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TV Tidbits: Best friends from Goldsboro to compete in new golf program
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Published: July 18, 2008
Two people from North Carolina are among the contestants on a new golf show that will begin next week.
Andy Crain and Parker King from Goldsboro, both 29, are best friends who met when they were kids. Their fathers played golf together at Goldsboro Country Club.
They will appear in Highway 18, a series making its debut on the Golf Channel at 10 p.m. Tuesday. They are one of five teams that will compete in various golf-related challenges, traveling from St. Augustine, Fla., to Key West, Fla., over the course of 10 episodes. Their competition includes teams from Canada, Texas and Florida.
After high school, Crain attended UNC Greensboro, where he played golf and was named to the all-conference team in his senior year. After graduation, he turned professional and currently competes on the Tar Heel Tour. His professional highlight has been qualifying and competing in the 2002 Greater Greensboro Open.
King is an insurance agent. He served as Crain's caddy at the GGO.
Fans of Joss Whedon, the creator of such cult-hit shows as Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, won't be able to catch his latest work on TV. Or in theaters.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is an online musical comedy that will be available for free for the next few days -- if you can get the site, www.drhorrible.com, to come up. An influx of fans caused the site to crash earlier this week.
The story follows Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris of How I Met Your Mother), an incompetent supervillain who is tired of being picked on by swaggering superhero Captain Hammer (Nathan Fillion of Firefly). Dr. Horrible wants to impress a society of supervillains and convince them to let him join.
He also tries to work up the nerve to ask out a cute girl at the laundromat. And, occasionally, the characters burst into song, along the lines of the popular Buffy musical episode "Once More With Feeling."
The first two 14-minute installments were posted on Tuesday and Thursday; the finale will be posted Saturday. After Sunday, it will be available for $3.99 from iTunes, and later this year it will come out on DVD.
A companion online comic book, written by Whedon's brother Zack (who co-wrote Dr. Horrible) and focusing on Captain Hammer, is also available at tinyurl.com/5uaaqb.
Before you head out to theaters to see The Dark Knight, the latest Batman film (unless you went to a midnight screening already), you may want to check out the adventures of Batman's daughter. In the short-lived WB Network series Birds of Prey, now on DVD from Warner Home Video, Batman has disappeared after a final confrontation with the Joker. Batgirl, paralyzed by the Joker and now in a wheelchair, has taken on a new identity as Oracle. She is joined in protecting Gotham City by Huntress, the daughter of Batman and Catwoman, and Dinah, the daughter of comic character Black Canary.
The DVD also includes bonus cartoons about the characters and the unaired pilot, which was partly recast before the final version aired.
Birds of Prey is based on a DC Comics title. John Floyd, a Thomasville artist who was interviewed in yesterday's relish, is the inker of that title as of the issue in stores this week.
Comic-book fans may also want to check out Swamp Thing: The Series Vol. 2, another adaptation of a DC Comics character. This one is about a lumbering but heroic swamp monster in the Florida Everglades.
Also new on DVD this week is Reno 911: The Complete Fifth Season, a Cops spoof from Comedy Central. It follows the bumbling members of the Reno, Nev., sheriff's department. Guest appearances in the fifth season include an episode with Diedrich Bader, who attended the N.C. School of the Arts, as a cocky bounty hunter with his own reality show.
■ Tim Clodfelter can be reached at 727-7371 or at tclodfelter@wsjournal.com.
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