The Porch: Revisited

Remember when we told you about the filming of The Porch, a new half-hour talk show filmed at Athens' own Hotel Indigo and featuring some good friends of the museum? Well, set your DVRs or program your VCRs or mark your calendars, as the show will air on WNEG-TV on December 23 at 7:30 p.m.; December 24 at 7:30 p.m.; December 25 at 11:30 a.m.; and December 27 at 8:30 a.m. Here's the official site, if you want to bookmark it or watch the promo video that's available.

The Porch

The Hotel Indigo's music venue, the Rialto Room, will be the venue for a new Athens-based talk show, The Porch, hosted by our own Paige Carmichael (ex-Friends president) as well as by radio host Liz Dalton, singer-songwriter Marty Winkler and executive director for the Junior League of Athens and the Taylor Grady House Jennifer Wootton. The first taping will be held tomorrow (Tuesday, November 17), with doors opening at 12:30 p.m. It's free, but RSVP is required for entry, so call 706.286.1700 if you're interested, and they'll let you know if they still have space.

Here's a longer description of the show from the promo email:

Initially showcasing front porches of Madison, Georgia, The Porch is a weekly half-hour talk show videotaped before a live audience. The pilot will be broadcast several times in November and December on the University of Georgia€'s commercial TV station, WNEG, before the series goes into production in January and becomes a weekly staple of the station’s schedule.

Starring Athens locals Paige Carmichael, Liz Dalton, Marty Winkler and Jennifer Wootton, the format of The Porch will be familiar to anyone who has watched The View or Live with Regis & Kelly. The show’s interests, concerns and guests will exclusively reflect Northeast Georgia in a way that no TV talk show, national or out of Atlanta, ever has. Like the southern institution from which it takes its title, The Porch will be a place for seriously casual conversation about anything and everything of interest to its regional constituency, from fashion to flu shots, from politics to party-planning. The series will also showcase the region’s diverse wealth of music, arts and crafts.

Each installment of The Porch will feature interviews with one or more guests. Athens-based caterer, historic preservationist and raconteur Lee Epting will be the pilot show’s primary guest. But half the fun of the show will be the four co-hosts just talking among themselves off the cuff.

The Porch is a production of TerraVision in association with The Rialto Club, Hotel Indigo and WNEG-TV, which is owned by the University of Georgia and operated by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Song at the Farmers' Market

This Saturday (Oct. 31) at 10 a.m. past Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art president, Paige Carmichael and her sister Faith Carmichael will be performing live at the Athens Farmers' Market at Bishop Park. The Carmichaels have been performing together for more than 10 years. Faith is an accomplished jazz singer and songwriter, while Paige has been a songwriter since age 8 and has been playing acoustic folk guitar since 14. The two sisters form a jazzy, folksy collaboration that combines their two sounds in a unique and unforgettable way. Faith will also be the featured performance at the museum's fundraising gala, Speakeasy, in February 2010. Stay tuned for more information on that exciting event.