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ATX Television Festival Starts June 1st

Updated: Friday, May 18 2012, 07:25 PM CDT
The very first ATX Television Festival runs June 1-3 in Austin, Texas bringing you television screenings, panels and events. 

It starts out with an opening night screening of the USA Network’s shows, Suits and an episode from season 3 of Royal Pains.  It also includes an advance screening of the season two premiere of MTV's Teen Wolf in addition to an outdoor Rolling Roadshow reunion screening of the Emmy award winning show Friday Night Lights with members of the cast and crew in attendance.  They will show the series pilot and finale episodes in the parking lot of the San Jose Hotel. Also, there will be a Saturday morning cartoon event with a Hasbro cartoon world premiere episode of Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters along with My Little Pony Friendship is Magic and Transformers Prime.

People that attend can snuggle up with blankets and pillows enjoying pancakes provided by Batter Blaster. Hasbro Studios is coming armed with lots of toys, DVDs and other goodies for attendees.

The festival co-founders, Caitlin McFarland and Emily Gipson, created ATX Television Festival to bring the festival experience to television lovers. ATX Television Festival programming includes some of the most beloved television shows of past and present. See below for a full list of confirmed shows and a list of actors, writers, directors, and producers confirmed to attend the festival to celebrate the medium of television.

Weekend Badges are $180 and Screening Badges are $120. To buy a badge, go to atxfestival.com.

Confirmed Shows:

• True Blood (episode: #412, "And When I Die")
• Parenthood (episode: #305, "Nora")
• Awake
• Friday Night Lights (Pilot and Series Finale "Always")
• Firefly (TBD) The Vampire Diaries (episode: #108, "162 Candles")
• Lone Star (episode 104; "Near Mrs.")
• Teen Wolf (Season 2 premiere)
• Austin City Limits
• Life Unexpected
• Love Monkey
• Archer (episode 210, "El Secuestro")
• The League (episode 209, "Expert Witness")
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Grimm
• Joint panel with Adult Swim's NTSF:SD:SUV and Children's Hospital

• Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries, Life Unexpected, 90210)
• Tom Cavanagh (Love Monkey, Ed, Royal Pains)
• Judy Greer (Archer, Love Monkey, Arrested Development)
• Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights, Lone Star)
• Gaius Charles (Friday Night Lights)
• Matt Lauria (Friday Night Lights)
• Ian Gomez (Cougar Town, Felicity)
• Alicia Witt (Friday Night Lights)
• Michael B. Jordan (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, County)
• Jaimie Alexander (Kyle XY)
• Lindsay McKeon (Supernatural, One Tree Hill)
• Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights)
• Paul Scheer (The League, NTSF:SD:SUV)

• Betty Thomas (Hill Street Blues, Dream On)
• Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, County)
• Julie Plec (The Vampire Diaries)
• Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Cougar Town)
• Michael Rauch (Love Monkey, Royal Pains)
• Liz Tigelaar (Life Unexpected, Revenge)
• Mark Schwahn (One Tree Hill)
• Noah Hawley (Bones, The Unusuals, My Generation)
• Peter Billingsley (Sullivan and Son, Dinner for Five)
• Jane Espenson (Husbands, Buffy, Warehouse 13, Battlestar Galactica)
• Kyle Killen (Lone Star, Awake)
• Jeff Greenstein (Husbands, Friends, Will & Grace, Desperate Housewives)
• Jeff Davis (Teen Wolf)
• Liza Richardson (Music Supervisor, Friday Night Lights/Parenthood)
• Ben Edlund (Firefly)
• Jose Molina (Firefly)