Best Bets: The Emmys, Miss Universe and a Jackie Kennedy book
(CBS) TV shines in the entertainment industry's busy start-of-season week that includes fashion shows, film festivals and high-profile book and album releases.
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But the highlight is Sunday's Emmy Awards, a glitzy ceremony that brings together all the A-list performers on primetime TV. Jane Lynch of "Glee" hosts the live ceremony, broadcast on Fox. Though the awards will honor achievements of the season that just ended, the ceremony takes place as another network season is set to start.
First out of the gate this week is "Survivor: South Pacific," which is bringing back all-stars Ozzy Lusth and "Coach" Benjamin Wade to battle against 16 new castaways for a million-dollar prize. It starts Wednesdays on CBS.
A new season of "Parenthood " premieres on Tuesday on NBC and "America's Next Top Model" starts a new season Wednesday on CW.
In addition, NBC will broadcast the Miss Universe pageant from Sao Paulo, Brazil, tonight, and ABC will air a special on Tuesday, "Jacqueline Kennedy, in Her Own Words," that is tied to a high-profile CD and book release this week.
The book, "Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy," is based on series of interviews the former first lady gave to historian and former Kennedy aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. shortly after her husband was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. The book, compiled by daughter Caroline Kennedy, will be published with accompanying audio CDs by Hyperion Books on Wednesday. Leaked details already are creating a buzz.
Also out this week are memoirs by "Glee" star Jane Lynch ("Happy Accidents") and movie critic Roger Ebert ("Life Itself").
Grammy winning country group Lady Antebellum releases its third studio album "Own the Night" on Tuesday. "Just a Kiss," a single from that album, debuted in May on "American Idol."
The Venice Film Festival has wrapped up, but Toronto is still going strong and that is where you will find all the movie folks this week.
Opening in theaters this week are "Drive," with Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, Sarah Jessica Parker's "I Don't Know How She Does It," The "Straw Dogs" reboot with James Marsden and Kate Boswoth and the animated "Lion King in 3D."
Finally, the parade of fashion that began with "Fashion's Night Out" last week, continues through Thursday in New York's Lincoln Center.
