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 Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook, Artist Den, 30 Rock, Bring it On, Chronicle, Doomsday Preppers, Showtime and ABC Family pick ups and renewals, Key and Peele, HBO Valentine presents, The Dog Whisperer, and Jefferson’s Secret Bible.
- The second season of Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook premieres tonight (check your local PBS station for times) where Michael will be heading to the Playboy Mansion to check out Hef’s vintage Wurlitzer jukebox in the game house.
- Also premiering tonight on public television is the fourth season of Artist Den starting tonight with the queen of 2011 Adele. Also showing up this season will be Kid Rock, Death Cab for Cutie, Amos Lee, The Fray, as well as Iron and Wine.
- We have been debating Patriots and Giants all week, but there is something all football fans can agree on, Madonna as a halftime show is going to suck massively. Luckily 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy is trying to piece together a replacement and has recruited Childish Gambino (aka Community’s Troy) to rap over the Knight Rider Theme which is certainly better that watch some fifty year old pretend she is still twenty.
- Also performing television theme songs at Donaghy’s Half time show are Cee-Lo Green (BJ and the Bear), Michael McDonald (Saved by the Bell) and Ryan Adams performing Breathe, the theme to Passions. No, seriously.
- What better way to start off your Super Bowl Sunday that with some cheerleaders? Starting at 9:00 AM ABC Family is airing its Bring it On a Thon airing all five films and for those that need something else to watch once the big game starts, the network will be airing Mama Mia at 7:00 and Dirty Dancing at 9:30.
- Chronicle starring Michael B Jordan (aka Friday Night Light’s Vince Howard) hits theaters tonight and they recently asked the internets what they would do if they had telekinesis and here is what YouTube celebrity DeStorm along with MysteryGuitarMan responded:
- With the world (possibly) ending later this year, what better time than now for a television show about how to survive the apocalypse? Doomsday Preppers premieres with back to back episodes this Tuesday at 9:00 and 10:00 and will go inside America’s prepping subculture, uncovering a wide assortment of prepping styles and approaches, meeting preppers on their own turf, examining their methods and tracking their progress as they think through every logistic and contingency plan.
- A television show called Masters of Sex starring Lizzy Caplin (Party Down)? Yes please. The pilot for the show will begin filming in March for Showtime (double yes) and will also star Martin Sheen (Frost/Nixon) as the duo will star as human sexuality pioneers William Masters and Virginia Johnson set in the 60’s (seriously, skip the pilot and just greenlight it right now).
- In other Showtime news, the network just announced renewals of current chows Shameless, House of Lies and Californication for their third, second, and sixth seasons respectively.
- In other renewal and pick up news, ABC Family is bringing back The Secret Life of the American Teenager for a record fifth season which will put it over the 100 episode mark. It has also greenlighted new comedy series Baby Daddy, its highest ever tested comedy pilot ever and will also dip into the reality world with Beverly Hills Nannies about, well the title says it all. Tori Spelling and Tia Mowry have also been cast in their latest 25 Days of Christmas original movie The Mistle-Tones.
- If you missed the premiere of Key and Peele this week, here is a sketch you missed. And look out for a new episode Wednesday at 10:30 on Comedy Central.
- If your Valentine is a big HBO fan and you still have to figure out a gift with eleven days and counting, head over to HBO Shop for special holiday shirts from your favorite shows including True Blood, Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiam, Eastbound and Down and Sex and the City.
- Also celebrating the holiday is Cesar Milan with his special Valentine’s Day episode of The Dog Whisperer next Saturday (2/11) which is also his 150th episode. And what better way to celebrate the milestone than with a cake. And if you bake Cesar a cake, you can share the photo to Instagram with the tags #natgeowild and #happy100. One lucky baker will actually receive a call from Cesar himself.
- Appropriately premiering on President’s Day is Jefferson’s Secret Bible at 8:00 on Smithsonian Channel. The special looks at the hand created book that the former president edited himself keeping the sections he believed were the true teachings of Jesus cutting out the parts of the four gospels that dealt with angles, miracles and resurrection.
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