Grey S Anatomy

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 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.

Tight end Daniel Wilcox signed a new three-year contract with the Ravens in March. He averaged 7.7 yards on 20 receptions last year. He also led the team with his career-high 18 special teams tackles. With your new contract, did you get a new car? "Actually I did. I wasn't expecting to get a new one, but my truck got wrecked at the end of the season last year so I got something else. I got a Ford F-150." So nothing really fancy? "I'm a truck guy, just straight old Ford. This is my third or fourth truck in six years."

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.

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.

ABC has found better ratings through buffer hunks: Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey of Grey's Anatomy, Matthew Fox of Lost and the unsung men of Desperate Housewives. The network tries to extend the streak with Barry Watson of What About Brian. Fans remember Watson fondly for playing Matt Camden on 7th Heaven. The actor exudes easy charm as Brian, a Los Angeles bachelor in romantic turmoil. What About Brian debuts at 10 p.m. Sunday on ABC (WMAR, Channel 2); then moves to its 10 p.m. Monday slot.

From Grey's Anatomy (ABC) to House (Fox), there is certainly no shortage of engaging medical drama on television. But such fictional storytelling pales compared to the true-life saga PBS offers tonight of a Johns Hopkins doctor who has spent most of his career saving children's lives in the Third World with inexpensive doses of vitamin A. Rx for Survival -- The Heroes, which is narrated by Brad Pitt and premieres at 9 tonight on Maryland Public Television...

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.

The Winter Olympics are only half over, but already one result is in: The prime-time competition is trouncing the Games. That might seem like a harsh assessment for a broadcast that is averaging more than 20 million viewers a night on NBC. But that's the consensus building among analysts as the drumbeat of head-to-head Olympic defeat continues. From American Idol on Fox to Grey's Anatomy on ABC, the once-invincible Games have been taking it on the Nielsen chin this week, raising serious questions about the role they play - or don't play - in American life.

Brenda Strong was in line at a grocery store recently when a woman heard her talking and realized who she was - the melodramatic and mellifluous voice of the dead Mary Alice on Desperate Housewives. The woman asked Strong to call her daughter in college, a big fan of the show. Strong intoned in her unmistakable cadence: "It's Mary Alice Young, and I'm standing here - next to your mother - in line at Trader Joe's and she is sooo proud of you. Always remember: Put your studies first. Because you never know what can happen."