AB FAB IN NEW YORK
Saturday, Feb. 8
COM, 7 p.m., 1:30 a.m.
New! After Edina learns that her estranged son Serge (Josh Hamilton) is gay and living in New York, she decides to cross the Atlantic with Patsy in search of him. After attending Fashion Week, the girls pretend to be a lesbian couple who want to get married in order to pry Serge's address from a gay counselor and wedding minister (Whoopi Goldberg). Edina and son eventually reunite in the stacks of The Strand Bookstore, where she discovers that Serge first fled home because he felt Edina's preconceptions of gay people wouldn't allow him the freedom to be both gay AND boring. In my favorite moment, Edina tries to remember the shorthand name by which people refer to Sept. 11. ('... 7-11 ? .... 24/7 ? .... 7-11, isn't it?'). With cameos by Rufus Wainwright, Debbie Harry, and Graham Norton. The special originally aired in the U.K under the title 'Gay' — (and its title remains 'Gay' in the program's opening credits)—but Comedy Central has oddly re-dubbed it AB FAB IN NEW YORK.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5
ELLEN ON HOLLYWOOD SQUARES, Chicago, Ch. 2, 4 p.m.; this week and next.
DAWSON'S CREEK (WB, 7 p.m.) 'Clean and Sober' Jack (Kerr Smith) agrees to marry Emma (Megan Gray) so that she can get her green card! What will boyfriend David (Greg Rikaart) say?
ENTERPRISE (UPN, 7 p.m.) 'Stigma' The crew discovers that Vulcan Sub Commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock, pictured) has contracted a fatal virus from the intimate ritual of Vulcan mind-meld. As a result, Enterprise must return to her home world to find a cure. To their surprise, they discover that very little is being done on Vulcan to treat the deadly disease, and that people who engaged in the intimate ritual are stigmatized by mainstream Vulcan culture! Repeats Feb. 9 at 7 .
THURSDAY, FEB. 6
20/20: LIVING WITH MICHAEL JACKSON (ABC, 7-9 p.m.) A new 2-hour documentary from the U.K. ITV1's Martin Bashir spent the past eight months with Jackson and was with him in Berlin when he controversially dangled his baby over a hotel balcony.
WILL AND GRACE (NBC, 8p.m) 'Homojo' Jack suffers Karen's wrath when he is seduced into friendship by her manipulative British romantic rival (Minnie Driver).
E.R. (NBC, 9 p.m.) Lesbian Dr. Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes) gets a promotion from a grateful alderman (Bruce Weitz).
FRIDAY, FEB. 7
KIDS IN THE HALL ON LETTERMAN CBS, 10:35.
SATURDAY, FEB. 8
LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT (NBC, 8 p.m.) Repeat: When a transsexual is found murdered in a church, suspicion falls on a priest (Eric Stoltz) who resigned from a parochial school after rumors of child abuse.
WHAT MAKES A FAMILY (Lifetime, 11 p.m.) Repeat: Brooke Shields stars as a lesbian in a child custody battle with the mother (Anne Meara) of her deceased lover (Cherry Jones).
MONDAY, FEB. 10
REAL WORLD/ROAD RULES BATTLE OF THE SEXES (MTV, 9 p.m) Features 6 gay, lesbian or sexually vacillating cast members from previous seasons.
GAY WEDDINGS (Bravo, 9 p.m., midnight) Repeat, Episode 3: Valentine's Day Episode.
TUESDAY, FEB. 11
GAY MURDER ON NYPD BLUE (ABC, 9 p.m.) A wealthy gay man is found shot in the head. Bill Brochtrup plays gay John Irvin.
