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TV Tidbits: Scour your attic - Antiques Roadshow is coming to Raleigh
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Published: January 9, 2009
You have a little more than half a year to dig through your attic for treasures.
Antiques Roadshow, the popular PBS series, will come to Raleigh's new convention center on June 27 as part of a six-city tour that is being taped this summer for the show's 2010 season. The tour will offer free evaluations of antiques and collectibles.
Admission is free, but tickets are required and must be obtained in advance. Attendees will be selected at random from all eligible entries. Ticket holders can bring two items for a free verbal evaluation by the show's experts.
For more information, including rules or to apply for tickets, go to pbs.org/antiques or call 888-762-3749.
The TV series Best of America by Horseback is moving its corporate headquarters to Wilkes County.
The series, which features tours of popular trails and equine events across America, will be based out of the Leatherwood Mountains resort near the Boone-Blowing Rock area.
"The location is perfect, the trails are wonderful, and the Leatherwood folks give you an instant sense of family home and values," said Tom Seay, the show's host, in a press release announcing the move. "Leatherwood has a variety of opportunities to offer and is a safe investment for our business offices and future new studios." The show's production offices were previously in Culpeper, Va.
The series is shown on channel RFD-TV, which is channel 231 on the DISH Network and channel 379 on DirecTV. Time Warner has no immediate plans to add the channel in this area, said a company spokeswoman.
After a monthlong hiatus during the holidays, the syndicated fantasy series Legend of the Seeker will return this weekend with new episodes.
In the series Bridget Regan, who is a graduate of the UNC School of the Arts, and Craig Horner play heroic adventurers in a mystic world. Locally, it is shown at 7 p.m. Sundays on WMYV (channel 15 on Time Warner Cable). Previous episodes can be seen online at www.legendoftheseeker.com.
The Sci Fi Channel's Web-site newsfeed, The Wire, has proven so successful that it now has its own Web site. The site, www.scifiwire.com, started Monday. It includes information on movies, TV shows, comic books, DVDs and games.
We don't know who the finalists will be on American Idol, but North Carolinians have a long tradition of succeeding on the show, with such notable finalists as Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, Chris Daughtry, Kellie Pickler and Bucky Covington having already gained fame on the show. But though the performers for the eighth season won't be known until we get past several weeks of auditions, the new season of the series -- which will begin Tuesday -- already has a North Carolina connection.
Kara DioGuardi, the new judge on the series, received a degree in political science from Duke University before becoming a popular songwriter and record producer. She was previously a judge on The One: Making a Music Star, which was canceled after two weeks -- and which, incidentally, had Michael Cole, a Winston-Salem resident, as one of its contestants.
The second-to-last season of The Waltons, the popular family drama set in the mountains of Virginia, came to DVD this week. The Waltons: The Complete Eighth Season is set during World War II. Extras include a two-hour retrospective that aired in 1980, in which series creator Earl Hamner discusses the series, and the actors meet their real-life counterparts.
Also new on DVD this week are the second seasons of 1970s detective show Mannix, the lavish historical drama The Tudors and the latest incarnation of Transformers. Also out is the third season of Tripping the Rift, a raunchy computer-animated sci-fi comedy with Stephen Root as the voice of a lecherous starship captain. The series started as a Web short.
■ Tim Clodfelter can be reached at 727-7371 or at tclodfelter@wsjournal.com.
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