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1 fca'vi''lwlmiititi LISTINGS FOR AUGUST 14-AUGUST 20 FALL SERSES Hospital dramas are slated to compete CBS' 'Chicago Hope' has upscale setting; NBC's offers overworked, underpaid young residents. TUESDAY Don't call it 'broad comedy' She TV lampoons our times with a predominately female voice. The comedyvariety series comes from the producers of Laugh-In and Saturday Night Live. On WRTV (Channel 6), 10 p.m. Tuesday.

See Page 13. By Steve Hall STAR TELEVISION EDITOR oming this fall: Clash of the Chicago hospital dramas at 10 p.m. Thursdays! In the CBS corner: Chicago Hope, A fc 3 yOQ. A XXO 'h, 0tm, 9w starring Mandy Patlnkln. Adam Arkln and Hector Ellzondo as well-paid, older surgeons In a modern, high-tech and expensive hospital.

The show is created and produced by David E. Kelley, a former Emmy winner for L.A. Law and Picket Fences. In the NBC corner: E.R, starring Anthony Edwards, Sherry Stringfleld, George Clooney and Eriq LaSalle as overworked, underpaid young residents in the stressful emergency room of Cook County General Memorial Hospital. The show's creator is best-selling author Michael Crichton Jurassic Park, Rising Sun); he and John Wells (winner of a George Foster Peabody Award for his work on China Beach are executive producers.

When television typically has a dearth of intelligent dramas anyway, why are CBS and NBC executives making viewers choose between what looks like two worthy shows? They'll likely cancel each other out and make ABC's PrimeTime Live the probable winner in the time slot. "We are very uncomfortable with two medical shows facing each other," CBS Broadcast Group President Howard Stringer told TV critics in Los Angeles recently. "It makes no sense WEDNESDAY Won't get fooled again People try to put 'em down The Who: Thirty Years of Maximum a new In the Spotlight rockumentary, explores the British rock band through rare concert footage and interviews. On WFYI (Channel 20), 8 p.m. Wednesday.

NBC See HOSPITAL Page 2 CHECKUP: Anthony Edwards examines Julianna Margulies in ER. SERIES PREVIEW MTV hits a new low with animated 'Brothers Grunt The Brothers Grunt ypr Broadcast time: 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays, with repeats at 10:30 p.m. each night. Channel: MTV.

Star ratings: 4 excellent 3 good. 2 lair, 1 poor. By Steve Hall STAR TELEVISION EDITOR bodily function-obsessed grossout that parents will hate and teens will likely adore. Compared to this series premiering Monday, Beavis and Butt-head looks like a masterpiece of social satire. The brothers in question are Frank, Tony, Bing, Dean and Sammy who, despite their crooner names (as in Sinatra, Bennett are pale, slobbering creatures with bulging eyes and sagging, heavily veined bodies.

(Their whole bodies look bloodshot.) Baby boomers may be reminded of Rat Fink, the loathsome-looking hot rodder created by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth back in the '60s. Can't even tell you The Grunt brothers who all wear Bermu da shorts, black knee-high socks and wing tips are unable to talk. They grunt and twitch. They slap foreheads as a form of relaxation and indulge in other physical slapstick unprintable in a family newspaper. So the story goes, the brothers were raised in seclusion by the martini-swilling Secret Order of the Grunt.

When brother Perry was chosen to be the next Gruntus Poobah and crowned with a toilet plunger, he escaped through the toilet into our world. With the Book of Hef in hand, the other Grunts come to find him. Creator Danny Antonucci is a former Scooby-Doo animator probably best known for See MTV Page 2 SATURDAY They wage patriot games Dana Delany, Forest Whitaker and Sam Waterston star in 7770 Enemy Within. The cable remake of 1964's Seven Days in May details a military scheme to overthrow the government. On Home Box Office, 7 p.m.

Saturday. fter Beavis and Butt-head, we wouldn't have thought MTV could stoop much lower. We were wrong. MTV's latest video-based animated series. The Brothers Grunt, is the sort of grotesque,.