A production of "Oklahoma!" by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will air on UNC-TV tonight at 8 p.m.

The broadcast was made possible by a grant from the AJ Fletcher Foundation that will pave the way for more UNCSA work to air on the UNC-TV channel. They also received support from the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and the William R. Kenan Jr Fund for the Arts.

The Rodgers & Hammerstein musical as produced by the school was critically acclaimed for its faithful restoration of the original 1943 Broadway production.

The show will be hosted by UNCSA Chancellor John Mauceri, who served as musical director and artistic supervisor of the stage production.

The North Carolina School of the Arts has announced that three of their alumni were included in Emmy nominations announced yesterday.

-Zach Seivers (2006) received a nomination for Outstanding Sound Editing for Nonfiction Programming for his role as sound designer on "Gettysburg," which aired on the History Channel. UNCSA says other UNCSA alumni worked on "Gettysburg," which received a total of seven nominations. Seivers is originally from Mt. Airy.

Eyeborgs (6:30pm, Syfy) - This original Syfy thriller about an FBI agent battling an army of weaponized security cameras hacked by terrorists has some pretty strong North Carolina roots. It was written and directed by former North Carolina School of the Arts School of Filmmaking faculty member Richard Clabaugh, and was shot by UNCSA students and faculty in the Winston-Salem area in 2007. The film also features UNCSA School of Drama faculty member Dale Anthony Girard. Additionally, ten other alumni of the school served on the film's stunt team.

Must Love Cats (8pm, Animal Planet) - The premiere episode of a great new series that focuses on felines. Tonight, songwriting host John Fulton travels to San Francisco, where a cat is suspected of multiple burglaries, and then to Los Angeles to try some coffee made from beans scooped out of cat poop. I love cats but I can't get behind that last thing...

The Sunset Limited (9pm, HBO) - Tommy Lee Jones directs this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2006 play, which follows interaction between two men: a white, atheistic professor (Jones) and a black, religious ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson), who saved the former from committing suicide by throwing himself in front of a subway train. Check out our review.

Accidentally In Love (9pm, Hallmark) - A kids show actor (Ethan Erickson) and a single mom (Jennie Garth) butt heads after the two are in a car accident. But while dealing with the fallout from the crash, the pair begin to make a connection. But, the actor's secrets threaten to ruin the romance.

Stand Up for Family (9pm, Showtime) - Family-friendly stand-up comedy sets by Earthquake, Doug Williams, Will Sylvince, Pat Brown, Nikki Carr, and D'Lai. Bill Bellamy is the host.

Saturday Night Live (11:30, NBC) - Russell Brand hosts, music guest is Chris Brown.

Ethan Stiefel, the School of Dance dean at the North Carolina School of the Arts, will make a cameo appearance on the CW drama "Gossip Girl" Monday night.

Stiefel will appear with his partner, Gillian Murphy, a UNC School of the Arts alumna. Stiefel and Murphy (in the center at left) are both principlal dancers with the American Ballet Theatre, and they will appear on the show as themselves.

The first problem with TNT's "HawthoRNe" (tonight at 9) is that it's spelled that way, with the big RN for registered nurse and someone thought that was clever.

In guess you didn't get it, the show is about nurses, and Jada
Pinkett Smith (who, by the way, studied for a time at the NC School of the Arts) plays Christina Hawthorne, the chief nursing officer at a hospital in Richmond, Va.

She's recently widowed, left with a daughter. Luckily the nursing staff she supervises is like family.

Michael Vartan, the cutie from "Alias" plays an oncologist and chief of surgery.

It's not that I can't see why some people would find HBO's "Eastbound & Down" hilarious. I totally can.

But...

There are a lot of North Carolina School of the Arts ties here: the
star/writer Danny McBride, executive producers/writers Jody Hill and Ben Best and first episode director David Gordon Green. The group has worked together before, in various combinations, on films "All the Real Girls," "The Foot Fish Way," and "Pineapple Express."

Comic star Will Ferrell is also an executive producer.

McBride plays Kenny Powers, a big-league baseball pitcher with a Jheri curl mullet who was once so popular, even little kids repeated his profane catchphrase. But his pitching slows, and his John Rocker-like remarks, plus his drug use -- steroid and recreational -- send him down the ranks, until finally he ends up home in North Carolina working as a substitute gym teacher.