SOUTH PARK GETS IN ON THE NEW QUEER EYE GAY IS HIP ‘TREND!’ COM, 9 p.m.
In the first of a new short season of eight episodes, the town of South Park goes gay! The whole town celebrates the new, hip metrosexual craze. Everyone is suddenly hot to be gay! Cartman, Stan, Kyle and Kenny are in fierce competition to see who can be the gayest, while Mr. Garrison responds with, ‘If straight people are gonna steal our culture, then us REAL gays are just gonna have to step it up a notch!’ The episode repeats Friday at 11 p.m., Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and 2 a.m., and Sunday at 10 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 22
ELLEN DEGENERES (NBC, 10 a.m) Daily. Wed: Charlie Sheen, Thurs: Katie Holmes, Fri: Annie Lennox
ALL MY CHILDREN (ABC, noon) Daily. Last week, Bianca was startled to learn that the child she’s carrying—as a result of her rape by Michael Cambias—stands to inherit the entire Cambias fortune.
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (6 p.m.) Bruce Vilanch is a Square all week. Bruce is currently touring nationally in the Harvey Fierstein role in HAIRSPRAY. I
T’S ALL RELATIVE (ABC, 7:30 p.m.) When a client unexpectedly gives Philip tickets to a Red Sox game, Bobby sees it as an opportunity for family bonding and convinces Philip and Simon to invite Liz’s homophobic father Mace. But Mace’s idea of how to watch a ballgame is quite different from Philip’s and Simon’s. Meanwhile, Liz tags along with Bobby’s mother and sister to a basement sale that’s more like a battlefield.
THURSDAY, OCT. 23
MELISSA ETHERIDGE ON OPRAH (Ch. 7, 9 a.m.)
WILL & GRACE (NBC, 8 p.m.) Jack lands a brief speaking role in an off-Broadway play— and shares the stage with James Earl Jones. When the director rejects James’ performance in favor of Jack’s one-line triumph, Jones decides to enroll in Jack’s acting school. Postponed from last week due to baseball.
FRIDAY, OCT. 24
VH-1’s SECRET TV FORMULAS (VH-1, 10 p.m.) Includes a look at the ‘Gay But Not Gay’ TV formula. Repeats Saturday, Oct. 25 at 1, 4 and 11 p.m.
SUNDAY, OCT. 26
FRESHMAN DIARIES (SHO, 10 p.m., 3 a.m.) Documentarian R.J. Cutler follows a group of students through their freshman year at the University of Texas at Austin, including two gay students, Neil and Luis.
TARZAN (WB, 9 p.m.) CK Underwear model Travis Fimmel stars as Tarzan, and Lucy Lawless stars as his aunt.
K STREET (HBO, 9 p.m.) New drama, follows fictional and real-life Washington, D.C. lobbyists. Mary McCormack plays Mary Matalin’s lesbian assistant Maggie.
MONDAY, OCT. 27
TWO AND A HALF MEN (CBS, 8:30 p.m.) Marin Hinkle appears occasionally as Judith, the lesbian ex-wife of Jake (Jon Cryer).
TUESDAY, OCT. 28
WHOOPI (NBC, 7 p.m.) When Mavis’ (Whoopi) brother’s wigga girlfriend Rita joins Mavis’ rowdy all-girl smoker-poker night, she shows a new side of herself that offends conservative Courtney—but the hip girlfriend won’t hop to his orders to abandon the game and walks out on him, leaving the lawyer crestfallen on the eve of a big job interview. Mavis recruits Nasim in a desperate bid to reconcile the mismatched lovebrids.
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY Repeats.
REAL WORLD PARIS (MTV, 9 p.m) Features gay Irish roomie Simon.
NIP/TUCK (FX, 9 p.m., 10:30 p.m.) Drama about two L.A. plastic surgeons, from out producer Ryan Murphy (Popular). Features Roma Maffia as lesbian anesthesiologist Liz Cruz.
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