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 Banshee, Spring Breakers, A New Age of Exploration: National Geographic at 125, Cruise Ship Disaster: One Year Later, Wicked Tuna, Syfy's Powerful Mondays, Pretty Little Liars, Pioneers of Television, Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, Jewish Gilt, Awesomeness TV, Camp, and The Bronx Charter School for the Arts.
- Cinamax’s latest attempt to break the Skin prefix to their name by people like me, new show Banshee premieres tonight at 10:00. Even if you do not subscribe I believe you can still check it out as part as the Showtime free preview this weekend. From the creator of True Blood, the series stars Antony Starr as Lucas Hood, an ex-con and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania, where he continues his criminal activities, even as he’s hunted by the shadowy gangsters he betrayed years earlier. For even more information on the show, you can head over to Cinamax.com where you can download a comic book prequel and watch a trailer below.
- Spring Break is still two to three months away, but you can go ahead and to get you excited, the marketing campaign for the Harmony Korine directed movie Spring Breakers starring Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, and Ashley Benson just released its first teaser poster which you can check out below:
- National Geographic turns 125 this Sunday and to celebrate its television channel will be airing A New Age of Exploration: National Geographic at 125 tonight at 8:00 which captures the compelling behind-the-scenes stories that make going to extremes worth the blood, sweat and tears.
- One year after the Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, the National Geographic Channel is investigation the latest details and gripping firsthand accounts behind the epic disaster with Italian Cruise Ship Disaster: One Year Later premiering Sunday at 7:00. The channel will stay at season after the special with the premiere of the second season of Wicked Tuna where hopefully all the boats stay in one piece.
- Syfy is starting up their Powerful Mondays with new seasons of Being Human, new show Continuum (unless you already saw it in Canada), and Lost Girl. Here is a preview to get you ready.
- Not only is Pretty Little Liars back, now you can tweet along with A herself @MonaVanderwall.
- New to PBS next week will be Pioneers of Television. The third season starting Tuesday will feature funny ladies, primetime soaps, superheroes, and miniseries.
- Already out on Blu-Ray and / or DVD is Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden (see my review of the movie here).
- Do not ask me where The Jewish Channel is on your cable box, or if this goyim is allowed to watch, but it is premiering a new show Jewish Gilt with renowned antique Judaica expert Jonathan Greenstein. In the show Greenstein, the modern-day guardian of antique ritual Jewish objects, brings the audience to the homes of ordinary people with extraordinary items; the show airs on The Jewish Channel on January 14th, 2013. Throughout the show, Greenstein uncovers treasured objects from the Jewish tradition that have remained hidden until now.
- Awesomeness TV recently teamed with Russell Simmons to collaborate on Simmons’ YouTube Channel with the goal of producing and sharing cutting-edge programming from diverse talent to help broaden YouTube’s audience, much in the way Def Comedy broadened HBO.
- Get ready to go to Camp this summer as NBC has ordered a thirteen episode season set to air the show over the summer. The show is created by Liz Heldens, the person behind the new show Deception.
- Music students from The Bronx Charter School for the Arts (BxA), Women’s Academy of Excellence (WAE) and Music UnitesAmbassadors are getting the chance to showcase their talents and participate in a once-in-a-lifetime discussion with Grammy Award Winning producer and recording artist Swizz Beatz during the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s latest Power of One speaker series, Music-Versity: Bronx Edition. On January 17th, Music Unites, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing music education to underprivileged children in inner city school systems, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and Swizz Beatz will host over 100 students for an educational workshop geared to inspire, empower and unite middle and high school students through the power of the arts.
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