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What a difference one season makes. A little more than a year after Ellen's much-hyped coming-out episode landed atop the ratings heap, the ABC sitcom's last unaired original half hour -- in which the comedian pops the question to girlfriend Laurie -- appeared with little fanfare and landed near the Nielsen basement (78th). In contrast, CBS' indomitable newsmag, 60 Minutes, clocked in at the top spot for the second week in a row. Attempts at being chic, namely ABC's World Fashion Premiere from Paris (79th) and the Eye's summer sitcom Style & Substance (74th), got booed off the runway. NBC's International DanceSport Championship (59th) tapped circles around Arnold Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero (81st) on ABC -- but given the flick's feeble box office performance, that was a no-brainer.
TOP 30
VIEWERS* LAST WEEK
1 15.2 60 MINUTES CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. 1 2 14.7 DATELINE NBC NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 2 3 13.4 JUST SHOOT ME (R) NBC, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. 3 4 13.2 DATELINE NBC NBC, Monday, 10 p.m. -- 13.2 SEINFELD (R) NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 7 6 13.0 ER (R) NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 7 7 12.3 MOVIE: BACHELOR'S BABY (R) CBS, Sunday, 9 p.m. -- 8 11.5 20/20 ABC, Friday, 10 p.m. 9 9 11.3 48 HOURS CBS, Thursday, 10 p.m. 22 10 11.0 MOVIE: FALLING DOWN (R) ABC, Sunday, 9 p.m. -- 11.0 FRIENDS (R) NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 10 12 10.8 DIAGNOSIS MURDER (R) CBS, Thursday, 9 p.m. 17 13 10.7 PRIMETIME LIVE ABC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 4 10.7 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (R) CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. 12 15 10.6 SUDDENLY SUSAN (R) NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. 19 16 10.5 LAW & ORDER (R) NBC, Sunday, 10 p.m. 31 17 10.3 WALKER, TEXAS RANGER (R) CBS, Saturday, 10 p.m. 14 18 10.1 FRASIER (R) NBC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 6 19 9.9 MOVIE: SPEED (R) Fox, Wednesday, 8 p.m. -- 20 9.5 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (R) CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m. 37 21 9.2 DATELINE NBC NBC, Sunday, 8 p.m. 15 9.2 LAW & ORDER (R) NBC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 12 23 9.1 DATELINE NBC NBC, Friday, 10 p.m. 31 9.1 JAG (R) CBS, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 16 25 9.0 DATELINE NBC NBC, Monday, 9 p.m. -- 9.0 20/20 ABC, Monday, 9 p.m. -- 27 8.8 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN (R) NBC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. 10 28 8.7 DHARMA & GREG (R) ABC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 27 8.7 THE DREW CAREY SHOW (R) ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 24 8.7 UNSOLVED MYSTERIES (R) CBS, Friday, 9 p.m. --
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF JULY 20-26, 1998 (R) RERUN SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
