Friday, January 10, 2014

Around the Tubes: 1/10/14



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 Helix, Lost Girl, Being Human, Bitten, Chozen, The Hot Housewives of Orlando, Or, Quality Balls - The David Steinberg Story, The Pete Holmes Show, Tom Green Live, The Friars Club, and Off The Grid.

- Watch the first 15 minutes of Syfy's new outbreak thriller Helix. Go On Demand now, then tune in this tonight at 10:00 to check out the full episode. Or maybe the teaser below will be enough to get you to tune in.


Syfy is also all new on Monday. The primetime sizzle begins January 13 at 8:00 with the Season 4 premiere of Lost Girl, starring Anna Silk as a Succubus, a powerful female entity in folklore who feeds off sexual energy. At 9:00, television’s hottest roommates (Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath and Kristen Hager) confront their haunting pasts in the fourth season return of the hit series Being Human. Rounding out the evening at 10PM is the series premiere of the smouldering, emotionally charged drama Bitten, which stars Laura Vandervoort as a sultry and intelligent female werewolf – the only one in the world – who reluctantly returns to her secretive Pack of powerful male werewolves to help track down the serial killer that threatens to reveal the Pack’s true supernatural nature.

- FX unveils its new animated comedy Chozen Monday at 10:30 after a brand new season of Archer, check out a preview below. For those that cannot wait, you can watch the premiere in its entirety using the FXNOW app on Xbox One.


- Paramount Digital Entertainment announced today a new series premiering on Hulu called The Hotwives of Orlando, starring Casey Wilson, Angela Kinsey, Kristen Schaal, Tymberlee Hill, Danielle Schneider and Andrea Savage as the Hotwives along with special performances by Kate Walsh, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Joey McIntyre, Stephen Tobolowsky, Paul Scheer and many more. The series, coming exclusively to Hulu and Hulu Plus in 2014, is produced by Emmy© Award-winning producers Jonathan Stern and Paul Scheer, and Paramount Digital Entertainment, the studio behind the Emmy© nominated Burning Love.

- Or may win the award for the least googleable band name ever, but if you are looking for a “super indie pop girl” check out her video for Tell Me Why below:


- Quality Balls - The David Steinberg Story will make its U.S. debut exclusively on SHOWTIME on Monday, February 3 at 9:30PM ET/PT. The documentary follows the life and trailblazing career of legendary comedian David Steinberg from his upbringing in Winnipeg, Canada, to his start in comedy at Second City and his record number of appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (second only to Bob Hope), to his work behind the camera as a director on hit shows such as Seinfeld, Mad About You, Weeds, Curb Your Enthusiasm and many more. Viewers will get an inside look at his life as he deals with some of the more controversial moments from his career including the Biblical “sermons” he performed on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which eventually led to the show’s cancellation, and his jokes about Nixon, resulting in being on Nixon’s enemy list.

- TBS has renewed its new late-night series The Pete Holmes Show, which enjoyed a seven week run at the end of 2013. TBS has ordered an additional 13 weeks of the series starring popular comedian Pete Holmes and produced by Conaco LLC, the company behind the late-night hit Conan. New episodes of The Pete Holmes Show are set to launch Feb. 24 and will air Monday-Thursday nights at midnight (ET/PT), following Conan

- The interviewer will become the interviewee next week, as Emmy® Award-winning journalist, news anchor and host of AXS TV’S The Big Interview Dan Rather will be the guest AXS TV’S Tom Green Live. Host Tom Green will deliver a one-of-a-kind, hour-long interview with Rather, live on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 9:00 on AXS TV.

- The Friars Club this week announced that comedian Jeff Garlin will take the helm as Roastmaster at this year’s Friars Club Roast honoring Boomer Esiason. The former NFL quarterback and NFL MVP Boomer Esiason will take his turn in the hot seat at the next Friars Club Roast on Thursday, January 30, 2014, at a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, just in time for NYC to host the Super Bowl. Garlin, star and executive producer of HBO’s award winning “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and star of ABC’s new hit comedy The Goldbergs, will lead a dais of A-list celebrities who are coming together to skewer their friend and colleague, Esiason.

- What happens when the mainstream media is owned by the corporations and isn't diligently investigating or reporting the news? Tune in online on January 27th, 2014to find out. Jesse Ventura and Ora.TV are presenting Off The Grid - a daily political news show available online. “News should be free - free meaning cost - and free of bias," stated Jesse Ventura, the 38th governor of Minnesota. "I will present stories you need to hear, the news that affects us all - globally, nationally, and locally - that you won't hear anywhere else."

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