Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Nov. 4, 1999

Published November 4, 1999 5:00PM (EST)

Series

On the verge of moving in together, Monica and Chandler find it hard to say goodbye to roomies Rachel and Joey on Friends (8 p.m., NBC). Sam tries to get the goods on Nicole and her minions, whom she suspects of stealing the answers to the biology midterm, on Popular (8 p.m., WB). Move over Regis, Fox has its own high-stakes game show, titled (in true Fox fashion) Greed (9 p.m., Fox). Contestants are allowed to undercut and backstab their teammates in a quest for $2 million. "Love Connection" vet Chuck Woolery hosts. On Charmed (9 p.m., WB), a spell turns Prue (Shannen Doherty) into a guy on the make. A school science-lab explosion floods the hospital with casualties on ER (10 p.m., NBC).

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Specials

Jack Nicholson, Brad Pitt and Pamela Anderson Lee are among those whose unflattering fits of pique are caught on video in Celebrities Out of Control (8 p.m., Fox). If it's sweeps and it's tacky, it's Fox.

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Sports

Hockey:

Sabres at Blackhawks (8:30 p.m., ESPN2)

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Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Dylan McDermott

David Letterman (CBS) Susan Sarandon, East Harlem violinists

Jay Leno (NBC) Pierce Brosnan, Marc Anthony

Politically Incorrect (ABC) Whoopi Goldberg, Lisa Loeb

Conan O'Brien (NBC) Shannen Doherty, Counting Crows


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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