DAVID SCHWIMMER'S Ross may have had reservations about attending his ex-wife's lesbian wedding, but America didn't. Friends was the week's No. 1 show, topping reruns of fellow NBC Thursday dynamos Seinfeld work's new Tuesday smash, 3rd Rock From the Sun (8th), crushed its sitcom competitor, Hudson Street (57th). ABC immediately decided to move the Tony Danza vehicle to Saturdays and bring back its old warhorse Coach to battle the alien invasion. Another ABC sports comedy, Champs, slid to 33rd in its second airing, losing even to NBC's perennial underachiever, The John Larroquette Show (25th). And while Cybill took home two Golden Globes, it may have been a Pyrrhic victory; NBC's telecast of the awards (17th) beat a repeat of Cybill Shepherd's CBS sitcom (59th) on Sunday night.
TOP 20
VIEWERS LAST WEEK
1 31.6 FRIENDS NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 4 2 30.1 SEINFELD (R) NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 1 3 27.2 ER (R) NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 5 4 25.9 MAD ABOUT YOU (R) NBC, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. 5 25.0 THE SINGLE GUY NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. 6 6 24.6 HOME IMPROVEMENT ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 2 7 22.3 60 MINUTES CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. 45 8 22.2 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN NBC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. 7 9 21.1 AMERICA'S FUNNIEST VIDEOS ABC, Sunday, 7:25 p.m. 24 21.1 WALKER, TEXAS RANGER CBS, Saturday, 10 p.m. 26 11 20.9 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL CBS, Saturday, 9 p.m. 20 12 20.8 NYPD BLUE ABC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 12 13 19.6 GRACE UNDER FIRE (R) ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 14 14 19.4 THE NANNY CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. 11 15 19.3 FRASIER NBC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 7 16 18.8 CHICAGO HOPE CBS, Monday, 10 p.m. 13 17 18.5 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS NBC, Sunday, 8 p.m. - 18 18.0 STEP BY STEP (R) ABC, Friday, 9 p.m. 23 19 17.8 MURPHY BROWN CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 10 20 17.7 MOVIE: JUSTICE FOR ANNIE NBC, Monday, 9 p.m. -
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89 5.2 UP FOR THE GOLDEN GLOBES NBC, Sunday, 7 p.m. - 90 4.9 THE PARENT 'HOOD (R) WB, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. 98 4.9 SISTER, SISTER (R) WB, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 97 92 4.8 SAVANNAH WB, Sunday, 8 p.m. - 93 4.6 THE WAYANS BROS. (R) WB, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 100 94 4.3 NOWHERE MAN UPN, Monday, 9 p.m. 106 95 4.1 MOVIE: RAINBOW DRIVE UPN, Tuesday, 8 p.m. - 96 3.6 UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER (R) WB, Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. 101 97 3.1 SISTER, SISTER (R) WB, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. - 98 2.7 PINKY & THE BRAIN (R) WB, Sunday, 7 p.m. 108
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF JAN. 15-21, 1996 (R) RERUN SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
