Around the Tubes - 1/7/11

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 Unlikely Animal Friends, Alaska State Troopers, Hoarders, Merlin, British TV on DVD, and The Cape.

- I am sure if you are on the internets, you have seen videos of strange animal pairings like a monkey riding a pig. If you cannot get enough of those, you will want to tune into the National Geographic Channel tonight at 9:00 for Unlikely Animal Friends 2 where you can see a sheep befriend an elephant. In other NGC premiere news, Alaska State Troopers returns Sunday for a new season at 9:00. Until then, here is the sheep and elephant.

A Match Made in Africa


- As new season begins, others are ending like the season finale of Hoarders this Monday at 10:00 on A&E. The episode features Glen who “hoarding” has pushed him out of his house and into his shed. The stuff that has overrun his house: 2500 rats. Animals are also part of the second half of the finale; Lisa has taken in thirty cats that may get her evicted.

- Next Wednesday is the return of Merlin for its third season on Syfy. Here is a sneak peak:

Merlin - "The Tears of the Uther Pendragon Part 1"


- Fans of British television should be content that twenty show will be released her stateside over the next two months including “Garrow’s Law, a riveting new courtroom period drama seen on BBC; Single-Handed, following a lone cop fighting crime and corruption in rural Ireland; New Tricks, Season 3, the smash hit UK crime series; Murphy’s Law, BBC’s undercover cop series starring James Nesbitt (Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit); Murder Investigation Team, the realistic procedural crime drama in the vein of CSI; Napoleon & Love, starring Ian Holm (The Lord of the Rings); Fresh Fields starring Julia McKenzie (Marple) and Anton Rodgers; Man in a Suitcase, a stylish, action-packed 1960s spy series; Pie in the Sky starring Richard Griffiths (Harry Potter); Dirty Tricks starring Martin Clunes; The Guilty starring Michael Kitchen (Foyle’s War); Discovering Hamlet (Athena) featuring Kenneth Branagh and Derek Jacobi in a behind-the-scenes look at Hamlet, narrated by Patrick Stewart; Midsomer Murders Set 17, four new episodes available to U.S. audiences for the first time of Acorn’s top-selling series; Blue Murder: The Complete Collection, called “The most fascinating British female cop since Jane Tennison” (San Francisco Chronicle); as well as more from Bill Moyers with In Search of the Constitution and World of Ideas-Writers."


- The Cape premieres Sunday before settling in at its regular timeslot Monday, here are some behind the scenes interviews with stars David Lyons and Summer Glau:

Behind the Cape