Emmy statue
The 2010 Emmys will be held in August.
NBC says it will broadcast the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards, usually held in mid-September, on Sunday, Aug. 29.
The network has bumped up the ceremony by...
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The Prisoner
The Prisoner
8/7c AMC
Surreal, intriguing and at times captivating, this trippy re-jiggering of the 1960s cult hit is awash in a school of red herring (or are they?) As Six, Jim Caviezel is both a complex and perplexed amnesiac (or is he?) who alights in a mysterious dreamscape known as the Village, where everyone knows your name, but all names are numbers. The No. 1 guy in the Village is actually Two (Ian McKellen), an enigmatic leader with a smile on his face, treachery in his heart and a tendency for two-timing.
Read on for previews of The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives and Sunday Night Football.
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The Amazing Race
Amazing Race 15
8/7c CBS
One of the show's most daunting Roadblocks is revisited when the five remaining teams travel to Stockholm and encounter the game's first-ever Switchback. What's a "Switchback"? It requires teams to complete a task performed on a previous season. In this case, it's unrolling bales of hay to find a clue. Fans may recall in Season 6 that poor Lena Jensen unrolled 100 bales of hay over eight hours and never found a clue. Phil eventually came to the field and told her to stop because she had already been eliminated. Maybe these teams will have better luck.
Read on for previews of Sunday Night Football, Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show, Bored to Death, Mad Men and Brothers & Sisters.
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John Madden
Boom! Legendary NFL commentator John Madden is walking away from the broadcast booth after nearly 30 years.
"It's time," Madden said in a statement issued by NBC Sports, where he has worked since 2006 as an analyst on Sunday Night Football, and for whom he called the most recent Super Bowl. "I'm 73 years old. My 50th wedding anniversary is this fall. I have two great sons and their families and my five grandchildren are at an age now when they know when I'm home and, more importantly, when I'm not.
"I still love every part of it — the travel, the practices, the game film, the games, seeing old friends and meeting new people... but I know this is the right time," Madden said.
The former Oakland Raiders coach has called games for all four of the major broadcast networks. He joined ...
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Kathryn Morris and Raymond J. Barry, Cold Case
Cold Case
9 pm/ET CBS
Period music is one of the strong points of the series, and occasionally an episode will focus exclusively on one artist, such as Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan or Bruce Springsteen.
Read on for previews of CNBC Reports 2008: A Year on the Brink, Sunday Night Football, Nick News and Brotherhood.
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Julie Benz and Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Dexter
9 pm/ET Showtime
Season 3 comes to a well-executed conclusion. The episode title, "Do You Take Dexter Morgan," is ambiguous and can relate to Dexter's impending nuptials to Rita, or to the possibility that he can be taken out by a vengeful someone with a grudge against him.
Read on for previews of Survivor, Snow 2 Brain Freeze, Sunday Night Football and House of Saddam.
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Malcom Floyd, San Diego Chargers, Deltha O Neal, New England Patriots
Sunday's ratings summary:
7 pm/ET
The CW's In Harm's Way surged eight percent from its premiere to deliver 729,000 total viewers.
8 pm
Extreme Makeover eked out a W, scoring 11.26 million viewers to the first hour of Sunday Night Football's 11.16 mil. The onset of Fox's baseball coverage (9.5 mil) edged out Amazing Race (9.17 mil), while Episode 2 of the CW's Valentine (1.01 mil) felt only slightly less love than its debut.
NBC's coverage of the Patriots-Chargers game averaged 11.2 mil through 11 pm, and topped everyone except the Housewives in the demos. Baseball averaged 8.5 mil over its first two hours.
9 pm
Desperate Housewives dominated with 15.3 million, more or less on par with a week ago. Cold Case gained 200K to place third with 10.9 mil. The CW's Easy Money (753,000) saw 30 percent of its premiere audience cash out.
10 pm
Football sneaked past Brothers & Sisters (10.1 mil), which was down 500 thou. The Unit (9.12 mil) dropped 14 percent.
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Marion Barber of the Dallas Cowboys by David Podwika/ WireImage.com
They don't call 'em America's Team for nothing. For the second time in a week the Dallas Cowboys scored a major win - and big ratings. Following a cable-record 18.61 million viewers for last week's Monday Night Football game, the 'Boys beat the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night Football with 22.24 million tuning in.
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Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo by David Podwika/ WireImage.com
Sunday Night Football 's got a major match-up that should set the early-season pecking order in the NFC. With both teams 2-0, the Dallas Cowboys visit the Green Bay Packers (Sept. 21, 8:15 pm/ET, NBC). Tony Romo & Co. are coming off a high-scoring win against the Eagles on Monday, while Green Bay's new QB Aaron Rodgers is quickly making Cheeseheads forget about Brett Favre. Still, SNF's Al Michaels expects a surreal experience to be at Lambeau Field without Favre. "I think about when you go to Chicago after Michael Jordan leaves, or in hockey the analogy would be when you went to Edmonton after Gretzky got traded to the Los Angeles Kings; Pete Rose leaves Cincinnati and goes to Philadelphia, it's probably along those lines," Michaels says. "But that era's gone, and the new era is here. There's so much excitement now in Green Bay."
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Bryant Gumbel by Nathaniel Welch/HBO
At Monday's Sports Emmys, HBO led all networks, taking eight trophies. Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel was honored along with its Ghosts of Flatbush documentary and the network's boxing coverage.ESPN scored seven total Emmys (including three for ESPN.com) and Fox picked up five Emmys. CBS and NBC won three statues apiece.It was a big night for NBC's football coverage. Sunday Night Football's Al Michaels won best play-by-play honors and his boothmate John Madden took top analyst honors. Football Night in America co-host Cris Collinsworth was named best studio analyst. James Brown won best studio host for CBS' The NFL Today.Other Emmys went to Fox's Fiesta Bowl coverage along with NASCAR on Fox. ESPN's College GameDay won best weekly studio show, and TNT's Inside the NBA snared the Emmy for best daily studio show. —J.R. Whalen
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