SALON

Friday, Sep 1, 2000 7:15 PM UTC

Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Labor Day Weekend, Sept. 1-4, 2000

By

Topics: Dirty Dancing, Television,

Series

On Making the Band (9:30 p.m. Fri., ABC), O-Town heads to Cancun to chill out, but one of the boys comes home with a broken heart. Backstory (5:30 p.m. ET/9 PT, Sat., American Movie Classics) looks at the making of the WWII epic “The Longest Day.” The movie follows. The updated The Outer Limits (8 p.m. Sun., Showtime) ends its run with a 90-minute finale featuring a liberal’s most terrifying nightmare: Supreme Court Justice Charlton Heston. E! True Hollywood Story (9 p.m. Sun., E!) does some dirty dissing about the making of “Dirty Dancing.” Moesha (8 p.m. Mon., UPN) opens its sixth season. With the future of UPN up in the air, black sitcoms may soon be homeless. As Chris Rock said on his recent season opener, “we could go from ‘Moesha’ to ‘no-esha’.” Biography (8 p.m. Mon., A&E) kicks off “Batman Week” with a new episode titled (no kidding) “Adam West: Behind the Cowl.”

Specials

Former “Talk Soup” guy John Henson hosts The Television Show (10 p.m. Sat., ABC), a special/pilot that spotlights weird bits and bloopers from TV around the world. Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 crime drama Jackie Brown (8 p.m. Sun., FX) restored Pam Grier to much-deserved leading lady status. Robert DeNiro, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Forster costar in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s “Rum Punch.” Great soundtrack. Nathan Lane plays tour guide for a trip along Venice’s Grand Canal on the latest installment of Great Streets (9 p.m. Sun., PBS, check local times). It’s Labor Day and you know what that means: Jerry! The 35th annual Jerry Lewis Telethon (Sun. and Mon., check local times and stations) does its thing to benefit muscular dystrophy. The incomparable Jerry — his hair is now so brilliantined, it looks like a black plastic wig — and Ed McMahon host. Why spend the traditional end of summer outdoors when you can draw the curtains and go on a TV binge? There’s a 10-hour ER marathon (beginning 9 a.m. Mon., TNT) and a four-hour Facts of Life marathon (beginning 8:30 p.m. Mon., Nickelodeon). The two-hour documentary Child Stars: Their Story (9 p.m. Mon., A&E) gives everyone from Jackie Cooper to Patty Duke to Fred Savage to Malcolm-Jamal Warner (and probably a couple of “Facts of Life” girls as well) the chance to vent about their traumatic experiences as the idols of millions.

Sports

Baseball:
Braves at Astros (8 p.m. Fri., Sat., TBS)
Mariners at Red Sox or regional action (1 p.m. Sat., Fox)
Cubs at Giants (4 p.m. Sat., Fox)
Expos at Reds (10 p.m. Sat., FX)
Mariners at Red Sox (1 p.m. Mon., ESPN)
Mets at Reds (1 p.m. Mon., ESPN2)
Yankees at Royals (8 p.m. Mon., ESPN2)
Pirates at Dodgers (9 p.m. Mon., ESPN)

Football:
Ravens at Steelers, Colts at Chiefs or Jaguars at Browns (1 p.m. Sun., CBS)
Cardinals at Giants, Panthers at Redskins, Buccaneers at Patriots or 49ers at Falcons (1 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Eagles at Cowboys (3 p.m. Sun., Fox)
Jets at Packers, Chargers at Raiders or Seahawks at Dolphins (4 p.m. Sun., CBS)
Titans at Bills (8:30 p.m. Sun., ESPN)
Broncos at Rams (9 p.m. Mon., ABC)

Friday Talk

Rosie O’Donnell (syndicated) Stone Phillips (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) D.L. Hughley
Chris Rock (HBO) “Divorce Court” host
Jay Leno (NBC) Tom Cruise, Tracey Ullman (rerun)
Conan O’Brien (NBC) Nathan Lane, Rachel Dratch (rerun)
Craig Kilborn (CBS) Marlon and Shawn Wayans (rerun)

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area. More Joyce Millman.

Next Article

Related Stories

More Related Stories

Featured Slide Shows

The week in 10 pics

close X
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook
  • Thumbnails
  • Fullscreen
  • 1 of 11
  • Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
    Credit: AP/LM Otero

  • Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
    Credit: AP/Matt Rourke

  • A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
    Credit: AP/Jenny Aicher

  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
    Credit: AP/Molly Riley

  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
    Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite

  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

  • O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
    Credit: AP/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Jeff Scheid

  • Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
    Credit: AP/NASA/Chris Hadfield

  • When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
    Credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

  • A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
    Credit: AP/The Duluth News-Tribune/Clint Austin

  • Recent Slide Shows

  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Facebook
  • Thumbnails
  • Fullscreen
  • 1 of 11

Related Videos

Comments

 0 Comments

Comment Preview

Your name will appear as username

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href=""> <b> <em> <strong> <i> <blockquote>

follow salon

Most Read

Popular on Reddit

links from salon.com

vote
Oklahoma senator: Tornado aid “totally different” from Sandy aid
1762 points1763 points | 643 comments
vote
Anyone Regret Slashing National Weather Service Budget Now?: With GOP-backed cuts to forecasting agency, experts warn future storms will go undetected and more lives lost
800 points801 points | 351 comments
vote
Oklahoma senator wants to offset tornado aid with other cuts
116 points117 points | 36 comments
vote
Watchdogs: ABC “in danger of losing a lot of credibility” on Benghazi saga
42 points43 points | 8 comments
vote
Horrifying new trend: Posting rapes to Facebook " In Chicago this weekend, prosecutors announced three teenaged boys will tried as adults for aggravated criminal sexual assault after allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl — and posting a video of the attack on Facebook."
20 points21 points | 12 comments

From Around the Web

Presented by Scribol
listener_new_rect The Listener: So long, Sookie Stackhouse

Recommendations