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ABC's Wednesday-night shuffle seems to have paid off for Ellen and Grace Under Fire. After finishing 43rd in its old 8 o'clock slot last week, Ellen DeGeneres' sexually ambiguous sitcom shot up to 21st at the more-adult hour of 9:30. Meanwhile, Brett Butler's show moved from 9 p.m. to family-friendly 8 p.m., and rose from 34th to 27th. The news for ABC's Lois & Clark wasn't as good: Squashed between two big family flicks, Fox's Home Alone 2 and CBS' Angela Lansbury musical Mrs. Santa Claus (which tied for 3rd), the Superman show free-fell to 84th. Still, that's better than ABC's Murder One (87th), which didn't benefit from its heavily hyped verdict episode and may soon face a network death sentence.
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VIEWERS* LAST WEEK 1 25.3 SEINFELD (R) NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m. -- 2 22.9 ER (R) NBC, Thursday, 10 p.m. 5 3 22.5 MOVIE: HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK Fox, Sunday, 7:05 p.m. -- 22.5 MOVIE: MRS. SANTA CLAUS CBS, Sunday, 8 p.m. -- 5 22.4 HOME IMPROVEMENT (R) ABC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 1 6 21.4 MEN BEHAVING BADLY (R) NBC, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. -- 7 21.0 FRIENDS (R) NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. -- 8 19.4 BARBARA WALTERS PRESENTS THE 10 MOST FASCINATING PEOPLE OF 1996 ABC, Friday, 10 p.m. -- 9 18.9 FOOTBALL: 49ERS VS. FALCONS ABC, Monday, 9 p.m. -- 10 18.5 NYPD BLUE ABC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 12 11 18.0 TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (R) CBS, Sunday, 10 p.m. -- 12 17.8 60 MINUTES CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. 9 13 17.7 THE DREW CAREY SHOW ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. -- 14 17.6 SUDDENLY SUSAN (R) NBC, Thursday, 8:30 p.m. -- 15 16.7 WALKER, TEXAS RANGER (R) CBS, Saturday, 10 p.m. 15 16.7 THE X-FILES (R) Fox, Sunday, 9:05 p.m. 16 17 16.5 CAROLINE IN THE CITY NBC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. 19 16.5 COSBY CBS, Monday, 8 p.m. 21 19 16.3 FRASIER (R) NBC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 10 20 16.1 SPIN CITY (R) ABC, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. 8
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102 3.3 SPARKS (R) UPN, Monday, 9:30 p.m. 98 3.3 THE WAYANS BROS. (R) WB, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 86 104 3.2 THE JAMIE FOXX SHOW (R) WB, Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. 81 105 3.1 THE STEVE HARVEY SHOW (R) WB, Sunday, 8:30 p.m. 88 106 3.0 THE PARENT 'HOOD (R) WB, Sunday, 8 p.m. 96 107 2.9 THE BURNING ZONE (R) UPN, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 88 108 2.6 NICK FRENO: LICENSED TEACHER (R) WB, Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. 85 2.6 SISTER, SISTER(R) WB, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 86 110 2.5 LIFE WITH ROGER (R) WB, Sunday, 9;30 p.m. 99 111 2.3 BROTHERLY LOVE WB, Sunday, 7:30 p.m. 88 112 2.2 BROTHERLY LOVE (R) WB, Sunday, 7 p.m. 96
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF DEC. 2-8, 1996 (R) RERUN SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
