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aavM LOS ANGliLKS TIMES WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2CHX) TODAY ON TV Prime-Time TV Rankings tW0 'Millionaire's' Celebrities Help Sweep ABC to Win 11:00 a.m. CHANNELS Los Angeles EB KVEA (Tele) 23 Orange County 03 KDOC (Ind 56 KCBS (CBS) 02 HI KJLA (Ind 25 OKNBCINBCIfM 03 KLCS (Edu 1 17 KTLA (WB) 05 03 KRCA lnd 1 20 KABC (ABC) 07 Palm Springs EI KCAL (Ind 1 09 36 KMIR (NBCI 04 HIST Weapons at War (TVG) IFC Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch LIFE Murphy Brown MTV Music Videos (TVPG) NICK Little Bear 286405 SCI-FI The Sentinel (TVPG) CllWn Fu7, Inn.r iTVPn.ni I KTTV (Fnxl 1 1 i TBS Matlock 42 KESQ (ABC) 7. 25 Santa Barbara 3 KEYT (ABCI 07 IHKC0P (UPN) 13 EB KSCI (Ind 18 KWHY (Ind) 22 HD KCET IPBSI 28 son miniseries "American Tragedy" and NBC's "In the Beginning" splitting the remainder of the Sunday night vote, garnering mediocre returns for expensive, heavily promoted sweeps projects. An overtime game between Green Bay and Minnesota helped "Monday Night Football" score its third-highest rating this season. Still, CliS' "livery-body Loves Raymond" continues lo sizzle, with the show averaging almost 21 million viewers a 20 increase compared to its first six telecasts last year.

NBC boasted the most-watched election coverage, though that rating didn't equal tune-in for the fictional presidency of "The West Wing," followed by the season's top-rated "Law Order." BRIAN I.OWRY San Bernardino The latest celebrity edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" provided the dominant centerpiece of a lineup that staked ABC to victory during the first full week of the November rating sweeps, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. A new "The Miracle Worker," starring Alison 1-1-liott, attracted ABC's biggest "Wonderful World of Disney" audience in a year, followed by "Millionaire" and "The Practice," which delivered their highest ratings since June and May, respectively. Fox, meanwhile, held its own behind "The X-Files," "The Simpsons" and "Malcolm in the Middle," producing the network's best Sunday performance since January. That left CBS' O.J. Simp- National Nielsen Viewership H3 KPXN (PAXI 30 24 KVCR (PBS) 24 Ventura Lounty H3 KOCE (PBS) 50 63 KADY (UPN) 16 Cable Services 39 ESPN2 84 NICK 47 AMC BET SCi-FI 87 35 FAM 57 FNC SHOW 41 2' SUND 36 TCM 88 BRVO 54 FSN CNBC 3) COM 79 FX CSPN 29 HBO CMAX 45 HIS' CNN 42 HGTV 12) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research.

They are Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Nov. 6 0 TLC TMC Nielsen estimates that there are 260 million potential based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to tmish U.S. viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions. 21 DSC IFC 37 KCBS The Young and the Restless (TV141 60641 ti KNBC News KTLA Judge Mills Lane KABC 3 KEYT Port Charles (IV14) 2957 I KCAL Moral Court (TVPGI ED KTTV Queen Latifah 53399 EB KCOP Ricki Lake (TVPGI 3657 KWHY "Atacan los Karatecas" 2hr 636370 24' KVCR More Than Memories HD KCET Noddy (TVY) 8957 Si KMEX DKDA (TVPGI 36 KMIR The People's Court EE KTBN James Robison 42 KESQ Montel Williams 14793 HO KDOC Southland Today HO KLCS Using Maps, Globes, Graphs, lables, Chans and Diagrams AMC "The Pleasure of His Company" '61 2hr681196 Magnum, PL CNBC Street Signs COM Win Ben Stein's Money (TVPGI CSPN Public Affairs DSC Lynette Jennings Design DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) Behind the Scenes: Dr.

Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ITVPG) 329825 ESPN Inside the PGA Tour ESPN2 Soccer- World Cup Qualifier, Barbados vs Men's National Team 2167221 FAM It Itsy Bitsy Time (TVYI FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HBO Educating Peter HGTV The Carol Duvall Show HIST True Action Adventures (TVGI LIFE Unsolved Mysteries (TVPGI MTV VH1 Music Videos (TVPG) NICK Oora the Explorer 492979 SCI-FI Star Trek SUND "Genealogies of a Crime" 9 1hi54 689738 TBS "Midway" 76 Part 1. (PGI2hr 61876 TLC A Wedding Story (TVG) TNN Dukes of Hazzard TNT "The Lonely Guy" '84 (R 2hr 236478 USA Wmqs (TVPG-D) TNN TNT USA VH1 53 LIFE '6 63 MSNBC ft 34 MTV 48 OISN ESPN Program 'f fc- Network NBC ABC NBC ABC ABC ER Millionaire (Sun.) Friends Millionaire (Wed.) Mon. Night Football Net- View-Program work era Sabnna Witch (8 .10 I ABC 99 Gilmoie frts WB 3 73 The Parkers UPN 3 73 The Steve Harvey Show WB 3 70 Moesha UPN 3 39 The Hughleys UPN 3 38 Gidlnends UPN 3 23 Nkki WB 3 08 7 Days UPN 3 03 The P)3 WB 2 86 the Jamie faa Show WB 2 83 Pnpular WB 2 79 Hvpe WB 2 76 Fieedom UPN 2 52 Gresse Pointe JVB 2 44 level 9 UPN 2 05 6. Every. Loves Raymond CBS 93 94 96 97.

98 99. 100 101 102 103. 104 105 1C6 107 108 i ih iir i i liirm Alison Elliott Use numbers after call to set VCR Plus. Where there are tvv numbers, repeat the procedure. (R) in the grid, denotes a repeat pi iram.

TV RATINGS (TVYI All Child, -n (TVY7I Directed to Older Chrldrt (TVY7-FV) Directed to Older Children. FantasyViolence (TVGI General Audience (TVPGI Parental Guidance ITV14) Parents Strongly Cautioned (TVMA) Mature Audiences Only (D Suggestive Dialogue (l Coarse Language (S) Sex (V) Violence Program 52 53 54 55 56. 57 58 59 60. 61. 62 63.

64 65 Network Averages Here is the number ot viewers that each network averaged per hour of prime tune, for last icek and for the season. 11:30 a.m. Viewers 28.39 25.28 22.01 21.90 21.50 20.57 19.65 19.03 18.49 18.37 18 20 1743 1731 17 17 16 48 16 44 16 43 16.40 16 23 1548 15.41 15 29 15.18 15.15 15.03 14 87 14.56 14 54 14.40 13.45 13 37 1333 1296 12.79 12 69 12 62 12 61 12 46 1227 12 16 12 16 1209 1206 It 65 11 56 1139 11 17 1090 1061 1028 10 19 Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Morning 7:00 a.m. Last Season week to date ABC 14.1.3 million 13.13 NBC 13.61 12.61 CBS 11.7 12.38 FOX 9.38 10.31 WB 4.77 4.41 UPN 4.53 4.44 7. 8, 9.

10. it 12 13 14, 15 16 17 18 19. 20 21 22. 23. 24, 25.

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Elsewhere CNBC Power Lunch 11554 CNN Newsday DSC Assignment Discovery (TVGI DISN Otter (TVY) Celebrity Homes ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2NFL2Night 8376478 FAM It's Itsy Busy Time (TVY) FNC NowsAsman FSN Sports Geniuses FX NYPD Blue(TV14) HGTV Appraisal Fan ABC ABC cas FOX CBS NBC FOX FOX ABC WB NBC CBS FOX NBC NBC NBC CBS ABC ABC UFN FOX CBS CSS CBS ABC ABC FOX ABC ABC WB WB WB WB FOX FOX UPN WB UPN WB FOX ABC 1015 9 85 9 58 9 52 947 9 32 9 31 918 917 9 12 911 8 96 8.86 8.69 851 8 50 8.46 8 36 8.22 7,89 777 7.14 7.41 7C4 691 6 60 6.48 6.46 6.19 609 6 05 564 536 5.19 5 16 4.92 477 4 67 4 27 411 2020 Downtown Gideon Crossing Walker, lews Ranger Cops Kennedy Onassis Pt 2 law Order (Mon I America's Most Wanted Malcolm in the Middle iWed I Jane 7th Heaven Dateline NBC (Mon The Fugitive Police Videos Dateline NBC (Sun "Eraser" Titans Welcome to New York 2020 (Fn.) Whose Line Is It Anyway? WWF Smackdown! Normal. Ohio Diagnosis Murder City ot Angels That's Lire Two Guys and a rl Norm Battle ol Child Geniuses 2" Two GuysGid (8 30 p.m Madigan Men Butty the Vampire Slayer Charmed Angel Dawson Creek "Million Dollar Mysteries" Street "Bad Boys" Felicity Star Trek Voyager Roswcll You Decide 2000 Sabnna, (he Teenage Witr-h TLC A Baby Story (TVPGI TNN Dukes of Hazzard TNT ER (TV14-D) USA Something So Right ITVPG) 9:30 a.m. KCAL To Tell the Truth EU KTTV Divorce Court (TVPG) BO KCET Between the Lions (TVY) R) 10202 EH KTBN Unfolding Majesty With Dean Mary Brown HO KDOC Benny Hinn BET AM at BET 318370 CNN Burden of Proof 536912 DISN Out of the Box (TVY) Mysteries Scandals (TVPG) ESPN2 RPM 2Night FAM CBN Special Edition 192592 FSN2 Gilad's Bodies in Motion HBO "One Small Hero" '99 (PG1hr30 HGTV Appraise It! LIFE Murphy Brown NICK Blue's Clues SHOW "Teacher's Pet" '58 2hr 903196 SUND "The Big Bang" '89 R1hr21 361958 TLC A Baby Story (TVPG) USA Hearts Afire (TVPG) 10:00 a.m. KCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) 3 KEYT Martha Stewart Living 77931 KNBC Men Are From Mars. Women Are From Venus 75573 KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael 35979 KABC 42 KESQ The View 2U047 II KCAL Judge Mathis ED KTTV Power of Attorney EB KCOP Montel Williams 49221 KWHY Hablame de Amor 24 KVCR Creative Living BO KCET Sesame Street 12757 B3 KMEX Marta Susana 47863 361 KMIR Dr.

Laura 167931 CD KTBN Behind the Scenes S3 KVEA "Reparhdores de Muerte" '92(PG-13)2hr 56080 HD KLCS Working Together Interactions: Real Math, Real Careers (10:151 03 KRCA "Motin en la Cared" '88 2hr 41134 Murder, She Wrote BRVO "Cabaret" '72 (PG) 2hr45 18514115 CMAX "Drive Me Crazy" '99 (PG-1 3) 1hr30 436301 CNN CNN Today COM The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (TVPG) 6878486 DSC Home Matters TVG) DISN RoliePolie Olie (TVY) The E1 True Hollywood Story (TV14-DS) "Linda Lovelace" 349689 ESPN Racehorse Digest ESPN2 Billiards WPBA Classic Tour, First Semifinal. 2593776 FAM The 700 Club FSN2The Method FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPGI HGTV At the Auction HIST 20th Century (TVPGI IFC Independent Focus LIFE Golden Girls (TVPG-D) NICK Little Bill 116775 SCI-FI Dark Shadows 6902202 TBS Hunter TLC A Dating Story (TVG) TMC "The Hoodlum Priest" '61 1 hr38 31837028 (10:10) TNN Dukes of Hazzard TNT ER (TV14-L) USA Jesse (TVPGI VH1 New Videos (TVPGI 10:30 a.m. ED KTTV Power of Attorney 24: KVCR HomeFix EE KTBN Casey Treat HO KDOC New Zoo Revue 283399 HO KLCS World of Work; 3-2-1 Classroom Contact (10 45) BET OH Drama! 680009 COM Whose Line Is It Anyway? DISN Bear in the Big Blue House ESPN America's Horse FNC NewsVester FSN2 Yoga Zone HGTV Collectible Treasures IFC IFC Short Film Collection LIFE Golden Girls (TVPG-D) NICK Franklin 282689 SCI-FI Crossing Over With John Edward (TVPGI TCM "Murder Ahoy" '64 1hr33 7385973 TLC A Dating Story (TVG) USA Ned and Stacey (TVPG-D) Southland Viewing Here are Nielsen's Top 10 prime-time programs in the Los Angeles area during the same week. The rankings are based on the number of households watching. Proparli Um Iwlds 1.

Fnends KNBC 1 022 901 2 ER KNBC 980.057 3. Willi Grace KNBC 878.302 4 News Derision 2000 KNBC 797.970 5 IheWestWing KNBC 755.126 6 Election Coverage (9 KABC 739059 7. flection Coverage KABC 696 215 8 "Amencan Tragedy Pad 1 KCBS 685 504 9 Millionaire (Sun KABC 6B0.149 10. 2000 Vote KABC 664,082 1 63 KADY The Cosby Show BET 106th Park: BtT's Top 10 i live i CMAX "Forces of Nature" '99 (PG-131hr54 1888738 COM Win Ben Stein's Money DISN Otter (TVYI I ESPN Inside the Senior PGA Tour FAM It's Itsy Busy Time (TVY) i HGTV Simply Quilts HIST Great Blunders in History NICK Maggie the Ferocious Beast 453080 SHOW "The Destructors" 74 (PG) lhr29 5252776 TLC A Wedding Story (TVG) TMC "A New Life" '88 (PG-i 13) lhr44 USA Wings (TVPG Dl I Afternoon I Noon RADIO f) KCBS The Early Show 61370 EI KNBC 36 KMIR Today 313221 KTLA Morning News 16R44 KABC 3 KEYT 42 KESQ Good Morning America 35252 KTTV Good Day I A. 54028 EB KCOP 63 KADY Buzz Lightyear of Star Command 31202 H3 KWHY Bizbinje 66554 24 KVCR Nature (TVG) BD KCFTZoboomafoo 64298 HQ KPXN Employment Television B3 KMEX jDespierta America! 03 KTBN Rod Parsley 03 KOCE Inside Statistics KVEA Esta Mariana EH KJLA Luke SO KLCS Learning English EB KRCA Nubelw (TVYI 83196 AMC "Week-end in Havana" '41 1hr30 887844 Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Master (TVGI BET Feed the Children CNBC Market Watch 48196 CSPN Public Affairs DISN RoliePolieOlie(TVY) ElEINews Daily 324370 ESPN SportsConter ESPN2 RPM 2Night FAM Mary-Kate Ashley (TVY) FSN Regional Sports Report FSN2 Gilad's Bodies in Motion FX MASH (TVPGI HBO The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures (TVY) HGTV Decorating With Style HIST The Real West (TVGI LIFE Denise Austin's Fit Lite MSNBC Decision 2000 Battle fur the White House 3620931 MTV MTV Jams (TVPGI NICK CatDog 700660 SCI-FI Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TVGI TBS Little House on the Piairie TLC Jay Jay the Jet Plane (TVY) TMC "We Live Again" '34 1hr22 88264414 (7 051 TNTCHiPs (TVPGI VH1 Music Videos (TVPGI 7:30 a.m.

El KCAL Beakman's World 42283 EB KCOP 63 KADY Recess EE KSCI Iran-Sima (Farsil 81973 HD KCET Clifford the Big Red Dog D3 KTBN Marilyn Hickey HD KOCE Sew Young, Sew Fun H3 KDOC Hollywood Plaza HO KLCS Clifford the Big Red Dog KCBS Woman 2 Woman 38467 CI KNBC Access Hollywood 56863 KTLA Little House KABC 3 KEYT All My Children (TVPG) 181 15 II KCAL News ED KTTV Judge Hatchett 79863 EB KCOP Maury (TVPG) Guest updates. 37399 EB KSCI Mandarin Drama 24 KVCR Quilting suicide, KNX (1070). Classical 10-11 a.m. Morning Symphony: Haydn Symphony, George Szell conducts Cleveland Orchestra), KCSN-I'M (88.5). 1 1:15 a.m.-noon Masterpiece of the Day: Sainl-Saens (Piano Concerto No.

1, l'hilharmonia Orchestra), KM.l-I'M (105.1), 7-9 p.m. Evening Concert With John Mauceri: Itespighi Birds," Orpheus Chamber Orchestra); lTgar (Violin Concerto in H-minor), KM.T-I-M (105.1). News-Commentary 1-2 p.m. To the Point: "The Climate at the Climate Change Conference." KCIUV-I (89.9). Sports p.m.

Pro Basketball: New York Knicks at Clippers. KXT'A (1 150). Tips for Today 9-1 1 a.m. Larry Mantle's Airlalk: Hvan homas, author of "Hubert Kennedy: His ife" a.m.); Laurent de lturnoff, author of "liahar and the Succotash liiril" 1 10-1 0:30 a.m.); Deborah Borda. managing director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 1 a.m.), KPCC-I'M (09.3).

p.m. Talk of the City: cookbook authors Nancy Silverton, Wolfgang Puck, Anne Byrne, KPCC-I'M (H9.3). p.m. Rockllne: music and interviews with nu'tnhers of Styx. KCHS-I'M (93.1).

p.m., a.m. Gunsmoke: A man returns to Dodge lo marry his sweetheart, only to find things have changed, KNX (1070). 10 p.m. -midnight Chicago Symphony: HeriiMein Side Copland (3rd Symphony), KM.T'-I'.vi (103.1). Drama-Comedy-Family p.m., a.m.

The Whistler: Sisters begin lo fight after one attempts mm clark MOV 14-19 1 s. i HO KCET Caillou (TVYI 93047 36 KMIR Real TV i QD KTBN The 700 Club 42 KESQ News S3 KVEA Cotorreando 66467 HO KDOC Perry Mason (TVPG-V) HO KLCS In Focus 09 KRCA Noticias 63 KADY Bloomberg Television Night Court CNN TalkBack Live 559863 COM Saturday Night Live ITVPG) I DSC Christopher Lowell (TVGI i DISN Out of the Box (TVYI Celebrity Profile (TVPGI I ESPN In Line Skating FAM Rotten Ralph 442009 i FNC NewsSmith FSN Pro Basketball- Nuggets at I Lakers. 78825 Please see TV LOG F12 Tower ftetotds RobimumMay Whf rehouie Muiic I Tu Musiu Ritmo Latino (714)740-7878 (213I36S-3SOO "80 minutes of bitchy fun!" CRITIC'S CHOICE L.A. TIMES lirmsiidjESSI ii iimiii I thanksgiving'tHURS 1123 8 213.365.3500 lJ'N'If ALL TIX $25 wcanned food CORONET THEATRE 310.657.7377 jIJJl-j-ijr ONLINE TIX: WWW.rULLyCOMMITTED.COM Otis: College New Building Gets Boxed In 3 TurTTTrV TV" 1 1 rj 1 1 1 1 1 Lllirfl I UU Hi i TrrTry.il i i.tt. Tonight at 8 iw.fi in i nre CAROL KAIIE PHYLICIA RASHAD KIMBERLY UILLIAMS Continued from Fl 1961 F.liot Noyes-designed building on a small campus just north of the Los Angeles International Airport.

A former branch headquarters for IBM, the Noyes structure anchors the corner of Lincoln and La Tijera boulevards, while a four-story parking garage extends along La Tijera. The fine arts building will stand along Lincoln Boulevard, creating an L-shaped composition that will frame a large lawn scattered with coral trees. Rather than fit the new building snugly into the existing context, Fisher has cranked it 25 degrees in relation to the campus. The gesture sets up an unexpected tension among the various structures, and it allows Fisher to shape a series of elegant outdoor rooms. The old and new school buildings, for example, will frame a small triangular garden, with a sunken court at its center surrounded by neat rows of bottle brush trees.

The walls of the fine arts building and the parking garage, meanwhile, will form a along two sides of the main lawn in back. And a smaller lawn along Lincoln Boulevard will function as a public sculpture garden. As if to underline the importance of these outdoor spaces, Fisher has pulled all of the building's vertical circulation outside, treating the staircases as a sculptural object in the landscape. The main entry to the second-floor administrative offices is a grand stair that faces the sunken court, its dynamic form twisting around a delicate glass pillar. Along the back lawn, another stairway clings to the building's facade, while in front, a third stairway sticks straight out toward Lincoln Another motive for putting so much emphasis on the exterior spaces, however, was to free up the interior.

The conceit is that the studios inside can be reconfigured as the school grows, or as the methods used for making art change. To that end, the building's structure has been reduced to a minimum with 12 columns along the perimeter and just four interior columns. The perimeter columns also lend the facades a sense of lightness and flexibility. A kind of billboard made of cement-board panels will announce gallery exhibits to passing cars on Lincoln Boulevard. At the main approach to the building, a glass-enclosed corner will give the structure a fragile, temporary air.

Of course, these are all ideas we have seen before. The industrial shed has long been an icon of Modernism. The notion of treating buildings as distinct components in a sculptural composition was a central theme of Frank 0. Gehry's early work. And the conceptual link between factory-like spaces and the production of art can be traced back to Richard Gluckman's 1970s-era loft-like gallery spaces in New York's Sol lo, or to Max Gordon, who first popularized the style in London in the 1960s, or even to Andy Warhol's chaotic art factory in Manhattan.

Where Fisher's design seems likely to fall short is in its inability to capture the loose, spontaneous feel of those precedents. This is especially true in the design of the studiosat least in their current incarnation. You expect the grand, open spaces of an industrial warehouse. You gel a warren of tightly packed rooms. On the first floor, the gallery and studios are generic spaces laid out around a cluster of offices.

On the second floor, the same kind of generic studios surround a small, open-air court, which is meant to provide an oasis of tranquillity amid a maze of activity. It's hard to blame Fisher for the weakness of the interior spaces. Constrained by the budget, with little time, it would have been hard to achieve the kind of compositional complexity that would give these spaces architectural meaning. But to those who are familiar with Ilodgetls and Fung's abandoned scheme, it's also hard not to feel a tinge of disappointment. Ilodgetls and Fung's focused almost exclusively on the studios.

Bridge-like balconies spanned raw, open work spaces, with light spilling down through an elaborate, undulating roof structure. Outside, however, the building's depressing, sloped concrete facade recalled a military bunker. Ultimately, the only similarity between the two designs is their incompleteness, since neither fully resolves the relationship between inner and outer worlds. It may be that after one pointless competition, a rejected design and years of grappling with a frustrating budget Otis' board simply succumbed to exhaustion. Don't take risks.

Gut your losses. Keep to the straight and narrow path. It is an understandable strategy. But schools should be places of optimism, and with a little more patience and vision, Olis might have gotten a project worth savoring instead of a workable compromise. i November 21 Dec.

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