SIN IS IN, SWEETIE The newest Absolutely Fabulous (Ab Fab) begins with a view of Edina Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) bending over with her rear end in our faces. Though there are numerous reasons why she might be in this position (we’ll pause here to give you time to deduce your own)...,

Edina is actually in a yoga position. Edina to her daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha): "In a couple of weeks, I’ll be bending like Madonna, won’t I, darling? I’ll be able to kiss my own ass from both directions." • Edina and her best friend Patsy Stone (Joanna Lumley)–those two politically incorrect boozers and chain-smokers–are back on the tube with six new episodes! The other original cast members are back, too. • In that first episode, we find Patsy injecting parralox into her face to freeze her wrinkles; she can barely open her mouth. Do you suppose Edina gives it a whirl, too? Does the pope wear gowns? • In another episode, a subplot involves Radical Gay Pride, complete with T-shirts that read "Fists Across America: We’re not taking it lying down anymore." In order to get ex-model/actress Twiggy to become part of this pride package, Edina tells Twiggy that she’s a gay icon. • Absolutely Fabulous airs on Comedy Central at 8 p.m. on Mondays, the first episode airing Nov. 12. Don’t miss it, darling! Get more information at www.comedycentral.com. (On Nov. 9, an Ab Fab party is scheduled at JR’s. You can win Ab Fab prizes and catch sneak peeks of the new episodes.)

DAME EDNA AND SIR ELTON ON ALLY McBEAL Dame Edna guest stars as a woman named Claire Otoms, who becomes a client of Ally McBeal, in an episode titled "Neutral Corners."We hear that she appears courtesy of Barry Humphries. Airs Monday, November 12 (the dame was introduced in the November 5 episode).

Then two weeks later on the 26th, in the episode titled "I Want Love," Elton John does what he does best–sings. Both air at 8 p.m. on Fox. Can’t get enough of Ally McBeal? Visit www.fox.com/home.htm.

BOYS ON SHOW Wonder Boys. Michael Douglas stars as an academic pot smoker who employs a gay editor (Robert Downey Jr.) who has a date with a transvestite (Michael Cavadias).

Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas): "She’s a transvestite."

Terry Crabtree: (Robert Downey Jr.): "You’re stoned."

Tripp: "She’s still a transvestite."

And that ain’t the half of it.

Premieres 7 p.m., Saturday, November 10, on Showtime. Repeats at 7 p.m. on Friday the 16th & Tuesday the 20th.