Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2001

By Joyce Millman

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Jan 23, 2001 |

Series

On a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), the Watchers Council has the goods on Glory, but will reveal them only if Buffy passes a series of tests. The Mole (8 p.m., ABC) continues. This week's group challenge: Find out Anderson Cooper's real name. On Angel (9 p.m., WB), the still-bad avenger discovers a Wolfram & Hart connection to a shelter for runaways. Dateline NBC (10 p.m., NBC) reports on the custody battle for those twins who were sold to the highest bidder. The cops investigate the shooting of a female officer on NYPD Blue (10 p.m., ABC).

Specials

Jazz (9 p.m., PBS, check local listings) continues with an overview of the early 1940s and the emergence of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

Sports

Basketball:
Lakers at Sonics (8 p.m., TBS)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Drew Carey, Fred Willard
David Letterman (CBS) Hillary Rodham Clinton (rerun)
Jay Leno (NBC) Conan O'Brien, Mena Suvari
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Shelley Long, Anita Roddick
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Tom Arnold, Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes (rerun)

All times Eastern unless noted.

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