Last week Comcast released survey results on how viewers are using television, finding that more viewers are time shifting how they watch TV using technology such as the DVR and on demand.

On many counts, Pittsburghers watch TV the same as everyone else. But there are some variations: Pittsburghers use DVRs a little more than the national average and watch TV online a little less. Bigger differences can be found in other aspects of TV use.

Pittsburghers say they are more inclined to use on demand to watch new fall shows (30 percent vs. the 16 percent national average), according to the Comcast survey that was conducted in late July among 1,000 viewers in 16 cities nationwide, including 150 local viewers. Only Philadelphia ranked higher on this count.

Pittsburghers also said they're more likely to watch sports this fall (53 percent vs. 45 percent nationally), placing Pittsburgh third behind Denver (60 percent) and the Twin Cities (54 percent) in enthusiasm for televised sporting events.

Pittsburghers are less likely to watch dramas (71 percent vs. 75 percent nationally), movies (53 percent vs. 57 percent) and reality shows (33 percent vs. 38 percent) with only Denver and Chicago viewers less interested in reality TV than Pittsburgh viewers. The survey has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percent.

Nationally, viewers selected CBS's "Hawaii Five-0" and ABC's "No Ordinary Family" as the top new fall series they are most likely to watch, but Pittsburghers were more interested in "Family" than "Hawaii." (Regardless of the survey's findings, "Hawaii" likely will draw a larger local crowd when it premieres given the nostalgia factor.)

Among returning series, Pittsburghers were most excited for new episodes of "Mad Men" (20 percent) and "The Good Wife" and "Glee" (19 percent for both). No city surveyed scored as high in viewer interest in "Mad Men," which sort of makes sense given Pittsburghers' love for the way things used to be.

KDKA-TV and the Heinz History center will produce a third season of "Pittsburgh's Hidden Treasures," a localized "Antiques Roadshow"-type series. Episodes will air monthly beginning in October.

The full season will be taped Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., when local residents are encouraged to bring heirlooms, memorabilia and antiques to the Heinz History Center in the Strip District for appraisers to inspect. Some of these items and their owners will appear in the television program's upcoming season.

About 28 appraisers will be on site Sunday. Last year's event drew about 2,000 people, some of whom began lining up at 7 a.m.

PBS's "Dragon Tales," which began airing in 1999, will leave PBS stations, including Pittsburgh's WQED, on Sept. 1.

PBS's right to broadcast the series expires on Aug. 31 and after that date Sony will control domestic distributions rights for the series.

On Monday PBS launched a website devoted to the arts at www.pbs.org/arts, debuting with four "virtual exhibitions" including one from the producers of the PBS series "Craft in America." "Ruin and Recovery" follows New Orleans artist Thomas Mann and his "Storm Cycle" series of sculptural pieces that commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

This is a smart move for PBS. As other networks have long since retreated from actual arts coverage -- A&E and Bravo, most notably -- the arts offer a niche that PBS can capably fill -- at least until up-and-comer cable network Ovation gains wider distribution.

The prime-time Emmy Awards air Sunday at 8 p.m. on NBC but some of the creative arts trophies have already been awarded, including one to a former Pittsburgher.

New Castle native and former Pittsburgh Press employee Michele Teleis-Fickle was among the artists awarded an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Makeup for a Single-Camera Series-Non-Prosthetic" for the "Grey's Anatomy" episode "Suicide Is Painless."

"The Martha Stewart Show" relocates to Hallmark Channel next month where it will air at 10 a.m. weekdays starting Sept. 13. ... New episodes of "The Venture Bros." kick off Sept. 12 at 11:30 p.m. on Adult Swim. ... Viewers can see "Friday Night Lights" from the beginning when reruns begin airing weeknights at 6 starting Sept. 7 on ABC Family. ... USA has renewed spy drama "Covert Affairs" for a second season. ... A&E's "Hoarders" begins its third season Sept. 6 with new episodes at 9 and 10 p.m.

This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about "The Amazing Race," "Damages" and the young woman in the mattress commercials. Read it online in Tuned in Journal blog at post-gazette.com/tv.

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