Remote patrol

The creators of "Murphy Brown" launch the execrable "Living in Captivity" at 7 tonight on Channel 4. This unpleasant race-relations comedy features a successful black deejay (Dondre T. Whitfield) who moves into the suburbs and encounters the local muffler king and resident bigot, Carmine Santucci (Lenny Venito). Fox wants us to believe that Carmine is "a cross between Archie Bunker and Al Bundy," but Archie and Al were more lovable, probably because they had smaller incomes. A spineless writer (Matthew Letscher) and his social-climber wife (Melinda McGraw) are the neighbors. Save your energy for tonight's "Millennium" at 8, an amusing repeat in which four devils dressed as grumpy old men sit around a doughnut shop and talk about Frank Black (Lance Henriksen).