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Discovery has set a virtual talk show ahead of the launch of the latest season of Deadliest Catch.

The factual giant will launch Before the Catch on Tuesday April 7, ahead of the 16th season of the hit franchise, which premieres Tuesday, April 14. The digital special will see Deadliest Catch narrator Mike Rowe speak with all of the show’s captains remotely.

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Rowe will interact with the captains via webcam, asking them questions such as what it was like for the Alaskan crab fleet to face off against the Russian crab fleet, and how often did Captain Jake Anderson butt heads with Bering Sea legend Jonathan Hillstrand?

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Ahrens and Flaherty's 'Nice Fighting You A 30th Anniversary Celebration Live At 54 Below' will be released on June 3rd, 2014. The double CD set is now available for pre-order at httpamzn.comB00JPWSJOI. This star-studded double album features performances by in alphabetical order Lynn Ahrens, Annaleigh Ashford, Stephanie J. Block, Liz Callaway, Kevin Chamberlin, Quentin Earl Darrington, Stephen Flaherty, Lewis Grosso, Julie Halston, Jeremy Jordan, Lachanze, Kecia Lewis, Rebecca Luker, Marin Mazzie, Sean McCourt, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Molaskey, Bobby Steggert and Mary Testa.

Last night, Thursday, September 26, 54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, launched its first of six performances celebrating the extraordinary 30-year collaboration of Tony Award-winning songwriting team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty Ragtime, Once on This Island, My Favorite Year, Seussical, Lucky Stiff, the upcoming Rocky, and more. In 'Nice Fighting You A 30th Anniversary Celebration,' September 26 - 28, Ahrens and Flaherty offer six very special concerts featuring their best known songs, rare gems and even some never-before-heard material, performed by a rotating cast of Broadway stars. Last night's opening night concert featured Tony nominee Stephanie J. Block The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes, Tony nominee Liz Callaway Baby, Anastasia, Tony Award winner Lachanze Dessa Rose, Once on This Island, Kecia Lewis Dessa Rose, Once on This Island, Sean McCourt Wicked, A Man of No Importance, Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate Tony Award nominee Mary Testa 42nd Street,...

The La Weekly's Karina Longworth has turned a lunch with Elvis Mitchell, a lot of research and several phone calls into today's must-read. "One of the best known, and definitely most controversial, living film critics in America, Mitchell is both irresistibly charming and legendarily incapable of playing by the rules, or perhaps simply oblivious to them." And now: "He's been brought to Lacma as the embodiment of a major break from business as usual at the museum's film department." In one of the best pieces of film-related reporting I've seen in a long while, Karina outlines two histories, first, that of Lacma's evolution from "one of the city's premier destinations for cinephiles" to an institution with a "strategy to plumb the film industry for patrons," and second, that of the "former New York Times film critic who lunches at swank restaurants with movie stars and drives off in a cherry-red convertible.

To Wednesday's and Thursday's roundup of series and events happening now in various cities, let's add Criterion's excellent weekly "Repertory Roundup" gathering links and dates for screenings across the country and Brian Darr's overview for the San Francisco Bay Area, which includes Sean McCourt's brief piece on Ray Harryhausen, whose work sees a mini-retrospective this weekend at the Castro Theatre.

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