Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 11, 2000

By Joyce Millman

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Jul 11, 2000 |

Series

On a rerun of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), Faith awakens from her coma and busts out of the hospital in search of archenemy Buffy. Snoop Dogg provides the voice of a rapper who sees Calvin and Juicy as his protigis on The PJs (9:30 p.m., Fox). P.O.V. (10 p.m., check local times, PBS) presents "Stranger With a Camera," Elizabeth Barret's documentary about the 1967 murder of a filmmaker who was killed while documenting poverty among coal miners and their families in eastern Kentucky. Danny begins to unravel while he and Andy investigate a child's skeleton found in a wall of a construction site on a rerun of NYPD Blue (10 p.m., ABC).

Specials

X-Men: The Mutant Watch (8 p.m., Fox) hypes the upcoming Fox movie based on the comic book superheroes. Can you say "commercial"?

Sports

Baseball:
71st Major League Baseball All-Star Game, from Turner Field in Atlanta (8 p.m., NBC)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) John Travolta (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) Kim Basinger, Oasis (rerun)
Jay Leno (NBC) Richard Simmons, Nicole Sullivan
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Catherine Coulter, Georg Stanford Brown
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Chris Meloni, Tom Arnold

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