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TV's Best and Brightest Turn Out for '57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards'

Posted on: Thursday, 6 October 2005, 15:00 CDT

By RITA SHERROW World Television Editor

"What I Like About You" opens its season at 7 p.m. Friday on the WB, channel 19 and cable channel 12, with Val (Jennie Garth) waking up married to Vic (Dan Cortese). Yikes!

It's airheaded beauty versus smart businesswoman in the new exceedingly silly sitcom "Twins," premiering at 7:30 p.m. Friday on WB, channel 19 and cable channel 12. Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton star as twins (you can guess which is which) with Melanie Griffith and Mark-Linn Baker as their lingerie-business owning parents.

Remember the "crystal entity" that used to wreak havoc on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"? Well, it's back in the two-hour series debut of "Threshold," airing at 8 p.m. Friday on CBS, channel 6. Carla Gugino is the leader of the pack of experts put together to deal with worst-case scenarios -- such aliens arriving on board a freighter in the North Atlantic. Also starring are Charles S. Dutton, Brian Van Holt, Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner.

Oklahoma's own Reba McIntire is back with a new season of her situation comedy "Reba" at 8 p.m. Friday on WB, channel 19 and cable channel 12.

Animal Planet focuses on the heroic efforts to save animals in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and how you can help in the special "Animal Planet Heroes: Hurricane Rescues." It airs at 8 p.m. Friday on cable channel 57.

Bon Jovi and Sugarland, the group that took Cain's Ballroom by storm last week, join forces on "Crossroads," airing at 9:30 p.m. Friday on CMT, cable channel 64.

If you just have to see the best kiss ever one more time, catch a repeat of "The Notebook" at 5:50 p.m. Saturday on Starz, pay digital cable channel 390. Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling player younger versions of a married couple (Gena Rowlands and native Oklahoman James Garner) in this five-hankie film.

Patrick Stewart is Captain Nemo in "Jules Verne's Mysterious Island," airing at 7 p.m. Saturday on the Hallmark Channel, cable digital channel 165. Filmed in Thailand, this film tells how a hot air balloon carrying human passengers and a canine escapee of the American Civil War crash land on an uncharted island. Kyle MacLachlan, Gabrielle Anwar, Omar Gooding, Vinnie Jones and lots of special effects also star.

College football, anyone? CBS, channel 6, has Tennessee at Florida at 7 p.m. and PAX, channel 44 and cable channel 4, has the Tulane at Mississippi. The latter game will be a fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina and the half-time show will feature athletes affected by the catastrophic storm.

Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thorton and Ben Affleck aren't fighting off paparazzi. They're saving the world from a rogue asteroid headed toward Earth in "Armageddon." It airs at 7 p.m. Saturday on ABC, channel 8.

Pierce Brosnan will serve as host for "AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movie Quotes," airing at 7 p.m. Saturday on Bravo, cable channel 46.

Of course, it's not the caliber of the lovely Japanese film of the same name but "Shall We Dance?" has its moments. Richard Gere stars as a bored attorney who signs up for dance lessons to meet a girl he saw sitting in the window of a dance studio. Jennifer Lopez plays as his dance instructor with Susan Sarandon as his wife. It airs at 8 p.m. Saturday on Starz, cable digital channel 390.

Paul Giamatti will be your host with Ludacris and Sum 41 as musical guests on "Saturday Night Live," 10:30 p.m. on NBC, channel 2 and cable channel 9.

Channels that don't have the Emmy Awards have decided to try to grab viewers early with really long movies starting at 6 p.m.

ABC, channel 8, will have "Pearl Harbor" with Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale, while the WB, channel 19 and cable channel 12, will start the fantastical "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" at the same time.

ABC Family, cable channel 37, offers up a baseball film double- header with "The Sandlot" at 6 p.m. and "The Sandlot 2" at 8.

Fox, channel 23 and cable channel 5, will have the season premiere of "King of the Hill" at 6:30 p.m. There's a new love named Lucky for Luanne. Tom Petty provides the voice.

AMC, cable channel 48, will try to confuse the issue with "Dazed and Confused" (starring Ben Affleck, Parker Posey and Matthew McConaughey) at 7 p.m. followed by the documentary "Making Dazed" at 9 p.m. The latter focuses on the 10-year reunion of the cast and crew at filmmaker Richard Linklater's home.

Suffice it to say, the biggest event of the night will be "The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards" airing live at 7 p.m. Sunday on CBS, channel 6. Ellen DeGeneres is back as host (yeah!). The cermony will include Emmy memories from John Travolta and others and a tribute to former news anchors Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and and the late Peter Jennings.

They came, they saw and they conquered. HBO viewers, that is. HBO already has announced the renewal of "Rome" for a second season starting in 2007. This Sunday watch as Pompey maneuvers outside the city while Caesar rally his forces within. Atia throws a humdinger of a party whle Vorenus counters with one of his own. And, Pullo's delivers Pompey's son, Quintus Pompey, into Caesar's hands. "Rome" airs at 8 p.m. Sunday on pay digital channel 300.

At 9 p.m. on cable channel 29, TNT's gritty series "Wanted" wraps its first season with a chase.

Source: Tulsa World

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