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 agit8, The Bridge, Sharknado, The Strain, Nazi Megaweapon, Kiss, PBS Newshour Weekend, Nine Days, and George Lucas.
- The ONE Campaign today released videos of new acoustic versions of classic protest songs by U2 and Bruce Springsteen, along with performances from Green Day and Kid Rock. The new releases are part of agit8, a global music campaign featuring more than 50 artists including, Ed Sheeran, Sting, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, rerecording classic protest songs highlighting the history and power of music in changing the world. agit8 comes on the eve of the G8 summit in Northern Ireland and calls for millions more to raise their voices and demand world leaders take action to end extreme poverty by 2030. My personal favorite is Mumford and Sons joined by Elvis Costello singing Bruce Springsteen:
- Just two and a half weeks until the premiere of The Bridge which airs July 10 at 10:00 on FX. Here is a behind the scfrenes look at the show.
- Remember the South Park episode when they made fun of Family Guy suggesting their writers were manatees who just pick random items for their jokes. I think Syfy may have hired that manatee to create monster movies for them. Case in point: Sharknado premiering Thursday, July 11 at 9:00 and starring Ian Ziering, Casie Scebo, and Tara Reid. If you need to ask what the movie is about, I will get the NSA to give me your address so I can drive over to your house and smack you up side the head.
- FX has cast two-time Academy Award-nominated actor John Hurt in The Strain, the pilot based on the best-selling vampire novel trilogy from Academy Award®-Winning Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and Author Chuck Hogan. Hurt joins the previously announced Corey Stoll, Kevin Durand, Mia Maestro, Richard Sammel, Lauren Lee Smith, Jonathan Hyde and Miguel Gomez.
- In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history. PBS will air the first three episodes of the new six-part series Nazi Megaweapon this summer. The series recounts Germany’s engagement in World War II from a unique perspective, uncovering the engineering secrets of iconic megastructures, telling the stories of the engineers who designed them and revealing how these structures sparked a technological revolution that changed warfare forever. Episodes will air on Wednesdays, July 17-31, at 10:00 on PBS.
- Kiss and AXS TV are giving the Kiss Army a special opportunity to see the legendary rockers with a live broadcast from the Zurich, Switzerland stop on their current European Monster World Tour. The live concert event will air Thursday June 20th at 3:00 with a special encore presentation that night at 11:00.
- PBS earlier this week announced it will launch PBS Newshour Weekend, an addition to its influential and trusted lineup of news and public affairs shows and an extension of one of America’s most iconic news broadcasts. The half-hour program premieres Saturday, September 7, 2013, on PBS stations (check locallistings). PBS Newshour correspondent Hari Sreenivasan will anchor PBS Newshour Weekend every Saturday and Sunday from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center.
- Two hit wonders Nine Days announced that the five original members who performed on their classic Gold sales certified album The Madding Crowd had reunited to play a string of East Coast dates and to work on songs for a new album. Fans interested in being a part of this recording can also do so by visiting Pledge Music and making a donation or purchase here.
- Red Touch Media was one of the first to chat with George Lucas after he and his creative team came off the Daytime Emmy stage with their first-ever Emmy award for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. George Lucas, Dave Filoni, Cary Silver and Athena Portillo interviewed with Brian Balthazar after their win for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program. The legendary director talks to RTM about creating the groundbreaking series, 3D animation for television, and what's up next for the team.
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