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'Medium' pretty much sums up midseason (9.8 million viewers)After the net suffered a post-Friends drought, Patricia Arquette saved the season by talking to dead people — and 14 million viewers — on Medium (No. 18), the net's highest-rated new series. Miniseries Revelations (No. 39) enjoyed moderate — though hardly biblical — success. The Office (No. 123) scored good reviews — good enough to save it from the ax. And much-hyped boxing reality show The Contender (No. 107) won nothing but the annual ''most ironically named'' prize against ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (14th) and CBS' Cold Case (17th). ''The biggest disappointment wasn't necessarily that we faded in the overall ratings but that some very good shows got lost,'' NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly says.
OTHER WINNERS Law & Order: SVU, up 700,000; fall reality hit The Biggest Loser (NBC loves the ironic names!)
OTHER LOSERS ER, down 4 million; Law & Order, down 2.9 million
