SILENT WITNESS (Fri July 25, ABC – 8:30pm)
British production SILENT WITNESS has been going just as long as CSI has and actually does its homework to prevent wonky science. It features the yummy Tom Ward as Doctor Harry Cunningham, a geekily hot forensic pathologist. Worth watching because of Mr Ward and because it doesn’t pull any punches when it shows its Body of the Week. Just don’t watch whilst having dinner.
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UGLY BETTY (Wed July 30, Seven – 7:30pm)
Still trying its darndest to be the queerest show on television, Ugly Betty already has two gay male characters and now Rebecca Romjin (last seen wearing nothing but scales, yellow eyes and blue body paint as the shape-shifting mutant Mystique, Magneto’s henchperson/fag-hag in the three X-MEN movies) joins the cast as Alexis Mead, a beautiful male-to-female transsexual supermodel. As Alexis, Romjin may require less prosthetic makeup and more clothing, but I still know many grrls who wouldn’t mind getting their sheets stained smurf-blue by a night with Mystique.
