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What to watch this week

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Thursday, December 2

BHOPAL: THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE Airing 20 years to the day after a Union Carbide gas leak killed more than 12,000 inhabitants of Bhopal, India, this 03 doc not only analyzes the world’s worst industrial disaster but also explores the prospects for environmental and human justice in the developing world. 7 pm on CBC

THE O.C. Ryan and Seth double date and go see the Killers in concert! 8 pm on Fox/CTV

Friday, December 3

AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER The second of Nick Broomfield’s acclaimed docs about convicted murderer Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron studied this one for her Oscar-winning performance in Monster) concludes with a chilling death row interview. 10 pm on Newsworld, repeated at 1 am

TAVIS SMILEY Not to be confused with Clean Sweep’s Tava Smiley or Sesame Street’s Guy Smiley, this family member fronts the U.S. public broadcaster’s entry into smart late-night talk. Tonight’s guest: muscle-bound intellectual Henry Rollins . 11:30 pm on PBS

Saturday, December 4

JOHN LEGUIZAMO: FREAK Subtitled A Semi Demi-Quasi Pseudo Autobiography when the one-man Broadway play garnered five Tony nominations, this Spike Lee -directed HBO production finds the Colombian-born comedian riffing on the racism he encountered after moving to the U.S. as a child. 10 pm on Comedy, repeated at 2 am

Sunday, December 5

60 MINUTES Media-shy Voice of the Nation circa 1965, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan gives his first TV interview in nearly 20 years to promote his memoir, Chronicles. The times they are certainly a-changin’. 7 pm on CBS, after the football game

WHAT NOT TO WEAR Instead of a trip to New York City and $5,000 to spend on a new wardrobe, Stacey and Clinton dole out $50,000 to some hapless fashionably challenged victim and fly them off to Paris – France! – for a designer shopping spree. 9 pm, repeated at midnight on TLC

Monday, December 6

HUSTLER WHITE (1996, dir Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, w/ LaBruce and Tony Ward) Think of Toronto cineaste LaBruce’s no-budget comic homage to Hollywood hustlers as L.A. Plays With Itself. Stars five-minute Madonna boy-toy Ward and features a not-to-be-missed stumping scene. 12:30 am on Showcase

Tuesday, December 7

THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES Not a profile of the panty-pelted pop singer, this six-part BBC miniseries is truer to the 18th-century novel’s free-spirited sexuality than the more familiar Benny Hill-style sex romp filmed by Tony Richardson. Episode one: The Foundling. 9 pm on TVO, repeated at 12:30 am

Wednesday, December 8

A CLAY AIKEN CHRISTMAS Call it Homo For The Holidays as the towheaded American Idol runner-up hosts his first TV special. With guests Barry Manilow and Will & Grace’s Karen, Megan Mullally . 8 pm on NBC

2004 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS 2004 BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS

Since the prizes handed out by the U.S. music-biz bible go to whoever shifts the most product, Usher – who’s had the number-one song for 27 weeks so far this year – should walk away with everything but best country duo and female artist of the year. 8 pm on Fox

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