Blue Glow

Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 3, 2001

By Joyce Millman

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Jul 3, 2001 |

Series

Frasier co-hosts Seattle's Christmas parade with his rival, Dr. Mary (Kim Coles), on a rerun of Frasier (9 p.m., NBC). Not quite dead yet, The Geena Davis Show (9:30 p.m., ABC) returns to burn off unaired episodes. P.O.V. (10 p.m., PBS, check local listings) presents "My American Girls: A Dominican Story," a portrait of a Brooklyn family straddling two cultures. The Real World (10 p.m., MTV) begins its 10th season (!) with a new cast moving into a nifty brownstone in New York's Greenwich Village, where they promptly begin annoying each other and us.

Specials

John Waters, first choice for Tin Man Buddy Ebsen and assorted Munchkins reminisce about the Yellow Brick Road in Memories of Oz (7:30 p.m., Turner Classic Movies). Jerry Springer tells his story in the 1998 pseudo-documentary Ringmaster (9 p.m., USA).

Sports

Baseball:
Phillies at Braves (7:30 p.m., TBS)

Wimbledon:
Women's quarterfinals (10 a.m., NBC; 1 p.m., TNT)

Talk

Rosie O'Donnell (syndicated) Janet Jackson, Brooke Smith (rerun)
David Letterman (CBS) Juliette Lewis (rerun)
Jay Leno (NBC) Chris Rock, Giselle (rerun)
Politically Incorrect (ABC) Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Hitchens (rerun)
Conan O'Brien (NBC) Anne Robinson, Camryn Manheim (rerun)
Craig Kilborn (CBS) Ben Affleck, Colleen Haskell (rerun)

All times Eastern unless noted.

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