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coverstory Fox goes country The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, December 7, 2012 American Country Awards speak for the fans By Rebecca Potter TV Media S addle up for a night of great country music performers and entertainers during the third annual American Country Awards, airing on Monday, Dec. 10, on Fox. The American Country Awards honor the biggest and best in country music with voting directly from the fans. Unlike other music award shows, the ACAs let fans voice their opinions on things like performance by including categories such as Touring Artist of the Year. Tony- and Emmy-award winner Kristen Chenoweth and multi-platinum recording artist and country music great Trace Adkins will return to host the two-hour live event from Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Plenty of country music's best will be performing that night, including Kip Moore, Jake Owen, Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Luke Bryan and Little Big Town. As if that isn't enough, Miranda Lambert, Natasha Bedingfield, Ron White, Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Casey James, LeAnn Rimes, Lee Brice, Jana Kramer, Dustin Lynch, Chris Young and champion cowboy Trevor Brazile are all scheduled to appear. Rascal Flatts are also set to perform as the most awarded country music group in the last decade, and while they won the Decade Award for the inaugural American Country Awards, they have since been nominated seven times. This year, the bestselling country vocal group is nominated in four different categories. Singer/songwriter Luke Bryan is currently nominated for seven Scotty McCreery will appear at the American Country Awards television personality, too. American Country Awards, while Lady Antebellum and Some of his hits include the Zac Brown Band each "Just Fishin'", "You're Gonhave six nominations, and na Miss This" and "All I Ask Eric Church and Taylor Swift For Anymore." Adkins is a received five nominations. member of the Grand Ole The Song of the Year cate- Opry, but he's also a former gory has been added to this Grammy nominee and is curyear's American Country rently on tour supporting his Awards to better promote 10th studio album, called both talented musicians and "Proud To Be Here." songwriters. The nominees "The ACAs honor the best for Song of the Year are "A and brightest of country muWoman Like You," by Brice, sic, from the hotshot break"Fly Over States" and "Tatthrough artists to the icons," toos on This Town," by Alsaid Adkins. "I'm looking dean, "Red Solo Cup," by forward to cutting loose Toby Keith, and "Springagain with Kristin, who's steen," by Church. quite the firecracker comediThe list of candidates for enne, while we also take each category was deterviewers through an evening mined by five different meof great music and awards." dia companies: BigChamKnown to many as Glinda pagne, for record sales and the Good Witch in Broadmedia consumption; Great way's "Wicked" and April American Country, for video from Fox's hit show "Glee," airplay; Mediabase, for radio Chenoweth is an all-around airplay; Pollstar, for touring success story. She won a information; and the NashTony for her role in "You're a ville Songwriters Association Good Man, Charlie Brown" International. The choices this year for Artist of the Year are Aldean, Bryan, Lady Antebellum, Swift and the Zac Brown Band. Host Adkins is no newbie to awards, with his total album sales figuring at more than 10 million -- many of which have gone platinum -and he's an accomplished and on top of her two Emmy nominations for Glee, Chenoweth won an Emmy for her role as Olive Snook in "Pushing Daisies." This talented singer and actress also just completed her North American concert tour for her latest album, "Some Lessons Learned." "I'm excited to return to the ACA stage with Trace and his big personality and even bigger boots," said Chenoweth. "We had a blast last year and I plan to pull out all the stops to make sure everyone has a good time." Last year's award show included performances by Alabama, Keith, Blake Shelton, The Band Perry and Pistol Annies. Nominated for six ACAs this year, Aldean took home Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, Single by a Male Artist, Music Video of the Year and Touring Artist of the Year after last year's celebrations. Carrie Underwood was the female boardsweeper last year, winning Female Artist of the Year, Single by a Female Artist and Music Video by a Female Artist. All of the nominations for each category are available at www.theacas.com. "The American Country Awards" will be directed by Michael Dempsey, with executive producer Bob Bain and Flether Foster, Paul Flattery, Kelly Brock and Tisha Fein as producers. Greg Sills is supervising producer. Chirstopher's Coins 2x2 hollywoodQ&A By Adam Thomlison TV Media Q: How historically accurate is 2003's "Timeline" (the one with Gerard Butler, Paul Walker and Billy Connelly)? A: With a premise involving time travel, teleportation and modern-day U.S. marines taking on medieval French knights, a surprising amount of real-world research went into the 2003 sci-fi adventure "Timeline," says Michael Crichton, who wrote the book on which it was based. "When I started, I didn't have much background in medieval European history (to put it mildly)," he said in an interview on the website of his publisher, Random House. "And fiction demands detailed, rather mundane information of the kind that isn't found in most history books." That's information such as "daily routines, food, clothing," he says, not like what would happen if you threw a grenade at an armored horseman (though that does appear as a concern in the book). That said, the author of such equally complicated fantasies as "Jurassic Park" and "The Andromeda Strain" said that his books aren't intended as history or science lessons. "The stories usually require some background information, so I explain the background, to make the story understandable. That's all." Have a question? Email us at questions@tvtabloid.com. Please include your name and town. Personal replies will not be provided. A/Krazy Tom's 2x3