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Fall Fallout
Entertainment Weekly - October 15, 1999
By Joe Flint
Just when you got used to predicting doom and gloom for the broadcast nets, they go and take a turn for the better. After the first two weeks of the new season, the nets are only down 2 percent
in total viewers (as opposed to 6 percent last year). Don't get me wrong, losing viewers is bad, but if they can keep cutting their losses, maybe that'll mean gains aren't so far out of reach
after all. Here's a look at the Big Four's hits and misses in the early going:
--Thanks to astounding performances from dramas Judging Amy and Now and Again, crusty old CBS has been successfully wooing 18- to 49-year-olds. (Now has even managed to win its time slot in
that demo). The Eye's Wednesday nights, however, are in dire shape, due in part to the ratings-bankrupt sitcom Work With Me.
Copyright © 1999 Time Inc. All rights reserved.
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