Friday, December 17, 2010

Around the Tubes vol. LXXVIII

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 Survivor, Out of England 2, Funny or Die Presents, Karmaloop, Sanctuary, Chiller, World's Biggest Cave, In the Time of Jesus, and new shows from Showtime.

- Fancast.com has started up their Survivor Hall of Fame which was chosen by fifty percent by fans and the other fifty percent by “an Executive Voting Committee” that included Jeff Probst and the Survivor Press Team (of which I wasn’t asked to be a part of, not that I am bitter) and the inaugural inductee is Parvati Shallow. Head over to the site to read an interview with the inductee.

- Ricky Gervais is returning to HBO tomorrow at 10:00 for another stand up special Out of England 2 taped live at the Chicago Theater. In other HBO news, Funny or Die Presents will get its second season premiere January 14 at midnight.

- Hip Hop heads will want to head over Karmaloop where they can enter to win $250 gift certificate and a signed Sheek Louch album with a new winner everyday.

- Tonight is the midseason finale of Sanctuary on Syfy. Here is a sneak peak:



- Before Sanctuary at 8:00, Syfy will be counting down the thirteen scariest movie moments of the past decade with Chiller starting at 8:00 with commentary from Kyle Massey (Dancing With The Stars finalist), renowned special makeup effects supervisor Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead), comedians Dan Gurewitch & David Young (collegehumor.com), actress Betsy Russell (the Saw anthology), writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), actor Tony Todd (Final Destination) and horror film director Lucky McKee (May), among others.

- Two new specials are coming to the National Geographic Channel next week. On Monday, scientist try to determine if a new discovered cave is the World’s Biggest Cave starting at 10:00 and what secrets hide in the Son Doong cave. Then on Tuesday is three hours of In the Time of Jesus with Making a Living at 8:00, Healing the Sick just after that, and Crime and Punishment at 10:00. Check out a preview below:

Jesus the Stone Mason



- Showtime had a bunch of news items this week. Mandy Patinkin is returning to the channel (no, not for a Dead Like Me reunion) for Dreamland, a drama with Claire Danes about a CIA agent and her mentor. Shooting begins next month. Don Cheadle will also be getting a show. House of Lies is a half hour comedy based on the book House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Tell You the Time by Martin Kihn. Production is set to start in February. Paul Provensa also saw the renewl of his The Green Room and Ray Romano and Judd Apatow have signed on to appear on the second season which will premiere sometime in 2010. And for those of you that do not subscribe to the premium channel, mark your 2011 calendar for January 7 when Showtime is giving a free weekend preview.

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