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THE PREMIERE of The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show landed in the top 10 -- but not everyone was laughing. The week's titular sponsor objected to the show's edgy sketches and pulled its name from future episodes. Pizza Hut followed suit, and ABC promised to tone down the humor. The newsmagazine race heated up as CBS' old warhorse 60 Minutes (8th) trampled the new Sunday edition of Dateline NBC (55th) -- but both finished behind ABC's 20/20 (4th), which featured Baba Wawa's interrogation of Christopher Darden. Meanwhile, a pair of new ABC comedies, Meredith Baxter's The Faculty (38th) and Aliens in the Family (44th), had middling debuts. And Fox dropped two new sitcom bombs on Sunday: The Show (70th) and Local Heroes (88th).
TOP 20 VIEWERS* LAST WEEK 1 29.2 SEINFELD (R) NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. 1 2 27.0 HOME IMPROVEMENT ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 3 3 25.5 FRIENDS (R) NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 2 4 24.7 20/20 ABC, Friday, 10 p.m. 8 5 23.8 CAROLINE IN THE CITY NBC, Thursday, 9:30p.m. 4 6 23.1 FRASIER (R) NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. -- 7 22.8 THE SINGLE GUY NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. 5 8 21.8 60 MINUTES CBS, Sunday, 7:05 p.m. 7 9 21.1 THE DANA CARVEY SHOW -- ABC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. 10 20.7 MOVIE: A FACE TO DIE FOR NBC, Monday, 9 p.m. -- 11 20.3 FRASIER NBC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 24 12 19.7 3RD ROCK FROM THE SUN NBC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. 19 13 19.3 MOVIE: A HUSBAND, A WIFE & A LOVER CBS, Sunday, 9:05 p.m. -- 14 18.9 MAD ABOUT YOU (R) NBC, Thursday, 10:30 p.m. -- 15 18.8 GRACE UNDER FIRE ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. -- 16 18.5 DATELINE NBC NBC, Friday, 9 p.m. 38 17 18.4 DATELINE NBC NBC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 25 18 18.3 THE NANNY CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. 17 19 17.5 FAMILY MATTERS ABC, Friday, 8 p.m. 15 20 17.3 COACH ABC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. 29 17.3 THE JOHN LARROQUETTE SHOW NBC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. 30
BOTTOM 10 103 4.7 SAVANNAH WB, Sunday, 9 p.m. 95 104 4.6 THE WAYANS BROS. WB, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 101 105 4.5 THE WAYANS BROS. (R) WB, Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. -- 106 4.4 MINOR ADJUSTMENTS UPN, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. 98 4.4 SISTER, SISTER (R) WB, Sunday, 8 p.m. 96 108 4.3 KIRK (R) WB, Sunday, 8:30 p.m. 101 109 3.8 SWIFT JUSTICE UPN, Wednesday, 9 p.m. -- 110 3.4 THE PARANORMAL BORDERLINE UPN, Tuesday, 9 p.m. -- 111 2.6 THE PARENT 'HOOD (R) WB, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. 106 2.6 PINKY & THE BRAIN (R) WB, Sunday, 7 p.m. 107
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF MARCH 11-17, 1996 (R) RERUN SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
