Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000

By Joyce Millman

Aug 1, 2000 |

Series

Spike searches for a legendary gem that will make him impervious to sunlight, stakes and crosses on a rerun of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB). It's a crossover with Angel (9 p.m., WB); Spike's quest takes him to L.A., where he spies on Angel's damsel-saving from the shadows and provides a hilarious deconstruction of our hero's brooding persona ("Quick, to the Angelmobile!"). Jerry Seinfeld is the voice of an egotistical supercomputer on a rerun of Dilbert (8:30 p.m., UPN). 60 Minutes II (10 p.m., CBS) has coverage of the Republican National Convention. So does The Daily Show (11 p.m., Comedy Central), except sillier.

Specials

Republican National Convention:
MSNBC (4 p.m. ET/1 PT)
C-Span (5 p.m. ET/2 PT)
CNN (7 p.m. ET/4 PT)
Fox News (7 p.m. ET/4 PT)
PBS (8 p.m. ET/5 PT)
ABC (10 p.m. ET/7 PT)

Sports

Baseball:
Braves at Diamondbacks (10 p.m., TBS)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Minnie Driver, Scott Foley (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) Nathan Lane, John Pizzarelli
Jay Leno (NBC) Clint Eastwood, James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Arsenio Hall
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Claudia Schiffer, Frankie Muniz (rerun)

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