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CBS had six of the 11 most- watched programs from March 16 through Sunday, averaging 11.49 million viewers for its prime-time programming, according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.

was most-watched program, finishing fourth overall with 17.04 million viewers. The episode of Amazing that followed was 15th for the week. Fox Broadcasting was second, averaging 10.28 million viewers, thanks in large meas- ure to the usual 1-2 finish by Its next most- watched programs were 12th with 13.13 million viewers, and 19th with 11.36 million viewers. ABC was the most-watched network on Thursday, averaging 10.64 million viewers, topping coverage of the opening night of the NCAA basketball tournament. CBS averaged 8.98 million viewers for the first segment of its prime-time coverage, up 9.8% over last year, and 7.78 million for the second, up 1.9%.

The tournament made CBS the most-watched network on both Friday and Saturday nights. The first segment Friday averaged 7.05 million viewers, 8.2% less than the 7.67 million last year, but the second segment averaged 8.9 million viewers, an 8.4% increase over last year. coverage averaged 10.78 million viewers, a7.6% increase over last year. The most-watched cable program was the final 67-minute segment of the Night professional wrestling program on USA with 5.34 million viewers, which would have put it 64th among the programs shown on the five major broadcast networks. Obama, NCAA lift CBS to its 20th win and make the network No.

1. Fox places second. city news service ProgramNet- work Viewers ProgramNet- work Viewers 1 American Idol 2 American Idol 3 Dancing With the StarsABC21.22 4 60 MinutesCBS17.04 5 NCISCBS15.83 ------------------------------------------6 The Mentalist CBS15.49 7 Desperate HousewivesABC14.75 8 Anatomy 9 p.m.) ABC14.61 9 Two and a Half MenCBS14.12 10 Criminal MindsCBS13.74 ------------------------------------------11 CSI: MiamiCBS13.61 12 HouseFOX13.13 13 CSI: NYCBS12.79 14 Dancing With the Stars Results ABC12.74 15 The Amazing RaceCBS12.42 ------------------------------------------16 Without a TraceCBS11.87 17 Rules of EngagementCBS11.42 18 Cold CaseCBS11.41 19 24FOX11.36 20 CastleABC10.96 ------------------------------------------21 NCAA Basketball 8 p.m.) CBS10.78 22 Law Order: SVUNBC10.74 23 BonesFOX10.52 24 Lie to MeFOX10.26 25 Brothers SistersABC10.15 ------------------------------------------26 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8 p.m.) ABC9.91 27 Private PracticeABC9.74 28 The Big Bang TheoryCBS9.69 29 ERNBC9.47 30 LostABC9.40 ------------------------------------------31 How I Met Your MotherCBS9.29 32 NCAA Basketball (Thu. 7 p.m.) CBS8.97 33 NCAA Basketball 9:30 p.m.) CBS8.90 34 NCAA Basketball Postgame 10:30 p.m.) CBS8.37 35 The Unit CBS8.14 ------------------------------------------36 The OfficeNBC8.07 37 The Biggest Loser NBC7.99 Dancing With the Stars (Recap) ABC7.99 39 NCAA Basketball 10 p.m.) CBS7.77 40 KitchenFOX7.54 ------------------------------------------41 Ugly BettyABC7.42 42 The ApprenticeNBC7.39 43 Gary UnmarriedCBS7.37 44 Family GuyFOX7.33 45 Primetime: What Would You Do? ABC7.26 ------------------------------------------46 The New Adventures of Old Christine CBS7.21 47 Law OrderNBC7.14 48 30 RockNBC7.13 49 Funniest Home Videos ABC7.12 50 NCAA Basketball ------------------------------------------51 Dateline 7 p.m.) NBC6.65 52 53 My Name Is EarlNBC6.43 54 48 Hours MysteryCBS6.25 55 The SimpsonsFOX6.19 ------------------------------------------56 Dateline 57 Manana Para Siempre (Wed.) UNI5.90 58 American DadFOX5.83 59 Manana Para Siempre (Thu.) UNI5.77 Cops 2FOX5.77 ------------------------------------------61 Scrubs 8 p.m.) ABC5.62 62 Most WantedFOX5.58 63 Better Off TedABC5.50 King of the HillFOX5.50 65 Manana Para Siempre (Tue.) UNI5.41 ------------------------------------------Law Order 67 Manana Para Siempre (Fri.) UNI5.28 68 SupernannyABC5.25 69 Manana Para Siempre (Mon.) UNI5.18 70 Life on MarsABC4.97 ------------------------------------------71 CopsFOX4.95 72 Cuidado con el Angel (Wed.) UNI4.91 73 Cuidado con el Angel (Tue.) UNI4.84 74 Cuidado con el Angel (Thu.) UNI4.75 75 Wife SwapABC4.73 ------------------------------------------76 KingsNBC4.60 77 The Office 78 Cuidado con el Angel (Mon.) UNI4.46 79 MediumNBC4.38 80 Cuidado con el Angel (Fri.) UNI4.37 ------------------------------------------81 LifeNBC4.31 82 DollhouseFOX4.14 83 Rosa de Guadalupe (Thu.) UNI4.08 84 Howie Do It (8 p.m.) NBC3.97 85 ChuckNBC3.94 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 CBS11.4911.19 FOX10.289.1 ABC9.178.49 NBC5.747.71 UNI3.973.92 Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (March 16-22) 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 these days and you find that even with smaller venues closing, the last clubs standing still fillwith audiences in search of a laugh.

To many, helping America find the funny in the meltdown is no joke. Take Jamie Masada, owner of the Laugh Factory offering free admission to his 8 p.m. show on Thursdays to those who show proof of unemployment as well as petitioning Congress for a $700,000 fund, la Works Progress Administration, to send struggling comics out to perform for the economically depressed. Jay also on the case, having announced giving free shows in Detroit as part of his Comedy Stimulus In fact, rather than shrinking from the hardship afflicting their audiences, many comedians are tackling a pervasive sense of angst, schaden- freude and disgust head on and hitting a vein. time I start writing my it turns into a suicide quips young comic Duncan Trussell during Is Dead gothic night of stand-up that packed a crowd of hipsters and Silver Lakecre- ative-types into the arch-vaulted, stained-glass-windowed Masonic lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

a younger, more audience than those at the tourist-stocked Sunset Boulevard clubs, but jokes strike a chord even with the ever-hopeful generation Oba- ma crowd. He continues: ma has this look in his eyes, like aflight attendant who just found out the landing gear fell off but still has to try to keep everybody That hits home with a group feeling the hurt of hard times just as it struggles with the responsibilities of adulthood. After the show, Jordan Kramer, 22, of Diamond Bar says business is so bad at discount mega-warehouse Costco that he had to take a demotion to janitor just to keep his job there. To him, post- apocalyptic humor is a sorely needed tonic: can relate. all in the Titanic, the only thing you can do is Still, Trussell admits, certainly want to go to ashow that was only filled with people talking as though they were pushing a shopping cart down La Cienega.

But I think as things progress, more and more comedians are going to have to start talking about it because all there is going to be to talk just fine with Sheldon Anderson, a former UBS stockbroker turned stand-up comic (he left UBS in 2004, well before totalmarket implosion). amusingly informative humor comes from a place of deep frustration, one particularly relevant considering his former colleagues have taken a penthouse suite atop the high-rise of evil previously occupied by terrorists and drug lords. would do really well for clients and then they would turn around and totally everything I say because some snake-oil salesmen would say, need an insurance I realized the only thing that was of any value to me was making people laugh and where I could be of Anderson explains. As to how an audience can laugh at labor stats that might in other circumstances fill them with fear, Anderson says, think comedy is tension and release. I think people financially are living under constant tension right now, so why not give them Sharing the pain no secret to professional comedians, this release, the pithy vocalization of common anxiety, can actually make the recession a comedic gold mine.

According to Bill Burr, a comic admired by his peers for an uncompromising approach, probably one of the easiest subjects ever because all in the same sinking Even invoking an own shortcomings in the erstwhile Age of Excess can pay off. Amuch-forwarded interview with Conan from October has earned comedian Louis C.K. voice-of-a-generation status on the Internet for calling out Crappiest and its discontent with the marvels of modern life: on every plane should just constantly be going, my God! Wow! sitting on a chair in the As he preps for his Friday night show in Los Angeles at the Wiltern, C.K. says he feels no qualms about mining the pain for more emotional and more negative a thing is in a life, the more reason to travel to that place and find something To him, brutally honest soul-searching goes arm in arm with self-deprecating laughter: including myself in the Crappiest Generation.I think what trying to say is something positive. Life is about surviving failure, having a tough knock, and coming back In a year, maybe not going to be the fattest people in the world anymore.Is that so Burr agrees that you can make the dreariest, most self- damning material funny, if you tell the truth from an authentic do it from my point of view, from the boat sitting in.

I like to be lectured to if I was going to make fun of what a scam mortgages are I make fun of the ignorance I had going into the mortgage, which is, I bought an apartment because I heard in a bar it was a good thing to A ring of truth For him, the key is tackling serious material honestly while not taking himself too seriously: know that guy who rants in the bar and laughing because he kind of makes sense? who I This seems to be the understanding comics have thatlets them lead audiences into the dark parts of life and return with laughter. Iliza Shlesinger, whose 2008 victory in Comic catapulted her to headlining status, knows the should only stay away from a topic if not going to be she says. a comic, your priority is to make people laugh while staying true to your Of course, comics walk a fine line between inducing groans of joy and moans of despair. As Marc Maron, co-host of Air Room it, weekend used to be, Now, just a couple of days to reflect on how up life is. Expectations are much deeper, like better do something to make sense of these things because at the end of my But Maron relishes that kind of tightrope: personally like those stakes because I kind of like the laughter that could very easily be Still, he prefers to temper rage with inclusion.

Maron demonstrates with a joke about the now- slightly-less-wealthy: should welcome these fallen millionaires into your home help them adjust, walk them around and say, are ra- men noodles, and no, not adoggy bed, a sofa bed. where be sleeping. Why you get comfortable and try to write some As these comics demonstrate, night after night, something about the shared humility of laughter that can bring a needed dose of the kind of perspective easily lost in any crisis, a point driven home by Burr when he shared his plan for dealing with newly rediscovered going to get a dog. Yeah, going to get adog. And going to make sure it has a great life, so maybe its happiness will wear off on me.

all I got, cause I sure as hell have a 401(k) Stefano Paltera For The Times JUST JOKING: time I start writing my it turns into a suicide Duncan Trussell says. Laughing in face of crisis Comics, from.