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Earlier this evening the good folks at MTV sent along word that their new show DJ & The Fro will be premiering on June 15th (just less than two weeks from tonight). It’s a new animated show that in the words of its creators…

Deep in the soul-crushing cubicle maze of Oppercon Industries sit DJ & The Fro, two 20-something slackers who spend their days blowing off work while they find and mock the sickest and most hilarious videos ever to grace the Internet.

What Beavis & Butthead were to the music video generation, DJ & The Fro are to the YouTube generation. They find the best web videos and make jokes about them so you don’t have to.

When they’re not watching videos, DJ & Fro kill time by doing things like blackmailing pedophiles into doing their work for them, drinking the breast milk of a co-worker, stalking alpacas

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All of y’all who’ve been wondering when the soundtrack for Lost Season 4 would be coming out: be of good cheer! According to the Varèse Sarabande website, Lost: Season 4 Original Television Soundtrack is due for release on May 12th, just before the Season 5 finale.

Here’s the pertinent info that’s on the site…

It’s here! Michael Giacchino’s brilliant soundtrack, which follows every mysterious twist and turn of Lost‘s addictive Fourth Season. Exploding with excitement, Lost reached new heights in the fourteen episodes of its fourth season. More than three months after their fateful crash, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover that the only thing more dangerous than the island might be the people who have come to rescue them. The mind-blowing story was told with original flashbacks and mind-bending flash-forwards. There was no shortage of drama in Losts thrilling Season 4 … just what you

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It’s been awhile since this blog had anything Doctor Who-ish to report. So it’s due for some…

Billie Piper, Catherine Tate and Freema Agyeman will appear in the final Doctor Who episode starring David Tennant as the Doctor. They will reprise their roles as Rose, Donna and Martha, respectively (though how they are gonna bring back Rose and Donna is beyond me). The episode, scheduled for later this year, will also mark the end of Russell T Davis’ tenure as head showrunner (what, you mean “The Stolen Earth”/”Journey’s End” wasn’t a big enough send-off?!). Tennant’s Doctor will face off once again against arch-nemesis the Master before regenerating into the Eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith.

And this coming April 12th – Easter Sunday – will be the next Doctor Who special. “Planet of the Dead”, incidentally, will be the 200th Doctor Who story since the show began in ...

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This afternoon I finally got to watch the new version of The Electric Company on PBS. It’s a revival of the very fondly remembered original series from the 1970s.

So what did I think of it? I watched many of the episodes of the original The Electric Company a few years ago when they ran on Noggin, and was surprised at how well the show had held up over the years. The Electric Company circa 2009 remains faithful to the purpose of its parent… but is a fresh and rapid-fire delightful update aimed at a new generation. And I was surprised at how many homages to the Seventies series there are: right down to paying tribute to Rita Moreno’s immortal warcry “HEY YOU GUYSSSSSS!!!” Didn’t spot an appearance by Letterman (no, not the late night TV host) but there was an animated spoof of 24, among other clever ...

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Word has reached this blog that my good friend Brian Hodges will be entertaining you folks with his exquisite cello talents on Idaho Public Television tonight!

There may be some video that Brian will be uploading of the performance too. You guys are going to have to check your own local listings for his appearance tonight though: I’m too lazy to do it from here!

(But if anyone can report that Brian is looking any closer to his goal of imitating Daniel Craig, be sure to let me know! 😛 )...

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