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Will Kevin James beat out Steve Carell for best actor in a comedy series? Will NBC's West Wing trounce ABC's Grey's Anatomy in the best drama category? We'd love to know which shows and actors you think will win an Emmy Award this year. Please tell us your picks for the winners in the top categories. We'll publish the results of your votes Aug. 27 (the day the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be aired) -- along with the picks of our TV critic, David Zurawik. Please visit baltimoresun.

"Jersey Shore" Season 5 premieres Thursday, so we asked our staff and guests to reveal which show they think is so done.  "Weeds" started off funny and unique, but quickly ran out of plot lines that didn't feel forced. It's time for Nancy Botwin to end up like Pilar Zuzua. Luke Broadwater, reporter, The Baltimore Sun "The Simpsons. " Homer has probably been exposed to lethal amounts of radiation by now. Shouldn't he get to retire soon?

Cinderella is alive and well and living on Staten Island. Ingrid Michaelson, a 28-year-old singer-songwriter whose self-produced album Girls and Boys recently reached No. 2 on the iTunes pop chart, is enjoying an enchanted transformation as a recording artist. Michaelson's climb out of obscurity started, as is so often the case these days, on the Internet. Now she is known to many Grey's Anatomy fans for her quirky, heartfelt songs that were featured over the past year on the ABC television series.

The average middle-class child aquires trophies, medals and ribbons like so many Christmas toys - and they are often treated similarly, briefly prized and then forgotten. Rare is the tweener bedroom that does not display a trove of awards, most of it the bounty of organized sport. But in 10-year-old Daniel's bedroom, there's a somewhat uncommon specimen. There, over by the rotating aquarium night light and next to the dog-eared decks of Pokemon cards, is a bronze-colored trophy featuring a chef in apron and kerchief triumphantly holding what appears to be a carving knife and fork.

Grey's Anatomy -- Season 1 [Buena Vista] $30 This set features all nine episodes of the ABC medical series that recently won the Writers Guild Award for best new series; regular Sandra Oh also won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards last month for her work as a competitive intern. Grey's Anatomy was a midseason replacement last year that was given the 10 p.m. Sunday slot directly after Desperate Housewives. It quickly caught on with audiences and is consistently in the top 10. The show not only features interesting medical cases but also an attractive, talented cast and plenty of sex and romance.

ABC unveiled a busy fall schedule to advertisers yesterday, with 11 new programs set to roll out in the first wave and a half-dozen more in the wings. However, the announcement that generated the most buzz is a brazen programming gambit involving the network's most popular series, Grey's Anatomy. The romantic medical drama, which surged past Desperate Housewives and Lost in the Nielsen ratings this season, is moving to Thursday nights at 9, where it will battle TV's most popular drama, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

With the synth pop chords of Phil Collins as a backdrop, the Miami Vice pilot in 1984 announced it was not a typical television show. That first episode featured Collins' hit song "In the Air Tonight," setting a haunting mood as a dark sedan rolled through the streets of Miami. Over the next five years, songs by dozens of popular and emerging artists provided the show with an extra layer of depth and meaning, and made a TV show feel more like a movie. Featured artists included Willie Nelson, Tina Turner, Bryan Adams, Billy Idol, Cyndi Lauper and Peter Gabriel.

Will Kevin James beat out Steve Carell for best actor in a comedy series? Will NBC's West Wing trounce ABC's Grey's Anatomy in the best drama category? We'd love to know which shows and actors you think will win an Emmy Award this year. Please tell us your picks for the winners in the top categories. We'll publish the results of your votes Aug. 27 (the day the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be aired) - along with the picks of our TV critic, David Zurawik. Please visit baltimore sun.com/emmy by Tuesday to make your selections, or send your choices to arts@baltsun.

Will Kevin James beat out Steve Carell for best actor in a comedy series? Will NBC's West Wing trounce ABC's Grey's Anatomy in the best drama category? We'd love to know which shows and actors you think will win an Emmy Award this year. Please tell us your picks for the winners in the top categories. We'll publish the results of your votes Sunday (the day the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards will be aired) - along with the picks of our TV critic, David Zurawik. Please visit baltimoresun.

The Emmy Awards are not the Oscars, but it was hard to tell on last night's red carpet as stars from prime time's most celebrated shows posed for cameras in elegant, sober, sophisticated, reined-in fashions. That's not to say the fashions were boring. On the contrary, the looks seemed fresh and many of them even fashion-forward. The newest trend unveiled at the television awards ceremony was purple. From lavenders and lilacs to eggplant and deep violet, purple was the "it" color to wear.

Heigl, Knight out as docs on 'Grey's Anatomy' Katherine Heigl and T.R. Knight are leaving Grey's Anatomy, according to co-star James Pickens Jr. "Yes, she is," Pickens told Us Weekly when asked whether Heigl, who plays Izzie Stevens, is leaving the ABC hospital drama. "Wherever Katherine goes, I wish her nothing but the best." Pickens, speaking backstage after last weekend's NAACP Awards lunch in Beverly Hills, expressed similar sentiments regarding Knight, who plays George O'Malley.

Tina Fey and Oprah Winfrey. Are there two bigger female stars in pop culture today? In truth, the only thing that probably matters to most readers about previews like this is the news that the two appear together tonight in Fey's Emmy Award-winning 30 Rock. That alone will likely guarantee the largest audience the series has ever known, and it is already looking like a pretty good ratings year for the sitcom about life backstage at a fictional NBC TV series. After a critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged season last year, 30 Rock opened last week with a bang, winning its highly competitive time period in the key demographics of men ages 18 to 49 and men ages 18 to 34. It did that against CSI (CBS)

Finally, a night that feels like a regular fall evening of network TV. It's not that there is anything great and new that makes TV more inviting, but in keeping with a theme of the season, it's the returning series that offer hope. EASY AS ABC ABC has the most to offer tonight with the return of Ugly Betty (8 p.m.) and Grey's Anatomy (9 p.m.) Since the network does not need the publicity, no screening DVDs for critics - which means no stars from me. But fans of these two outstanding series don't need a critic to tell them there is almost always three stars' worth of viewing pleasure to be had with these series.

Baby Mama Starring Tina Fey, Amy Poehler - Written and directed by Michael McCullers - Universal Home Video - $29.95, $39.95 Blu-ray dvds Tina Fey and Amy Poehler put the chemistry they honed during their years together on Saturday Night Live to marvelous comic effect in this comedy about a harried career woman (Fey) who has no time to be pregnant so she hires a surrogate and gets more than she bargained for with the irrepressibly earthy Angie (Poehler). The film's supporting cast couldn't be sharper.

Two legendary Baltimore institutions are featured in national, prime-time TV productions this week, and at first glance, it might seem as if they could not be more different. Frederick Douglass High School, one of the first black high schools in America, is the focus tomorrow night of Hard Times at Douglass High, a two-hour HBO documentary by the Academy Award-winning husband-and-wife team of Susan and Alan Raymond. With an astronomical dropout rate and shockingly low math and reading scores, the aging high school has major problems - and the Raymonds are not the kind of filmmakers to sugarcoat the truth.

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