TV NOTES.

Byline: -- Staff and Wire Services

DISHING THE `DIRT': Jennifer Aniston is rejoining Courteney Cox on prime time, but this time they're anything but friends.

Aniston, 37, guest stars in the season finale of Cox's new FX Networks show, ``Dirt,'' the network said Monday. She plays Tina Harrod, a rival magazine editor of Cox's ruthless tabloid queen, Lucy Spiller.

The episode, which airs March 27, marks the first time the two ``Friends'' stars have worked together since the popular, long-running sitcom went off the air in 2004.

``Dirt'' takes a dark look at the relationship between the entertainment industry and the tabloids as it follows Cox, 42, as the hard-charging editor of a celebrity rag.

Cox and her husband, David Arquette, are executive producers on the series with creator Matthew Carnahan and writer Joel Fields.

TICK, TICK, TICK: If you missed the four-hour, two-night season premiere of ``24,'' don't fret. It's already in video stores.

The DVD of the Emmy-winning series' debut also includes ``the never-before-seen first 12 minutes of what's in store for anti-terrorist agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in Episode Five.'' The Fox series airs at 9 p.m. Mondays. The DVD retails for $14.98.

BIG `SMALLVILLE' NEWS: On Thursday at 8 p.m., the CW's ``Smallville'' will highlight comic- book heroes when it airs ``Justice,'' written and directed by former ``Buffy'' and ``Angel'' scribe Steven DeKnight.

In it, tycoon Oliver Queen (Justin Hartley), who moonlights as the crime-fighting Green Arrow, pits himself against Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum)

He will call on fellow superheroes (and former ``Smallville'' guest stars) Victor Stone (Lee Thompson Young), aka Cyborg, and Arthur ``AC'' Curry (Alan Ritchson), aka Aquaman. Their first task -- with the help of pre-Superman Clark Kent (Tom Welling) -- is to save super-fast Bart Allan (Kyle Gallner), aka (thanks to restrictions from DC Comics) Impulse, from Luthor's clutches.

While the others get to dress up, the ``Smallville'' producers have always said ``no flights, no tights'' for their man; so Clark will still be costume-free.

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(1) Jennifer Aniston is no ``Friend'' on ``Dirt.''

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(2) The season premiere of ``24,'' starring Kiefer Sutherland as agent Jack Bauer, is now on DVD.

(3) The ``Smallville'' lineup: Kyle Gallner as Bart Allen (Impulse), left; Justin Hartley as Oliver Queen (Green Arrow), Tom Welling as Clark Kent, Alan Ritchson as Arthur Curry (Aquaman) and Lee Thompson Young as Cyborg.