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blue glow SALON'S TV PICKS FOR THURSDAY, NOV. 20, 1997 BY JOYCE MILLMAN S P E C I A L S More fine sweeps programming from Fox: If you missed it the first time around (less than a month ago), there's a special encore presentation of The World's Deadliest Swarms (8 p.m., Fox). And ABC is finally running the second half of the miniseries Medusa's Child (9 p.m., ABC) -- the first half aired last Sunday -- on the assumption that somebody still cares. S E R I E S Chandler and Joey let bygones be bygones on the Thanksgiving episode of Friends (8 p.m., NBC). Seinfeld (9 p.m., NBC) gets fancy with the narrative structure tonight; the episode begins with the last scene and works its way back to the beginning. The story has to do with Jerry, George and Elaine traveling to India for a wedding. Mystery! (9 p.m., PBS) concludes "The Sculptress," with the journalist and the cop convinced of the convicted murderess's innocence. On ER (10 p.m., NBC), the free clinic is deluged with patients before it's even scheduled to open and Jeanie confronts Weaver over her termination. 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS) has a show about that old sweeps standby, accounts of near-death experiences. T A L K Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) welcomes Danny DeVito and Sheryl Crow; Sarah Michelle Gellar -- that's Buffy to you -- appears on David Letterman (CBS); Jay Leno (NBC) features Candice Bergen, Yanni and an animated appearance from the kids of "South Park"; Charlie Rose (PBS) is still in London; Shawn Colvin and director Peter Bogdanovich are panelists on Politically Incorrect (ABC); Conan O'Brien (NBC) features Monty Python's Terry Jones. E T C. On ABC's new sitcom starring Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper as Mary and Rhoda, each will have a daughter named after the other ... Director John Singleton ("Boyz N the Hood") is developing a drama for ABC about the LAPD SWAT team ... CBS is yanking the Bronson Pinchot sitcom "Meego" and replacing it with "Kids Say the Darndest Things," making host Bill Cosby the network's MVP ... And WB has renewed its entire Sunday lineup for a full season, despite the fact that nobody watches it. SALON | Nov. 20, 1997

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