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F11 ANGELES TIMES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 2000 TODAY ON TV Prime-Time TV Rankings Oscar Programming, 'Millionaire' Give ABC Honors KJLA Bio-Med Check-Up (TVG) BO KLCS Hands On: Crafts tor Kids 62707 DISN Rolie Polie Olie (TVY) FSN2 Yoga Zone HIST In Search Of (TVG) NICK Franklin 373981 SCI-FI The Twilight Zone (TVPG) TLC Jay Jay the Jet Plane (TVY) TMC "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" '85 USA Fired Up (TVPG) work's usual sitcoms but gave away almost half of the quiz show's audience. A truer test of the show's appeal will come next week. Several new sitcoms also premiered last week, with Fox's "Titus," ABC's "Then Came You" and NBC's "Daddio" showing promise in retaining viewers from the show preceding them, while "Millionaire" battered NBC's tryout "Battery Park." Two other newcomers, "God, the Devil and Bob" and "Grapevine," are also dying on the vine. NBC's "The West Wing," meanwhile, keeps solidifying its hit credentials, last week amassing its largest block of Nielsen voters since the White I louse drama's premiere. BRIAN LOWRY 11:00 a.m.

The second-most-watched Oscar telecast of the past five years and an extra movie edition of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" made ABC the big winner last week, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. In addition to solid results for the Academy Awards, ABC drew big numbers for Oscar-adjacent programming. Both the annual Barbara Walters interview special and a half-hour national Oscar preview show, with Walters' "The View" co-host Meredith Vieira, exceeded their year-ago audience as well. ABC used a pre-Oscar "Millionaire" Friday to introduce its new documentary series "Making the Band," which drew more viewers than the net- National Nielsen Viewershlp CHANNELS Los Angeles EB KVEA (Tele) 23 Orange County 03 KDOC (Ind.) 56 KCBS (CBS) 02 11 KNBC (NBC) 04 BD KLCS (Edu 17 KTLA (WBI 05 KRCA (Ind.) 20 KABC (ABCI 07 Palm Springs KCAL (Ind.) 09 36 KMIR (NBC) 04 IB KTTV (Fox) 11 42. KESQ (ABC) 7, IB KCOP (UPN) 13 25 tH KWHY (Ind.) 22 ipvTiAnnm HDKCET(PBS28 ED KPXN (PAX) 30 Sa" Bernardino 24 KVCR (PBS) 24 03 KTBN (Ind 40 Ventura County B3 K0CE (PBS) 50 63 KADY (UPN) 16 Cable Services 39 63 NICK 38 AMC 35 ESPN 34 SCI-FI 87 BET 57 ESPN2 84 SHOW 41 BRV0 54 FAM 47 TBS 43 CNBC 31 FSN 27 TCM 88 COM 79 FSN2 59 TLC 51 CSPN 29 FX 89 TMC 58 CMAX 45 HBO 33 TNN 49 CNN 42 HIST 30 TNT 52 DSC 37 LIFE 46 USA 44 DISN 53 MTV 48 VH1 62 Use numbers after call letters to set VCR Plus.

Where there are two numbers, repeat the procedure. (R) in the grid, denotes a repeat program. TV RATINGS (TVY) All Children (TVY7) Directed to Older Children (TVY7-FV) Directed to Older Children; FantasyViolence (TVG) General Audience (TVPGI Parental Guidance (TV14) Parents Strongly Cautioned ITVMA) Mature Audiences Only ID) Suggestive Dialogue Coarse Language (S Sex (V Violence Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (March 20-26) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates that there are 260 million potential U.S.

viewers age 2 and older. Viewership is listed here in millions. TCM "Star Witness" '31 1hr08 TLC Salty 's Lighthouse (TVY) TMC "The Lords of Flatbush" 74 (PG 1hr28 8617813 USA Almost Perfect (TVPGI VH1 Pop-Up Video (TVPG-D) 10:00 a.m. 0 KCBS The Price Is Right (TVG) 1 3 1 KEYT Home Improvement a KNBC Time Again (TVG) 0 KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael TV14)86271 KABC 42' KESQ The View 88639 El KCAL Jerry Springer 23977 BO KTTV Queen Latifah 24455 00 KCOP Forgive or Forget 23423 24: KVCR Creative Living HO KCET Sesame Street 84165 EH KMEX Maite 36 KMIR Judge Mills Lane EH KTBN Behind the Scenes KVEA "Kramer vs. Kramer'' 79 IPG) 2hr 21962 BO KDOC Film Feature SI KJLA Richard Saxton (TVG) BO KLCS in Me; Entrepreneur in You; World of Work (10:15) KRCA Cine Murder, She Wrote BET Hits From the Street BRVO "Where Angels Fear to Tread" '91 2hr45 13035813 CNN CNN Today COM "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" '85 (PG) 2hr 8416455 DSC Home Matters (TVG) DISN Bear in Big Blue House (TVY) The True Hollywood Story ESPN Tennis- Ericsson Open, Men's Quarterfinal Match.

465436 FAM The 700 Club FSN2 The Method FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPGI HIST In Search Of (TVG) LIFE Chicago Hope (TV14-V) NICK Kipper 167417 SCI-FI The Twilight Zone (TVPG) TBS Hunter TLC Pappyland (TVY) TNN TV's Bloopers Practical Jokes (TVG) TNT In the Heat of the Night (TVPG-V) USA Ned and Stacey (TVPG) VH1 New Videos (TVPGI 10:30 a.m. Nat- work era Program KTLA Sally Jessy Raphael (TV14) 69691 a KABC 42! KESQ Regis Kathie Lee 67287 KCAL Maury (TVPG1 12707 ED KTTV Divorce Court DO KCOP Montel Williams 58523 DO KSCI I Can Do It) KWHY Noticiario 24' KVCR Sesame Street 70833 BD KCET Barney (TVY) 48165 EH KTBN Dr. Cherry HQ KOCE Instructional TV KVEA Monica 70851 KOOC Life in the Word EH KJLA Mike Russell (TVG) BD KLCS Turn On to Algebra AMC "That Lady in Ermine" '48 1 hr55 90535726 (9:05) Night Court BET Videolink BRVO Moonlighting CNBC Power Lunch 93349 CNN Newsday COM Whose Line Is It Anyway? DSC Assignment Discovery (TVG) DISN Otter (TVYI Celebrity Profile (TVPG-D) ESPN SportsCenter ESPN2 Motorcycle Racing FAM It's Itsy Bitsy Time (TVY) FSN Sports Geniuses FX Picket Fences (TVPG-D) HIST The Real West (TVG) LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Little Bear 384097 SCI-FI Highlander (TVPGI TBS Matlock TIC Bingo Molly (TVY) TNN Dukes of Hazzard TNT Lois Clark (TVPGI USA Hearts Afire TVPGI 9:30 a.m. ED KTTV Divorce Court HD KCET The Puzzle Place 85184 CB KTBN Dean and Mary Brown B3 KDOC Benny Hinn Si KJLA Dow 30 Report (TVG) BO KLCS 3-2-1 Classroom Contact (945) Night Court CMAX "The Hollywood Knights" '80(R)1hr32 353788 CNN Burden of Proof 634504 COM Win Ben Stein's Money DISN Out of the Box (TVY) FAM CBN Special Edition 290184 FSN2 Gilad's Bodies in Motion HBO "Honkytonk Man" '82 (PG) 2hr03 829146 LIFE Designing Women (TVPG-D) NICK Blue's Clues SHOW "Dancing on the Moon" 97 lhr32 51051455 (9:45) 102. Secret Agent Man 103.

Felicity 104. Jacks. Jill UPN W8 WB 2.03 1.59 1.40 Cable Top 10 KCBS The Young and the Restless (TV1 4 28233 a KNBC News KTLA Judge Mills Lane KABC KEYT Port Charles (TVPGI 87349 fl KCAL Judge Mathis (TVPG) ID KTTV Living Single IB KCOP Jenny Jones (TVPG) 94349 KWHY Quien Tiene la Razbn 24: KVCR Sewing With Nancy BD KCET Noddy (TVY) 54639 KMEX Querida (TVPGI 85691 3ft KMIR The People's Court EH KTBN James Robison 42 KESQ Leeza 71691 BO KDOC Southland Today EB KJLA Local Angle (TVG) BO KLCS Using Maps, Globes, Graphs, Tables, Charts and Diagrams 63: KADY The Newlywed Game AMC "One Minute to Zero" '52 2hr 789788 Magnum, P.I. BET Jam Zone CMAX "Gloria" '99(R1hr40 8431146 CNBC Street Signs CSPN U.S. House of Representatives 1557233 DSC Lynette Jennings Design (TVG) DISN Winnie the Pooh (TVY) ESPN2 Strongest Man Competition FAM Who's the Boss? FX Beverly Hills, 90210 (TVPG) HIST FBI: The Untold Stories (TVPGI LIFE Unsolved Mysteries (TVPGI MTV Return of the Rock (TVPGI NICK Gullah Gullah Island 583271 SCI-FI Star Trek SHOW "The Animated Adventures of Tom Sawyer" '98 1hr13 45189165 (1 1 :20) TBS "Perry Mason: The Case of the Heartbroken Bride" '92 2hr05 14565368 TCM "The Divorcee" '30 1 hr23 2843368 Please see TV LOG F12 Here are Nielsen's top 10 cable programs in prime time last week, also ranked by total viewers (in millions).

Not- Vkw Pragram Wrestling 10 p.m.) Wrestling (Mon 9 p.m.) The Sopranos Wresting 7 pm.) Wrestling 8 p.m.) Walker. Texas Ranger Ripley's Believe It or Not Rocket Power Lost and Found Rocket Power USA USA HBO USA TNT USA TBS NICK HBO NICK 765 7.45 551 3.59 336 3.26 318 314 313 310 KEN HIVELY L.A. Times Warren Beatty 62 63. Network Averages Here is the number of viewers that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Movie Ratings A CLASSIC FIRST RATE FLAWED: HAS MOMENTS DESPERATION TIME Morning 9:00 a.m.

KCBS Martha Stewart 38707 13! KEYT Regis Kathie tee KNBC 36 KMIR Later Today Net- Vtaw- Program work art 1. Academy Awards ABC 46.33 2. Count, to Oscar 2000 ABC 30.33 3. Millionaire (Tue.) ABC 29.80 4. ER NBC 27.19 5.

Millionaire (Thur.) ABC 25.67 6. Millionaire (Fri.) ABC 21.82 7. Friends NBC 21.46 8. Frasier NBC 20.00 9. Daddio NBC 19.71 10.

Law Order NBC 18.67 11. Everybody loves Raymond CBS 18 39 12. Barbara Walter Special ABC 18.16 13. ABC 17.18 14. Becker CBS 1700 15.

The West Wing NBC 15.76 16. NVPDBlue ABC 15.14 17. Battery Park NBC 14 70 18. AllyMcBeal FOX 14.41 19. The Drew Carey Show ABC 14.20 Judging Amy CBS 14 20 21.

Titus FOX 14.19 22. John Stossel Special ABC 13 45 23. 60 Minutes CBS 13.22 24. 60 Minutes II CBS 13.08 25. Sports Night ABC 12.70 26.

Family La CBS 1266 27. King ol Queens CBS 12.45 Dateline NBC (Wed.) NBC 12.45 29. Spin City ABC 12.33 30. Touched by an Angel CBS 13.32 31. Law 1 Order SVU NBC 12.11 32.

That'70sShow FOX 11.91 33. JAG CBS 11.81 34. The Simpsons FOX 11.68 35. Two Guvs and a Gin ABC 1165 36. "Making the Band" ABC 11.55 37.

NCAA Basket. Post (Sun.) CBS 11.42 38. Then Came You ABC 11.14 39. Third Watch NBC 10.83 40. 2020 (Fri.) ABC 10.70 41.

Whose Une Is If (8:30 ABC 10.67 42. NCAA Basket Post (Sal) CSS 10.40 43. America Fights Back FOX 1039 44. "FTimalFear" CBS 10.30 45. Dateline NBC (Fh.) NBC 10.22 46.

Just Shoot Me NBC 10.17 Walker, teias Ranger CBS 10.17 48. Twenty One NBC 9.96 49. Dateline NBC (Tue.) NBC 9.92 2020 (Wed.) ABC 9.92 51. Willi Glace NBC 989 52. Eaity Edition CBS 9 69 53.

Whose Line Is It Anyway? ABC 959 54. "Passenger 57" CBS 957 55. Providence NBC 9 27 56. Titus (Sun.) FOX 9.21 57. Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 9.15 58.

"A Tale of Two Bunnies" CBS 9.06 59. Grapevine CBS 899 60. The Pretender NBC 8.86 61. City of Angels CBS 8.35 3 1 KEYT Mad About You (TVPG) 24 KVCR Kaye's Quilting Friends 36 KMIR Judge Mills Lane EH KTBN Casey Treat BO KDOC Froozles (TVG) 374691 last Season weak to data ABC 17.68 million 14.29 NBC 11.12 12.59 CBS 11.01 12.75 FOX 7.95 9.24 UPN 4.04 3.94 WB 3.11 3.76 RADIO NCAA Basketball (Thur King of the HiH NCAA Basketball (Fn.) Proliler TheOthes Cops Greed "Sling Blade" That 70s Show (Tue.) 3rd Rock From the Sun Beveity Hills. 90210 WWF Smackdown! "Peter Jennings Reporting" Family Guy The X-Files "Bulletproof 7th Heaven Freaks Geeks God, the Devil and Bob Futurama Get Real World Wildest Police Videos American Comedy Awards Party of Five Bully, the Vampire Slayer Charmed The Parkers Star Trek Voyager Angel Moesha 7 Oays Grownups Malcolm Eddie Dawson's Creek "Striking Distance" The Beat Buffy.

Vampire Slayer (Mon.) Popular 7th Heaven Beginnings Roswell CBS FOX CBS NBC NBC FOX FOX ABC FOX NBC FOX UPN ABC FOX FOX NBC WB NBC NBC FOX NBC FOX FOX FOX WB WB UPN UPN WB UPN UPN UPN UPN WB UPN UPN WB WB WB WB 808 8 02 802 7.97 7.94 7 84 780 761 7.57 7.51 7.49 727 7.18 6.97 6.56 6.48 616 6.04 5.96 589 5.43 5.42 542 4.67 4.53 432 4.11 394 382 3 74 355 3.43 337 3.16 3.04 295 2.51 251 2.49 2.46 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. Classical 1 1 :20 a.m.-noon Masterpiece of the Day: Dvorak (5th Symphony, Czech Philharmonic), KKGO-FM (105.1). 7- 8 p.m. Symphony at Seven: Hanson (2nd Symphony, St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra), (105.1). 8- 1 1 p.m. Opera House: Giordano's "Andrea Chenier," with Placido Domingo, Henala Scotto, Sherrill Milnes, Jean Kraft; lames l.evine conducts National Philharmonic Orchestra and lohn Aldis Choir, KCSN-FM (B8.5). Sports i Noon-3 p.m. Baseball: exhibition, Arizona Diamondbacks vs.

Angels, KIjC(570). 3-6 p.m. Baseball: exhibition, Dodgers vs. Braves, KXTA(I150). p.m.

Pro Basketball: Lakers at Vancouver Grizzlies, KLAC (570). 7-10 p.m. Pro Hockey: San Jose Sharks at Kings, KHUdllO). Talk-Interview Noon-1 p.m. Let's Do Lunch, local culture, KCSN-FM (R8.5).

Noon-2 p.m. George Putnam's Talkback, KIF.V (870). Noon-3 p.m. Dr. Laura Schlessinger, KIT (640).

Noon-3 p.m. lonathon Brandmeier, K1.SX-FM (97.1). Noon-3 p.m. Dan Lungren, KPLS (830). Noon-3 p.m.

Dr. Toni Grant, KRU (1110). p.m. Al Rantel. KABC (790).

1- 2:30 p.m. Talk of the City, KPCC-I'M (89.3). 2- 5 p.m.-Michael Medved, KIF.V (870). 3- 4 p.m. Clark Howard, KFI (640).

3-7 p.m. Larry Elder, KABC (790). Tips for Today 11 a.m. -noon, 1-2 p.m. Performance Today: violinist Mark O'Connor 1 1 a.m., -noon); pianist Mauriio Pollini (1-2 p.m.), KCSN-FM (88.5).

8- id p.m. Evening Concert: Tchaikovsky (Violin Concerto in Itzhak Pcrlman, tiugene Ormandy conducts Philadelphia Orchestra), KKCO-FM (105.1). 9- 9:30 p.m., a.m. Gunsmoke: A soldier is killed in Dodge City and Marshal Dillon (William Conrad) has 48 hours to solve the case before the Army takes over, KN(1070). p.m.

Live From Rocco: live broadcast featuring the Chuck Manning Trio, KDIS(710). Drama-Comedy-Family p.m., a.m.-The Whistler: A rags-to-riches story results after a killing, KNX( 1070). Pmgiia Academy Awards Baroara Walters Special Friends Millionaire (Fri.) Millionaire (Tue.) Frasier Millionaire (Thur.) ER "Making the Band" "Evening Academy Awards" Daddio KABC KABC KNBC KABC KABC KNBC KABC KNBC KABC KABC KNBC 2.256,156 1.240.624 999.828 994,593 952,715 931,777 884,664 842,787 842,787 827,083 827.083 100. 101. -'k'; Klf 1 hi.lS '511 Vi15f" 'J1'f i ova aa A.axavA mrtk.m ptm.

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