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Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Sept. 26-Oct. 2) 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 there are 280.50 million potential viewers in the U.S.

ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 CSICBS27.99 2 Desperate HousewivesABC27.11 3 LostABC23.16 4 Without a TraceCBS20.97 5 AnatomyABC17.57 --------------------------------------------6 CSI: MiamiCBS17.37 7 Survivor: GuatemalaCBS17.29 8 Cold CaseCBS16.67 9 Commander in ChiefABC16.36 10 Law Order: SVUNBC15.32 --------------------------------------------11 NCISCBS15.10 12 Law OrderNBC15.05 13 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC14.80 14 ERNBC14.41 15 Two and a Half MenCBS14.37 --------------------------------------------16 Monday Night FootballABC13.60 17 HouseFOX13.36 18 CSI: NYCBS13.30 19 MediumNBC 13.23 20 Crossing JordanNBC12.40 --------------------------------------------21 Boston LegalABC12.37 22 Law Order: Criminal Intent NBC12.35 23 InvasionABC12.30 24 Las VegasNBC12.13 25 Lost (9:30 p.m.)ABC11.98 --------------------------------------------26 Numb3rsCBS11.83 NFL Monday ShowcaseABC11.83 28 Out of PracticeCBS11.51 29 My Name Is EarlNBC11.40 30 Ghost WhispererCBS10.87 --------------------------------------------31 King of QueensCBS10.65 32 Amazing Grace CBS10.64 33 Criminal MindsCBS10.60 34 60 MinutesCBS10.45 35 The Apprentice 4NBC10.43 --------------------------------------------36 The SimpsonsFOX10.41 37 How I Met Your MotherCBS10.40 38 The OTFOX10.22 39 40 Will GraceNBC9.80 --------------------------------------------41 SurfaceNBC9.41 42 Yes, DearCBS8.74 43 Still StandingCBS8.60 44 Family GuyFOX8.56 45 Prison BreakFOX8.55 --------------------------------------------46 War at HomeFOX8.54 47 Crimetime SaturdayCBS8.48 48 Funniest Home Videos ABC8.37 49 ThresholdCBS8.34 50 AliasABC8.21 --------------------------------------------51 Crimetime Saturday (8 p.m.) CBS8.20 52 53 According to JimABC8.10 54 BonesFOX7.87 55 --------------------------------------------56 The West WingNBC7.65 57 Hope FaithABC7.53 58 JoeyNBC7.45 59 Biggest Loser 2NBC7.44 60 American DadFOX7.43 --------------------------------------------61 So You Think You Can Dance FOX7.35 62 Law Order: SVU (Sat.) NBC7.27 63 The OfficeNBC7.13 64 Night StalkerABC7.11 65 Wife SwapABC6.96 66 Dateline NBC 67 48 Hours MysteryCBS6.61 68 The O.C.FOX6.56 69 Nanny 911 (9 p.m.)FOX6.51 70 Three WishesNBC6.38 --------------------------------------------71 72 SupernannyABC6.10 73 Dateline NBC 74 Everybody Hates ChrisUPN6.01 75 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX5.98 --------------------------------------------76 Most WantedFOX5.90 SmallvilleWB5.90 78 Commander in Chief (Sat.) ABC5.73 PrimetimeABC5.73 80 Gilmore Girls WB5.44 --------------------------------------------81 CopsFOX5.15 82 7th HeavenWB5.04 83 SupernaturalWB5.01 84 ReunionFOX4.55 InconceivableNBC4.55 --------------------------------------------86 Next Top Model 5 UPN4.52 87 Killer InstinctFOX4.47 88 Surface 89 Invasion 90 Arrested DevelopmentFOX4.02 --------------------------------------------91 Love, Inc.UPN3.85 92 CharmedWB3.83 93 Surface 8 p.m.)NBC3.81 94 Bernie Mac ShowFOX3.80 95 WWE --------------------------------------------96 GirlfriendsUPN3.73 97 Kitchen ConfidentialFOX 3.69 98 All of UsUPN3.58 99 EverwoodWB3.51 100 Malcolm in the MiddleFOX3.50 --------------------------------------------One on OneUPN3.50 102 Veronica MarsUPN3.29 103 Half and HalfUPN3.24 104 EveUPN3.21 105 RebaWB3.10 --------------------------------------------106 Next Top Model (Tue.) UPN3.01 107 Just LegalWB2.96 108 CutsUPN2.75 109 Reba The Beginning (Sun.) WB2.72 110 Living With FranWB2.44 --------------------------------------------111 Blue Collar TVWB2.34 112 TwinsWB2.24 113 What I Like About YouWB2.12 114 Reba The BeginningWB2.10 115 One Tree HillWB2.00 --------------------------------------------116 Blue Collar TV 117 Sex, Love SecretsUPN1.41 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 CBS12.6312.74 ABC11.1411.70 NBC9.119.50 FOX7.496.69 WB3.473.38 UPN3.473.81 Prime-Time TV Rankings From City News Service For the second consecutive week of the new television season, CBS was the most-watched network and ABC remained the leader among the coveted young adult audience, according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. CBS averaged 12.6 million viewers for its prime-time programming last week, with four of the eight most-watched programs.

ABC was second overall with 11.1 million but registered five of the top 10 among viewers ages 18 to 49, the demographic most sought by advertisers. Each of the four most-watched new series recorded double-digit percentage declines from their premieres a week earlier. was seen by 10.6 million viewers in its first broadcast in its regular Wednesday 9-to-10 p.m. time slot opposite That was a decline from its premiere, when it followed Crime Scene fell from 16.4 million to 12.3 million; Name Is dropped from 15.2 million to 11.4 million; and of was down from 13.2 million to 11.5 million. NBC, CBS and the WB all have recorded viewership declines over the first two weeks of the season when compared with asimilar period during the 20042005 season, while ABC, Fox and UPN have recorded increases.

CBS is down NBC and the WB Fox is up UPN and ABC CBS leads in overall viewership By Robert Lloyd Times Staff Writer Shtetl to which airs tonight as part of the PBS series is a short film about the Jewish influence on American popular music and especially its early and continuing conversation with jazz and African American culture. It is a modest work but quite moving in its portrayal of a lost time, world and culture. By 1924, there were 2.5 million Jews in New York City this is as much a film about New York as about its stated subject where a younger, secularized generation looked to popular culture for inspiration and to show business as an escape from the (a word the Jews brought with them from Europe). songs of a ghettoin- spire my wrote Irving Berlin. find them in my tenement This is not anew subject, but it is an easily forgotten one.

The piece is not, nor does it try to be, definitive; directed and written by French filmmaker Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir, it consists only of a succession of often impressionistically edited black- and-white clips loosely linked by narrator Harvey Fierstein. (Fierstein is seen at the beginning, wearing his Tevya beard, in a historic Lower East Side synagogue, and then is seen more.) There are no talking heads to respectfully differ with one another or lend the film scholarly weight. In the absence of other commentators, Rousso-Lenoir has written narration that itself changes voice, ranging from the romantic to the intellectual. (One might even say, specifically, to the French intellectual.) She imagines freshly arrived immigrants imagining their effect on the natives, bunch of greenhorns with yarmulkes to cover our heads before God, with side- curls and names that sound like one long Of 5-year-old Israel Baline, later Berlin, sailing to America, she wonders, to sleep by the waves, had he already started to dream of Fred and (No, would be the answer to that.) Many of her assertions are at least arguable: By what musicological or historical reckoning is Duke Ellington black And did Al Jolson really regard blackface as ritual mask, freeing himself from his own cultural restraint and embracing the great taboo, And is it true that for Artie Shaw vibrant notes of swing represented the furious desire to move from both his own ethnicity and embedded racist They do not say. Such uncorroborated overreach matter all that much here because of the formal effect.

Its rhythms are different from those of a traditional documentary: It feels a kind of 1930s way (owing in part to the age of the footage), a sort of audio-visual tone poem whose primary points are made by the cutting of image against sound and the precise way one clip follows another. low rasp how do they hear him at the back of those Broadway theaters, I wonder has an almost transparent quality and recedes into the mix, so that being said is less resonant than being shown. There are snips of Yiddish films; a spectacular, long tracking shot of the crowd on a busy Lower East Side sidewalk, in what looks to be the 1920s, that is so good it shows up twice; and Hollywood re-creations of the vaudeville history. We see the usual Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor and the Marx Brothers, but also the less- often-seen Molly Picon and Sophie Tucker. Betty Boop, whose Jewishness is clear upon a reflection, is heretoo.

So are Cab Calloway and Louis Armstrong representing the black side of central equation and the Benny Goodman Quartet, which has first integrated musical group stand for its solution. Joe Sinnott PBS IN HIS VOICE: Harvey Fierstein narrates the short documentary. TELEVISION REVIEW Cultures collaborate in to The PBS film traces the weavings of Jewish life into the tapestry of American music. Where: KCET When: 8 to 9 tonight Ratings: TV-G (suitable for all ages) Harvey Fierstein Executive producer Barry Schulman. Writer and director Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir.

Performances: From Shtetl to.