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TV Tidbits - Oddsmakers don't think that Parker will win an Emmy
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Published: September 18, 2009
Mary-Louise Parker is a long shot to win an Emmy award Sunday, according to Bookmaker.com, a Web site that specializes in sporting events but occasionally tackles other subjects.
Parker, an alumna of the UNC School of the Arts, is up for lead actress in a comedy series for her show Weeds. But the site is predicting that Tina Fey will win for her series 30 Rock.
"The odds are set by professional oddsmakers, and each nominee is assigned a ranking based on the likelihood he/she will win," a publicist for the site wrote in an e-mail. Among the things that the site looks at are whether a person has won in the past and whether they have won other awards this year for their performance.
The site's other predictions of the winners this year are 30 Rock for comedy series, Mad Men for drama, Glenn Close from Damages for lead actress in a drama, Jon Hamm from Mad Men for lead actor in a drama, and Alec Baldwin of 30 Rock for lead actor in a comedy.
Several networks are paying tribute to Patrick Swayze, who died this week.
On Saturday, digital-cable movie channel Encore (digital 150 in the Movie tier) will show a marathon of three of his films: City of Joy (4 p.m.), Youngblood (6:15) and Point Break (8:10 p.m.).
Hallmark Movie Channel HD (digital 584 in the HD Plus tier) will show his 2004 miniseries King Solomon's Mines at 7 p.m. Saturday and again at 2 p.m. Sunday. And at 10 p.m. Saturday, Spike TV (channel 47) will air Road House.
PBS has decided to open the 2010 TV season of Antiques Roadshow in Raleigh.
Three episodes of the show were taped at the Raleigh Convention Center on June 27, and those episodes will be the first ones to air during the show's 14th season. They will air Mondays at 8 p.m. on Jan. 4, 11 and 18 on UNC-TV.
"We got a right to pick a little fight, Bonan-za!" Few people have heard the lyrics to the theme song of Bonanza, and for good reason. But a cringe-inducing scene with the Cartwrights singing on horseback was filmed for but not used in the show's first episode. That amusing extra is one of the bonuses included in Bonanza: The Official First Season, which came to DVD this week in two separate volumes, each with half the season of the show's debut season.
Also new on DVD this week: the first seasons of Sanctuary, an ambitious science-fiction series that follows a team of scientists searching for and protecting cryptozoological specimens (think Bigfoot, Nessie, etc.), Fear Itself, a 13-episode anthology horror series from directors including John Landis, and Crash, a drama based on the acclaimed movie, with a cast including Dennis Hopper; the second season of The Big Bang Theory, the CBS sitcom about four geeky guys; the third -- and, sadly, final -- season of the BBC science-fiction series Primeval; and the fourth and final season of My Name is Earl, an offbeat NBC sitcom that started out brilliantly but fell apart by the end.
In addition to the DVDs, Earl and Crash are also available on Blu-ray. The Blu-ray version of Crash has an unusual bonus that lets viewers follow one character's story arc.
tclodfelter@wsjournal.com 336-727-7371
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