To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > Arts & Entertainment March 3, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/glow/2000/03/03/glow Blue Glow Salon's TV picks for Weekend, March 3-5, 2000 - - - - - - - - - - - - By Joyce Millman Series On The Sopranos (8 p.m. Sun., HBO), and please note the time change, Carmela asks a friend to pull a few strings to get Meadow into college, while those two youthful boneheads who do odd jobs for Tony decide to defect to Richie Aprile. And the first of the "Sopranos" wannabes makes its debut: Cover Me: Based on the True Life of an FBI Family (8 p.m. Sun., USA) stars Peter Dobson as an undercover Fed pretending to be a mobster and juggling his work life and family life. Shaun Cassidy, who was responsible for the overrated "American Gothic," created this one. Kevin Spacey meets his adoring public on Inside the Actors Studio (8 p.m. Sun., Bravo). E! True Hollywood Story (9 p.m. Sun., E!) unveils a new episode about the hill-and-valley career of Burt Reynolds, to compete with the 100th episode of Behind the Music (9 p.m. Sun., VH1). Unfortunately for Reynolds, the 100th episode of "Behind the Music" is about Tina Turner. - - - - - - - - - - - - Specials Supermodel Tyra Banks plays a Barbie-type doll (that's a stretch) who becomes human when her owner performs a magic spell on the new Disney TV movie Life Size (7 p.m. Sun., ABC). The TV Guide Awards (8 p.m. Sun., Fox) honor TV favorites as chosen by the readers of that little magazine that keeps falling between the cushions of the sofa. Should you watch? Here are the nominees for favorite drama series: "ER," "Providence," "The Practice" and "Touched by an Angel." Click. The new cable movie The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (8 p.m. ET/9 PT, Sun., A&E) stars Maury Chaykin as the gourmet sleuth and Timothy Hutton as his dedicated assistant, Archie Goodwin. Camryn Manheim does her Snow White turn in part 32 (OK, part four) of The 10th Kingdom (9 p.m. Sun., NBC). In the made-for-TV comedy Catch a Falling Star (9 p.m. Sun., CBS), Sela Ward plays a snobby movie star who learns about real life from the people of a small New England mill town. The new cable movie If These Walls Could Talk 2 (9 p.m. Sun., HBO) is a trio of stories looking at lesbian life over three decades. Vanessa Redgrave, Chloe Sevigny, Michelle Williams, Sharon Stone and Ellen DeGeneres star. - - - - - - - - - - - - Sports Basketball: Jazz at Hornets (8 p.m. Fri., TNT) Pacers at Lakers (10:30 p.m. Fri., TNT) Jazz at Knicks (12:30 p.m. Sun., NBC) Heat at Lakers (6 p.m. Sun., NBC) Hockey: Panthers at Rangers (8 p.m. Fri., ESPN) Blues at Panthers (7:30 p.m. Sat., ESPN2) Red Wings at Stars (8 p.m. Sun., ESPN) College basketball: Big South Championship (3:30 p.m. Sat., ESPN) Southern Championship (12:30 p.m. Sun., ESPN) Ohio Valley Championship (2:30 p.m. Sun., ESPN) SEC Women's Championship (5 p.m. Sun., ESPN2) Big Ten Women's Championship (7 p.m. Sun., ESPN2) - - - - - - - - - - - - Talk Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Madonna, Benjamin Bratt David Letterman (CBS) Anjelica Huston, Steely Dan Jay Leno (NBC) Jamie Lee Curtis, Destiny's Child Politically Incorrect (ABC) Rick James, Cedric the Entertainer Conan O'Brien (NBC) Al Franken, the Flaming Lips salon.com | March 3, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - - About the writer Joyce Millman is Salon's TV critic. To read more by Joyce Millman, visit her column archive.