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‘ART SHOW! WITH CAPTAIN SKINNER’ Trailer Previews “Bob Ross Meets ‘Evil Dead'” Series
Artist Skinner (Mastodon, Adult Swim, Super Deluxe, High on Fire, Tony Hawk Pro Skater) is teaching audiences how to create gore-soaked art in new series ART SHOW! WITH CAPTAIN SKINNER.
The 10-episode ETCH-produced series premieres tomorrow, Friday, February 13, on YouTube and Substack with new episodes weekly from Friday, March 6.
Described as “Bob Ross on LSD meets The Evil Dead… in Space,” ART SHOW! aims to flip the script by oozing hyper-phantasmagorical slapstick, body-horror, and off-the-wall comedy.
The series follows “the misadventures of a doomed PBS-style television series. As Skinner and his tiny crew (including the stop motion animated Space Cowboy) attempt to produce a television series in outer space, their efforts are constantly thwarted by – well – everything from meteor showers to intrusive thoughts to the stark horror of an uncaring cosmos.”
Watch the trailer below to get a feel for the bombastic, futuristic, gore and color-saturated love letter to shows like The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross and Commander Mark and the Secret City.
Skinner stars in the series he co-created and co-wrote with director Allen Cordell. Skinner is known for his vibrant, psychedelic nightmare style and has created art for Grammy-winning albums and bands like High on Fire and Mastodon, award-winning music videos and films, commercial experiences for Adult Swim and Warner Brothers, and hosted shows for Super Deluxe and various music festivals.
While we wait to discover the cosmic madness premiering tomorrow, catch up on Bloody FM’s Skin Crawl podcast. Each episode contains a story based on the horror fantasy comics anthology Skin Crawl by Skinner.
AMC announced today it has renewed Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire for a fourth season, and it’s officially titled Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned.
The news was announced during its Comic-Con International Hall H panel for The Vampire Lestat featuring series executive producers Mark Johnson and Hannah Moscovitch and castmates Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian and Sheila Atim.
Based on the beloved novel, Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned will be executive produced and showrun by Moscovitch, along with executive producers Johnson and Rolin Jones.
An accomplished writer and playwright, Moscovitch was a writer on the first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire and an executive producer on The Vampire Lestat, for which she specifically wrote the “Akasha” and “Gabriella” characters.
“In The Vampire Lestat, Mark, Rolin, Hannah and this extraordinary cast delivered an unforgettable season filled with propulsive storytelling that captivated the passionate and engaged fans of this franchise,” said Dan McDermott, Chief Content Officer of AMC Global Media and President of AMC Studios. “We can’t wait to continue the journey with Queen of the Damned, one of the most iconic stories in Anne Rice’s mythology, and watch our established and beloved characters confront Akasha with their world, and ours, very much hanging in the balance.”
The Vampire Lestat stars Sam Reid, Anderson, Zaman, Bogosian, Atim, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle and is executive produced by award-winning producer Johnson, creator, writer and showrunner Jones, Moscovitch, along with Christopher Rice and the late Anne Rice.
In season three, Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rise, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
He awakens Akasha (Sheila Atim), the eponymous character of season four. Watch the teaser below.
All hail your new queen.
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