Friday, February 04, 2011

Around the Tubes - 2/4/11

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 Kristen Bell, Big Love, Dallas, Explorer, The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway, Potrlandia, Outsourced, Savannah Music Festival, SunRay, Celebrity Beach Bowl, The Cape and I Spit on Your Grave.

- Kristen Bell is returning to television as the former Veronica Mars has joined the cast of Showtime’s House of Lies with the previously announced Don Cheadle. Bell will play Jeannie Van Der Hooven, a razor-sharp, Ivy-League graduate who works at Cheadle’s firm. No word when we can get a peak of the show.

- I recently just started catching up with season four of Big Love (so far it is not as bad as Chloe Sevigny would have me believe) but for those all caught up and watching the fifth season as it is airing Sundays on HBO, here is an inside look at the most recent episode.



- In other casting news, the Dallas redux will be seeing some new and old faces in the city. TNT announced that the cast will include original series stars Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray while newbies Josh Henderson (Desperate Housewives) will play John Ross and Jordana Brewster (Fast & Furious) will play Elena, who is involved in a love triangle with Christopher and John Ross.

- Have you ever wanted to build a beating heart? Well you are in luck because Explorer is looking in on just how to do that. Tune in Money at 10:00 on the National Geographic Channel to find out. Here is a sneak peak:

The Re-Animator


- Pee-Wee Herman recently wrapped up a stint on Broadway (no, seriously) and HBO had their camera there and will be airing a special on the show March 19 called The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway. Below is a teaser.



- Tonight the new episode of IFC’s Potrlandia will feature Sarah McLaughlin and Amiee Mann. Fans of the show should head over to Put a bird on it to do just that.

- The stars of Outsourced have answered a few fan questions in the video below where you can hear Anisha Nagarajan speak in her normal, non-whispering voice.

Outsourced Fan Questions


- Savannah Music Festival recently added The Avett Brothers, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Band of Horses, and Citizen Cope to their lineup. That’s a pretty good lineup. So if you are going to be in Georgia between March 24 and April 9 you may want to check one of them out. Click the link for more acts, tickets are on sale now.

- Just in time for the Super Bowl, SunRay, a national home solar company, counted down the top ten greenest stadiums in America with Seattle’s Quest Field coming in at number. Surprisingly my home town Progressive Field came in at number 9. But apparently I have been drinking out of cornstarch cups while taking in an Indians game.

- If you need some football fix before the big game, DirecTV will be hosting their Fifth Annual Celebrity Beach Bowl on Saturday, Feb. 5 at 2:30 featuring Duhamel, Hayden Panettiere, Chace Crawford, Tom Arnold, Marisa Miller and more, along with special coaches Eli Manning, Alex Rodriguez and future Super Bowl MVP Colt McCoy. Directly following will be a performance by Maroon 5. Viewers can watch the pre-game show, Celebrity Beach Bowl Kickoff and Maroon 5 concert on Livestream and on Facebook.

- And of course the Super Bowl is the biggest betting day of the year. Head over to Bookmaker.com to bet on items such as will Ben Roethlisberger be accused of a crime before Super Bowl Sunday.

- Chad Lindberg will be busy next week. On Monday he will be guest staring on The Cape as Hicks. Then on Tuesday see the release of his movie I Spit on Your Grave (I am assuming by the title it is not kiddie friendly) on DVD and Blu-Ray. The cast of the latter will be signing autographs on the release date at Dark Delicacies Bookstore in Burbank.



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