Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Monday, July 17, 2000

Published July 17, 2000 6:32PM (EDT)

Series

The new comedy-drama Opposite Sex (8 p.m., Fox) premieres (although it feels like it's been on forever). Three teenage boys become the first males admitted to an exclusive girls prep school. Hoo boy! The show almost writes itself! And cancels itself, too. Robert returns to work but quits after freezing in a dangerous situation on a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond (9 p.m., CBS). On a rerun of Roswell (9 p.m., WB), Max and Isabel want to tell their adoptive mother about their alien origin, but Michael is paranoid, as usual.

Specials

The miniseries Nuremberg (8 p.m., TNT) concludes. Alec Baldwin stars. The new documentary When It Was a Game III (10 p.m., HBO) continues to chronicle baseball's glorious past; this edition looks at the game in the 1960s. With commentary from Hank Aaron, Bob Costas and Billy Crystal, among others.

Sports

Baseball:
Braves at Devil Rays (7:05 p.m., TBS)

WNBA All-Star Game (8 p.m., ESPN)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Madonna, Benjamin Bratt (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) Will Ferrell, Elliott Smith (rerun)
Jay Leno (NBC) Kid Rock
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Guy Torry, Darcy Olsen
Conan O'Brien (NBC) David Duchovny, Kyra Segdwick (rerun)


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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