Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for
Tuesday, Nov. 23, 1999

Published November 23, 1999 5:00PM (EST)

Series

Kevin "Hercules" Sorbo guests on Just Shoot Me (8 p.m., NBC) as Maya's new beau. Our star-crossed lovers are reunited on sweeps crossover episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB) and Angel (9 p.m., WB). Angel returns to Sunnydale when Doyle has a psychic flash that Buffy is in danger; while there, a fluke event lifts the curse on Angel's soul, making him eligible to do the nasty again. On Will & Grace (9 p.m., NBC), Karen's old "film" career surfaces and Jack's mother visits. On Judging Amy (10 p.m., CBS), Amy faces her toughest challenge yet as a single, working mother -- cooking Thanksgiving dinner. Frontline (check local times, PBS) presents the Center for Investigative Reporting documentary "Justice for Sale," an expose of campaign financing on the judicial election process in cities across the United States. Bill Moyers is the correspondent. Lily wants to spend Thanksgiving with Rick, but her visiting parents (guests Bonnie Bartlett and Paul Mazursky) insist on inviting her ex, Jake, to dinner on Once and Again (10 p.m., ABC).

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Specials

Fox has a cozy Thanksgiving week treat -- the network premiere of Scream (8 p.m., Fox), which launched the career of writer Kevin Williamson, as well as a string of sequels. Courteney Cox, Drew Barrymore and Neve Campbell star.

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Sports

Hockey:

Kings at Avalanche (9 p.m., ESPN2)

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Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Alec Baldwin, Julia Child

David Letterman (CBS) Kathie Lee Gifford, Charlotte Church

Jay Leno (NBC) Tom Hanks, John Glenn, Puff Daddy

Politically Incorrect (ABC) Larry Flynt, Lynn Redgrave

Conan O'Brien (NBC) Brian Williams, Everything but the Girl


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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