Beverly Hills, 9021-uh-0. Aaron Spelling's warhorse soap (25th) is showing signs of age: Its 10th season premiere, which drew 9.5 million viewers, became the series' lowest-rated bow ever. And although Fox's Emmy telecast (1st) earned top honors, it did so with the ceremony's lowest Nielsens this decade. The network fared even worse with its new family drama Get Real (56th), which got crushed by the competition -- including repeats of The Drew Carey Show (14th) and World's Most Amazing Videos (38th) -- and lost 24 percent of 90210's lucrative 18-to-49 audience. In other season-premiere news, UPN's Malcolm & Eddie (94th) drew a relatively healthy 3.5 million viewers, while the netlet's Moesha (95th) spin-off, The Parkers (92nd), continued to perform well, building on its Mo lead-in for the second week in a row.
TOP 30
VIEWERS* LAST WEEK
1 17.5 THE 51ST ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS -- Fox, Sunday, 8 p.m. 2 12.6 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (R) 2 CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 3 12.3 DATELINE NBC 8 NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 4 12.1 60 MINUTES II 18 CBS, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 5 11.8 60 MINUTES 15 CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. 6 11.7 ER (R) 7 NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 11.7 FRASIER (R) 4 NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 11.7 FRIENDS (R) 9 NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 9 11.1 JAG (R) 27 CBS, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 10 11.0 20/20 15 ABC, Friday, 10 p.m. 11 10.8 BECKER (R) -- CBS, Monday, 9:30 p.m. 10.8 JUST SHOOT ME (R) -- NBC, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. 13 10.6 WALKER, TEXAS RANGER (R) 10 CBS, Saturday, 10 p.m. 14 10.5 THE DREW CAREY SHOW (R) 25 ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 10.5 LAW & ORDER (R) 13 NBC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 10.5 20/20 3 ABC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 17 10.4 DATELINE NBC -- NBC, Friday, 9 p.m. 18 10.2 20/20 -- ABC, Monday, 8 p.m. 19 10.0 KING OF QUEENS (R) 21 CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. 20 9.8 WILL & GRACE (R) -- NBC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. 21 9.7 DATELINE NBC 22 NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 9.7 60 MINUTES II -- CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 23 9.6 MOVIE: ATF -- ABC, Monday, 9 p.m. 9.6 DHARMA & GREG (R) 23 ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 25 9.5 BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 -- Fox, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 26 9.4 DIAGNOSIS MURDER (R) -- CBS, Thursday, 8 p.m. 27 9.3 DATELINE NBC 17 NBC, Monday, 10 p.m. 28 9.2 DIAGNOSIS MURDER (R) 60 CBS, Thursday, 9 p.m. 9.2 JESSE (R) 20 NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. 9.2 MOVIE: PHILADELPHIA (R) -- CBS, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m.
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF SEPT. 6-12, 1999 (R) RERUN SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
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