COMING ATTRACTIONS

This Week: The verdict in the Judas Preist trial is expected in Reno. The case involves allegations that two teens shot themselves as a result of listening to a record with subliminal messages about suicide.

Thursday: The ratings showdown between Fox’s “The Simpsons” and NBC’s “The Cosby Show” begins. The shows go head-to-head for the first time at 8 p.m; both are repeats. . . . The English National Opera begins its 1990-91 season in London, made up exclusively of 20th-Century works, except for three Mozart operas chosen to mark the bicentenary of the composer’s death.