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nrnumiiftwiiiiM nm -r -j i iir i 1 rnri-gii fTr WlTri jj Hi 11 Jl If THE CHARLOTik OBSERVER I wwwcharIottecom TELEVISION FEATURES FRIDAY JANUARY 2 2004 13B Mg mrjHHj(rtTijiiTffr 'tnjT Talk Shows TV AFTERLIFE When ax falls not all shows die quickly mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmMmMMmmmmmmmmmmM i Best Bets WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU 8:30 PM (WB) Holly's (Amanda Bynes) admission of her feelings for Vince (Nick Zano) is overheard by Henry (Michael McMillian) who breaks up with her and then goes AWOL in Henry" WHILE YOU WERE OUT 9PM(TLC) A taste of the exotic changes Jeremy and Angela's view of their rather ordinary bedroom in the new episode Charles: Cypriot Serenity" THE JUROR 9 PM (TNT) Movie: A spirited single mother (Demi Moore) selected to serve on the jury of a powerful murder trial becomes the target for a mob assassin (Alec Baldwin) in this 1996 drama JAG 10 PM (CBS) American troops find a US petty officer (guest star Kim Myers) living in Iraq as a wife in Mac (Catherine Bell) tries to prove that the woman the daughter of an admiral (guest star Denis Arndt) was not spying for the enemy Scott Wolf Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz (10 am WCCB channel 18) CROSSING OVER WITH JOHN EDWARD: Johnny Two Potatoes in the audience gets a message from his departed boyfriend (11 am WJZY channel 46) JERRY SPRINGER: Favorite lesbian stories 14' (11 am WCCB channel 18) THE VIEW: Actor Jason Biggs singer tes-sica Simpson actor Jack Black singer Mandy Moore actor Paul Walker (11 am WSOC channel 9) GOOD DAY LIVE: Guest hosts Trista Rehn and Rosanna Tavarez Hollywood gossip (Noon WCCB channel 18) WAYNE BRADY SHOW: Actor Seann William Scott actor Danny Nucci John Edward extreme makeover 'G' (Noon WCNC channel 36) ASK RITA: Actorcomic Carrot Top 'PG' (1 pm WAXN channel 64 1:35 am WSOC channel 9) RICKI LAKE: The increasing frequency of eating disorders among young blacks (1 pm WWWB channel 55) MONTEL WILLIAMS: People who have emerged from comatose states discuss recovery (4 pm WBTV channel 3) OPRAH WINFREY: (4 pm WSOC channel 9 9 WAXN channel 64) LATE SHOW: Madonna talks about her new children's book actorcomic Chris Elliott (11:35 pm WBTV channel 3) TONIGHT SHOW: Comic Bill Maher Mandy Moore performs 14' (11:35 pm WCNC channel 36) CHARLIE ROSE: Alan Greenberg chairman Bear Steams (Midnight WNSC channel 30 WTVJ channel 42) LATE NIGHT: Actor Ethan Hawke actor George Wendt Natalie MacMaster 14' (12:37 am WCNC channel 36) LATE LATE SHOW: Actor Don Johnson lournalist Maria Menounos comic Ryan Belleville D' (1:07 am WBTV channel 3) LAST CALL: Actordirector Jon Favreau NBA player Dikembe Mutombo comic Todd Barry bull rider Chris Shivers chef Rocco DiSpirito Story of the Year performs Me First the Gimme Gimmes perform 14' (136 am WCNC channel 36) EARLY SHOW: Steve Hartman's "Everybody Has a Story" (7 am WBTV channel 3) GOOD MORNING AMERICA: Oscar Buzz movie review (7 am WSOC channel 9) TODAY: (7 am WCNC channel 36) LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLY: Hunky husbands compete in a pageant 'G' (9 am WSOC channel 9) LIVING IT UPI WITH ALI JACK: Actress Valerie Harper chef Rachael Ray ac-torcomedian Tommy Davidson (9 am WBTV channel 3) MAURY: Angry women say they have evidence that their lovers are cheating 'PG' (9 am WCCB channel 18) DR PHIL Rude behavior (10 am WSOC channel 9 7 pm WAXN channel 64) JOHN WALSH SHOW: Psychic Dougall Fraser (10 am WCNC channel 36) SHARON OSBOURNE: Singer Kelly Rowland actor-musician Lil' Romeo actor Unaired episodes can become summertime fillers or DVD sets By Anthony Breznican Associated Press There are three stages of afterlife for a dead TV show and a fate can be decided by its unaired episodes Heaven is a DVD release a kind of immortality for a series like or which had devoted vie-werships that were too small for network advertisers but large enough to justify selling a boxed-set of discs Then there are the fallow summer months a bitter purgatory where many as-yet-un-seen installments of canceled shows are dumped in a last-ditch effort to fill the schedule with anything but reruns Look for the remains of recently axed to turn up here Hades in this scenario is never to be seen nor heard from again Among the damned deserving or not -are pom drama supernatural thriller and the NBC version of the British sitcom a sci-fi Western fusion series from the Vampire creator Joss Whedon is one canceled show whose unfinished season led to a happy ending The program about a hardscrabble space crew 500 years in the future lost its bid for survival on fall 2002 schedule after 11 episodes with three more finished but unaired Whedon and crew wanted their work on those episodes shown somewhere anywhere and fens wanted that too But Whedon resisted the idea of burning off those installments as summer filler The four-disc set including all 14 episodes was released in stores last month But overall summer exposure is better than nothing In some cases it can even rejuvenate a program teetering on cancellation originally titled Seinfeld -was a low-rated pilot in summer 1989 NBC held onto the remaining four installments for another year before dumping them in the summer But -surprise! the series evolved into one of the most successful sitcoms in history ABC is hoping for similar luck with its comedic-thriller starring Carla Gugino as a sexy federal marshal The show was placed on hiatus recently with three episodes still unaired The network plans to air those shows in March in a new time slot and its producers supported the idea of banking the inseen installments until them Even when a show is canceled outright the unaired episodes are rarely destroyed In some rare cases that dead TV show can become valuable again years later The TVio cable channel has had success showcasing these kinds of shows on its But series which highlights well-regarded programs that never found a major audience such as the recent Richter Controls the But cult-fan demand always enough to loosen a network or grip starred Skeet Ulrich as a priest who investigates supernatural mysteries The show was canceled last spring Only six of the 13 I episodes made it to the air and a fervent group of fens have lobbied unsuccessfully for the DVD release of the other seven them to simply not air the episodes came across to us as said Angela Mitchell a 36-year-old publicist in Hollywood Fla who helped organize the campaign Many fans have taken to bootlegging the lost installments making copies from foreign-market broadcasts and sharing tapes through the mail 1 i kj i.