TunesOnTheTube.tv Newsletter – December 2008

 

Hi, and welcome to this month’s newsletter. For those of you who are new to us this month, a warm welcome!

 

TunesOnTheTube.tv is going from strength to strength! We are currently covering 74 popular TV shows, with more in the pipeline, and our visitors now  span the globe, coming from nearly 130 countries around the world!

 

December's "Featured Artist of the Month" is Kate Voegele. We choose the artist based on the number of shows in which they have had songs played, and Kate's songs have been in “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Kyle XY”, “The Hills”, “One Tree Hill” and many others.

 

Just an update on a previous “Featured Artist of the Month”: we exchanged many e-mails this year with the UK band Headway who have been featured in many American TV shows and who have been the opening act for both Matchbox20 and OneRepublic on those bands' UK tours. My son, who lives in the UK, went to see them at the Manchester Matchbox20 concert and talked to them about TunesOnTheTube.tv. Headway sent us a signed copy of their EP “The Start” as a ‘thank you’ for being featured on TunesOnTheTube.tv! Their songs are now available on iTunes and Amazon. Also, just a note for those of you who are unaware that Amazon.com now sells MP3s---they will play on ANY MP3 player, and are quite often cheaper than iTunes!  They are currently only available in the US as of right now, but will hopefully be available elsewhere soon!

 

Last month's “Featured Artist” was songwriter Gordon Pogoda, who has written many songs which have been featured in film and on TV, notably “If Cupid had A Heart”, sung by Julie Griffin on the immensely popular show "Hannah Montana”. Gordon has also written entries for the “Eurovision Song Contest”, the HUGE live annual event watched by millions every May in Europe. Check out Gordon’s bio here.

 

HELP needed! Here at TunesOnTheTube.tv, we work hard to make sure that the shows we cover are updated as quickly as possible after they air, but there are only so many hours in the day!  So please forgive us if we are sometimes a little late. We continue to welcome contributions from our loyal visitors, so please, if you know of a song that we missed, let us know. If you have a list of songs that were played in a show and we haven’t yet updated it, please tell us, or if you think we got something wrong, also please let us know.

 

Vampires! The show that we covered that got the most reaction in the last few months was, without a doubt, “Moonlight”, so it came as a shock when CBS decided they were not going to renew the show for a second season. Millions of fans of the vampire detective show were also very upset. Two bits of good news on that front are that the complete series is being released on DVD in January (in the UK it’s already out) and The Sci-Fi Channel is airing the whole series again in January.  (If you're thinking about getting it---before it sells out---you can order it HERE)

 

But one vampire door closes and another opens, as HBO launched “True Blood” based on the Charlaine Harris series of books. We list all the music played in that show as well - see our True Blood page  or visit www.TrueBloodSoundtrack.com. And finally on the vampire front, check out the film “Twilight”, which is breaking box office records!

 

Canceled: Of the new shows launched in this Fall season, “The Ex-List” “Easy Money” and “My Own Worst Enemy” are confirmed canceled. “Valentine” is almost certain to follow shortly, but “Lipstick Jungle”, which was rumored to have been axed, is in fact still surviving, at least for now.

 

The British invasion continues to gain strength as “Life On Mars” (see www.LifeOnMarsSoundtrack.com), “Eleventh Hour”, and “Worst Week” are all American re-makes of British shows, while nearly every American show seems to boast a UK or Australian lead.

 

We had the pleasure recently of meeting Michelle Phillips, the actress and one time Mamas and Papas singer. On her behalf we are selling some of the wardrobe that she wore on the huge hit show of the '80s and '90s, “Knots Landing”. If you want to see any of the clothes, click here.

 

It’s that time of year again! Started your holiday shopping yet? Why not surprise the special person in your life with an iTunes gift card. We've created an "Online Shopping Mall" of some of our favorite retailers, so why not take a look and see if we can help you with your holiday gift shopping? 

 

We plan to start a forum soon on the shows we cover, so we encourage you all to write to us with your views on your favorite shows – any gossip you've heard, any plot twists you like or hate, what you want to happen in future seasons, anything you like. 

 

Please, if you like www.TunesOnTheTube.tv, spread the word! Text your friends, post a bulletin on your MySpace page, mention us in your blog, your website, your Facebook page, Twitter, Stumble Upon, or any social network.

 

See you next month!

 

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