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of Waverly Place: The a two-hour version of the series about three siblings with magical abilities, drew 11.43 million viewers, just 30,000 behind the Tuesday version of Got according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. of Waverly Place: The was the second- most-watched scripted program on cable television since 2007, trailing only the Aug. 17, 2007, premiere of School Musical which had 17.24 million viewers. Disney Channel was the most-watched cable network in prime time, averaging 3.92 million viewers, topping Walt Disney Co. corporate sibling ABC, which averaged 3.84 million viewers.

NBC had the three most-watched prime-time programs on broadcast television, butCBS had each of the next seven to be the most-watched network for the 10th time in 11 weeks and 12th time in the 14 weeks of summer season, averaging 6.6 million viewers. CBS had each of the eight most-watched scripted programs, topped by which finished fourth overall. cable movie conjures strong ratings city news service ProgramNet- work Viewers ProgramNet- work Viewers 1 Got Talent (Tue.) NBC11.46 2 Got Talent (Wed.) NBC11.19 3 Preseason football: Chicago at Denver NBC10.38 4 NCISCBS10.06 5 60 MinutesCBS9.71 ------------------------------------------6 Two and a Half MenCBS9.55 7 The Big Bang TheoryCBS8.56 8 CSICBS8.40 9 The MentalistCBS8.07 10 Big Brother ------------------------------------------11 KitchenFOX7.77 12 WipeoutABC7.63 13 The Mentalist (10 p.m.)CBS7.59 14 Big Brother 15 Big Brother ------------------------------------------16 CSI: MiamiCBS7.22 17 Talent: Recap NBC6.57 18 Dateline 19 CSI: NYCBS6.43 20 Funniest Home Videos ABC6.37 ------------------------------------------21 Preseason football: New England at Washington CBS6.28 22 Law Order: SVU (Wed.) NBC6.04 23 Dateline 24 Talent (Tue.) (8 p.m.) NBC5.89 25 Preseason football: Miami at Tampa Bay FOX5.80 ------------------------------------------26 Cold CaseCBS5.72 27 Criminal MindsCBS5.71 28 How I Met Your Mother (8:30 p.m.) CBS5.65 29 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC5.60 30 How I Met Your MotherCBS5.36 ------------------------------------------31 The Simpsons (8:30 p.m.) FOX5.22 32 Family GuyFOX5.04 33 Es Para Siempre (Wed.) UNI4.98 34 Es Para Siempre (Tue.) UNI4.95 35 Shark TankABC4.89 ------------------------------------------36 Crash CourseABC4.81 37 Es Para Siempre (Mon.) UNI4.77 38 Es Para Siempre (Thu.) UNI4.71 39 Most Wanted: America Fights Back FOX4.69 40 HouseFOX4.65 ------------------------------------------41 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX4.52 42 Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (9 p.m.) FOX4.51 43 Dateline (Sun.) NBC4.49 44 The SimpsonsFOX4.48 45 The Great American Road Trip NBC4.46 ------------------------------------------46 Special: Kennedy: The Last CBS4.44 47 Bones 48 Law Order: SVU 49 American DadFOX4.34 50 Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? FOX4.31 ------------------------------------------51 Dating in the Dark ABC4.27 Bones (Wed.) (9 p.m.) FOX4.27 53 Es Para Siempre (Fri.) UNI4.25 54 Law OrderNBC4.18 55 Law Order: Criminal Intent NBC4.16 ------------------------------------------56 Lie to Me (Mon.) FOX4.15 Preseason football: San Diego at Atlanta CBS4.15 58 Shaq Vs.ABC4.14 59 60 The OfficeNBC3.97 ------------------------------------------61 More to LoveFOX3.95 62 Special: Ted ABC3.92 63 En Nombre del Amor (Tue.) UNI3.80 64 En Nombre del Amor (Wed.) UNI3.80 65 SouthlandNBC3.69 ------------------------------------------66 There Goes Neighborhood CBS3.68 67 CastleABC3.53 68 Aqui Ahora UNI3.50 69 30 Rock (8 p.m.) NBC3.49 CopsFOX3.49 ------------------------------------------71 En Nombre del Amor (Thu.) UNI3.48 72 En Nombre del Amor (Mon.) UNI3.47 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 CBS6.609.78 NBC6.376.74 FOX4.787.95 ABC3.847.28 UNI3.183.70 Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Aug. 24-30) 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 286 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. PRIME-TIME TV RANKINGS James Gray Own the For a while, I was going to the Bing three or four times a month, maybe more.

I think I saw every kind of movie there And the place was always packed whenever I went. I remember Walter Murch came once to explain the sound work for about 10 years ago. It was a magical evening a whole new world of navigating the sound of a picture came into focus. Discourse is what maintains interest in the art form. I know that it informed my own work.

really sad. I think unexpected but the exact opposite of what needs to happen. John Landis Blues Igrew up in L.A. so I used to go there all the time. I remember seeing a George Cukor retrospective there and I saw a David O.

Selznick retro where they showed original nitrate prints. Seeing at LACMA was a life-changing experience for me. The truth is a film needs to be seen on the big screen with an audience. I find it depressing and shocking what the museum is doing and think the current director gives a about film. militant about this.

This is L.A. for chrissakes. Roger Corman Little Shop of and the LACMA is dedicated to showing art to the people. The only true art form of modern times is motion pictures. If they do not show the only modern art form, they are not showing art.

Allison Anders Food, Vida One of the movies I saw there was a date I went on about 10 years ago. Someone knew that one of my favorite movies was Stolen with Bette Davis.It was a movie that informed my ideas of romantic love and of being an artist and how you are sometimes alone as an artist. I had never seen it on screen but it had stayed with me all that time. It was an intoxicating experience and the theater was absolutely packed with people coming to see this little-known movie. It was one ofthe most special events of my life the relationship last but at least I have the movie.

Joe Dante When I came to L.A. in 1974 there were still a lot of repertory theaters, but the programming at LACMA was special and unique due to the industry access. I practically lived at the Bing auditorium every weekend for years. Studio prints of all the classics were often accompanied by memorable appearances by still-extant actors, directors, producers and other personnel. Ron Haver provided thorough notes and thematic programs, and many a budding filmmaker got a star-studded course in film history at the often overflowing venue.

Projection and sound were and remain top-notch and LACMA has long been one of the premiere spots to view classic films. John Singleton in the a travesty that with all of the budget cuts going on that they find a little bit of money to keep the screenings going. Without programs like LACMA, cinema as an art form will become something much more insular. Growing up in L.A. I saw so many movies on Channel 9 and Channel 5.

But seeing a film like Green Was My and in the on the wide screen is a whole other thing. If TV babies understand what cinema is then cinema will become TV. the travesty. Bertrand Tavernier Sunday in the The programs at LACMA have inspired me by their openness, their diversity and their interest in cinema from all over the world. There have recently been magnificent retrospectives on film noir, pre-code films and the cinema of William Wellman.

Instead of conceding defeat, we have to mobilize ourselves. bring in students and alert teachers. Culture has aprice, true. Has someone already calculated how much the absence of culture will cost acountry? How much does the death of curiosity cost? Thom Andersen Angeles Plays Where program really excelled was in offering films that available on DVD or VHS. Films that you see anywhere else.

I remember going to see a retrospective of Fritz Lang a lot of his movies out on home video. one of the best places to see movies in the city and it will be a great loss. Rian Johnson Brothers lived right up the street from LACMA for 10 years, so got plenty of memories. One that pokes out: Years ago I walked down alone on a whim without checking the calendar, and the film turned out to be the Ship Sails I can vividly remember walking out onto Wilshire after that screening, feeling like prematurely fallen out of a dream. the sort of trans- formative experience that a real screening gives you.

I think for many people difficult to wrap their heads around why this is a big deal. just a screening series, and after all, these movies available on DVD? Ironically, this sums up the reason that the program is more vital now than ever. Paul Schrader Iarrived in L.A. in 1968 eager to see movies, movies, mov- ies.I devoured the circulars, haunted the theater, met my fellow cinemaphiles and argued, argued, argued. It was a great time to be in L.A Los Angeles is the lesser for the loss of film program.

david.ng@latimes.com Staff writer Susan King contributed to this report. They cling to the Bing As LACMA ponders the fate of its film program, The Times asked directors about the pending decision. Their responses ranged from stunned disbelief to passionate indignation. Many shared their memories of the Bing Theater, one of the most venerated screening rooms in the city. Ng Brian Vander Brug Los Angeles Times Mel Melcon Los Angeles Times Frederick M.

Brown Getty Images Jim Cooper Associated Press focus for us. going to cautiously predict Govan met Tuesday morning with members of Save Film at LACMA, an informal coalition of movie buffs that has organized an online campaign and petition to rescue the film program. During the meeting, dubbed the that was described by participants as cordial but somewhat tense, Govan broadly spelled out the goal of endowing the screening series in the same manner as other curatorial departments. Among long-term plans for the re-envisioned program are the creation of curatorial positions for different genres of film and the strengthening of ties with the other departments. LastWednesday, LACMA received a donation of $150,000 from the Hollywood Foreign Press Time Warner Cable and Ovation TV in support of the film program.

The money has allowed the museum to continue the series past its scheduled closing date in October. With the donation, the program has enough money to operate through the end of the fiscal year in June 2010. a great start but it solve the problem. not long Govan said. it does point in the right direction.

And you want to lose the So far, most of that momentum has come from Save Film at LACMA, whose online petition protesting the July announcement that it was shutting down the film program so far has collected more than 2,700 signatures. Members of the group said they were impressed with enthusiasm and openness but they also expressed concern that his big-budget vision for the film department might be counterproductive since it rules out the possibility of running the program on a break-even basis. seems like Govan is dreaming very big and setting up the program to succeed or fail only in terms of fundraising said Doug Cummings, a member of Save Film at LACMA. track record is that of a fundraiser and for him a program succeeds wildly or succeed at all. They just reinstate the program with modifications, they had to re-envision it on a large The museum also announced Tuesday that it is creating CineClub, a $50 add-on to existing memberships that will help raise money for the re-envisioned department.

Members of the CineClub receive priority ticketing and admissions to film events. Programming for the film series will continue to emphasize classic Hollywood movies, foreign cinema and retrospec- tives, according to the museum. With a previously announced Alain Resnaisretro- spective through Oct. 17, the museum now saysit has filled out its schedule through the end of November with retrospectives dedicated to Andrei Tarkovskyand Alfred British films. Save Film at LACMA said Ian film former coordinator, is still working on a part-time consulting basis for the museum and that his fate is still being decided by museum leaders.

know how possible plan will said Shannon Kelley, the head of programming for the UCLA Film Television Archive. Kelley added that Govan was emphasizing patrons and donors above loyal ticket buyers. presented a premise that the program must never die on the basis of its donor involvement, which has always been very small. The support of patrons may never be david.ng@latimes CineClub to give museum members priority LACMA, from.