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Southern Hlinoisan, Wednesday, December 2-1. 1986 Page 17 Entertainment rrrn fl AIo) Top 20 LfU ZrMLLS NEW YORK (AP) Here Starts Friday at 8:00 a.m. Watch Friday's paper for details AlfXA, Downtown Murphysboro NBC wins-again; ABC shows improve NEW YORK (AP) NBC won the share, weekly Nielsen ratings despite pre- NBC had the top-rated evening empting 14 hours of its regular pro- news program with an average of gramming last week, while ABC 12.2 for the week and a 22 percent recorded some season highs further share of the audience, followed by down in the list. CBS at 11.7 and a 21 share and ABC "Spenser: For Hire," struggling at 10.8 and a 20 share, along with the rest of ABC's Satur- NBC won the week with an aver- day night programs, had its best rat- age prime-time rating of 17.3, fol- ing of the season with a 14.2 and a 26 lowed by CBS at 15.6 and ABC at share, and finished 42nd. The show 14.6.

For the first 13 weeks of the prospered in the absence of NBC's season, NBC's average rating is 18.2, "Hunter," which was pre-empted by CBS' average is 15.9 and ABC is in "Christmas in Washington." third place at 14.4. "Sidekicks" and "Sledge Ham- Each rating point represents 1 per- mer!" both on ABC, had their best cent of the nation's estimated 87.4 Saturday night ratings of the year, million homes equipped with televi- although they were ranked 54th and sion. The share is the portion of sets 56th in the A.C. Nielsen Co. survey in use at the time which were tuned released Tuesday.

to a particular program. Chicago Bears and Detroit "A Year in the Life," a miniseries Lions pulled ABC's "Monday Night which NBC. is eyeing as a future Football" into the top 10. The game regular program, was in the too30 BONANZA CARDS MAKE UN'BEAR'ABLY GOOD CHRISTMAS GIFTS 10 Rentals for 15ao PLUS A Free Pass to The Varsity Theatre (No ncd to them all at once, you've got a whole year!) Golden Child fends off its critics HOLLYWOOD (AP) "The Golden Child" starring Eddie Murphy kept its glow at the box office, pulling in $7.9 million last weekend and proving it doesn't have lead feet despite unfavorable reviews. Second place went to "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," which moved up one spot with $5.8 million in ticket sales.

The movie, flying at warp speed, has grossed $54.4 million in four weeks of release. The top seven films grossed more than $30 million last weekend, about 3 percent better than last year's leading movies. -The Enterprise crew bumped "Three Amigos!" from second to third place. The comedy, starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Martin Short as silent film stars doubling as saviors of a Mexican town threatened by a bandit, earned $4.3 million. Debuting in fourth place was "Little Shop of Horrors," a musical remake of the Roger Corman comedy about the relationship between a mousy shopclerk (Rick Moranis) and a man-eating plant.

The film earned $3.65 million last weekend. Clint Eastwood's "Heartbreak Ridge" fell one spot to fifth place with earnings of $3.5 million in its third weekend. It has grossed $20.9 million so far. are the prime-time television ratings as compiled by the A.C. Nielsen Co.

for the week of Dec. 15-21. Top 20 listings include the week's ranking, with full season-to-date ranking in parentheses, rating for the week, and total homes. An in parentheses denotes one-time-only presentation. 1.

(1) "The Cosby Show," NBC. 35.1 rating. 30.7 million homes. 2. (2) "Family Ties," NBC.

33.1, 28.9 million homes. 3. (3) "Cheers." NBC. 28.4, 24.8 million homes. 4.

(6) "Night Court," NBC. 27.3. 23.9 million homes. 5. (8) "Moonlighting," ABC.

26.1, 22.8 million homes. 6. (7) "60 Minutes." CBS. 24.1. 21.1 million homes.

6. (9) "Growing Pains," ABC, 24.1, 21.1 million homes. 8. (5) "Golden Girls," NBC, 23.5, 20.5 million homes. 9.

(11) "Who's the Boss?" ABC, 22.8, 19.9 million homes. 10. (17) "NFL Monday Night Chicago vs. Detroit," ABC, 21.9. 19.1 million homes.

11. (4) "Murder. She Wrote." CBS. 21.5, 18.8 million homes. 12.

(9) "Dallas," CBS. 21.2. 18.5 million homes. 13. (12) "Newhart." CBS.

20.5. 17.9 million homes. 14. (X) "Bob Hope Christmas Cheer," NBC. 20.4, 17.8 million homes.

15. (18) "The Christmas Gift" "CBS Sunday Movie." 20.2. 17.6 million homes. 16. (28) "Magnum.

P.I.." CBS. 19.7. 17.2 million homes. 17. (12) "Amen," NBC.

19.5. 17.0 million homes. 18. (22) "Highway to Heaven," NBC. 19.1, 16.7 million homes.

18. (24) "Falcon Crest," CBS. 19.1, 16.7 million homes. 20. (31) "LA.

Law," NBC, 18.8. 16.4 million homes. NO MEMBERSHIP FEE AlHITy VAA II (E 418 SOUTH ILUNOIS CARCONOALE 457-6100 had a rating of 21.9, more than three all three nights and outperformed EVERYONE AT EUGENE'S HOUSE is Always good for a few laughs. Neil Simon brings you the story of a very special family that's a little like yours. And a lot like his.

It's a story filled with laughtec the network's usual programming on Tuesday and Wednesday night. However, Gerald Jaffe, NBC's vice president for research projects said the ratings numbers were neither so strong or so weak to be decisive. "The key is now people reacted to the show, rather than how many watched it," he said. CBS had its best Wednesday night of the season with a 16.9 average rating, said Greg Kasparian, the network's director of audience measurement. "Magnum, P.I." had its best of the season, a 19.7 rating good for 16th place.

pomis above the season average, and the second-best rating of the year behind the Bears-Green Bay Packers game early in the season. NBC had the usual four programs atop the ratings: "The Cosby Show," "Family Ties," "Cheers" and "Night Court." ABC's "Moonlighting" was fifth. CBS' "60 Minutes" and ABC's "Growing Pains" were tied for sixth, followed by NBC's "Golden Girls" and two from ABC, "Who's the Boss?" and "Monday Night Football." ABC's "Our World" was in last place with a rating of 4.9 and a 7 And as always, the laughs hit dose to home. Janet Jackson snares 9 nominations Here are the top movies at the box office this weekend, with distributor, weekend gross, number of screens, weekend per-screen average, total gross, number of weeks in release and estimated production cost. Distributors supply the gross ing the fortunes of Nashville, and to longtime American Music Award favorite Lionel Richie.

amount figures. Figures not availa- The American Music Awards will i a a be broadcast Jan. 26 from 7 p.m. to ble are indicated by n-a 1. "The Golden Child." Paramount.

LOS ANGELES (AP) Janet Jackson's slick "Control" album and her sly-sounding "Nasty" single earned the sister of Michael Jackson nine nominations for the 14th annual American Music Awards, officials announced Tuesday. Trailing Miss Jackson was Whitney Houston with seven nominations, several of them in the same category as Miss Jackson: favorite female vocalist, favorite album, and favor ite female video artist. Miss Houston is the daughter of gospel singer Cissy Houston. In all, there were nominations in 27 categories. Five nominations each went to silky-voiced Billy Ocean, the mother-daughter country duet The Judds and the controversial New York rap group Four nominations went to Reba McEntire, one of a new wave of country singers chang- Doonesbury 10 p.m.

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GLENN ON $7.9 million, 1,667 screens, per screen, $23.2 million, two weeks, n-a. 2. "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," Paramount, $5.8 million, 1,886 screens, $3,031 per screen, $54.4 million, four weeks, n-a. 3. "Three Amigos!" Orion, $4.3 million, 1,461 screens, $2,946 per screen, $11.9 million, two weeks, n-a.

4. "Little Shop of Horrors," Warner $3.65 million, 866 screens, $4,226 per screen, $3.65 million, n-a. 5. "Heartbreak Ridge," Warner $3.5 million, 1,647 screens, $2,121 per screen, $20.9 million, three weeks, n-a. 6.

"Lady and the Tramp," Disney, $2.8 million, 1,355 screens, $2,070 per screen, $2.8 million, one week, n-a. 7. Dundee," Paramount, $2.3 million, 1,256 screens, $1,817 per screen, $106 million, 13 weeks, $8.5 million. STREET. AMLE3 CFThB JOHN, ANYONE TAKE IT hey FROfAK." fi WEST.

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