THE WEEK

Music PBS goes MTV for a week, starting with in the spotlight: Rhythm Country & Blues (March 2, check local listings), which bridges two genres by bringing together Al Green with Lyle Lovett, Natalie Cole with Reba McEntire, and other such groupings (see review on page 64). But if that doesn't interest you, hang on-virtually every other type of music will get a PBS turn: Bebop (Keith Jarrett Trio: Standards Vol. II, March 2), Show Tunes (Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Bowl, March 4), New Age (Yanni in Concert, March 5), big band (The Tunes of Tommy Dorsey, March 7), classical (The Dvorak Concert from Prague, March 7), and adult pop (Carole King: A New Colour in the Tapestry and The Incomparable Judy Collins, March 8). Heck, even Canadian prophet of gloom Leonard Cohen gets an Austin City Limits special on March 8. No need to worry- Snoop Doggy Dogg hasn't shown up on Barney and Friends. Yet. One musical category that PBS inexplicably passes over-classic rock-gets airtime on the Disney Channel in the who's tommy: the Amazing Journey (March 6, 9-10 p.m.). Chronicling the 25-year history of Pete Townshend's rock opera/ concept album/movie musical/Broadway extravaganza, the fast-paced documentary incorporates anecdotes alternatingly scintillating (Tina Turner: ; "It was between me (and) David Bowie (to play the Acid Queen in the 1975 movie). And I won. Ha!") and horrifying (Phil Collins: "When Keith (Moon) died, I rang up Pete and said, 'If you ever need a drummer '"). Worth watching for a circa-1969 clip of tuxedoed variety-show host Tom Jones introducing the Who's sloppy rendition of "Pinball Wizard."

Choice Reruns You might feel like you've seen every episode of I Love Lucy (Nick at Nite, weeknights, 9-9:30 p.m., Sundays, 8:30-9 p.m.) a hundred times-and you probably have-but you may not have realized what you have been missing. Nick at Nite has bought the rights to all 179 episodes and added an average of four minutes of footage to each, the amount of time that was trimmed for extra commercials when the show was sold into syndication in the early '60s. The episodes airing this week are from late 1951, among them one in which Lucy and Ethel fear that Ricky and Fred have been drafted (March 2) and two in which Lucy cooks up harebrained schemes to get a job as a dancer at Ricky's Tropicana club (March 4 and 6). But if you're craving Vitameatavegamin, you'll have to wait until March 27 at 8:30 p.m.