BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 4

7:30 (2) Basic Black: A Conversation with bell hooks. Host Darren Duarte interviews author and social critic hooks. (Until 8 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Frontline: Inside the Teenage Brain. Why do kids act different from grown-ups? Aside from all the stifling unfairness and exploitative forces that define their lives, it apparently has something to do with maturing brain chemistry. To be repeated tonight at 5 a.m., and on Channel 44 at 2 and 4 a.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Frontline: Fat. Can fat be beautiful? Can the overweight be healthy? Can you pass the potatoes, please? (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (10) Princess Diana: The Secret Tapes, part one. In which the late Lady Diana Spencer confesses to plotting the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, dating Bill Clinton when he was at Oxford, fixing the 1919 World Series, and having Michael Jackson’s love child. (Until 11 p.m.)

OUR BIRTHDAY 5

9:30 (2) Nova: Life and Death in the War Zone. Repeated from last week. A look at the modern-day chaos, conflict, and drama at a combat-support hospital in Iraq. For a wrenching look at the results, see "The Damage Done: America’s Wounded Come Home" in the March/April issue of Mother Jones. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Coupling. Totally confused about what episode they may show. We seem to be lost between the end of a season and the April 9 start of the rerun of that season. We also seem to be involved in some sort of fundraising hell. Can’t go wrong with Coupling even if you’ve seen it. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

SATURDAY 6

1:30 (12) Basketball. North Carolina State versus Wake Forest.

3:30 (6) Basketball. BYU versus UNLV.

4:00 (12) Basketball. Notre Dame versus St. John’s.

5:00 (2) Mastering the Game of Life with Connie Podestra. More self-help/motivational crap. Hooray for you-you-you. To quote an article from www.math.com: "Life is played on a grid of square cells — like a chess board but extending infinitely in every direction. A cell can be ‘live’ or ‘dead.’ A live cell is shown by putting a marker on its square. A dead cell is shown by leaving the square empty. Each cell in the grid has a neighborhood consisting of the eight cells in every direction including diagonals." Or, to quote from www.toy-to-toys.com: "In this classic game of fortune, your goal is to dodge bad luck and make a buck. Along the way, you’ll also earn valuable Life Tiles by doing good deeds, helping your community, or just taking a break from the rat race! Retire with the biggest fortune and you’ll win!" Connie will play one of these games live at the ’GBH studio. (Until 7 p.m.)

8:00 (2) My Music: Superstars of ’70s Soul. Patti LaBelle hosts what’s left of original artists the Commodores, the Stylistics, Yvonne Elliman, Heatwave, the Trammps, the Emotions, and the Manhattans (and 11 more) reliving their platform-shoe days. To be repeated immediately at 10 p.m., and on Channel 44 on Sunday at 9 p.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) The Funny Ladies of British Comedy. To the Manor Born star Penelope Keith hosts a send-up for Are You Being Served?’s Molly Sugden, As Time Goes By’s Judi Dench, Fawlty Towers’ Prunella Scales, The Vicar of Dibley’s Dawn French, Keeping Up Appearances’ Patricia Routledge, and more Brit-commers. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night. That settles it; we’re doing fundraising. This excellent concert took place in 1988, and Channels 2 and 44 show it almost as often as they show Fiesta in the Sky. And it’s better. The late Roy Orbison jams with Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, and more. Perhaps to be repeated on Monday at 10 p.m. on Channel 2, but don’t be too shocked if they run a Peter, Paul and Mary show instead. Ah, fundraising. (Until midnight.)

SUNDAY 7

Noon (12) Basketball. Florida versus Kentucky.

12:30 (6) Basketball. The Dallas Mavericks versus the Houston Rockets.

2:00 (12) Basketball. UConn versus Syracuse.

3:30 (6) Basketball. The New Jersey Nets versus the Los Angeles Lakers.

4:00 (12) Basketball. The Big 10 Wild Card game.

4:30 (2) Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters. Some things are more difficult to forget than others. A chance to catch the rare Carpenter home-movie footage you’ve been longing for. Plus replays of the sibling act’s sappiest hits. To be repeated tonight at 10 p.m. (Until 6 p.m.)

6:00 (2) The Great American Songbook with Michael Feinstein. The GAS in question is the commercial-pop one created by our best composers for Hollywood movies. Screen tunes from Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, Rodgers, and Porter. To be repeated on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on Channel 44. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (2) Andy Williams: My Favorite Duets. Music clips from The Andy Williams Show (1962-’73) featuring Andy crooning along with Julie Andrews, Pearl Bailey, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland, Phil Harris, Lena Horne, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Johnny Mathis, the Osmonds, Peter, Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, and more. Our favorite Andy Williams duet was "I Like Your Kind of Love," with the less-than-famous Peggy Powers delivering the contrapuntal "Umm, that’s good, baby, that’s good." Not included here, we fear. (Until 10 p.m.)

Midnight (44) Globe Trekker: Ethiopia. Trekker Ian Wright tours Ethiopia, where the place names seem borrowed from Middle Earth, and visits that nation’s oldest church, the alleged resting place of the Ark of the Covenant, the Blue Nile Falls, and Africa’s largest outdoor market. Plus, he tries a little cow jumping to impress the ladies. (Until 1 a.m.)

MONDAY 8

9:00 (6) Judas (movie). Father Bud Kieser’s Paulist Productions made this historic look at the life of Christ’s betrayer, whom ABC calls "the most complex character in the Gospels." We would have thought the manifestation of the divine oversoul in human form on a suicide mission to redeem humanity would qualify as slightly more multi-faceted than Judas, but why split hairs? Johnathon Schaech, Jonathan Scarfe, and Tim Matheson star. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (2) Roy Orbison or Peter, Paul and Mary. It would appear that WGBH hasn’t pinned down its fundraising schedule yet. For Roy, see Saturday at 10 p.m.; for PP&M, see Thursday (below) at 9 p.m. (Until 11 p.m.)

TUESDAY 9

7:00 (2) Nova: The Elegant Universe: Einstein’s Dream and String’s the Thing. Physicist Brian Greene (author of the title bestseller) explains Albert Einstein’s inability to find a single theory of stuff that explains how all stuff works and how we now have a handle on how all stuff works through the String Theory of the universe. Perhaps he does. Give him a chance to share. We all know that our universe really exists in a cud of dryer lint dropped in the path of a giant Hoover. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Haley’s Hints and Haley’s Hints Too. Honest to God, with what we presume is a totally straight face, the WGBX program-schedule blurb describes this show thus: "Graham and Rosemary Haley share time-tested and money-saving tips for removing ink stains from clothing, eliminating odors from upholstery, defogging bathroom mirrors, and more." We were hoping Graham and Rosemary would do an acoustic version of "Rock Around the Clock." (Until 12:30 a.m. — that’s two and a half hours of stain removal!)

WEDNESDAY 10

7:00 (2) Dr. Wayne Dyer: The Power of Intention. Life got you down, bunky? Don’t think you are all you could be? Are the rest of us jerks getting in your way? Or are you your own biggest stumbling block? Well, according to Dr. Dyer, each of us "possesses the power to co-create the life" that we "desire." You see, each individual’s inner self is made up of five warring selves — Sporty, Baby, Scary, Posh, and Ginger. The trick is to decide which aspect of your confused and over-populated inner self most represents the life you desire and then help that self bind and gag the other four. Poof! Suddenly it’s all about you — all Posh all the time, for example, while Sporty, Baby, Scary, and Ginger writhe around making muffled noises in the background. This revelation comes under the heading of "transformational wisdom." Don’t believe it? Suspicion, know thyself. (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (44) The Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland. On New Year’s Eve 1978, Jerry and the gang played the last show at the fabled Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. It was recorded for posterity and is available on DVD without fundraising breaks. (Until midnight.)

THURSDAY 11

7:00 (2) André Rieu: Live from Dublin. Christ! Him again. That freak with the violin and the all-Strauss orchestra performs, in his fashion, from Ireland. (Until 9 p.m.)

8:00 (64) The 35th NAACP Image Awards. Just what sort of image is being encouraged by OutKast and Beyoncé, UPN’s Girlfriends, Ice-T, and the TV-movie about the DC sniper is a bit cloudy, but congrats to the usually right-wing Fox network for airing this awards show in prime time. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Viewer Favorites. Let’s see . . . which of this week’s fabulous fundraising shows would we like to watch again? The André Rieu concert? The stain-removal marathon? The Carpenters retrospective? Connie Podestra’s lecture? That transformational-wisdom doctor? Frankly, we have to go with the ’70s soul concert or the Dead or Andy Williams. But you never know. If they really are showing the Peter, Paul and Mary special tonight at 9 p.m. on Channel 2 (the jury was still out as we went to press), that would be a safer bet. (Until midnight.)

9:00 (2) Peter, Paul and Mary: Carry It On: A Musical Legacy. Yarrow, Stookey, and Travers get together to recall those glory days of the early 1960s when hip people were smart enough to embrace folk music, not make fun of it, and these three were smart enough to repackage it for AM radio. Whatever you think of their delivery, they were a world-changing force back in the day. Featuring clips from early performances, including their 1963 rendition of "Blowin’ in the Wind" at Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" march on Washington. Note: this might not be on. You may have missed it. It may have been on Monday at 10 p.m. (Until 11 p.m.)