TV guide has a cover story on their 6 hot new shows http://www.tvguide.com/tv/magazine/990920/ftr1.asp They are West Wing, Now and Again, Angel, Roswell, Action and Freaks & Geeks. 2 from ABC, 2 from the WB and one from fox and NBC.

I am interested in how ThePractice will proceed this season. It left us with a particularly nasty image of a murderer who got away with it - we know it, but the laywers do not...Should be an interesting opening episode. Does anyone else dislike Leslie Visser on Monday Night Football? (It's a new season for them, too.)

We've only now started on the 6th X-files series...

marcia, what is 'The Practice' all about?

No I like Leslie Visser. Not as much as I like Hannah Storm. Does Leslie Visser push your buttons, Marcia.

The Practice is a about a legal firm who takes on some unconventional clients, and whose senior partner has slept with the main females on the show including the DA and her roommate, the second highest paid lawyer in the firm. It is not a conventional legal show or I would not watch it. (Very little has to do with his sleeping accommodations.) Leslie Visser is getting better, and they have finally gotten her into some more appropriate clothing. I think I am laboring under the ancient "thing" of not liking women in men's locker rooms nor on the sidelines. It is probably just me, but the resident male does not like her even more than I don't! Hannah is great, btw!

I call your Leslie and Hannah and raise you one Robin Roberts (ESPN, not the oldtime pitcher). I enjoy Action. Jay Mohr, who played the sleazy agent in Jerry Maguire is properly cast as an amoral Hollywood producer and Ileana Douglas, who has always had adventurous roles, is properly scintillating as Wendy Wald the prostitute/former child actor (I think inspired by the late Dana Plato). I'm also glad That 70's Show has been given another season by Fox. Kurtwood Smith (Red) is an am zing actor. You may remember, he was the overbearing father who caused his child's suicide in Dead Poet's Society. Now, he plays the same role for laughs. I never thought that I would hear a father telling his son on network television, "You're a dumbass!"

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Oh Yeah! Robin Roberts! Indeed! (thank you...)

and i completely missed x-files *sniff*

I didn't think it began the new season until next week...most don't, do they?

i dunno, haven't been watching much tv lately....

Did anyone see Martin Sheen as the President in the new series about the oval office. They showed the White House as a busy place, with people bumping in to each other and yelling across each other, it really moved along in an interesting way. Most movies and tv shows about the White House depict it as some kind of museum with nothing going on except the President and events around him. In this show, the President didn't even show up till the last ten minutes. The show really ripped in to the Christian Right with little mercy.

I would expect that political bent from Mr. Sheen (nee Ramon Estevez). Haven't seen it. I loved him as "A.J.", President Andy Shepard's (Michael Douglas) Chief of Staff in the film The American President .

He makes a great President in this new series and Rob Lowe has a good role as a major staffer. This and "Action" are my two favorite shows of this new season.

"Action" is cool. I've seen both episodes, thus far (the one with Keanu Reeves and Salma Hayak twice).

God, I haven't even HEARD of all these shows! They'll probably hit this part of the world in a year or two. �sigh�

I saw the season premeire of Voyager last night over at a friend's house... good but not great... The captain lost her head there for awhile...

Interesting Ree, you mean you don't get all our mainstram tv shows? I guess you get broadcast tv where you are?

We do get mainstream tv shows, but always a season or more behind you. At the moment we have stuff like the 6th X-Files series, E.R., Millenium, Pretender, P.S.I. Factor (which is the worst crap ever), Chicago Hope (also crap), N.Y.P.D. Blue ( boring), and then comedy-wise we have Ellen, Veronica, Golden Girls (which will always be my favourite), Home Improvement (but still the series where the kids are very young, which is just not funny anymore), and Full House (CRAP!). We sometimes get very good docu entaries, like the current 'People's Century' series on BBC Prime. I never miss that.

YOu have something to look forward to then, none of these shows compares to the very excellent West Wing and Action. These are interesting, fast moving shows. I can't decide which is funnier, Just Shoot Me or the new Michael Fox series. And of course there's Sex in the City, which I taped last nighyt but haven't seen.

According to tv Guide a bunch of new seasons are starting tonight: Friends The sixth season commences with the aftermath of a marriage in Las Vegas and a honeymoon that's anything but sweet. At the end of last season, we saw Ross (David Schwimmer) and Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) stumble arm-in-arm from a quickie-wedding chapel. But when the couple wake in a fog the following morning, they have no idea if they did indeed do the deed. In other engagements, Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) continue to let fate be their guide as they warily cross a different kind of threshold in their relationship, and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) don't fare too well in a cross-country trip home in her cab. Rick: Bill Stevenson. (8 pm/ET, NBC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Hope Old becomes new again as Mandy Patinkin and series creator David E. Kelley return for the medical drama's sixth season. �It'll be much more like the first year, with searing medical stories and David's darkly comic sensibility,� says Patinkin, whose quirky character (a repository of much of that sensibility) is now the hospital's board chairman. In the opener (which Kelley wrote), the stories center on a 7-year-old with a heart defect and the nether reaches of a priest's anatomy. The dark comedy involves a patient who dies following surgery � while his surgeon (Bruce Davison) is playing the stock market on the Internet. Hanlon: Lauren Holly. Simon: Carla Gugino. Alberghetti: Barbara Hershey. (9 pm/ET, CBS) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third Watch Debut: New York City paramedics, uniformed police and firefighters work the 3-11 pm shift in this drama series. A hit-and-run, a tenement fire and an out-of-control shooter are among the problems faced in the fast-paced opener. Handling the calls are paramedics Kim and Bobby (Kim Raver, Bobby Cannavale); veteran Doc and �new kid� Carlos (Michael Beach, Anthony Ruivivar); and Kim's ex, fireman Jimmy Doherty (Eddie Cibrian). Two cop teams are also on hand: Sully (Skipp Sudduth), who is matched with his late partner's son (Coby Bell); and hot-headed Boscorelli (Jason Wiles), who shares a squad car with Faith (Molly Price), a mother of two. (10 pm/ET, NBC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stark Raving Mad Debut: This broad-humored sitcom stars Neil Patrick Harris as a fastidious editor working with eccentric horror author, Ian Stark (Tony Shalhoub). Editor Henry McNeely is not especially pleased when his boss (Harriet Harris) assigns him to help Stark solve a case of writer's block. Things only get worse after he arrives at the scribe's loft, where, as Henry soon discovers, Stark's liable to be hanging around or popping up anywhere. Adding to the madness are Stark's live-in assistant, Jake (Eddie McClintock); waitress-actress Maddie (Heather Paige Kent), an affable neighbor; and Edgar, Stark's overly friendly dog. (9:30 pm/ET, NBC) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Frasier A seventh season begins with the Crane brothers celebrating Dad's birthday by taking a trip down memory lane. Besides having old home movies transferred to videotape, Niles and Frasier arrange a trip to the cabin where they vacationed as kids. While Martin (John Mahoney) looks forward to fishing, Niles dreads the insects: �The last time I was there, the mosquitoes drew so much blood they brought me orange juice and a cookie.� And Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) brings along his latest love (Rita Wilson), whose appearance startles the others. All goes well with the new romance until a touch of Oedipus wreaks havoc with Frasier's plans. Young Frasier: Dustin Tragethon. Young Niles: Sean Cast. (9 pm/ET, NBC)

And Action is back on tonight. Action: Blood Money To finance his new pic---�Beverly Hills Gun Club�---Dragon pitches such potential backers as a stuffy banker and a wacko potentate. Former Dodger Steve Garvey has a cameo. Bobby G.: Lee Arenberg. Jane: Cindy Ambuehl. Momo Shabong: Eddy Saad. Schlomo Gluckstein: Alfred Dennis. Cast: Jay Mohr, Illeana Douglas, Buddy Hackett, Jack Plotnick, Jarrad Paul, Lee Arenberg, Cindy Ambuehl, Eddy Saad, Alfred Dennis, Steve Garvey, David Franco, Jeff Austin

Sheesh! That's alot of new stuff! Let's hope it doesn't take too long to get here. We've got Friends too, but I'm not really into that one.

Actually, I only watch E.R., The X-Files and Golden Girls. Hey, is Dr. Quinn still going in America? Isn't it hilariously silly? Every now and again it hops across some channel to give me a good laugh.

The Golden Girls has been out of first run for over a decade, but it is one of the best--and best written--sitcoms ever...if you have ever been to St. Olaf, Minnesota, you'll find that Rose Nyland's stupid stories are true. What a great ensemble cast of actresses, as well. I love every episode I've seen, but the very best are the ones written and/or directed by Christopher Lloyd (Rev. Jim Ignatowski of Taxi).

My dad graduated from St. Olafs!

Any of his pixillating stories you'd like to share with us, Terry? Yah! Shurr...you betcha!

That's right, there's a Lutheran college there...I'd forgotten about that. Rose apparently never made it quite that far.

Ha-ha!!! I love the episode where Dorothy gets involved with a married man, and Rose chastizes her for it. So she says, 'I wonder how you can ...' this and that - really quite sensible things. And Dorothy asks sarcastically if there is anything else she is wondering. And Rose answers, 'Yes. I wonder how a thermosflask can keep things hot AND cold.'!!!! That had me crawling!!!!

There was a great Saturday Night Live 25th year celebration last night, did anyone see it?

We don't get that.

We preview three of this fall's hottest new SF series: Chris Carter's "Harsh Realm," the "Buffy" spin-off "Angel" and Jonathan Frakes' latest show, "Roswell." http://www.scifiweekly.com/issue128/screen.html

I missed the SNL anniversary. I'm hoping for a rerun, but if that doesn't happen, it'll likely be released on video. Actually St. Olaf's College is in Northfield, Minnesota (where Jesse James tried to rob a bank and a train and got his a-- whupped, twice). I remember Rose and the thermoflask question. "How does it know the difference?" Killer stuff... I also remember an episode where all the women talked about how they learned about sex. Rose said she learned on the farm by watching bulls and horses mate. Blanche said, almost off-handedly, "Tough act for a man to follow."

Joss Whedon gets big, bad and grown-up with "Angel." He also tells us what's in store for "Buffy," why he's not happy with his movie career, and much more. http://www.scifiweekly.com/issue128/interview.html

ha-ha, John! In last night's episode Sophia described a Sicilian party at which some guy was wounded 27 times, and 'nobody saw a thing'! Brilliant!

My favorite new show is "Once and Again" on Tuesday nights on ABC. I love Sela Ward, and it's by the producers of "thirtysomething", my all-time fave TV show.

It is really a neat show so far...really cute. Welcome back to the dry land, dear...we missed you!

wow, Autumn! Welcome back, I'll check this show out.

It's good to be back! Enjoy it while you can, there's no telling if/when it will be on when ABC puts NYPD Blue back in its time slot in November.

The fast pace of West Wing reminds me of the tempo of Hill Street Blues, remember that show. My girlfriend at the time, Gail Moss, loved that show and it was the highlight of her week. Thsi was back when I lived in Bolinas, CA.

Where is Bolinas? Is it near Salinas? I hated "thirtysomething" (although I love Patricia Wettig)...everytime I tried to watch it was just a bunch of yuppies whining...my girlfriend at the time, Sheri Reeves PhD, loved it. But I do love Sela Ward--she is sultry in a younger Suzanne Pleshette kind of way--and I thought "Sisters" was a very clever show. I haven't seen "Now and Again" yet. I think I'm angry they killed off John Goodman, one of my favorite actors (although I hated "Roseanne").

Bolinas is a little coastal town North of San Francisco, from the mesa in Bolinas you can see San Francisco, it's mostly populated by poets, rock musicians, writers, and artists. The Bolinas lagoon is famous for osprey, kingfishers and a variety of wildlife. I once rented a barn there on 20 acres next to the Pt. Reyes National Seashore, it had an island in a little lake and there was a willow tree on the island. I met some incredible folks there and had some great times. Nowadays, it's probably becoming very affluent because of it's location. I haven't been there in years. Bolinas occupies the very southern tip of the Pt. Reyes peninsula; all of the peninsula lies east of the fault, which runs right up the Olema valley. Indeed, the soil on the peninsula is somewhat different than the rest of the soil in Marin and northern California, which is why no redwoods grow out there.

I saw that post in "Places I Have Been" after asking. Sounds like a totally cool place.

David took me out to Point Reyes and John Muir Woods and it was totally incredible. Of course, we were looking at the rocks - and they do vary in the extreme. The seaward side lies on the Pacific Plate whereas the most of the rest of Marin county in on the North American Plate. Amazing to see were the SF earthquake moved so much of the land around - still visible today!

Bolinas is a nice entry point to the Pt. Reyes National Seashore. The Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Starship lived there, among other well known bands, maybe they still do.

we exited at Bollinas since we were coming from Fairfield and came around Sears Point to get there.

Newly Revamped Fall Television Season NBC 8:00 Friends 8:30 Girlfriends 9:00 One Guy with Several Female Friends 9:30 My Gay Friends 10:00 Friends You Wish You Had But Don't FOX 8:00 Real Humans in Real Pain 8:30 Feral Dingoes Eating Children on Tape 9:00 Jiggle It Beach 9:30 LA Chicks 10:00 Beverly Hills 90210: The 90,210th Episode UPN 8:00 The Unwatchables 8:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Ratings 9:00 Theoretically Existing Show 9:30 Praying For Syndication 10:00 The Last Thing You'd Ever Want To Sit Through WB 8:00 Where My Wife At? 8:30 Gittin' Yo Freak On 9:00 Me & My Psychic 9:30 Kids Suck The Darndest Things 10:00 Dawson's Clothes PUBLIC ACCESS 8:00 Blurry Steve 8:30 Inaudible City Council Meeting 9:00 Do We Have A Caller On The Line? Hello? 9:30 The Best Of Lunch Menus 10:00 My Friend Made This Short Film 10:30 Men With Braids Speak Out E! 8:00 Andy Gibb: A Nightmare Descent Into Booze & Pills 8:30 John Belushi: A Nightmare Descent Into Booze & Pills 9:00 Margot Kidder: A Nightmare Descent Into Booze & Pills 9:30 River Phoenix: A Nightmare Descent Into Booze & Pills 10:00 Boy George: A Nightmare Descent Into Booze & Pills ESPN2 8:00 Finland's Brutalest Men 8:30 Being Hit By A Trolley Regional Semifinals 9:00 60 Minutes OfJoe Theismann's Leg Breaking 10:00 Coed Spread-Eagled Weight-Training From Maui LIFETIME 8:00 How Can I Choose Between My Daughters? 9:00 The Abused Wife Who Didn't Mean To Kill Her Policeman Husband in Self-Defense 10:00 The Boy Whose Mommy Watched Far Too Much Television TNN 8:00 Well, I'll Be Dipped in Pigslop! 8:30 Roadkill Recipe to Warm the Cockles of Your Heart 9:00 You Hush Up, Wanda Mae 9:30 Sheeeeeeee-it! 10:00 Hold 'Er Down While I Get the Rifle From the Truck TELEMUNDO 8:00 Roberto Amorosa en Agua Caliente! 9:00 Whoomp! Donde Esta? 9:30 Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal! 10:00 Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! Ai! 10:30 La Hora de Goya CINEMAX 8:00 Bare Ambition (Tanya Roberts) 8:30 Naked Exposition (Traci Lords) 9:00 Body Of Nudity (Dana Plato) 10:00 Unclothed Anguish (Joyce DeWitt)

That is hilarious, Terry! Is it your creation? *LOL* (...and someone had to watch all of that stuff to realize that was how it really is!)

Bravo, Terry...don't tell anyone...I was the cameraman for Blurry Steve.

No, it was from an email. Forget the source.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer starts a new season: ttp://eXaminer.com/991004/1004goodman.html

Cameraman, too, John?! No matter how much I know about this man, there seems to be much more I still have to learn. Verrrrrrry Interesting!

I've done most low level radio and TV jobs at some point. But Blurry Steve was some of my best work!

What's on tonight? (from tvguide.com) Roswell Debut: This engaging sci-fi drama focuses on three teen survivors of the famed 1947 UFO crash who have quietly lived in Roswell, NM, for 16 years. In the intriguing opener, the aliens' secret is jeopardized when Max (Jason Behr) uses his powers to save the life of Liz (Shiri Appleby), a girl he has secretly admired for years. His actions lead Liz to discover the truth about Max, his sister Isabelle and their friend, Michael. The promising series is more than a science-fiction show, says executive producer Jason Katims. �At its heart, it's a love story,� he says. �The love story is the glue that holds everything together.� (9 pm/ET, WB) As Time Runs Out This absorbing 1999 TV-movie about a kidnapping generates suspense from an intriguing twist: the sudden death of the abductor, who never revealed the whereabouts of his 6-year-old captive. The youth is the son of a widowed industrialist named Dan Carlin (Stephen Collins) who accidentally kills the kidnapper � a former employee � during a fight over ransom demands. Now Carlin and an investigative team spearheaded by a sympathetic police lieutenant (Karen Sillas) have 24 hours to find the boy before a bomb, hidden in one of the youngster's toys, detonates. Redman: Rick Roberts. Marcus: Emmett Shoemaker. (9 pm/ET, CBS) Norm Artie Lange (Mad TV) joins the cast as Norm's (Norm Macdonald) ne'er-do-well brother who cooks up a shady way to get toys for Laurie's (Laurie Metcalf) orphan party. (8:30 pm/ET, ABC) The West Wing Barlet (Martin Sheen) wants an unexpected response to a plane being shot down; Josh (Bradley Whitford) believes that a job applicant (Dule Hill) might be just right for the President's aide. (9 pm/ET, NBC) Law & Order After a female civil-court judge (Lindsay Crouse) is shot in her building's garage, evidence points to a suspect the judge refuses to believe was involved. Grobman: John Heard. (10 pm/ET, NBC)

Terry, you answered my question on 38 as to when West Wing was aired. Thanks!

....uh...John...are they going to do re-runs of Blurry Steve on Channel 2 sometime soon? You really must be famous. Even in California they air BS all the time, it seems, and he speaks about 10 different languages with outfits to match!

Yeah, unfortunately the cash on public access is nil. But, as usual, BS is everywhere!

DATE: October 15, 1999 FROM: Dr. Jerry Falwell CBS BREAKS BROADCAST GROUND WITH PROFANITY: Last night, CBS' "Chicago Hope" used a heretofore unmentionable vulgarity during its broadcast. ABC's "NYPD Blue" and Fox's "Action" are the two network series that continually push the envelope in terms of profanity, but neither of those shows had ever utilized the "s" word, as "Chicago Hope" was permitted to do. "It's nothing I haven't tried a couple of times before, except this time, I won," series executive producer Henry Bromell told the Associated Press. By Mr. Bromell "winning," America, in my opinion, loses. We can expect other network producers to push even harder to shatter broadcasting standards. CBS said that the word was necessary for "artistic truthfulness," according to the AP. However, my staff members who watched the episode said the use of the word did nothing but divert attention from an otherwise compelling story. CBS should be ashamed for allowing a producer to convince them that no other words were appropriate for the climactic scene. In my opinion, this was nothing more than artistic laziness. If you would like to tell CBS that you are displeased with their decision to allow the profanity to air, please E-mail the network today. To E-mail the network, go to www.cbs.com, click on "feedback" (under "utilities"), then select "Chicago Hope" to make your comments. I encourage all of you to get involved. The network - which is now the number-one rated network - will not take this type of risk in the future if enough people complain about this episode. you can register complaints or praise by clicking on feedback at http://www.cbs.com Or not!

The 's' word does not bother me nearly as much as the 'f' word. If I ever hear that on TV, they are going to hear from me! (I have been known to use the 's' word on the proper occasion, and it is quite satisfying to the overloaded mind!)

Or not. I think I would avoid watching the offending program and avoid being lumped in with the likes of Jerry Falwell...no matter how well-intentioned his actions.

FOX TV announced that it is putting two of my favorite shows "Action" and "Family Guy" on hiatus during November sweeps. Most likely in favor of blockbuster first-run movies. A Fox programming exec stressed that those two shows are not being cancelled, but are being held back to keep from getting killed in the timeslot. Damn, "Action" was getting funnier as my lip-reading skills improved!

Tell me about it...we both liked it and were looking forward to it after Baseball was finished. Now, we have to wait for December? Bah Humbug!

They've been saying "dick" on NYPD Blue for years, but Sunday was the first time I heard it on "Felicity" (an 8:00 show, no less!)

Fox has cancelled 'Harsh Realm' and 'Ryan Caulfield: Year One,' despite the fact that both of them got generally good reviews. Oh well, so much for starting a Harsh Realm topic. Has anyone seen Roswell? High schoolers who are aliens. Jason Katims, the executive producer who has also written some of the shows helped create My So-Called Life. Another producer, David Nutter, was a writer and producer on X-Files. So it comes from a decent lineage. I like this show. Scary police chases replaces 'Harsh Realm' bummair!