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January 19, 2011
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Cast members from the new Cable 7V show ‘Portlandia’ during a scene in Tom McCall Waterfront Park, downtown. The premiere episode airs on Friday Jan 21 at
1 0 :3 0 p.m. on Comcast Channel 50 3 and Dish Channel 131.
Focusing on the Eccentricities of Portland
Portlandia comedy series debut
If you don’t already look the part,
get ready to put on your flannels,
combat boots, facial piercings, fa
vorite unnatural hair colors and re
live the 90s! Why? Because you will
be transported to a land where the
90s still exist in “Portlandia,” a com
edy series coming to cable and sat
ellite TV.
Created by Fred Armisen, for
merly of Saturday Night Live, and
Carrie Brownstein, a member of the
groups W ild Flag and Sleater-
Kinney, the show premieres on Fri
day, Jan.21 at 10:30p.m. on Comcast
channel 503 and Dish channel 131.
Presented by the new Indepen
dent Film Channel, Portlandia fea
tures a 6-part, short-based comedy
series where each episode's charac
ter-based shorts draw viewers into
the creators' dreamy and absurd
rendering of the Rose City of Port
land.
The show was dreamed up when
Armisen and Brownstein were hang
ing out in Portland this summer,
shooting scenes that made them
laugh. A few film edits later,
Portlandia evolved.
"I love Portlandia. It really repre
sents so much of what I love cultur
ally, musically and in so many other
ways," said Armisen.
Portlandia's inhabitants include
but are not limited to the owners of
a feminist book store; a militant bike
messenger; an artsy couple who
attach cut-outs of birds to every
thing ("put a bird on it!"); an organic
farmer who turns out to be a cult
leader; an adult hide and seek league;
and a punk rock couple negotiating
a "safe word" to help govern their
love life.
T he first e p iso d e d e p ic ts
Armisen and Brownstein meeting
with the Mayor of Portland (played
by Kyle MacLachlan) who solicits
the duo to write a new theme song
for the city. This segment features a
cameo from the real mayor of Port
land (Sam Adams) playing the as
sistant to MacLachlan's "mayor."
Much of the series' original music is
written and performed by Armisen
and Brownstein.
C rash in g the scen es o f
Portlandia, are an assortment of
g u e st stars in c lu d in g K yle
MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Sex and
The City), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and
Recreation), Selma Blair (Legally
Blonde, Hellboy), Heather Graham
(The Hangover), Edie McClurg
(Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Kumail
Nanjiani (Michael & Michael Have
Issues), Jason Sudeikis (SNL, The
Cleveland Show), and Gus Van Sant
(Milk). Singer/songwriter Aimee
Mann also guest stars, alongside
James Mercer (The Shins), and local
Portland musicians Jenny Conlee
and
C o lin
M eloy
(T he
Decemberists) and Corin Tucker
(Sleater-Kinney).
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