TV watch, Aug. 14

Rocky staff and wire reports

Published August 13, 2008 at 6 p.m.
Updated August 13, 2008 at 6:13 p.m.

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28 years of Hee Haw, the country comedy-variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Now RFD-TV, based in Omaha with production facilities in Nashville, Tenn., will carry reruns to its 35 million homes. The show will find a place in its new home among broadcasts of tractor pulls, livestock auctions, rodeo events and simulcasts of Imus in the Morning.

Showtime's drug-dealing mom on Weeds will now take on another independent woman, Henrik Ibsen's iconoclastic heroine Hedda Gabler. Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker will star in the Roundabout Theatre Company revival, opening Jan. 25, artistic director Todd Haimes told The Associated Press this week. Preview performances begin Jan. 6 at New York's American Airlines Theatre.

"We just got back from Beverly Hills, where she was getting belly rubs at a barbecue. She just laid around the pool."

John Garcia, trainer with Utah's Best Friends Animal Society, talking to the Salt Lake Tribune about Georgia, a pit bull rescued from former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick's home. She'll be featured in a series airing on National Geographic Channel, starting Sept. 5.

Beginning Aug. 21, cable's truTV takes viewers into one of the most frightening places on Earth: The Principal's Office. Go behind the scenes to see how three school administrators - one no-nonsense, one compassionate and one somewhere in-between - handle the most mundane situations all the way up to acts that lead to expulsions. The first two titles: Three Licks and Puke or Prom!

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