Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001

Published September 18, 2001 5:36PM (EDT)

Series

Fox made a last-minute decision Monday to join ABC, CBS and NBC in postponing its fall premieres. The new series "Undeclared" and "Love Cruise," scheduled to debut tonight, were pulled. Instead, there are back-to-back episodes of That '70s Show (8 p.m., Fox), and reruns of The Simpsons (9 p.m.) and King of the Hill (9:30 p.m.). Big Brother 2 (9 p.m., CBS) has its two-hour penultimate episode. An ABC News Special Report (10 p.m., ABC) airs each night this week to recap the latest on the terrorist attack and its aftermath.

Specials

Sheryl Lee, who played the dead Laura Palmer on "Twin Peaks," plays a psycho wife who imprisons her philandering husband in the basement in the new cable movie Hitched (9 p.m., USA). By the way, she's called "Sheryl Lee Diamond" now.

Sports

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

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) TBA
David Letterman (CBS) Marg Helgenberger, Tori Amos
Jay Leno (NBC) Sen. John McCain, Crosby, Stills and Nash
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Steve Kroft, Sarah Vowell
Craig Kilborn (CBS) TBA

All times Eastern unless noted.


By Joyce Millman

Joyce Millman is a writer living in the Bay Area.

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