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‘Fear’ Elevates NBC to Nightly Demo Win NBC won Monday night in adults 18 to 49, thanks to a record-breaking performance by “Fear Factor.” “Fear” gave NBC its best 18 to 49 ratings in the Monday 8 p.m.-to-9 p.m. time…
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‘Blue’ Renewed for 12th and Final Season ABC renewed “NYPD Blue” for a 12th season, which will be its last. The show launched in 1993 and has consistently been one of ABC’s highest-rated dramas. Creator Steven Bochco routinely pushed the…
ALSO IN THE RUNNING
Children’s daytime animation offers some surprisingly adult-friendly fare. Parents and Emmy voters alike would be well advised to check out PBS Kids’ “Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks” a 3-D CGI-animated series following the rural misadventures of a spunky young…
Davidson’s ‘Nothing’ Did the Job
Anyone who has kept up with “The Young and the Restless” in the past year might describe Eileen Davidson with superlatives, but the actress who plays troubled business executive Ashley Abbott Carlton has barely had time to relax and enjoy…
Races to Watch
* NBC’s hit “The Apprentice” takes on CBS’s “CSI” from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. (ET) Thursday, Feb. 12. “Apprentice” will start at 8:45 p.m. to accommodate a supersize edition of “Friends.”* Reality show finales abound, with Fox’s “My Big…
Disney Show a Dynamo With Tweens
If you don’t know “Disney’s Kim Possible,” you probably don’t have kids.The half-hour animated comedy-action-adventure series premiered on the Disney Channel in June 2002, and was one of the nominees last year for Outstanding Children’s Animated Program until someone realized…
Keeping Abreast
While the debate rages over Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl flash, a breast shot of a different kind aired at least twice since last fall with no public outcry. Leah is a Hollywood makeup artist who dropped from 300 pounds to…
Kids Ad Picture Clearing
As the major ad shops begin finalizing their media plans for upcoming 2004-05 upfront TV negotiations, the kids television marketplace will be their first major challenge. The kids market-which in theory could happen soon but likely will not truly manifest…
Guest Commentary: Tourette’s Syndrome Deserves TV Respect
You’ve seen it on numerous television shows. A character spouts a stream of obscenities or behaves outrageously, and the comic reference is glibly explained away as a case of Tourette’s.That kind of exposure of the neurological disorder known as Tourette’s…
Pam Zucker: An Integrated Vision for Television
With growing fragmentation of network audiences, Procter & Gamble, like other television advertisers, was searching for new ways to do business in the spring of 2000, when Pam Zucker, an executive at MediaVest Worldwide, helped come up with a plan….