Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for
Thursday, Feb. 24, 2000

Published February 24, 2000 5:00PM (EST)

Series

On Friends (8 p.m., NBC),
Chandler's gaffe ruins his and Monica's
anniversary, and Joey gets a guy to pose
as his twin to cash in on a
get-rich-quick scheme. Frasier and Niles
go head-to-head in a wine-tasting
competition on Frasier (9 p.m.,
NBC)
. Mystery! (check local
times, PBS)
presents "Trial by
Fire," a psychological thriller about a
prosecutor (Juliet Stevenson) and her
police-chief lover (Jim Carter) who
become caught up in a nasty murder case.
Kovac labors to save the victim of a
hit-and-run accident on ER (10 p.m.,
NBC)
. 48 Hours (10 p.m., CBS)
reports on panic attacks, while 20/20
Downtown (10 p.m., ABC)
investigates
a string of South African
witchcraft-themed murders. Celebrity
Deathmatch (10 p.m., MTV)
pits
Steven Spielberg against Alfred
Hitchcock and Sharon Stone against Kathy
Bates.

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Sports

College basketball:

Purdue at Michigan (7 p.m., ESPN)

N.C. State at Georgia Tech (7:30
p.m., ESPN2)

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Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated)
Grammy recap

David Letterman (CBS) Kathie
Lee Gifford hosts Oscar de la Hoya and
Linda Eder

Jay Leno (NBC) Michael
Douglas, Catherine Keener, Santana

Politically Incorrect (ABC)
French Stewart, Barry Scheck

Conan O'Brien (NBC) Dan
Castellaneta, Howie Mandel

Craig Kilborn (CBS) Ben
Affleck


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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