Memphis Beat Premieres Tonight!

Hey Arbors River Oaks! Don’t you just love it when your city is included in something major? I know that I do. Well, premiering tonight is TNT’s newest drama, ‘Memphis Beat‘.

The show revolves around Dwight Hendricks (Jason Lee), a Memphis cop who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator and lives with his mother. Dwight feels he is “the keeper of Memphis,” a Southern gentleman who is protective of his fellow citizens, reverential of the city’s history and deeply rooted in its blues music scene. I guess you can call the show a sort of dramedy, as there will be some humor mixed in as well.

As with anything Memphis, you must have music. I mean, the city of Memphis itself has it’s own soundtrack. You can’t walk down Beale Street without hearing some kind of music playing, and just having the overall feel of Memphis traveling through the soles of your shoes right into your very soul. And ‘Memphis Beat‘ is trying to convey that into their storyline.

The shows seems quite interesting. Consider adding it to your primetime TV layout as you watch the series premiere tonight at 10 pm on TNT.

Let me know what you think about the show!

photo credit: TNT.tv

Memphis, A Town All It’s Own

There’s no other city around like Memphis, period. From the city culture, to the food, to the music, to the happenings around Beale Street, Memphis is a place all it’s own. I mean, how many other cities out there have their own musical?? Okay, plenty, but none of them hold a candle to ‘Memphis‘, the newly titled ‘Best Musical’ by way of the 2010 Tony Awards. They also brought home three other awards…beat THAT Oklahoma!

If you haven’t seen nor heard of the musical, ‘Memphis‘ centers around the story of a fast-talking ,young disc jockey who falls in love with African- American music in the late 1950s. But when he also falls in love with an African-American singer, he finds himself a pioneer in integrating not only the airwaves but also a racially divided town.

The city doesn’t just have  a musical using it’s name; there’s also a new television show coming out on TNT on June 22nd named ‘Memphis Beat‘. The story revolves around a a Memphis cop who moonlights as an Elvis impersonator and lives with his mother. (Let’s see how many stereotypes we see in an act).

With a town as culturally rich and historic as Memphis, who wouldn’t want to capture in on the small screen? Hmm, now if we could just get a movie made about the lives of the residents at Arbors River Oaks,

photo credit: commercial appeal and TNT.com