TUBE NEWS In other Fox News news, the channel is the new home of Greta Van Susteren, who defected from CNN a few months after CNN snagged Paula Zahn from Fox. Van Susteren, the legal analyst who hosts CNN's prime-time show ''The Point,'' will get the 10 p.m. slot vacated by Zahn when she moves to Fox in February. She had been on CNN for 10 years but had seen her longtime show ''Burden of Proof'' scrapped with the all-war-all-the-time coverage after Sept. 11. Despite rumors that CNN made a counteroffer, said to be $1.4 million per year ($400,000 to $550,000 more than Fox's offer), Van Susteren said the move ''isn't about money.'' Rather, she told the New York Post, ''I could have stayed at CNN, but I called [Fox News Chairman] Roger Ailes and I went to see him -- he's worked miracles at Fox News Channel in six years, and I thought I would like to work with this guy.''...
''Frasier'''s Jane Leeves has signed a three-year deal worth as much as $30 million, or $455,000 an episode. That puts her in the same ballpark as her costars. David Hyde Pierce gets $750,000 an episode, while star Kelsey Grammer's $1.6 million per episode makes him the highest paid star in sitcom history....
USA has ordered 22 episodes of ''The Dead Zone,'' to air this summer. The new series, based on the Stephen King novel, stars Anthony Michael Hall (in the role Christopher Walken played in the film) as a man who gains psychic powers after a coma....
CBS again won the Nielsen ratings week with the one-two punch of Thursday's ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' (the week's top show, with 19.2 million viewers) and ''Survivor'' (18.9 million). CBS averaged 9.7 million viewers for the week, outdistancing No. 2 NBC (8.3 million), Third place ABC, whose most noteworthy program of the week was the set-em-up-knock-em-down special ''Domino Day 2001,'' averaged 8 million. Fox came in fourth with 6.1 million, followed by UPN (3.5 million), and the WB (2.7 million (1.7, 3).
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