SMALL SCREEN THE BUZZ ON TELEVISION.Byline: - Compiled by Valerie Kuklenski FERGIE TALKS: Sarah Ferguson will soon find out if royalty counts in the television ratings Television ratings may refer to:
NEW EMMYS COMING: September's prime-time Emmy Awards will break new ground with revised makeup categories and first-time recognition of stunt work. The television academy has approved an award for stunt coordination in any form of fictional programming, meaning everybody but magician David Blaine David Blaine (born David Blaine White on April 4, 1973 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American illusionist and stunt performer. He made his name as a performer of street and close-up magic. and those wackos on ``America's Funniest Home Videos'' is in the running. In the makeup honors, the academy now will distinguish between ``prosthetic'' and ``nonprosthetic'' work, sorting out the looks that are created by molded latex appliances. The nominations will be announced July 18 by Eric McCormack Eric James McCormack (b. April 18 1963,[1] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American actor of Canadian, Irish and Cherokee descent. He maintains residences in Los Angeles and Vancouver. of ``Will & Grace'' and Allison Janney of ``The West Wing.'' Kudos to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for honoring the men and women who go to great risk in the name of thrills for couch potatoes. Are you listening, Oscar? VOTE FOR 'ER' - STAT!: ``ER'' slipped a bit in the ratings last season, and in the last three years has lost many of its core characters. Now NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. is looking to return to its glory days with an online poll asking viewers to choose their favorite episodes from a roster of 17. Among the choices: ``Union Station,'' when Dr. Lewis leaves Chicago, leaving a lovelorn Dr. Greene on the platform; ``Fathers and Sons,'' when Drs. Ross and Greene take a road trip to identify Ross' father's body; ``The Storm,'' a two-parter that concludes with Ross' departure; and ``Be Still My Heart,'' when Lucy and Carter are stabbed by a deranged de·range tr.v. de·ranged, de·rang·ing, de·rang·es 1. To disturb the order or arrangement of. 2. To upset the normal condition or functioning of. 3. To disturb mentally; make insane. patient. Polling opens today at www.nbc.com/er and continues through July 4. The top five choices will air July 11 through Aug. 8. BIG-BUCKS FIGHT: HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy and Showtime rang up $103 million in viewer fees for last weekend's Mike Tyson-Lennox Lewis heavyweight fight, making it the highest-grossing pay-per-view event ever. The networks had 1.8 million purchases of the fight, in which Lewis pummeled Tyson and left him on the canvas in the eighth round. ``It was a pay-per-view masterpiece that lifted the sport and gave boxing fans a night to remember,'' Mark Taffet of HBO said. At least viewers got more bam for the buck than they have in some recent contests that ended in a matter of minutes A Matter of Minutes is an episode from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cast
CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) GEORGE CLOONEY George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER (DR. ROSS) (2) TYSON TAKES A HIT Laura Rauch/Associated Press |
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