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OC FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2001 F27 LOS ANGELES TIMES Talk About Repeat Offenders TODAY ON TV Afternoon Noon HIST Great Blunders in History LIFE Women Docs (TVPG) MTV 2001 MTV Video Music Awards Opening Act 635577 NICK Blue's Clues 916393 SCI-FI Dark Shadows 1165119 TBS Hunter TCM "Honeymoon" '47 1hr14 1179111 TIC A Dating Story (TVG) TNN The Wonder Years (TVG) TNT ERTV14) USA Veronica's Closet (TVPG) VH1 Hit This (TVPG) HBO Dear America (TVY7) HGTV Smart Solutions IFC "Johnny Stecchino" '91 (R)1hr42 42479190 (8:45) LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Rugrats 484119 SHOW "Moll Flanders" '96 (PG-13) 2hr 16928515 SUND 'The Adventures of Pnscilla, Queen of the Desert" '95 (R1hr42 509393 TBS Cosby (TVG) TCM "Crossfire" '47 1hr26 6658190 TLC Elementary School (TVY) USA Jesse (TVPG) 10:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. k. A Ah -iff- a Is X. mwb.

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68080'-i FSN2BluetorchTV FX "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" '91 R) 2606916" HGTV Decorating With Style HIST History's Lost Found (TVG) LIFE Unsolved Mysteries (TVPG) MSNBC America Under Attack 9799461 -jJ NICK Little Bill 488935 SCI-FI Brimstone (TVPG) SUND Inside Out: Portraits of Children (TVG) TLC A Makeover Story (TVG) TNN The Waltons (TVG) TNT "Riders of the Purple Sage" '96 2hr 129751 VH1 Pop-Up Video (TVPG) Debuting tonight, ABCs new lighthearted 'Thieves' is teamwork larceny we've seen many times before. Television Review By HOWARD ROSENBERG TIMES TELEVISION CRITIC The new ABC series tonight is "Thieves," and shout if you've heard this before. Two thieves competing for the same diamonds are scooped up by the feds when they botch the heist. Here's the deal: They'll avoid jail only if they team up and use their larcenous skills to serve their country by recovering art treasures, underworld secrets, nuclear launch codes and other "valuables" ripped off from the government. The New Season These kids a team? Get outta here.

Johnny (John Stamos) yings, Rita (Melissa George) yangs. Not only do they constantly bicker and battle over everything, but he's an old-school thief who favors meticulous planning and nonviolence, she's a high-tech animal-who acts instinctively and lives to kick butt. These two kids work as a tandem for the feds? Nah, unless Rita: "We're stuck together, like it or not." Yes, of course they are. Just as their scores of predecessors have been stuck together in this formula for lighthearted drama that movie and TV audiences have been seeing for years. At its heart is escape, a flight to fantasy where action plus chemistry and snappy dialogue between protagonists are huge and plot barely visible.

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"Thieves" is not one of those series, largely because of the casting. Stamos has a nice way with light material, but when you look at him you still see the Olsen twins and "Full House." And George as a cosmopolitan thief? She looks like she's been around the block, all right. On a bicycle. "Thieves" can be seen tonight at 9 on ABC The network has rated it TV-14-LV (may be unsuitable for children younger than 14 with special advisories for coarse language and violence). out a 250-pounder with the back of her hand, you know it's time to pack away disbelief and try enjoying this for what it hopes to be.

As it is, gunmen keep missing when blasting away with automatic weapons at point-blank range, the revisionist theory here being that the body travels away from a bullet faster than the bullet travels toward it. Cloning is not necessarily sinful in TV, where copies of copies of copies occasionally succeed on a creative level (think "Moonlighting," for example) because they are well-cast and executed with origi EI KCBS The Bold and the Beautiful (TV14) 53119 1 ED KTTV Power of Attorney 24! KVCR The Power of Place: World Regional Geography S3 KOCE HealthWeek KLCS Reading Rainbow ITVW, GB KRCA Los Angeles en Vivo NewsRadio (TVPG) DISN Out of the Box FAM Garfield (TVY) 388461 3 HBO "Three to Tango" '99 (PG-13) 1hr38 1673206 HGTV Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home HIST History's Lost Found (TVSr" NICK Blue's Clues 11 5577 SHOW "Escape From Alcatraz" '79 (PG) 77263428 (123B TLC A Makeover Story (TVG) VH1 Pop-Up Video (TVPG) KCAL Crossing Over 96461 ED KTTV I Love Lucy 24 KVCR Jay Jay the Jet Plane SO KCET Barney (TVY) 21799 HQ KTBN Jerry Barnard 03 KDOC Benny Hinn BO KLCS Algebra Concepts for Primary School CMAX 'The Second Arrival" '98 (R1hr45 22394732 (9:45) CNN Burden of Proof 759935 DISN Rolie Polie Olie (TVY) Mysteries Scandals ESPN2 NFL 2Night 2143393 FAM Living the Life HGTV Appraise Itl LIFE Golden Girls (TVPG-D) NICK Franklin 104461 TLC A Baby Story (TVPG) TMC "A Small Town in Texas" '76 (PG) 7641 7041 (9:45) TNN WKRP in Cincinnati USA Living Single 'Danny Centers Around Family Life ESPN2 Games 5273751 FAM It's ItsyBitsy Time (TVY) FSN Off the Wall FSN2 The Last Word 426041 FX The Practice (TV14) HBO "Drive Me Crazy" '99 (PG-13) 1hr30 992515 HGTV The Carol Duvall Show HIST FBI: The Untold Stories IFC "Careful, He Might Hear You" '84 (PG)1hr56 399596 LIFE Unsolved Mysteries (TVPG) NICK Dora the Explorer 949461 SCI-FI Brimstone (TVPG) TBS "Crocodile Dundee" '86 (PG-13) 2hr 571770 TCM 'The Perils of Pauline" '47 TLC A Wedding Story (TVG) TNN The Wonder Years (TVG) TNT NYPD Blue (TV14-L) USA "No Laughing Matter" '98 2hr 579312 VH1 Before They Were Rock Stars 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. Television Review El KCAL To Tell the Truth IB KCOP Buzz Lightyear of Star Command 44472 CO KSCI Ponkikkees 492157 24) KVCR Introductory Geology ED KCET Dragon Tales 95886 G3 KTBN Kenneth Copeland 03 KOCE School ot Fine Art B3 KDOC James Robison 230206 EB KJLA Hollywood Treasures BO KLCS Between the Lions KRCA Cine Northern Exposure (TVPG) BET Rod Parsley BRVO Bravo Profiles (TVPG) CMAX 'The Van" '96 (R) 1hr45 2056003 COM "The Heavenly Kid" '85 (PG-132hr 8405393 DISN The Book of Pooh (TVY) News Daily 584664 ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 BorJyShaping FAM What's With Andy (TVY7) FSN National Sports Report FSN2 Southern California Sports FX MASH (TVPG) HGTV TIPical Mary Ellen HIST 20th Century (TVPG) IFC Independent Focus (8:15) LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) MTV Music Videos (TVPG) NICK Hey Arnold! 485848 SCI-FI Time Tunnel TBS Mama's Family TLC Salty's Lighthouse (TVY) TMC "Small Wonders" '95 (G) 1hr16 73332935 (8:25) TNT Lois Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TVPG) USA USAM News 10:00 a.m. By HOWARD ROSENBERG TIMES TELEVISION CRITIC anny" arrives on CBS tonight amid some negative critical buzz, 1 Mr -HO.

time with his son (Jon Foster), daughter (Julia Mcllvaine) and father (Robert Prosky) a very nice supporting cast, by the way and as a parent, his best-laid plans inevitably crash. If there is a banana peel in the neighborhood, the manchild Danny will slip on it, his constant bumbling and personality pratfalls growing weary at times. You'd hope that the producers would cut back on his klutzy Dagwood Bum-stead moments in favor of the common denominators of parenting. As when his advice to his son about drinking backfires in the wittier second episode, and he and his daughter squirm uncomfortably when graphic sex surfaces during the foreign movie they are watching together at home. The question, when it comes to survival, is whether "Danny" can find ways to touch the funny bone as often as it does the heart.

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but it's a warm, gentie, amiable little comedy, one calibrated to smiles instead of punch lines fol-. lowed by noisy laugh tracks. No huge moments in the two episodes sent out for review, but mTheNewSeason many nice ones, with Daniel Stern as a likable single father of two teenagers and hands-on director of a multipurpose facility known as the Wreck Center that he transformed from some deserted warehouses. With his poor organizational skills, it's hard to see how. It's at this community center where Danny comes alive, though, his deficiencies as an administrator eclipsed by his kindness and devotion to kids.

The premiere is at its best when 13) KEYT News KABC Port Charles (TV1 4) 12312 0 KCAL Judge Joe Brown ED KTTV Judge Hatchett EB KSCI Taiwan News I24) KVCR Handyma'am F53 KCET Mister Rogers 50138 (36) KMIR Mad About You (TVPG) EE KTBN Benny Hinn ffl KVEA Noticiero BET 106 Park: BET's Top 10 Live CMAX "Me, Myself Irene" '00 R)1hr57 101935 COM Win Ben Stein's Money DSC Lynette Jennings Design DISN Bear in the Big Blue House FAM It's ItsyBitsy Time (TVY) FSN2 You Gotta See This! HGTV Simply Quilts HIST History's Crimes and Trials MTV 2001 MTV Video Music Awards 429732 NICK Dora the Explorer 940190 TLC A Wedding Story (TVG) TMC "Sharks' Treasure" 75 (PG)1hr35 4481 003 TNN The Wonder Years (TVG) VH1 Rock Roll Jeopardy! (TVPG) TONY ESPARZA Daniel Stern plays a single father. he's guiding little girls in their tutus while filling in for the dance teacher and pushing his 40-year-old bones in a basketball game with teenagers. When teased about not being able to jump, Danny replies: "That's not because I'm old, it's because I'm Jewish." Meanwhile, that dance teacher has him in her hip pocket, his secretary under her thumb. On the home front, he shares 0 KCAL Card Sharks EB KCOP Sabrina 94913 24) KVCR Introductory Geology BD KCET Arthur 941 57 KPXN James Robison 14935 EE KTBN Ray Brubaker KOCE Barney (TVY) 699935 KLCS Math Monsters: When I Grow Up (8:45) BET Eddie Long DISN Otter (TVY) News Daily 583935 ESPN2 BodyShaping FAM Flint the Time Detective FSN The Best Damn Sports Show FX MASH (TVPG) Continued on page F30 National Nielsen Viewership Here are the rankings for national prime- ber of people who watched a program from time network television last week (Sept. 17- start to finish.

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Viewers also showed up in big numbers for a two-hour premiere of ABC's "The Practice," which easily won its time slot against the special "50 Years of NBC Late Night" and CBS' movie "The Last Brickmaker in America." ABC won Saturday as well behind the Miss America pageant. Notably, viewers also seemed ready to laugh, as the one-hour "Friends" finale from last seasonbroadcast the same night President Bush addressed Congressdrew the biggest audience in years for a rerun of that series. Individual network ratings were not provided for Bush's address or the telethon "America: A Tribute to Heroes," but Nielsen estimated 82.1 million and 59.3 million people, respectively, were watching those telecasts at any given minute, behind only the Super Bowl among events shown this year. Brian Lowry 2. 'Lisa "Curse OT Jade Scorpion" 3.

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