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COPYRIGHT 2005 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
Byline: Aaron Barnhart
Is it me or are the February sweeps getting worse every year while March just keeps getting better?
This group of midseason arrivals, including a surprisingly good ABC comedy and a handful of returning shows, might actually make you forget "The Sopranos" aren't coming back till next March.
"Law & Order: Trial by Jury" (10 p.m. Thursday, NBC; moves to regular time period 10 p.m. Friday). The newest addition to the "L&O" canon, it also appears to be the weakest. That's despite strong performances by Jerry Orbach, who died several weeks into taping, and Bebe Neuwirth as the no-nonsense assistant D.A. "Trial by Jury," in the words of its creator Dick Wolf, "takes viewers where they have never been before," with "intimate conversations between defendants and their attorneys" as well as among deliberating jurors.
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" (9 p.m. Sunday, ABC). Halle Berry stars as Janie, a sensuous woman seeking her place in a man's world in this Oprah-backed movie adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's classic novel. Ruby Dee plays the grandmother who urges Janie to conform to "white" notions of success. Only when Janie rejects that view (and hooks up with sexy Michael Ealy) does she achieve Hurston's ideal of a black woman who lives on her own terms.
"The Starlet" (8 p.m....
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