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mi 04 if TUNEin New Friday Fare By JENNIFER MANGAN BC's "T.G.I. lineup has been a i welcome respite J- i J0 every Friday for kids as well as parents. Last season's two-hour block brought comfortable, high-caliber entertainment with shows such as "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "You Wish," "Boy Meets World" and "Teen Angel." But TV has taught us that nothing lasts forever. "You Wish" and "Teen Angel" got the heave-ho for two new hopefuls. My wish was that they both could've stuck around.

Perhaps ABC believes the Olsen twins will be the ace in their new family comedy series, "Two of a Kind" (8 p.m., beginning Friday). Personally, after daily reruns of "Full House" and countless video rentals of Olsen adventures, another series starring the ONE WORLD The Blake family won't be compared to the Brady Bunch, or even to the "Eight Is Enough" clan, for they are truly unique a kind of mini-subset of our society. "One World" is Peter Engel's by the first family comedy series, and it is mainly about relationships and how to get along with each other. It focuses on a household with six teens of various ethnic and racial backgrounds who are adopted by ex-baseball player Dave Blake and his artist wife, Karen. Living under the same roof, these teens find out they are similar to other families, but most important, they learn acceptance and respect for each other's differences, and they learn the meaning of family love.

Ch 4: 11 a.m., Saturday RUG RATS: THE FAMILY TREE There is never a dull moment with our beloved diapered tots, whose pack is about to expand. This life-changing episode, at least for the Pickles family, is the cliff-hanger episode to the "Rugrats" movie to be released at Thanksgiving. When Didi and Stu take a cruise to celebrate their wedding anniversary, seasickness grips Didi for most of her voyage. Upon seeing the ship's doctor, she learns that she's pregnant. What a surprise Tommy Pickles and the gang have in store when a new 'rat (whose name will be Dil Pickles) joins the pack.

NICK: 8 p.m., Monday "Brother's Keeper" stars William Ragsdale, Justin Cooper and Sean O'Bryan scheming twin spin doesn't excite me. But does it excite my kids? Yes it does. Rather than pip-squeaks, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen now play pre-teens with an attitude. They live with their overprotective single dad, Kevin Burke (Christopher Sieber), a college professor. The twins are complete oppo-sites.

Mary-Kate plays the tomboy whose only interest is Softball and making fun of her sister; Ashley is boy-crazy, with clothes, hair and makeup running a close second. Carrie (Sally Wheeler), a 28-year-old student of Burke's, is the baby-sitter and is merely around to counter dad's wound-too-tight personality, loosen him up and talk with the girls about girl stuff. All in all, it's cute and entertaining but predictable. Grateful is the best word to describe "T.G.I.F.'s" other new show, "Brother's Keeper" (9:30 p.m., beginning Friday). Grateful because it airs later and perhaps the little ones will need to go to bed or 1 1- will at least change the channel to Nickelodeon.

The show's theme is familiar: another single, overprotective and nerdy dad (also a college professor), named Porter Waide (William Ragsdale), properly rearing his 8-year-old, Oscar (Justin Cooper). But things go berserk when crazy Uncle Bobby (Sean O'Bryan) shows up asking to live with Porter because his $1 million football contract states he needs a full-time chaperone. We learn that barroom brawls and run-ins with the law are an ongoing problem. Therein lies the odd-couple comedy, with dad trying to rear little Oscar with values, responsibility and structure, while Uncle Bobby tries to corrupt him. This comedy is edgy for pre-teens, with references to strip clubs, stealing Tylenol with codeine from the hospital after Dad gets a marble stuck up his nose, and Uncle Bobby's insatiable appetite for female overnight guests.

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