on, Brooke Magnanti, the original Belle de Jour. It will take place this Monday at this coming Monday at 10:00.

- The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulated on both TNT and TBS this Saturday at 8:00 (encore at 11:00) with the Red Carpet show starting a half hour with the live webcast at TNT.tv and TBS.com starting at 6:15. Betty White will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s telecast.

- For the fans of Ice Road Truckers, you will want to check out the show’s new Facebook app.

- Robert Loggia will be showing up on Monday’s episode of Men of a Certain Age, which just got renewed for a second season, as Ray Romano’s recently retired father.

- For those with little ones running around who needs something kill the winter blues, you may want to check out Yo Gabba Gabba! Live! Of course you need to live near Minneapolis (3/13), Milwaukee (3/14), Toronto (3/16), Fort Wayne (3/19), Cincinnati (3/20), or St. Louis (3/21). Each date has two showings that day, check out yogabbagabbalive.com for more information.

- The Winter Olympic schedule is now online over at nbcolympics.com. As for the most important event, the start of Curling is Tuesday February 16 at noon on USA with the American men taking on the Germans. For some reason Curling doesn’t get a primetime slot all Olympics, but if we have learned anything from the last two week, NBC executives are not the smartest people in the room.

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