Friday, June 10, 2011

Around the Tubes - 6/10/11


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 Alphas, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jon Benjamin has a Van, Happily Divorced, Tsboo, Locked Up Abroad, Conan, Chrysler, Castle, The Firm, It's Worth What, and Who's Still Standing.

- Nothing like, it’s like Heroes, to make me tune out, but I may still give Alphas a try because it cannot be as poorly written or as poorly acted as Heroes. Can it? Here is a first look of the Syfy series that premieres July 11.



- Curb Your Enthusiasm returns exactly a month from today to HBO and the show has released its official Season 8 poster, take a look:

Curb Your Enthusiasm poster


- Jon Benjamin (who you may know better as the voice of FX’s Archer) has a van and a new show appropriately called Jon Benjamin has a Van which is premiering on Comedy Central next Tuesday at 10:30 and may do for news magazines what The Daily Show does for the nightly network news. Head over to ComedyCentral.com for some clips.

- In other premiere date news, the very next day on Wednesday is the debut of Happily Divorced at 10:30 with Ron Abel playing Ron Abel in a recurring role beating out James Van Deer Beek playing James Van Deer Beek by a couple months.

- In this Sunday’s episode of Taboo, the show is tackling ‘Forbidden Love.” No, not Romeo and Juliet or even Lolita and Humbert Humbert. The episode will feature dudes and a wall or cars or other inanimate objects. And yes there is a technical term: objectum sexual. Here is a clip:

In Love with the Berlin Wall


- In other National Geographic Channel news, they now have their own Locked Up Abroad app that you can find on iTunes.

- Very things go better together than summer and live music and this summer Conan will be commandeering the largest soundstage at Warner Bros. Studios for its first ever Conan Concert Series Presented by Kia Motors. Expect performances by KT Tunstall, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Pitbull and Ke$ha to air throughout the summer on Conan and for online viewing over at teamcoco.com.

- This week on Fox Movie Channel’s Life After Film School, Mark Waters, director of the upcoming movie Mr. Popper’s Penguins, will be field questions from the film students.

- Chrysler latest Imported From Detroit ad is actually coming straight outta Compton with Dr. Dre cruising the streets of Los Angles because his Beats by Dr. Dre audio system is available with the all new 2012 Chrysler 300S.

Chrysler 300 Commercial / Beats by Dr. Dre – “Good Things”


- If you missed Castle when it first ran or want to watch it again but do not want to purchase the DVD’s, TNT has acquired the cable rights to the show and will start airing them in summer 2012.

- During the Upfronts, NBC announced a televised version of The Firm without filming a frame. Now they can start now they have found their new Tom Cruise: Josh Lucas of another lawyer book turned major motion picture The Lincoln Lawyer.

- A sooner approaching show for NBC that has also found a leader is new game show It’s Worth What which will be hosted by Cedric the Entertainer. It is a new game show premiering July 12 that features two contestants making their way through six challenges by estimating the value of items ranging from collectibles stowed in an attic for years to classic antiques. So Antique Roadshow meets the Price Is Right. Also coming to NBC soon is Who’s Still Standing? which will be hosted by Ben Bailey of Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab. The show will offer a single contestant the chance to win a cash prize of up to $1,000,000 by taking down each of their opponents (literally, you will fall through a trap door if they answer a question incorrectly) in fast-paced trivia battles. Now debut date is set yet.

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