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LOSER OF THE WEEK
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LOSER OF THE WEEK
Ben Affleck After airing only seven episodes, ABC is pulling the plug on Push, Nevada, the flop mystery/contest cocreated by the Oscar-winning screenwriter/ movie star.
WINNER OF THE WEEK
'Less Than Perfect' ABC has had better luck with new sitcoms: Sara Rue's office farce got a full-season pickup after posting higher-than-expected ratings.
SOUND BITES
''Has anybody seen that new Christina Aguilera video? I think it gave my TV genital warts.'' Tina Fey on SNL ''It means that Fox doesn't care about its ratings.'' Sen. John McCain, to David Letterman about why Fox was the only major net to carry President Bush's Iraq speech, on Late Show
''Rapper Snoop Dogg has announced that he has given up smoking marijuana. As a result, Snoop Dogg now has 16 free hours a day.'' Conan O'Brien on Late Night
''If only his mother had taken that advice.'' Hesh (Jerry Adler), after Ralphie (Joe Pantoliano) told his horse's trainer not to be shy with the whip, on The Sopranos
''Queen Elizabeth dropped the puck at the Sharks-Canucks hockey game in Vancouver. [She] said between the cold air, the bad teeth, and the horrible stadium food, she felt right at home.'' Craig Kilborn on The Late Late Show
THE RATINGS
THE AMAZING 'TRACE'
With CSI (1st) capturing its biggest audience ever, Survivor: Thailand (4th) thriving, and Anthony LaPaglia's missing-persons mystery Without a Trace (13th) closing the gap with ER (3rd), CBS beat NBC on Thursday for the first time in a year and a half. Reversing the trend of most new shows, Trace is on an upswing: The third episode drew nearly 1.5 million more viewers than the second. Not all of CBS' new crime dramas are shooting up the charts: Robbery Homicide Division (68th) is getting mugged by NBC's Friday fixture Law & Order: SVU (13th). Both the Peacock's Sunday rookies, American Dreams and Boomtown, cooled in week 3, tying for 45th, while The WB's Birds of Prey (70th) soared to some of the net's highest debut numbers, attracting 7.6 million bird-watchers.
TOP 30 LAST VIEWERS* WEEK
1 30.7 CSI CBS, Thursday, 9 p.m. 2 2 26.6 FRIENDS NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. 1 3 24.7 ER NBC, Thursday, 9:59 p.m. 3 4 21.2 SURVIVOR: THAILAND CBS, Thursday, 8 p.m. 5 5 20.2 LAW & ORDER NBC, Wednesday, 10 p.m. 8 20.2 WILL & GRACE NBC, Thursday, 9:01 p.m. 6 7 19.9 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND CBS, Monday, 9 p.m. 4 8 18.6 SCRUBS NBC, Thursday, 8:32 p.m. 9 9 17.2 CSI: MIAMI CBS, Monday, 10 p.m. 7 10 16.3 GOOD MORNING, MIAMI NBC, Thursday, 9:30 p.m. 13 11 16.0 FOOTBALL: PACKERS VS. BEARS ABC, Monday, 9:07 p.m. -- 16.0 THE WEST WING NBC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 12 13 15.9 WITHOUT A TRACE CBS, Thursday, 10:01 p.m. 18 15.9 LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT NBC, Friday, 10 p.m. 15 15 15.0 8 SIMPLE RULES... ABC, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 26 16 14.9 STILL STANDING CBS, Monday, 9:31 p.m. 10 17 14.8 JAG CBS, Tuesday, 8 p.m. 16 18 14.6 LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT NBC, Sunday, 9 p.m. 16 19 14.5 60 MINUTES CBS, Sunday, 7:34 p.m. 21 20 14.4 JUDGING AMY CBS, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 14 21 14.3 FRASIER NBC, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 18 22 13.8 YES, DEAR CBS, Monday, 8:30 p.m. 20 23 13.6 THE PRACTICE ABC, Sunday, 10 p.m. 24 24 13.5 ACCORDING TO JIM ABC, Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. 30 25 13.4 THE GUARDIAN CBS, Tuesday, 9 p.m. 24 26 13.1 MY WIFE AND KIDS ABC, Wednesday, 8 p.m. 22 27 13.0 NYPD BLUE ABC, Tuesday, 10 p.m. 28 28 12.8 THE BACHELOR ABC, Wednesday, 9 p.m. 38 29 12.2 FEAR FACTOR NBC, Monday, 8:32 p.m. 41 12.2 THE DISTRICT CBS, Saturday, 9 p.m. 34 12.2 BASEBALL: LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP Fox, Wednesday, 8:14 p.m. --
*IN MILLIONS WEEK OF OCT. 7-13, 2002 SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH
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