Friday, February 19, 2010

Around the Tubes vol. XXXIX


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 Explorer: Vampire Forensics, The Presidents, The Life and Times of Tim, The Marriage Ref, Yo Gabba Gabba, Celebrity Apprentice, The Yes Men Rule the World, and Louie.

- Vampires were so last decade (I predict the supernatural beings for the Teens will be Zombies), but there are still some still trying to milk the vampire craze into this new decade like Explorer which follows forensic anthropologist Matteo Borrini as he digs deeper into the legend of “shroud eaters” from the 16th century. Explorer: Vampire Forensics airs Tuesday February 23 on The National Geographic Channel. Here is a preview:

Flesh Eating Corpse


- In honor of the recent President’s Day, iTunes and History have dropped the price of the eight episode documentary The Presidents that goes into the personal lives and legacies from George Washington to the second George Bush. Head over to iTunes before February 23 to get them for $.99 each.

- Last week I mentioned the premiere of The Life and Times of Tim on HBO. For those of you like me that are too cheap to pay for premium channels, you can watch the first episode on College Humor.

- Here is Marv Albert rehearsing for The Marriage Ref. So a show about giving advice to married couples will feature the back bitter, the twice divorced Madonna, and Alec Baldwin who didn’t really have an amicable divorce with his former wife. Alrighty.

Marv on the Set


- For those out there with little ones, mark your calendars for Monday March 8 as the third season of Yo Gabba Gabba at 10:30 AM. And it boosts a nice array of guests to start it off with “Weird Al” Yanovic stopping by. While the rest of the week sees Weezer (Tuesday), Anthony Bourdain (Wednesday), and Mos Def and Devo (Thursday). Also showing up this season will be Fred Armisen, Erykah Badu, Band of Horses, Blitzen Trapper, Chairlift, Rob Dyrdek, The Faint, Flaming Lips, The Killers, Solange Knowles, Mix Master Mike, Angela Kinsey, The Sounds, Taking Back Sunday, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Charlyne Yi and John Francis Daley, Samm Levine and Martin Starr from "Freaks and Greeks." In addition, Biz Markie is back with his regular “Biz’s Beat of the Day” segment teaching preschoolers how to beat-box, singer/illustrator/composer Mark Mothersbaugh returns in his recurring “Mark’s Magic Pictures” drawing segment and Jack McBrayer and Paul Scheer visit with their recurring “Knock Knock” joke segment.

- You know you are watching too much of the Olympics when you start reciting the commercials word for word (but seriously, it is time to start switch up your advertising). This of course includes the new season of Celebrity Apprentice (did you know Bret Michaels is the bad boy of rock?). I split on watching the new season because on one hand I had a massive crush on Summer Sanders during my formative years, but on the other I hate Donald Trump and never want to endorse anything he is involved with. For those that can tolerate him, The new Celebrity Apprentice site is now live where you find Q&As with all the contestants and hear them talk about the charities they’ll be representing this season and read full bios.

- You have to love the tag line for The Yes Men Fix the World: Sometimes it Takes a Lie to Expose the Truth. Naturally a movie about pulling pranks on the corporate greedy is being released on DVD on April 1 (April Fool’s Day).



- There has been a slight change to the premiere of the new FX comedy Louie which now will start after the new season of Rescue Me beginning sometime in June.

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