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Roundup: Lots of locals on TV soon
Neville (elephant), Round Rock’s Falyn Hunt, Banjo (monkey), Umi (bird), and Clarence (alligator) on Sprout’s “PICME.”
Local sprout appears on Sprout
Falyn Hunt, a 6-year-old kindergarten student at Callison Elementary in Round Rock, will appear nationally on PBS’ Sprout network this month. Hunt will appear on the 5 p.m., January 10 episode of “PICME” entitled “Showing Off.”
“PICME” puts children directly into the show’s story alongside animal friends Juno, Gerty, Banjo, Umi, Clarence and Neville by superimposing a digital image of a child’s face onto an animated body.
PBS Sprout is available in the Austin market on U-verse and DirecTV.
Swimming with the ‘Sharks’
A pair of Austin entrepreneurs are slated to appear on “Shark Tank,” the ABC reality show in which inventors, vying for investment dollars, pitch their products to a panel of ruthless multi-millionaires.
Erin Whalen and Tim Stansbury, co-owners of Grease Monkey Wipes, will demonstrate the features and benefits of their product — a heavy duty cleaning wipe initially created to help greasy cyclists clean up after tire repair — at 8 p.m. on the Friday, January 15 episode.
UPDATE: Here’s what Fit City columnist Pam LeBlanc wrote abut Whalen and Stansbury this summer:
Two Austin cycling buddies are peddling individually packaged cleaning wipes that take off grease, grime and those annoying body markings athletes get at triathlons. Erin Whalen and Tim Stansbury developed Grease Monkey Wipes after she had a flat tire on a 100-mile bike ride two summers ago. Filthy and annoyed after changing the tire, Whalen looked for a portable degreasing product she could carry with her while she was riding. When she couldn’t find one, she and Stansbury created their own. Both are avid cyclists. Whalen, 29, raced in Ironman Coeur d’Alene on Sunday and Stansbury is training for 24 Hours of Booty, an all-night charity road race. “I use them all the time,” Whalen says. “I just packed up my bike for Ironman and cleaned my entire bike with one.”
The wipes use a natural citrus-based formula and can be easily stashed in a saddle bag or jersey pocket. They come packaged in sets of 6, 12, 18 and 24 (just like beer, the Web site notes) and sell for about $1 a wipe.
A dozen Austin bike shops carry the wipes, including Austin Tri-Cyclist, 923 Barton Springs Road; Bicycle Sport Shop, 517 S. Lamar Blvd.; Freewheeling Bicycles, 2401 San Gabriel St.; Jack & Adam’s Bicycles, 1210 Barton Springs Road; and Nelo’s Pro Cycles, 3010-H W. Anderson Lane.
Local Variety
Lin Television’s KBVO (My Austin TV) will present a new, locally-produced variety show from the creators of Austin Swim (the live, Adult Swim viewing party formerly held weekly around town).
Dubbed “The Austin Variety Show,” the program, taped monthly before a live, South Austin studio audience, features music, comedy, performance artists and live audience games. Local businesses provide audience prizes and giveaways.
“The Austin Variety Show,” airing Sundays from 11 p.m.-midnight on Time Warner, Direct TV, U-verse, Grande and Suddenlink, is co-hosted by Austin musician and filmmaker Troy Dillinger and Second City alum Tom Booker. For more information, check out the show’s Web site or My Austin TV.
Here’s a promo video:
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