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TUBE TALK Fox is also not above poaching nostalgia-oriented TV stars from other networks. Taking a page from CBS' ratings-grabbing retrospectives of ''I Love Lucy'' and ''The Carol Burnett Show'' last November, Fox is trying to put together reunion-and-clips shows for and ''Three's Company'' that would be ready in time for May sweeps. Both series aired on other networks and ended their runs in the early '80s, before the Fox network came into being. But sister company 20th Television produced ''M*A*S*H'' for CBS, and the network is negotiating a deal with Don Tafner, the syndicator who owns the rights to ''Three's Company.'' Deals with the surviving cast members of both shows to appear in the specials are not yet in place....

February sweeps month officially ended with Wednesday night's Grammy broadcast, which drew only an average of 19 million viewers to CBS and was the lowest-rated Grammy show in five years, according to Nielsen. Still, CBS won the night, if not the month. That honor went to NBC, whose 17 nights of Olympics coverage gave the network an average of 24.2 million viewers. Fox, elevated by the first Super Bowl to fall during sweeps, came in second with 12.7 million. CBS was third (10.8 million), and ABC was fourth (8 million).

LEGAL BRIEFS ''Survivor'' earned Destiny's Child a Grammy for best R&B performance by a duo or group on Wednesday. It also earned them a lawsuit from two of the revolving-door vocal group's ex-members. LeToya Luckett and LaTavia Roberson contend, in an action filed Wednesday in Houston, that the lyrics of the song dis them and thereby violate the terms of an earlier settlement that prohibits either party from making ''any public comment of a disparaging nature'' against each other. One line in question goes, ''You thought I wouldn't sell without you, sold nine million.'' The plaintiffs also accuse the trio of making derogatory comments about them in interviews promoting the ''Survivor'' album last spring, and they name the group's label, Sony Music, as a defendant as well. They're seeking unspecified damages for breach of contract, defamation, libel, and fraud, as well as an injunction that would stop the trio from performing the song or saying anything else pejorative about their former colleagues. A lawyer for Destiny's Child called the suit ''ridiculous,'' saying, ''We made a settlement agreement that we knew put things to bed, yet here we are again.''...

Three songwriters who wrote some of The Eagles' biggest hits are suing Warner/Chappell Music, saying they haven't received their fair share of royalties from the 30-year-old tunes, which appear on the band's huge-selling greatest hits compilation. Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Jack Tempchin say that the Warner/Chappell (like EW.com, an AOL Time Warner company) owes them $10 million from the success of the Eagles' ''Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975'' album, which has sold 26 million copies and contains such compositions of theirs as ''Take It Easy,'' ''Peaceful Easy Feeling,'' ''Already Gone,'' and ''Best of My Love.'' The plaintiffs, who filed suit Monday in Los Angeles, complain that the royalty rate they agreed upon 27 years ago is well below current market rates, but that the company hasn't even paid them the contracted rate. They also allege that their co-songwriters who were members of the band (like Don Henley and Glenn Frey) got paid at a higher rate. Warner/Chappell hasn't commented on the suit.