eastbound and down

Impatient TV fans of all genres, today is your lucky day.

Two very different shows released trailers for their upcoming seasons today, with The CW offering a lengthy look at 'Gossip Girl''s fourth season and HBO teasing the second season of 'Eastbound & Down.'

The unembeddable 'Gossip Girl' sneak peek is surprisingly informative, immediately revealing whether Chuck Bass is alive or dead, whether that really was Dan's baby and whether Blair and Serena have that blissful Parisian vacation they hoped for. Spoiler alert: Chuck's alive (we think), it's Dan's baby (at least that's what he thinks) and the BFFs are once again frenemies.

After the jump, watch the way-too-short 'Eastbound & Down' teaser.

According to a dubious website with a surprisingly comprehensive list of made-up holidays, today is Lazy Day.

What? You don't celebrate it? That's OK, because what would a Lazy Day celebration really be except a bunch of people munching on potato chips while wearing sweatpants and watching TV? (Not that we're projecting our own ideas of the holiday, or anything.)

Since we didn't want to let the day go by without honoring our brethren in skirting responsibility, we decided to celebrate Lazy Day by rounding up a list of our favorite lazy TV characters.

Read on to see which slackers made the cut.

Get ready to be 'Bored to Death' once again. No, not by bad summer TV, we're talking about the Jason Schwartzman-led comedy and its season 2 premiere on Sept. 26 at 10PM ET on HBO.

According to TV Guide, 'Eastbound and Down' will also premiere on Sept. 26 at 10:30PM ET.

'Bored to Death' stars Schwartzman as a struggling writer pretending to be a private investigator in Brooklyn. Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis also star.

'Eastbound and Down' stars Danny McBride as Kenny Powers, a washed up major league baseball player who returns to his hometown to be a substitute teacher at his former middle school. This season we'll see Kenny Powers hiding in Mexico where he'll join a local baseball team.

After a very long wait, Kenny Powers is back! According to TV Guide, season 2 of the popular HBO comedy 'Eastbound and Down' will officially premiere Sun., Sept. 26.

When we last saw Kenny (Danny McBride), he left his girlfriend at a gas station and drove off, leaving everyone who cared about him to think that he was returning to the Major League. In reality, the Tampa Bay Rays had canceled his deal, leaving Kenny worried about his future.

Emmy winner Megan Mullally ('Will & Grace') will return to the NBC comedy 'Parks and Recreation,' reprising her role as Ron's (real-life husband Nick Offerman) ex-wife. "I'm doing one next week or the week after," she told the Ausiello Files, though no word on when the episode will air. For more on Mullally's return, check out her interview with TV Squad. [Ausiello Files]

More casting news after the jump.

Over her nearly 25 years in the business, Gina Gershon has worn many hats.

Recently, she's been trying out her comedic chops with appearances on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' 'Ugly Betty' and 'Eastbound & Down.'

But this weekend, she'll take on quite a different role as the lead in the Liftetime two-part movie event, 'Ann Rule's Everything She Ever Wanted.' Gershon plays Pat Allanson, a privileged southern charmer who has a taste for the finer things in life -- and will stop at nothing to get them.

AOL TV recently spoke with Gershon about the miniseries, premiering Sun., Nov. 14 at 8PM.

The Costume: 'Eastbound and Down' former Major League Baseball pitching sensation Kenny Powers (played by the hilarious Danny McBride), who's still a legend in his own mind.

What You'll Need: Jeans, a T-shirt with the sleeves cut off, a beer can in one hand, a baseball glove on the other and facial hair manscaped into a circle beard. Essential to pulling off the Kenny Powers look: the perm/mullet wig, because Kenny is all about business up front and some serious, get-down-with-your-bad-self partying in the back. And by the way, we do mean wig, because we hope you're not trying to rock that look with your own hair.

Here are the highlights of this week's DVD releases. Enjoy!

'Entourage' (The Complete Fifth Season)

What This Season Is About: Vince (Adrian Grenier) and Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) are hiding out beachside in Mexico after the failure of 'Medellin.' Ari (Jeremy Piven) and Eric (Kevin Connolly) begin plotting Vince's rise back to the top, resulting in Vince getting cast in Martin Scorcese's version of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Why You Should Check It Out: Stellan Skarsgard, Jason Patric and Gus Van Sant guest star, as well as Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who plays herself in a recurring role as Turtle's new girlfriend.

Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.

I've been trying to figure out which Swiss Family Robinson is being released this week. It's not the 1960 movie with James MacArthur, and it's not the 1975 series that starred Martin Milner, Helen Hunt, Willie Aames, and Cameron Mitchell. It's at 1976 series from Canada. Not sure if I've ever seen that.

Another blast from the TV past: Parker Lewis Can't Lose!

• Eastbound & Down - Season 1
• Entourage - Season 5
• Eureka - Season 3
• The IT Crowd - Season 2

'Big Love'
(Sun., 9PM, HBO) 3rd season finale
For three seasons, Bill Henrickson has struggled to break free from his past, namely dealings with prophet Roman and his plotting, thuggish in-laws, the Greenes.

Bill thinks he's finally found a way, via a legal ally, to rid himself of the whole bunch all at once, though, as always, Roman will be at his wily best when the heat is on.

Meanwhile, as Sarah finally settles on post-high school plans, Nicki has a surprise reunion, Alby struggles to hold on to control of the compound and one character – a major character – becomes the second shocking 'Big Love' death of the season.

What It's About: Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) is an ex-professional MLB closer who's gone from flame-throwing world series MVP to overweight, noodle-armed phys ed teacher. He's moved back to his hometown, where he's a big, inappropriate, vulgar fish in a small, moral North Carolina pond. Kenny battles with drug abuse, steroids -- and his own stupidity

The Buzz: Will Ferrell brings his raunch, over-the-top humor -- and love of sports comedies -- to the small screen. He teams with co- 'Anchorman' scribe Adam McKay, while McBride, who co-stars in Ferrell's upcoming 'Land of the Lost,' is one of the show's lead writers. Since it's on HBO, expect no-holds-barred crude comedy.

SHOWS TO KNOW

It looks like even the magic formula that Will Ferrell and Adam McKay created to become comedy movie mavericks doesn't work on the aptly named "idiot box."

HBO's new Eastbound & Down bombed in its premiere episode and lost nearly 40 percent of the lead-in audience from Flight of the Conchords. It also only scored a measly .3 in the ratings, which is dangerously close to "HelloLarrydom."

But fear not, Ferrell freaks. This is HBO, the network that dared to mess with convention, give fledgling shows time to grow and kept Arli$$ on the air for six whole seasons.

This one caught me a little bit by surprise. If you had told me the Funny Or Die guys were getting a TV show, I would have guessed Comedy Central, TBS, VH1, or something like that. Instead, HBO has ponied up the dollars to buy a stake in the company. HBO's interest is believed to be less than 10% of the company, but it also comes with an order for ten half hour episodes.

The deal came about thanks to the relationship built when HBO worked with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay on the upcoming series Eastbound And Down. It went well enough that the network was looking for more projects to work on with the group. It's unclear just what form Funny Or Die will take on HBO. Ferrell talks about keeping their options open, suggesting that it could be "... anything from a funny offbeat talk show to a maybe more-traditional-type sitcom to a show with puppets". The only clue being that they want to keep the new show in the same family of comedy as what they have presented on the website. An example of that comedy is embedded, after the jump.