Television

What to Watch for week of NOVEMBER 24

A DAY-TO-DAY GUIDE TO NOTABLE PROGRAMS.*
| Nov 28, 2003
What to Watch for week of NOVEMBER 24 | 16845__ray_l
Let's play first Thanksgiving. Quick -- give me syphilis!
Everybody Loves Raymond: Doug Hyun/CBS

MONDAY

NOVEMBER 24

9-9:30PM Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS, TV-PG-L) Robert's and Amy's families are talking much more than turkey when they get together to celebrate Thanksgiving. There's gravy, stuffing, potatoes, even beets! (Although beets are pretty damn nasty. At least to this...um, non-beet eater.)

SYNDICATED* Just Shoot Me (TV-PG-DL) The folks at Sony Pictures Television insist that ''the gang from Blush are at their zaniest'' in the three previously unseen episodes airing over the next three days. I don't believe them. *check local listings

SEASON FINALE 8-10PM The Next Joe Millionaire: An International Affair (Fox, TV-PG-DL) I'm sorry, but what's the Swedish word for crap again?

8-9PM Biography: Sears (A&E, TV-G) Okay, but let's draw the line at Foot Locker.

9:30-10PM Two and a Half Men (CBS, TV-PG-DL) Former Bond girl Denise Richards is certainly more believable as an ex-girlfriend of real-life hubby Charlie Sheen than say, a nuclear scientist, but that doesn't make her any better. Richards (who plays a former flame Charlie tries to woo back over a disastrous Thanksgiving dinner) lacks any sense of comic timing or delivery. Even worse, she doesn't even look hot, her natural beauty foiled by a truly unfortunate dye job. Sheen and fellow star Jon Cryer certainly possess the capacity to create chuckles, but they are done in by a predictable premise in which even the eye candy tastes bad. C+