Thanksgiving is less than a week away but here at The Planet, every Friday Night is a holiday from the week’s “adventures”.

As usual, we encourage members to give that other site the day off today though if you do go by there, please don’t hesitate to invite others there to join us today and tonight.

Right here at The Planet tonight, we will as always host a music thread to listen to and share lots of wonderful music videos with your friends and colleagues (as well as chat about anything and everything).

And also tonight, we’re excited to present the debut of “The Weekly Planet”, our live roundtable with humorous and thoughtful discussions of this week’s news, .  It begins tonight at 7 pm PST on the page of the same name (which you’ll find under “Live Events” at the top of the page).

For your convenience, here is the link to “The Weekly Planet” page:

http://planetpov.com/live-events/the-weekly-planet/

As with Debate Night Live, the live chat system does give access to all Authors so we really appreciate your allowing just tonight’s guests to enter comments. After the event, we will move to a related post for everyone to chat about the event and the topics that were discussed.

Hope to see you there tonight, should be fun!

Coming on the heels of the successful debut of our new feature, “Debate Night Live”, we are launching a new live event which will debut this Friday night, “The Weekly Planet”.

It will begin here at The Planet at 7pm PST Friday night. The link can be found under “Live Event” at the top of the page but so it’s handy, here it is (please feel free to Bookmark it): http://planetpov.com/live-events/the-weekly-planet/

The Weekly Planet is a humorous and thoughtful roundtable discussion about the week’s events. Think of it as a live chat version of Real Time with Bill Maher….without the celebrities and with more frequent references to legalizing marijuana. However, if Bill Maher sues, think of it as a totally original concept that is not at all similar to Real Time with Bill Maher in any way.

I will be your host and two of our members will join me as guests. The event should last around 45 minutes so we will be limited as to how many topics we can discuss. We’d like the members to suggest specific topics they would like to see discussed. We’re especially interested in having members be guests on topics  in which they have professional or personal experience or have a strong passion for discussing.

So, please comment below to let us know which of this week’s news stories you’d like to see discussed on The Weekly Planet and if you are interested in being a guest on this week’s chat and available (on this Friday Night at 7pm PST until at least 8 pm PST), please add that in your comment too!

BTW, Debate Night Live will now be on Tuesday nights, more on next week’s debate shortly!

Should be fun, hope to see you here for the debut on Friday night!