BY CLIF GARBODEN

THURSDAY 2

8:00 (6) Charlie’s Angels (movie). The campy 2000 update of the ancient TV show with Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, and Cameron Diaz as the title angels out to retrieve some stolen technology. Bill Murray co-stars. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (10) Hit Me Baby One More Time. A new gimmick show (based on a British series) that resurrects still-warm musical acts and pits them against each other in front of a live audience. Threatened artists include A Flock of Seagulls, Loverboy, Arrested Development, the Romantics, and Tiffany. (Until 10 p.m.)

FRIDAY 3

8:00 (64) The Glass House (movie). Leelee Sobieski stars as an orphan teen adopted by a wealthy couple who turn her life into a nightmare. Imitation Hitchcock. (Until 10 p.m.)

9:00 (2) Frontline: Death of a Princess. Repeated from last month. A 1980 documentary about the execution of a Saudi princess and her lover for adultery with contemporary commentary tacked on to show that things have not improved much for women in the 25 years since. At the time, everybody — from the Saudi government to the US government to the oil companies in whose name those governments operate — protested. The show aired and nothing changed. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Battlefield Britain: The Battle of Britain — 1940. Repeated from last week. Father/son war historians Peter and Dan Snow relive the aerial battle that kept Hitler out of England. To be repeated on Sunday at 5 p.m. (Until 10 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Secrets of the Dead: The Witches’ Curse. Revisiting the Salem witch scare of 1692 with an eye toward explaining the acid-trip behavior of the "possessed" girls who prompted the idiotic people of Salem to execute 20 alleged witches. Could it have been contaminated grain combined with religious zeal? (Until 11 p.m.)

SATURDAY 4

1:00 (64) Baseball. The Sox versus the Anaheim Angels.

4:00 (6) Basketball. The Los Angeles Sparks versus the Sacramento Monarchs in WNBA play.

6:24 (44) The Defiant Ones (movie). Repeated from last week. Director Stanley Kramer’s 1958 drama about racist chain-gang convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, who can escape forced labor but not each other. (Until 8 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Bambi (movie). The 1942 Disney original — tragic death-and-separation scenes and all. Cheer the kids up for the weekend. (Until 10 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Two for the Road (movie). Repeated from last week. Director Stanley Donen’s 1967 Grand Tour movie had Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn on the road together through Europe trying to revitalize their marriage by revisiting the haunts of their youth. (Until 9:55 p.m.)

9:55 (44) Another Woman (movie). Woody Allen’s 1988 psychological drama about a reclusive authoress who overhears conversations from the psychiatrist’s office next door. Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, and Gene Hackman star. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

11:00 (2) In the Life: Setting the Record Straight. A Pride special edition hosted by Air America’s Janeane Garofalo and the always disturbing Rosie O’Donnell. Features include a visit to Gillian Pieper and Karen Pike, the Vermont couple whose family were portrayed in the Postcards from Buster episode made famous when Secretary of Education Margaret Spelling criticized it for same-sex content. (Until midnight.)

SUNDAY 5

9:00 (10) Tennis. A whole lot of tennis from the French Open. (Until 2 p.m.)

1:00 (44) Globe Trekker: New Zealand. Repeated from last week. Trekker Ian Wright discovers DIY extreme sports ("rack jumping" down a 13-story skyscraper) and a new diet (pass the opossum, please). He also visits the remains of the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior, rolls through the countryside in a giant transparent sphere (that’s a sport called "zorbing"; see www.zorbsouth.co.uk/), works on an emu farm (pets or meat?), and climbs Fox Glacier. (Until 2 p.m.)

1:30 (2) Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For. Repeated from last week. Tony Bennett narrates this essential bio-doc of legendary vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, which boasts the most Fitzgerald performance clips ever assembled in one place. To be repeated tonight at midnight. (Until 3 p.m.)

8:00 (12) The 59th Annual Tony Awards. Hugh Jackman will host this year’s Broadway prize show from Radio City Music Hall. Presenters run from Alan Alda to Leslie Uggams. Here’s hoping Monty Python’s Spamalot gets what it deserves. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (6) Basketball. Game #7 of the Western Conference final between the San Antonio Spurs and the Phoenix Suns, if necessary, which it probably won’t be, since the Spurs were up 3-1 at press time.

9:00 (44) Independent Lens: Brother to Brother. Anthony Mackie stars as a young black artist expelled from his family for being gay who finds a place in the world through a real or imagined (it’s not clear) encounter with Harlem Renaissance poet/painter Bruce Nugent. (Until 10:30 p.m.)

10:30 (44) P.O.V.: Chisholm ’72 — Unbought and Unbossed. Repeated from weeks or months back. The story of Democratic African-American congresswoman Shirley Chisholm’s 1972 run for the presidency — a campaign that brought racial tensions to the front and set the standard for populist politics in the late 20th century. Told through vintage film and music, plus interviews with participants (including the late Chisholm herself). (Until midnight.)

Midnight (44) Austin City Limits. Featuring music from Modest Mouse and Guided by Voices. (Until 1 a.m.)

MONDAY 6

1:00 (44) WGBH Auction. Even though this is actually WGBX. The pollution spreads. (Until 7 p.m.)

7:00 (2) The Convert. Reality programming comes to PBS. Seven sinners facing a variety of life crises (alcoholism, divorce, drug addiction, embezzlement, serial infidelity, compulsive gambling, double parking) vie for salvation. The Reverend Hollister V. Cracker confronts each contestant with temptation and judges his or her worth in the eyes of God. Each show concludes with a Judgment Day elimination ceremony at which Reverend Cracker singles out one supplicant and announces, "You’re damned!" Sorry to get your hopes up; this is just the Auction. (Until 11 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Masterpiece Theatre: The Lost Prince, part one. The oft-aired but still touching story of England’s Prince John, son of George V and Mary, brother to Kings Edward VIII and George VI, who was kept out of the Royal limelight for his entire 14-year life because of his epilepsy and learning disabilities. (Until 10 p.m.)

900 (5) The Ring (movie). No, not that Ring. A 2002 thriller staring Naomi Watts and Martin Henderson about a killer videotape. (Everyone who watches it dies.) (Until 11 p.m.)

10:00 (44) Independent Lens: Daddy & Papa. A documentary by Johnny Symons about gay parenthood that explores the struggles and the joys of male couples and the issues they face in and out of gay culture. (Until 11 p.m.)

TUESDAY 7

7:00 (2) The Torpedo. Five young studs compete in the real world for a full-time job as a hit man for a noted New Jersey mobster. Each week, cameras follow the boys as they run errands, fulfill contracts, and prepare for the final elimination rounds. But again, this is only the Auction. (Until 11:30 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Globe Trekker: Hawaii. Megan McCormick, the Trekker who shops too much, visits our 50th state, where she takes part in a hula ceremony, brings in a harvest, kayaks into the rain forest, goes surfing, buys fish, commemorates the attack on Pearl Harbor, stops by a volcanic crater at sunrise, and "goes hula pipi," which we’re not even going to pretend to explain. (Until 9 p.m.)

9:00 (44) Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: Hot Times in Alaska. Despite what your federal government will admit, fossil-fuel emissions are causing global warming and we’re all going to die and there’s nothing much we can do about it. This show heads north to Alaska to gather evidence of climate change — melting glaciers, not-so-permanent permafrost, increased insect pests, and changing weather patterns. It’s both terrifying and too hard for George Bush to understand. (Until 10 p.m.)

5:00 a.m. (44) Independent Lens: Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Love Story. The story of the Mexican-American village within downtown LA that was torn down so they could build Dodger Stadium in the 1950s. Narrated by Cheech Marin, with music by Ry Cooder. (Until 5:30 a.m.)

WEDNESDAY 8

1:00 (44) Meet Your New Pimp. Rival stables of Miami streetwalkers switch handlers for a week. Cameras follow their reactions as they adjust to new management techniques, explore new turf, and are stumped by new arrest patterns. Or just more Auction. (Until 7 p.m.)

8:00 (44) Battlefield Britain: Boudicca’s Revolt. It was 61 AD, and the Romans were occupying Britain and generally treating the Brits badly. Up stepped Boudicca, Warrior Queen, with her armies and beat the Romans at Colchester and even burned Roman London before finally being defeated. Still, it showed those Romans a thing or two. A colorful retelling by father/son war historians Peter and Dan Snow. (Until 9 p.m.)

12:30 a.m. (2) Alan Alda in Scientific American Frontiers: The Intimate Machine. Alda goes face to . . . uh "face" with a highly personal computerized robot that knows who you are and even cares how you feel. It’s all the result of a joint project between MIT and Hollywood. Perhaps they’re trying to invent co-operative actors. To be repeated tonight at 2:30 a.m. (Until 1:30 a.m.)

THURSDAY 9

1:00 (44) Bocce with the Stars. Celebrity contestants Hugh Grant, Lisa-Marie Presley, Frank Purdue Jr., and Nelly are paired with four guys from Palermo to compete on clay courts. Or it might just be more Auction. (Until 7 p.m.)

7:00 (2) Insect Chef. The latest competitive cooking-show concept from Japan challenges young culinary geniuses to concoct meals from insects, worms, and larvae for use on Fear Factor. But, alas, it’s really just that damn Auction. (Until 11 p.m.)

9:00 (6) Basketball. Game #1 of the NBA final, with the Miami Heat or the Detroit Pistons meeting the San Antonio Spurs or the Phoenix Suns.