Stars' Popularity at Internet Auction Sites Indicate Emmy Chances; Online Auction Portal Uses Internet Auctions as Measuring Stick.Entertainment Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2000 Bidder's Edge (www.biddersedge.com), the world's number one online auction portal, today released the first Emmy winner predictions based on online auction presence of top category nominees. For nearly 60 years, Emmy Awards have been doled out Adj. 1. doled out - given out in portions apportioned, dealt out, meted out, parceled out distributed - spread out or scattered about or divided up to television's leading names, faces, and programs. This year's awards air Sunday night Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists. at 8 p.m., and the winners will be... anyone's guess. In forming the forecast, Bidder's Edge chose the four key actor- and actress-oriented categories. Three of the auction-based guesses, amazingly, match up with the more educated predictions of noted television critics. Bidder's Edge searches more than 200 online auction sites and collects data on the approximately 7.5 million items available at those sites at any given time. The winning predictions are based on the number of items associated with each nominee, such as autographed photos and posters, available at Internet auction sites on September 8. ACTRESS, COMEDY Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and the City (HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy ) - 154 items Jenna Elfman, Dharma dharma (där`mə). In Hinduism, dharma is the doctrine of the religious and moral rights and duties of each individual; it generally refers to religious duty, but may also mean social order, right conduct, or simply virtue. & Greg (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ) - 70 Debra Messing, Will & Grace (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. ) - 47 Patricia Heaton Patricia Heaton (born March 4, 1958 in Bay Village, Ohio) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for playing lead character and Ray Barone's wife Debra Barone on the CBS television sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. , Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond is an American sitcom originally broadcast on CBS from 1996 to 2005. It is one of the most critically acclaimed American sitcoms of its time. (CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. ) - 2 Jane Kaczmarek, Malcolm in the Middle Malcolm in the Middle is a seven-time Emmy-winning,[1] one-time Grammy-winning[1] and seven-time Golden Globe-nominated[1] American sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. (Fox) - 2 "Her HBO series has become a huge hit, thanks to its ironies, humor, and superb acting. So Sarah Jessica Parker's decisive showing in terms of auction availability is no surprise - at least not to us," says Larry Canale, auction expert and editor of Bidder's Edge e-zine, The Inside Edge (http://www.biddersedge.com/ezine/columns/awire.html). ACTOR, COMEDY Michael J. Fox, Spin City (ABC) - 460 items John Lithgow, 3rd Rock From the Sun (NBC) - 110 Kelsey Grammer, Frasier (NBC) - 72 Ray Romano, Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS) - 26 Eric McCormack, Will & Grace (NBC) - 15 "Michael J. Fox became an instant favorite - in Emmy voting as well as auction presence - after Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism, degenerative brain disorder first described by the English surgeon James Parkinson in 1817. When there is no known cause, the disease usually appears after age 40 and is referred to as Parkinson's disease. forced him to step down from his starring role in Spin City," says Canale. ACTRESS, DRAMA Sela Ward, Once and Again (ABC) - 54 items Lorraine Bracco, The Sopranos (HBO) - 26 Amy Brenneman, Judging Amy (CBS) - 22 Julianna Margulies, ER (NBC) - 21 Edie Falco, The Sopranos (HBO) - 16 "Sela Ward's win in auction availability matches critics' opinions," says Canale. ACTOR, DRAMA Martin Sheen, The West Wing (NBC) - 221 items Dennis Franz, NYPD Blue (ABC) - 48 James Gandolfini, The Sopranos (HBO) - 24 Sam Waterson, Law & Order (NBC) - 7 Jerry Orbach, Law & Order (NBC) - 0 "Auction sellers see this as a one-horse race - again, no surprise, considering Martin Sheen's long, stellar career in front of the camera," says Canale. "Amazingly, Law & Order's Jerry Orbach was shut out at auction. You'd think there be at least one Orbach photo magnet on the block somewhere." About Bidder's Edge Bidder's Edge, Inc. pioneered the online auction aggregation business with the launch of its Web site in November 1998. Bidder's Edge enables online auction users to easily find up-to-date information on the large majority of items available at auction, including status of current bids and historical pricing. The company enables users to obtain auction information from more than 170 sites, covering in excess of 7.5 million items. Bidder's Edge also evaluates the retail auction sites it searches and indicates to consumers, with a special Trusted Auction icon, those sites that provide a safe, quality auction service. When consumers locate an item that they want to bid on or receive more information about, they are linked directly to the auction site. InformationWeek named Bidder's Edge one of the 100 most innovative practitioners of e-business in the New Economy. Bidder's Edge is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. |
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