New guest appearance: Alphas (and Memphis Beat update)

alphas,david strathairnI guess it’s official now:

Garret will guest star on Alphas (Syfy’s new show with David Strathairn, filmed in Toronto, that premiered a few weeks ago) later this season. The show airs Mondays at 10 pm. Impressive robot line-up going on there, too, with Summer Glau, Brent Spiner, Lindsay Wagner and Callum Rennie all showing up this season.

No details yet. Here is what IGN says:

In today’s panel for the Syfy show Alphas, executive producer Ira Steven Behr announced the names of a few upcoming guest stars that genre fans should know, including Summer Glau (Firefly, The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Brent Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Garret Dillahunt (Deadwood, Sarah Connor) and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman).

Behr didn’t go into details about the characters they’d be playing, but he did say that he’d just seen Glau’s episode and that she’s “terrific” in it.

And it looks like Garret’s episode of Memphis Beat airs this week. From TNT’s site:

Memphis Beat – Season 2, Episode 7
Body of Evidence
Premieres Tuesday, July 26 at 9/8c
In the middle of the funeral for a man known for helping at-risk kids, his body goes missing, and it’s up to Dwight and Whitehead to find it. They soon suspect the man may not have been the model citizen everyone believed him to be.

No previews yet.

Raising Hope season two spoilers

Entertainment Weekly has a new interview with Greg Garcia. He gives away some interesting tidbits about season two. Hit the link for the whole article.

You had so many great guest stars last season. Anyone we can look forward to?
We’re early in the process. We start shooting Aug. 8, and we have some really cool guest roles, but we haven’t actively started courting anyone yet. There are a few giant swings that we’re going for. I’m not even going to say their names because it’s not going to happen in a million years. But, you know, I think that what we try to do is create good guest star roles and see who can do them. We’ve had a lot of luck, like with J.K. Simmons as Burt’s brother. He may or may not come back — just because of availability because he’s doing The Closer. That’s a problem, too. You get somebody great, but they have other jobs. Amy Sedaris is going to come back for an episode, so we’re looking forward to that. We’re also going to meet Burt’s parents this season, so that’ll be a fun thing to cast. Oh, and we have Greyson Chance, the kid whose YouTube video has, like, 40 million hits. He’s going to do three episodes. (…)

Any teases as to the storylines we’re going to see this year?
The whole family is going to go to Vegas for Amy Sedaris’ wedding. And we’re also going to learn a lot about our side characters: Frank who works at the grocery store, and we’re going to investigate Barney. His ex-wife is going to come to town. We’re going to have fun with that. The first episode we shoot is a lot of flashbacks, and one of the fun things about flashbacks is that Cloris can be lucid. So it gives her different things to play. So we’re definitely going to do more this season.

Updates: The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Memphis Beat

If you missed it on Twitter like I almost did, Garret has joined The Thrilling Adventure Hour, a “sophisticated comedy sprinkled with affectionate homage to 1940s era radio,” which is recorded live at the Largo at the Coronet in Hollywood. If you’re in the area on August 6, you can get tickets at Laughstub.com.

If you’re not, you can bookmark these links for future reference:

http://soundcloud.com/thrillingadventure
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/thrilling-adventure-hour/id408691897

Several other familiar faces will also make an appearance:

The August 6th show features guest stars Nathan Fillion, Linda Cardellini, Janet Varney, Colin Hanks, AND MORE! Acker & Blacker’s The Thrilling Adventure Hour is a staged comedy production in the style of an old-time radio show that proves radio is still the king of all media!

As for Memphis Beat, episode 2×06 airs tomorrow (Tuesday, 9 pm, TNT), but it’s not called “Body of Evidence,” but “Troubled Water.” Not sure if this is Garret’s episode as I haven’t seen him in the promos.

Troubled Water
Premieres Tuesday, July 19 at 9/8c
Paula calls on Dwight to help one of his oldest friends, who has been arrested in a case involving three gunmen who robbed a party boat. Dwight’s investigation brings him face to face with an old flame and gives him a chance to perform with one of his old band members from his high school days.

And I suppose Martha Plimpton and Cloris Leachman scoring Emmy nominations this week (big congrats to both!) is as good an excuse as any to finally post this clip:

Amigo – new trailer, poster and BTS featurette

Amigo will be out in a limited release (see list of theatres at amigomovie.com) in the U.S. in about a month, so a new poster and trailer have showed up online in the last week or so.

You can also check out a BTS featurette, “The Making of Amigo,” on the film’s Facebook page (you need to be logged in).

The new poster (click to enlarge):

john sayles amigo,amigo movie poster,garret dillahunt

And the trailer: