Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Thursday, July 20, 2000

By Joyce Millman

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Jul 20, 2000 |

Series

Jordan and Mega face their day of reckoning as one is voted out of the house by viewers on Big Brother (8 p.m., CBS). TV Moms Week continues on Biography (8 p.m., A&E) with a profile of Diahann Carroll, the first African-American actress to star in a sitcom ("Julia"). Carter returns to work after the attack on a rerun of ER (10 p.m., NBC). 20/20 Downtown (10 p.m., ABC) reruns a report on prostitutes.

Specials

The Emmy nominations (8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT) are announced on the morning shows and E! In case you missed the first showing, there's an encore of When It Was a Game III (8 p.m., HBO), the latest in the series of baseball documentaries chronicling the glory days of the sport. This one looks at the 1960s.

Sports

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

Golf:
The British Open (6:30 a.m., ESPN)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Julia Roberts (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) Jeff Daniels, Bob Sarlatte (rerun)
Jay Leno (NBC) Michelle Pfeiffer, Jason Biggs, Motley Cr|e
Politically Incorrect (ABC) RuPaul
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Brian Williams, Amber Valetta

Recent Stories

Bedtime for "Gonzo"
Alex Gibney talks about his Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" and his new look at Hunter S. Thompson, American hero. (Plus: Audio podcast.)
On the dopeness of "The Wackness"
In this interview and podcast, director Jonathan Levine talks about how Holden Caulfield met Rudy Giuliani and Biggie in the heartbroken, heat-stricken New York summer of 1994.
Japanese film's not-so-new new wave
Asia's greatest cinema power never really lost its mojo. But 10 years after Kurosawa's death, Japanese movies are hotter (and weirder) than ever.
Good night and good TV
"The Newsroom" does for the talking heads what "The Office" does for cubicle dwellers -- and may be the funniest TV show ever made about the news business.
"Hancock"
This story of a seriously flaked-out superhero shows us the limits of Will Smith's superpowers.

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