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2002:10:08:14:59:10 TODAY ON TV F10 he second week of the fall television season saw a pattern begin to take hold: CBS was first in overall viewing behind its Monday and Thursday lineups and NBC enjoyed a clear advantage among young adults sought by advertisers, based on viewing estimates issued Tuesdayby Nielsen Media Research. Several new programs have cooled a bit after initial sampling, with some of the better performances based on time periods and competition delivered by nostalgic on Sunday and crime-fighting which has won its time slot on successive Fridays. weekly victory came despite exceedingly plain results for the movie on Heels: The Battle for Mary starring Shirley Mac- Laine. in its move to Sunday, also underscored how some shows skew to an older audience, as the Ted Danson comedy ranked No. 32 in overall largely to adults over 55 who tuned finished No.

69 among adults age 18 to 49, the demographic most closely tracked by media buyers. Also under the microscope is second-year comedy which gave up of the audience that watched in the preceding half-hour, comparable with other shows that occupied that precious patch of Thursday real estate last season. West appears to have lost some of its constituency, attracting its smallest audience for a new episode since the first year. Brian Lowry CBS, NBC Take Early Control National Nielsen Viewership Here are the rankings for national prime- time network television last week (Sept. 30- Oct.

6) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average num- ber of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 272.04 million potential viewers in the U.S. age 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 FriendsNBC28.93 2 CSICBS28.47 3 ERNBC25.13 4 Everybody Loves RaymondCBS21.96 5 Survivor: ThailandCBS21.46 6 Will GraceNBC20.64 7 CSI: MiamiCBS19.80 8 Law OrderNBC19.12 9 ScrubsNBC18.94 10 Still StandingCBS18.06 11 Monday Night FootballABC17.04 12 The West WingNBC16.70 13 Good Morning MiamiNBC16.04 14 Judging AmyCBS15.74 15 Law Order: SVUNBC15.21 16 JAGCBS14.81 17 Law Order: Criminal IntentNBC14.78 18 Without a TraceCBS14.53 19 FrasierNBC14.50 20 Yes, DearCBS14.43 21 60 MinutesCBS14.14 22 King of QueensCBS13.74 23 My Wife and KidsABC13.72 24 The PracticeABC13.55 25 The GuardianCBS13.48 26 8Simple RulesABC13.40 27 American DreamsNBC13.24 28 NFL Monday ShowcaseABC12.94 29 NYPD BlueABC12.69 30 HackCBS12.46 31 According to JimABC12.21 32 Third WatchNBC11.92 33 BeckerCBS11.75 34 George LopezABC11.44 35 The DistrictCBS11.12 36 Life With BonnieABC11.08 37 Hidden HillsNBC11.06 38 Dateline NBC 39 BoomtownNBC11.03 40 The Bachelor ABC10.98 41 Bram and AliceCBS10.91 42 Fear FactorNBC10.60 43 Less Than PerfectABC10.37 44 48 Hours InvestigatesCBS10.32 45 The AgencyCBS10.21 46 60 Minutes IICBS10.17 47 EdNBC10.12 48 Fox NFL Sunday PostgameFOX9.99 49 ProvidenceNBC9.95 50 Dateline NBC 51 Crossing JordanNBC9.79 52 AliasABC9.73 53 Baseball AL Playoffs (Wed.) FOX9.65 54 In-Laws (8:30 p.m.)NBC9.51 55 Baseball, AL Playoffs 56 Amazing Race: 3CBS9.49 57 Baseball, NL Playoffs 58 59 on Heels: Mary 60 7th HeavenWB8.47 61 In-Laws (8 p.m.)NBC8.42 62 63 Funniest VideosABC8.15 64 SmallvilleWB8.07 65 Robbery Homicide DivisionCBS8.06 66 Presidio MedCBS7.90 67 MonkABC7.54 68 Touched by an AngelCBS7.47 69 Primetime ThursdayABC7.31 70 in 71 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX6.93 72 MDsABC6.88 73 Cops (9:30 p.m.)FOX6.87 74 Gilmore GirlsWB6.75 75 Cops (9 p.m.)FOX6.74 76 Baseball, NL Playoffs 77 John DoeFOX6.62 78 Cops (8 p.m.)FOX6.56 79 American Dreams 80 Force 81 WWE 82 EverwoodWB6.11 83 The Drew Carey ShowABC5.87 84 Boot 85 CreekWB5.33 86 CharmedWB5.27 87 EnterpriseUPN5.25 88 RebaWB5.20 89 One On OneUPN5.02 90 Buffy the Vampire SlayerUPN4.97 91 Whose Line Is It 92 FireflyFOX4.87 93 GirlfriendsUPN4.59 94 AngelWB4.57 95 NBC4.50 96 Push, NevadaABC4.35 97 The ParkersUPN4.34 98 That Was ThenABC4.24 99 Half and HalfUPN3.96 100 The Twilight ZoneUPN3.89 101 Greetings From TucsonWB3.87 102 I Like About Network Averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season. Network Last week Season To date CBS13.3013.62 NBC12.6413.03 ABC9.479.66 FOX8.057.62 WB5.044.79 UPN4.144.17 Southland Top 10 Here are the 10 most-watched prime-time programs in Los Angeles last week, based on the average number of viewing households (in the thousands). No. ProgramStationRanking 1 2 3 Baseball, AL Playoffs (Tue.) 4 Will 5 Baseball, AL Playoffs (Wed.) 6 Law 7 Monday Night Football 8 9 10 Baseball, AL Playoffs (Fri.) partment budget. The play can be performed with 11 actors, almost no costumes and few props.

He was planning to mail it to the drama teachers at his school and the one at Thurston High in Oregon, but his assistant, who was Internet savvy, persuaded Mastro- simone to post it on the Internet, where it immediately got thousands of hits. is a mission I did as a parent, not as a says Mastrosimone, who was nominated for an Emmy for Burning really feel that these are not psychotics. I feel the media has been hasty in branding Mastrosimone says. normal kids who have been pushed to their limits, pushed to fantasize about trying to get Like play, for was informed by a school shooting. It was April 1999, and Moore walked into his office to see his employees gathered around a TV watching coverage of the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.

Two student gunmen killed 12 students and a teacher and then turned the guns on themselves. first thought was not to make a movie but to run against Charlton Heston as head of the Moore to the National Rifle which Heston has headed since 1998, that sounded like too much Moore is a lifelong gun user and amember of the NRA, but he is at odds with the culture of fear he says both the government and the NRA have cultivated. The film climaxes when Moore accompanies two students who were disabled by gunshot wounds at Columbine to the corporate headquarters of K- Mart; the shooters had purchases their bullets at their local K-Mart. The encounter yields surprising results. for (named because the two student gunmen went to the local bowling lanes before heading to school) was made with $2.2 million from a Canadian film company, and Moore insists that despite its heavy message, his goal was to make it entertaining.

I just wanted to make a political statement, run for political office. a he says. But then, as befits his reputation as aprovocateur, he notes, I only reach the people who believe in what saying, then OK, because the majority. Every poll shows that. Every poll shows that people believe in gun Mastrosimone says his goal in penning Bang was to get a message to the most troubled students in the audience and possibly prevent future violence.

aimed it at a person contemplating Mastrosi- mone says. did that by having a person in the first scene bragging about the people he killed, so anyone in the audience was thinking the same would immediately identify with His film comes with loads of parental advisories, but the network also put together a study guidefor schools, which was endorsed by the Assn. of School Psychologists. On Thursday, Showtime and the National Education Assn. are screening the film in Washington, D.C., for educators and high school students.

have a problem, whether or not there are guns accessible to those terribly damaged kids who feel that they have no recourse but to lash out against their cohorts in that Offsay says. am anti-gun. But to say this is a movie about anti-gun-violence simplifies it far too Immediately following television premiere of Bang Showtime will broadcast a panel discussion on preventing school violence hosted by journalist Linda Ellerbee. Also in attendance will be Mastrosi- mone and William S. Pollock, as- sistant professor of clinical psy- chologyat Harvard Medical School.

While project is based on real events, for is a mosaic of facts coupled with highly subjective explanations of the causes for epidemic gun violence. Canadians have this ethic to help Moore says. ethic is every man for himself. If poor, going to punish you for being poor. This creates a lot of But the NRA see it that way.

Organization spokesman Andrew Arulanandam accuses Moore of to inject himself into the political that I would say that Michael Moore is politically Arulanandam says. Regardless of impact on politics, it has already had one on the film community. The organizers of this Cannes Film Festival made it the first documentary to be accepted into the main competition in 46 years. It eventually won a special honor. not just entertainment; a news says Bingham Ray, president of United Artists, who attended a morning press screening at Cannes and negotiated a deal by nightfall.

take on things, which began just as a film about the shootings at Columbine, but it was broadened as he gave it more From a commercial standpoint, Ray is betting that Moore carries appeal to audiences who would not normally be drawn to a documentary. for his popular 1989 movie and which won the National Society of Film Critics his nonfiction book published this year, White Men Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the that remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for 30 weeks. has become, I believe, through his own dint of intensity, a brand name. become a force of Ray said. advocate getting this film to change the world, but it can open some eyes, ask some questions and perhaps do some good and entertain them, promote them and challenge Bang will be shown at 8 p.m.

Sunday on Show- time. The network has rated it TV- PGVL (may be unsuitable for young children, with advisories for violence, language and adult themes). for opens Friday in L.A. and New York and will premiere in other cities over the next few weeks. Violence: 2Films Examine What Happens When Kids Carry Guns KEVIN Continued from F1 really feel that these are not normal kids who have been pushed to their limits, pushed to fantasize about trying to get WILLIAM MASTROSIMONE Author of Bang Morning 8:00 a.m.

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