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CI 3 (0 weaknesses reveal themselves in another fashion. 9:00 (UPN) "Everybody Hates Chris." This repeat is a howler. It's the one where Chris' dad, one of the most frugal TV characters since Jack Benny, scores a big box of discount sausage. David Bianculli but a ringer a quick thinker with a degree in business administration) and Josh (a museum critic). They will detJf iftany (a college senior, specializing in marketing) and Joe (speed chess champion).

The teams with the brightest two women seem to have been the strongest, and tonight one team will emerge as the victor. This second season, like the first, is impressively sweet and funny. SERIES 8:00 p.m. (NBC) "Will Grace." In this fresh episode, Harry Connick Jr. returns as Grace's ex-husband Leo but he's coming back to visit without knowing that (a) Grace is pregnant, and (b) he's the father.

8:00 (Fox) "American On tonight's elimination show, two more men and two more women get the boot, completing another "Idol" phase. Next week, the Top 12 compete to stave off elimination. Ryan Seacrest hosts. 8:00 (CBS) "Survivor: Panama Exile Island." Last week's ouster of Bobby by the Casaya tribe made sense, because of the way he'd alienated many members by drinking the reward wine. The vote was so iffy, though, that the tribe exhibited more weakness than solidarity.

Tonight, some of those fepsses Stem Denture By DAVID HINCKLEY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wn orning host David Lee Roth of WFNY (92.3 FM) spent a four hours yesterday telling his bosses where they could UU stick their ideas for improving his low-rated show. "That's Robin Quivers," he said. "But there's only one Robin Quivers. Just like there's only one Howard and only one David Lee Roth." He conceded that for his first four weeks, during which time his ratings took a steep plunge from Stern's levels, "I was like a fish flopping around at the end of a stick." But he said he's a quick study and quoted Stern's comment to Sean Han-nity on The Fox News Channel that a new show can't be judged for "15-20 months." "Howard took his- old audience," said Roth. "We're after a new one." Ironically, Roth's rebellious rage yesterday drew on the same technique Stern has used for years: vilifying the boss as a means of bonding with every listener who has ever thought his or her own boss is an ugly little dysfunctional worm.

At the end of the show, Roth said, "I hope I'll be back tomorrow." "They want me to copy Howard Stern," Roth said. "But I refuse to regiment this show. I told them I would quit if they will not let me do what I was hired to do, which is create something unique." He referred to station manager Tom Chiusano and programming vice president Mark Chernoff, who met with him Tuesday, in terms that included "social retards," "beige baby-food sissies," "stooge" and "an ugly little dysfunctional worm." He said they told him he should appeal to "a 35-year-old white male who likes Lynyrd Skynyrd" and asked him to stop using "foreign" and "ethnic" music for soundbeds. He called that notion "racist," saying, "This show isn't designed for a de mographic. It's for everyone." This was hardly the first time Chiusano and Chernoff, who have worked for years with Stern and Don Imus, have been used as punching bags by their air talent.

"We are involved with all of our talent in working on their programs," a CBS Radio spokeswoman said. The question is whether they will take as much from a fledgling host as they have from veterans earning millions of dollars for the company. Officials at WFNVs parent, CBS, privately expressed concern with some of Roth's remarks. Roth said he was told he will soon have a female newscaster who will read stories he can comment on. Britney's little sis aces Showbiz '101 t-T7'.

-I 'jls a'- il -ff' 4 -j X- 'A i autaser: a. Nickelodeon has ordered a second season of 26 episodes, due to debut this fall. Spears will move to Los Angeles over summer vacation to shoot the episodes, as she did for the first season. Her first film part was in big sister Britney's 2002 road-trip movie "Crossroads," playing the child version of her sister, to whom she bears a striking resemblance. Britney has been an invaluable guide through the Hollywood minefield, she said: "She's been able to give me a whole lot of advice because she's been through the auditions and everything else.

So it's been a help." And while singing and dancing are in her repertoire, she's not particularly interested in walking in her sister's footsteps as a singer. Instead, she's focusing on acting and counts Kate Hudson as a role mode). So could a permanent move to California, closer to her big sister, brother-in-law Kevin Federline and new nephew Sean Preston, be in the offing? "I'm not really sure," she said. "LA. is a nice place to visit, but I just like living at home right now." Besides, being far from the media crush is not a bad thing.

Especially since it seems that not a day goes by when her sister isn't fodder for the supermarket tabloids. "It's kind of hard to see all the stuff that people write," said Spears. "But I don't focus on it. I just don't read it." By MARISA GUTHRIE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Jamie Lynn Spears has an enormously famous sister whose marriage and baby have bankrolled the careers of many a paparazzo. But the youngest Spears sibling is forging a career far from the flashbulbs and tabloid press.

Spears is the star of Nickelodeon's "Zoey lpl," which in one season has become prVs top-rated live-action series for tweens. The first "Zoey 101" TV movie premieres tomorrow at 8 p.m. "Spring Break-Up" revolves around the mutual but unspoken crush between Zoey and classmate Chase (played by Sean Flynn, grandson of Errol). Spears plays the series' title character, a 13-year-old who is one of the first girls to enroll in a newly coed boarding school. "She's a lot like me," said Spears, who's 14.

She should be. The show was crafted with Spears in mind after she captured the attention of network executives as a regular on the sketch-comedy series "All That." "It's a lot of fun," the actress said in her Louisiana drawl. "I get to go to work and be myself all day." But being the star of a series is also a lot of work, especially when you're also navi- I. Q. IO I WHAT SHE DID ON SUMMER VACATION: "Zoey 10 Is" Jamie Lynn Spears Sean Flynn gating high school and extracurricular ac- Last month, Nickelodeon released the tivitJes.

Spears lives with her family in "Zoey 101" soundtrack, which includes Kentwood, where she's on her cuts from Train, Good Charlotte and the school's cheerleading squad. (They're Gin Blossoms. The series was an immedi- headed to Disney World this weekend for ate hit on iTunes, premiering in the top 20 a national cheerleading competition.) when it launched there last January..