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WEIRD & WILD: 'The PJs' on TV One

THE PJs
Friday 11 p.m.-Saturday 11 p.m., TV One

The tube's all glitz and glamour now, from pretty surgeons to sleek "housewives" to top models and TV executives. So it's no wonder this foam-animated comedy set in the projects didn't exactly set the Nielsens on fire during its 1999-2001 run on Fox and The WB.

But The PJs has a lot to recommend it, including sharp scripts by producer Larry Wilmore (Bernie Mac), Steve Pepoon (Roseanne), Les Firestein (Wanda at Large) and Bill Freiberger (Drawn Together). The voices include Eddie Murphy (as projects superintendent Thurgood Stubbs) and Loretta Devine (as wife Muriel), in adventures finding humor and heart in everything from homelessness to "saving" the local porno theater.

You won't see that on The Office.

TV One airs all 43 of the series' episodes, in order, followed by some bonus repeats.

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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