Blech. Don’tcha just love reruns?<\/p>\n
From “Ultimate TV”:<\/p>\n
Special Helps NBC Take Wednesday
\nThu, Dec 23, 1999 07:56 AM PST<\/p>\nLOS ANGELES (UltimateTV.com) – A National Geographic special was the night’s top-rated program, while repeats kept the numbers down for most shows. On the night, NBC led in the overnight ratings (December 22) with a 9.3\/15 (11.1\/17), while CBS was a distant second with a 7.8\/13 (7.2\/11). ABC landed in third behind “20\/20,” 7.0\/12 (7.2\/11) and despite new episodes on the night, FOX’s numbers slipped from last week 4.8\/8 (5.1\/8). UPN had a 3.2\/5 (3.6\/6) in fifth, while The WB had a 2.6\/4 (4.2\/6) in sixth.<\/p>\n
NBC started off the night with a two-hour National Geographic special, “Adventures in Time.” The Millennium special, hosted by John Lithgow, won every half-hour, peaking at 9.6\/16 from 8 to 8:30 p.m.. The show averaged a 9.4\/15 from 8-10 p.m. (last week, “Dateline” logged an 8.7\/14 from 8-9 p.m., and “The West Wing” pulled a 10.5\/16 from 9-10 p.m.). At 10 p.m., a repeat “Law & Order” from the end of last season pulled a 9.2\/15 (14.3\/23), winning the hour.<\/p>\n
A new episode of “Cosby” led off the night for CBS, pulling a 6.2\/10 (6.1\/10). The net programmed a repeat “King of Queens” at 8:30, rising to a 6.4\/10 (last week, a repeat “Becker” garnered a 6.2\/10). At 9 p.m., the CBS Wednesday night movie, “The Christmas Wish” rose to 8.6\/14 (last week, “A Crime of Passion” averaged a 7.8\/12). The movie, which originally aired last year, improved on every half-hour, rising from a 7.8\/12 at 8 p.m. to a 9.2\/15 at 9:30 p.m., tying “Law & Order.”<\/p>\n
ABC led off the night with a repeat “Two Guys and A Girl,” pulling a 6.5\/11 (7.6\/12). It was followed by a new episode of the freshly canceled “It’s like, you know…” which slipped to a 5.8\/10 (6.4\/10). A repeat of “The Drew Carey Show” improved at 9 p.m. to a 7.7\/13 (9.9\/15), with a repeat “Norm” slipping to a 6.6\/11 (8.6\/13) from 9:30 – 10 p.m.. “20\/20” had a 7.8\/13 (8.0\/13) to close out the night.<\/p>\n
A holiday episode of “Beverly Hills 90210” started the night for FOX, pulling a 5.7\/9 (6.2\/10). A new episode of “Get Real” followed at 9 p.m., with a 4.1\/7 (4.1\/6).<\/p>\n
UPN began the night with a repeat of “7 Days,” taking a 3.1\/5 (3.5\/6). “Star Trek Voyager” followed at 9 p.m. with a 3.4\/5 (3.7\/6).
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\nA repeat “Dawson’s Creek” began the night for The WB, pulling a 2.7\/5 (4.5\/7), followed by a repeat of the teen alien drama “Roswell,” which managed a 2.6\/4 (3.9\/6).<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blech. Don’tcha just love reruns? From “Ultimate TV”: Special Helps NBC Take Wednesday Thu, Dec 23, 1999 07:56 AM PST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-roswell-rating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}