Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Wednesday, June 20, 2001

By Joyce Millman

Jun 20, 2001 |

Series

Sela Ward's ups and downs are chronicled on Intimate Portrait (7 p.m., Lifetime). Paul Reubens sheds his Pee-wee persona and becomes "Troy Stevens," host of the new game show You Don't Know Jack (8 p.m., ABC). Based on the CD-ROM game of the same name, "You Don't Know Jack" pits contestants against each other and the clock as they answer trivia questions. The bewigged (come on, it has to be!) and lounge-lizardy Stevens heckles them along the way. On a rerun of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), Spike professes his love for the Slayer, which elicits a response of "Eeeww!" C.J.'s world is turned upside down -- literally -- by a cartography group's proposal for a more geographically accurate map on a rerun of The West Wing (9 p.m., NBC). Graduation day arrives for the cast of American High (10 p.m., PBS, check local listings). The new mock celebrity interview series Primetime Glick (10:30 p.m., Comedy Central) stars Martin Short as Jiminy Glick, the world's most inept entertainment journalist. Steve Martin and Bill Maher are his first victims.

Specials

Shaggy, Uncle Kracker, Eden's Crush and Sisqo perform on Teen Choice Presents: Teenapalooza (8 p.m., Fox). Can we please have a moratorium on all things "palooza"? The documentary Who's Dancin' Now? (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings) revisits the young dancers from the 1983 Oscar-winning documentary "He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing."

Sports

Baseball:
Cubs at Cardinals (7 p.m., ESPN)
Diamondbacks at Dodgers (10 p.m., ESPN2)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Cynthia Nixon, Geraldo Rivera (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) PJ Harvey
Jay Leno (NBC) Luther Vandross, Erik Weihenmayer
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Shelley Long, Malcolm McDowell
Conan O'Brien (NBC) John Leguizamo
Craig Kilborn (CBS) Elizabeth Perkins, Alien Ant Farm

All times Eastern unless noted.

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