Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Thursday, April 5, 2001

Published April 5, 2001 7:39PM (EDT)

Series

The river is flooding, the fish aren't biting and the tribe is starving; it's just another day on Survivor: The Australian Outback (8 p.m., CBS). Will & Grace (9 p.m., NBC) reruns the hour-long flashback to the Thanksgiving when Will came out to fiancée Grace. Mystery! (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) premieres the first of three new installments of "Second Sight," a British detective series starring Clive Owen as a cop who's slowly going blind. On a rerun of CSI (9 p.m., CBS), two girls are the only survivors of a family massacre; the case has more twists than a cheese Danish. George Clooney gives up on the movies and comes back to ER (10 p.m., NBC). Well, not really; it's a rerun of the episode where Doug Ross comes out of his self-destructive spin long enough to save a boy trapped in a clogged culvert that's about to flood.

Sports

Baseball:
Mets at Braves (7:30 p.m., TBS)

Basketball:
Kings at Jazz (8 p.m., TNT)

Hockey:
Coyotes at Sharks (10:30 p.m., ESPN2)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Fran Drescher, Nancy McKeon
David Letterman (CBS) David Spade, Run-D.M.C.
Jay Leno (NBC) Tara Reid, 112
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Adam Carolla, high school kids
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Brian Kiley

All times Eastern unless noted.


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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