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It came down to the night before Thanksgiving (the last night of November sweeps), but CBS eked out a win over NBC with the help of Celine Dion: These Are Special Times (10th), which nearly doubled the average viewership for the show it displaced, To Have & to Hold. The Eye also saw its surging series Everybody Loves Raymond (8th) and JAG (9th) break into the top 10 for the first time ever. ABC finished third for November but received a late boost from Jimmy Smits' expiration on NYPD Blue (2nd), which drew the show's biggest audience in three years. Fox narrowly lost the 18-49 sweeps crown to NBC but then promptly unwrapped a Thanksgiving present with the premiere of Robin Williams'Jumanji (4th), which crushed the Peacock's umpteenth rerun of Home Alone (34th).
TOP 30
VIEWERS* LAST WEEK
1 23.6 60 MINUTES CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. 3 2 22.1 NYPD BLUE ABC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. -- 3 21.1 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (R) CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. 5 4 20.8 MOVIE: JUMANJI Fox, Thursday, 8 p.m. -- 5 20.7 MOVIE: CAB TO CANADA CBS, Sunday, 9 p.m. -- 20.7 FOOTBALL: DOLPHINS VS. PATRIOTS ABC, Monday, 8:22 p.m. -- 7 17.5 THE X-FILES Fox, Sunday, 9 p.m. 11 8 16.4 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 15 9 16.1 JAG CBS, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 17 10 15.9 CELINE DION: THESE ARE SPECIAL TIMES CBS, Wednesday, 9 p.m. -- 11 15.8 SPIN CITY ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 37 12 15.4 MOVIE: IT TAKES TWO NBC, Saturday, 8 p.m. -- 13 15.3 ALLY MCBEAL Fox, Monday, 9 p.m. 21 14 15.2 HOME IMPROVEMENT ABC, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 31 15 14.7 20/20 ABC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 25 16 14.4 FRIENDS (R) NBC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. -- 17 14.3 COSBY CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. 20 14.3 WALKER, TEXAS RANGER (R) CBS, Saturday, 10 p.m. 28 19 14.2 THE HUGHLEYS ABC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. 50 20 14.1 DATELINE NBC NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 56 14.1 THE WORLD'S GREATEST MAGIC V NBC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. -- 22 13.9 MOVIE: POINT LAST SEEN CBS, Tuesday, 9 p.m. -- 23 13.7 THE KING OF QUEENS CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m. 24 24 13.5 ICE WARS: USA VS. THE WORLD CBS, Friday, 9 p.m. -- 25 13.4 LAW & ORDER NBC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 18 26 13.3 JUST SHOOT ME NBC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 34 27 13.2 THE DREW CAREY SHOW ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 14 13.2 ER (R) NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 1 13.2 THE SIMPSONS (R) Fox, Sunday, 8 p.m. 29 30 12.9 THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN 5TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL CBS, Monday, 9:30 p.m. -- 12.9 CMA 40TH: A CELEBRATION CBS, Saturday, 8 p.m. --
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF NOV. 23-29, 1998 (R) RERUN SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
