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HOLLYWOOD Sunday, bloody Sunday. With Fox's Sunday lineup finally hitting the air for the first time this season, the night's key 9 o'clock hour is shaping up to be a [...]

OF 'WIFE' AND WOMEN Damon Wayans laffer "My Wife and Kids" continues to perform well for ABC this summer, although it skews heavily female. A look at the demo shares […]

SUB-PAR PIGSKIN PREEM ABC's "Monday Night Football" kicked off its 32nd season Aug. 6 with the lowest-rated preseason opener on record, but it still delivered bigger shares in most categories […]

HOLLYWOOD CBS enjoyed big drama success, but it certainly wasn't with 'The Fugitive.' ABC found that much-needed new hit laffer, but its title contained neither the word 'Geena' nor 'Davis.' [...]

HOLLYWOOD The end of the season is shaping up as quite a ratings horse race, with some neck-and-neck finishes not likely to be decided until the final weeks of the [...]

ABC usually loses ground once 'Monday Night Football' ends its run in early winter, but the dropoffs in share compared with this season's movies lineup (January through April) are hefty [...]

HOLLYWOOD Who wants to find a hit drama or sitcom? Well, ABC would like to, but for a third consecutive season, the net's new offerings have failed to click. And [...]

HOLLYWOOD Viewer reaction to the major nets' Thursday offerings this season falls into one of two categories: 'Must See' or 'Must Flee.' It didn't figure to be that way. NBC [...]

Advertisers and surfers are wary of too many online entertainment news sites, Let the cannibalization begin! IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT TOBEY MAGUIRE HAD LANDED THE MUCH-COVETED role of Spider-Man [...]

HOLLYWOOD In the first hour of the first day after the conclusion of a disappointing season last year, ABC aired a repeat of the movie 'Quiz Show.' It must have [...]

ON THE MONEY So you want to counterprogram ABC'S sweeps-month gameshow 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'? Good luck: 'Millionaire' is a consistent hit across all demographic categories. Demo Share(*) [...]

There was a day when ABC would thank God every time its 'TGIF' Nielsens came in, but these days, it's the competition that finds itself feeling pretty grateful when Friday [...]

It's the programming coup of the summer, perhaps of any summer -- a gameshow ABC is calling the most successful summer series of all time. But 'Who Wants to Be [...]

HOLLYWOOD If every night were like Thursday for the broadcasters, cable would still be a speck in their rearview mirrors. Home to some of primetime's top programs--from 'Survivor' and 'Friends' [...]

CBS is trying to think young; NBC is hoping to steal demos from its rivals; ABC and Fox are playing it safe, and everyone's working to stem the flow to [...]

NEW YORK It has been a mean season at ABC, with the network's ratings tumbling sharply. Yet there could be room for optimism for next season--if the highly anticipated drama [...]

After rising from the ashes last season on the back of a pair of rookie megahits, ABC continues to impress as it kicks off the new year. It hasn't been […]

It was a two-net horse race down to the final night in the November sweep's most closely watched ratings category, with a steady CBS and a rising ABC battling to [...]

ABC's Steve McPherson won't even entertain the notion, but there's a growing consensus that next year's ratings race may be his to lose. Already flush from the success of "Desperate […]

HOLLYWOOD It's been awhile since ABC was the net to beat on Sunday--well, any night for that matter--but it just might be looking over its shoulders at the competish for […]

HOLLYWOOD The nets scrap and claw for every fraction of a demo ratings point all season, and then in one harried week, they cash in their tickets. When the upfront [...]

When they weren't rushing to the multiplex, audiences did something surprising this summer: They actually watched network television. It helped that webheads paid attention to the frame between Memorial Day [...]

HOLLYWOOD It's time to clear out the summer ratings notebook, one week before the start of Variety's annual night-by-night fall analysis series: * Fox's 'American Idol' and NBC's 'Dog Eat [...]

It's the reality show that refuses to say 'die.' Nearly 10 months after ABC abruptly shelved the second installment of 'The Mole'--a casualty of the net's fall meltdown--the who-dunnit reality [...]

During a recent four-day stretch of the May sweeps (May 3-6), ABC, CBS and NBC each dipped into their programming vaults to offer up specs. NBC's star-studded 75th anniversary celebration [...]

In this seasons on ABC, 'Once & Again' failed to click with its potential audience, slipping each season among total viewers and adults 18-49: Viewers A18-49 '99-'00 10.9m 5.3/14 '00-'01 [...]

Thanks in large part to the enormous aud for its '9/11' special, CBS catapulted to the front of the total viewers race for the second post-Olympics week in a row, [...]

Maybe it's time to stop the 'Geritol network' jokes: Old-skewing CBS was the No. 2 broadcast network among kids 2 to 11 last week in primetime, trailing only Fox. Eye [...]

Three African-American-led sitcoms went head-to-head for the first time in recent memory March 4. ABC's Damon Wayans starrer 'My Wife and Kids' won hands down in the 8 p.m. slot. [...]

HOLLYWOOD It's been a season of peaks and valleys at CBS, with a handful of hit series and high-rated specials overshadowing net's problems in key time periods. With 'CSI: Crime [...]

First round of the battle between the sit-down-and-be-tormented quizshows went to ABC's 'The Chair,' which totaled 12.37 million viewers in its timeslot compared with 'The Chamber's' 10 million [...]

For the first time since November 1998, ABC News' "World News Tonight" has won the November sweeps battle among the evening newscasts in total viewers, edging out longtime leader NBC's […]

He may have been eclipsed by "Survivor" and "Friends," but at least President Bush boosted viewership for ABC on a Thursday. Although President Bush has TV newsies feeling pressure to […]