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'WTH "'J THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1999 playful but needs work By Steve Hall TV RADIO EDITOR Foe 59 cum. aspires to be younger, more playful and more outrageous than other local early morning TV newscasts Tt Jim Carrey, say, rather than Bob Hope. This WXIN 03 offering from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. weekdays debuted Wednesday with plenty of technical glitches and flubbed lines.

At one point, for Instance, anchor Jordana Green described the health benefits of eating produce while viewers saw video of emergency personnel and people on stretchers. (The video was for a later story on carbon monoxide.) Her co-anchor, Clarence Reynolds, talked about a local bill promoting highway safety while the graphic over his shoulder read "Crisis In Kosovo." And so on. contrast, the show's lighter 4wTTV NewBat- Jny Springer Two-Urn- Horn Home Seinfeld Frasier 601 Smart Guy The Jamie The Steve For Your News Mad About Frasier M'A'S'H Taxi 23985 Paid 68354 Paid 89335 The Newly- The Dating manSuper mg lovers. 7885 Improvement Improvement 8514 (CC) (CC) (R)4934 Foxx Show Harvey Love(R) 89525 (CC) You 82595 6750 (CC) Life Time. Children (CC) wed Game Game r.

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(CC) 4497040 74) Comedy. 20490682 oner tries to lose her Navy escorts. 1830441 Movie elements were more effective. Funny weatherman Cody Stark seems to take nothing seriously. His weather graphics had readings like "Sun-o-rama," "Mo' Sunny" arid "High Plains Drifter" (to describe a pressure system).

His ad-libs came fast and furious during weather segments noting historical happenings such as 1 the birth of the founder of Kellogg's cereals: "Like the cereal, he gets soggy If dipped in milk." Or on the founding of the supermodel-owned Fashion Cafe: Their main entree is an 'empty plate." WISH (Channel 8) has Dick Wolf-sie and his dog Barney roaming the city; Fox 59 a.m. has young, attractive Shireen Sandoval, who spent the morning at a bagel shop. Sandoval was quick-witted and given to self-deprecating humor. Too bad her segments came off like a three-hour free commercial for the bagel place. Traffic reporter Joni Michels was a likable personality, if sometimes given to clunky happy talk: "A few people received tickets on their way to work this morning, and they weren't Colts, Pacers or Ice tickets." Groan.

Some parts of the Fox 59 cum. debut were Just plain silly. The guys In the control room were shown having a mock flstflght and perusing a road map. There were such segments as Useless Facts (Why do dogs have black upper lips? To protect them from sun-bum) and Breakfast in Bed. On a made bed in the studio, Green Interviewed Ray Compton, vice president of marketing for the Colts she reclining, he sitting, and both wearing bathrobes over their clothes.

Symbols: (S) in Stereo; (CC) closed-captioning; (Ft) repeat. Shading indicates movies. Movie listings are supplied by TMS. Star ratings: 4 excellent. 3 good, 2 fair, 1 poor.

PROGRAM NOTES Newscasts enjoy teasing viewers Carol doubt her academic record. 9:30 p.m. For Your Love 10866. Sheri and Malena have a slumber party when the guys go away on a golfing weekend. 9:30 p.m.

CD Just Shoot Me 14069. Maya dates a puppeteer (French Stewart), the host of a children's show. 9:30 p.m. EB Moesha 47137. The gang thinks a bully from their third-grade class is stalking them.

Dear R.K. Shull: Nine nights out of 10 we drop off to sleep watting for the weather forecast. We wake up, look at each other and say, well, we cm Shull's missed It again. known for his work on the soap General Hospital and for MacGyver. Dear R.K.

Shull: I wanted to ask how come they are putting all of the commercials in the soap operas. I wish they would put the commercials at the end of the shows. P.B. Dear Reader: Don't we all! Many countries do not allow TV to interrupt shows with blurbs, so commercials are clustered between programs. But in the United States, commercial TV is molded to the wants of the advertisers.

Send your questions to R.K. Shull, The Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News, P.O. Box 145, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206-0145. Sorry, no personal replies.

10 p.m. 48 Hours 93137. Jus- insky as the celebrity star of a Hollywood after-the-Oscars party? Yeech! T.D. Dear Reader: Celebrity or notoriety, Hollywood seems to respond to I suspect there are those who'd line up for bomber Timothy McVeigh's autograph. Dear R.K.

Shull: I have been in love with Richard Dean Anderson ever since MacGyver. How old is he and when is his birthday? Is he related to Richard Anderson of The Six Million Dollar Man? Has he made any movies? W.N. Dear Reader: Richard Dean was born on Jan. 23, 1950, in Minneapolis, son of a jazz musician and no relation to Richard Anderson, who was first to lay claim to the name. He has appeared in a few TV movies, but he's best- tjee for Jon Benet.

Interview with the M3IID3g games. What's the murdered child's parents; investigation compion apparenuy was selected as a guest because the NFL draft begins April 17. But since he didn't want to reveal the team's intentions with its fourth overall pick, he ended up talking about the Colts' season whose opener Is Jive months away. The setting made for some of the stranger lines In local TV news: "I have to ask, while you're here In bed with us Is Fox 59 a.m. too loose to attract a faithful audience? Quite the contrary.

WXIN officials obviously know their viewers the station has the top-rated 10 p.m. newscast in the city and executive producer Antoine Lewis formerly guided WGN-TVs morning show to record ratings in Chicago. As weird and shallow as Fox 59 a.m. can be, viewers will likely start climbing out of bed to watch. 'Will and Grace' NBC's Will and Grace moves to 8:30 p.m.

today on WTHR CD with a very funny episode () that suggests Thursday may start deserving the "must-see TV" label again. When Grace (Debra Messing) is consumed by work, Will (Eric McCormack) finds a new best friend Saturday Night Live's irrepressible Molly Shannon). "I don't like how chummy she is with your non-romantic life partner," warns Grace's assistant Karen (Megan Mullally). Cue the catflght! Grace's jealousy over another woman points out how safely Will and Grace plays its gay card. Gay Will has never been seen dating another man, and he and roommate Grace have Barefoot in the Park-like couple dilemmas: Grace wants to go to the ice show, Will doesn't.

Will becomes attached to a puppy, Grace doesn't. The occasional catty remark aside, Will really does seem like Grace's "husband," as Karen calls him. Unlike ABC's Ellen, which wore Its sexual orientation on its sleeve, Will and Grace makes its gay characters acceptable to America by virtually taking their gayness out of the equation. This is progress? Star ratings: 4 excellent, 3 good, 2 (air, 1 poor. I R.K.

Shull Dig secretY cant they tell us up front? We feel 12 or 13 minutes of actual news out of 30 not enough. M.R. Dear Reader: As I've said before, In the time It takes them to tell you what they're going to tell you, they could have told you. Dear R.K. Shull: Monica Lew 8 p.m.

Smart Guy 4934. Yvette feels breast augmentation surgery would help her career. 8 p.m. Promised Land 57494. Claire expresses concern that Josh's relationship with Bobbie may be too intense for him.

8 p.m. CEJ Friends 7224. Rachel feigns smoking to impress her nicotine-addict boss (Joanna Gleason). 8 p.m. BD Antiques Roadshow 27798.

Houston; Wortd War II; Titanic menu; fishbowl; art (Part 1 of 2) 8 p.m. S) Moesha 55446. MTVs "FANatic" picks Mo to escort Kim to meet a superstar; guest LeAnn Rimes. 8:30 p.m. The Jamie Foxx Show 3069.

A boy plans to use a gun against his tormentor. 8:30 p.m. CD Will Grace 6359. Will starts spending time with a new neighbor (Molly Shannon) while Grace works. 8:30 p.m.

EB Moesha 34953. Moesha imagines the gang is in an episode of love Lucy. 9 p.m. The Steve Harvey Show 1205. Steve finds romance with a doctor.

9 p.m. The Century 88205. Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration; banks fail; internment camps; farm foreclosures; the birth of Hollywood; film industry and the Cold War. (Part 5 of 6) 9 p.m.

Turks 83750. Mike and Cliff are trapped in a bank during an armed robbery. 9 p.m. CD Frasier 56156. The brothers' competitiveness prompts them to seek their childhood I.Q.

scores. 9 p.m. EE Moesha 30798. Moesha and her friends sneak backstage at a concert to meet singer Brandy. 9:25 p.m.

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Mad About You 82595. Paul and Jamie clash while sofa-shopping. 10:30 p.m. ES Cops 19866. Orange County, carjacking; suspect behind a bookcase; drug sting.

10:35 p.m. SD Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 5048427. Odo investigates an attempt on Garak's life. (Part 1 of 2) 11 p.m. Frasier 6750.

Frasier solicits help to interpret his recurring dream. 11 p.m. ES NewsRadio 35243. James Caan studies Bill for his upcoming role as a radio broadcaster. 11:30 p.m.

MASH 16953. The surgical staff has 20 minutes to save a soldier. 11:35 p.m. CD The Tonight Show With Jay Leno 4184408. Ten Hatcher; Laker Kobe Bryant.

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