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Last month we reported that the Video Games Live game music concert series would have a 90 minute PBS TV special that would air at various PBS TV stations in August. Now the concert's web site has posted up a schedule of which PBS stations in the US will be airing the special on what dates and times.

Just a reminder: the special will show concert footage of Video Games Live music performances from such games like StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Civilization and others. You can get more info on if your PBS station is broadcasting the special on the official PBS web site.

The Video Games Live music concert tour has brought game music via a full live orchestra for the past several years to tons of locations all over the world. Now the PBS TV network is planning to broadcast a 90 minute special that will show performances of Video Games Live this summer.

The special will have music from a ton of games including StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Civilization and others. The PBS station for the Bay Area of California, KQED, will show the special first this Monday at 7:30 pm . It will make its nationwide PBS debut on July 31 and will be shown in various PBS stations in August. PBS will also sell a CD and DVD/Blu-Ray of the special starting July 31 and it will be exclusive to them until November 1. You can check out a four minute trailer for the special above this post which has (not kidding) Jamie Lee Curtis talking about World of Warcraft. Who knew?

The traveling video game music concert series Video Games Live has been in operation for several years now with performances of game music with a full live orchestra all over the world. Now Video Games Live has announced that one of its upcoming concerts will be filmed by PBS for a special to be broadcast on that network in June 2010.

The concert will be filmed at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans on February 5 with tickets for the concert going on sale on Friday. After the special is aired, Video Games Live will offer a DVD and Blu-Ray showing of the event with lots of extra footage and features. It also plans to release a second Video Games Live music CD in 2010 that will have many of the new songs and tracks that have been added to the concert tour in the past two years.