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Ladies and Gentlepersons! I would like to introduce you to the Woodsmith Shop, which is August Home’s most recent foray into the fascinating world of 20th century technology.

As many of you know, I work for August Home Publishing. They produce, among several other titles, a great woodworking magazine called Woodsmith, which is published bi-monthly and filled to the brim with useful woodworking information (and no ads!). Woodsmith was their first magazine, and this evening, it becomes their first title to reach yet another medium: television!

At 6:30pm this evening, Iowa Public Television will be airing the series premier of the Woodsmith Shop, August Home’s first-ever television show, hosted by our CEO, Don Peschke. If you can’t catch it tonight, they’ll be re-running tonight’s episode at 1:30pm Saturday afternoon. And they’ll follow that schedule (6:30pm Friday, 1:30pm Saturday) through all 13 episodes of our first season.

I’m proud of our company for the work they’ve done putting this show together. And having just come from a private screening of the series premier, I can happily say that their work has paid off. It looks really good (shot in high-def and everything), and was even able to hold my interest for a half an hour… which is pretty impressive, considering I’m not exactly what you’d call a handyman. Yet. Maybe after 13 episodes I will be. ;)

And guess what? Because I was responsible for building the Woodsmith Shop website, I get a credit at the end of the show! It’s very fast and listed with a couple dozen other names, but if you look in the upper-right hand corner of the list, you’ll see my name there. Awww… baby’s first television credit. Go me!

Anyway, I hope you all get a chance to watch the show. I probably should have mentioned it earlier in the week, I realize, but I’ve been working nonstop getting the website together. They requested a lot of difficult functionality at the last minute. :)