Craig at Paley Center
Craig Ferguson‘s long-awaited first visit to the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles came on Thursday night, as Craig screened next week’s first episode of the Late Late Show in Scotland. After a slight delay in the start of the program due to heavy traffic in LA thanks to President Barack Obama‘s fundraising dinner at George Clooney‘s house, the audience sat back to enjoy the episode, which will be broadcast on Monday, May 14th. Craig was then interviewed on stage by Lynette Rice of Entertainment Weekly. He took questions from the audience and posed for pictures afterward. The Paley Center posted some fantastic photos of Craig during the show:

[ssg-superb-slideshow=22=600=480=7000=500=0=NO]

For the full-sized versions of these pictures and more photos from the event, check out the Paley Center’s collection. The Paley Center may or may not post video clips of the event at some point in the future. If they do, we’ll be sure to link to them here when they become available.

Roboskellies in the Audience
Watching the tweets roll by on Thursday night, it appears that the RSA’s @bd__sd, @Colleen_Byrne, @Diane4Mail, @monroemk and @mickilee were in the audience at the Paley Center. @bd__sd compiled two compilations to give the RSA a taste of the event: One has the Paley Center’s tweets during the event, the other has a sampling of fan tweets during and after the show. Thanks to @bd__sd for putting it all together!

Craig Has Your Six
The RSA’s @JoeWatchesTV tweeted out a great link today, with some background on the lapel pin Craig was wearing:

That “6” pin @craigyferg was wearing last night? More on that at http://www.gotyour6.org/ #veterans #jobs

Video Courtesy: GotYour6Campaign

Craig’s California Tour
All this week, we’ve been posting links to the RSA’s @NancyInTampa‘s stories about her April trip to see four of Craig’s live stand up shows and a taping of the LLS in LA. In today’s post, Nancy talks about her visit to Napa and Craig’s show at the Uptown Theatre.

Scotland Shows Coming Soon
Newspapers and websites around the country, including Zap2It.com and the Daily News in Batavia, NY are talking about the Late Late Show in Scotland, which begins on Monday, May 14th. Meanwhile, Scotland’s Evening Times has an article about The Imagineers and their national television debut on the Late Late Show this week. The band snapped a photo of the story in the paper this week.  Here is the full story with thanks to @bgrhubarb for the link:

[stextbox id=”custom” caption=”The Imagineers in the Evening Times”]Imagineers get big break in USA
By LALITA AUGUSTINE

AN UNSIGNED Glasgow band will be shown on American television for a whole week, exposing them to an average of two million viewers a night.

Rock band The Imagineers were selected as the house band for hit TV programme, The Late Late Show, hosted by Scottish comedian and presenter, Craig Ferguson, when he filmed a special week of home-coming episodes at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in March.

The Scottish episodes will now be broadcast on CBS television in the States, Monday to Friday next week, and the band will feature alongside Hollywood star guests Michael Clark Duncan, Mila Kunis and Rashida Jones, as well as First Minister Alex Salmond.

They’ll perform a selection of their songs, and have recorded their own version of the show’s theme tune, which will be used as the opening credits for the week. The band was selected after show researchers spotted them at a gig in January at the Captain’s Rest pub on Great Western Road.

Ali Greig, 23, who plays bass in the band, said: “Craig sent his team off to gigs and told them to “find me a band I would have wanted to be in 30 years ago.”

Craig, who started his career playing comedian Bing Hitler, was a drummer in his student days, playing in Glasgow punk rock band The Dreamboys, which featured actor Peter Capaldi as lead singer.

The Imagineers soon found themselves performing at the Tron Theatre in front of a live studio audience.

Ali said: “We played it as if we were playing a gig. We also recorded our own version of the theme tune and performed it live outdoors in Edinburgh. Craig Ferguson was jumping around everywhere – it was all a bit mad.”

The band’s song Imagineer was also chosen by CBS for the promo video advertising the week-long event, which saw Craig, who hails from Cumbernauld, visit various locations around the country, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Arbroath and Cumbernauld, where he paid a visit to his old school, Cumbernauld High.

Ali said: “We all thought he was cool. He’s got bags of confidence but he’s down to earth.”

With a performance coming up at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut in June and new single, Spooky From A Distance, being released next Sunday, the broadcasts couldn’t have come at a better time.

Ali said: “It’s quite strange now that it’s already happened for us.

“So far, there’s been more activity on our website so it will be interesting to see how it unfolds.”[/stextbox]

Craig on The Price Is Right
Among his many television appearances leading up to the Scotland episodes being broadcast during the week of May 14th through the 18th, Craig will be appearing on The Price Is Right on Monday the 14th to give away some prizes. CBS sent a short preview of Craig’s appearance, including some jumping up and down with Drew Carey and a contestant.

Video courtesy: CBS

Tonight’s Guests
Friday on the Late Late Show, Craig welcomes TV/Radio host Larry King and actress Anna Chlumsky.

© 2012, RSANews. All rights reserved.