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CALENDAR WEEKENDLOS ANGELES E43 MOVIES deliver the requisite payoff considering its leisurely pace. It bears the usually dubious label, on true and details the unfortunate fate that befalls two young British women, Liz (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi), visiting Aus- tralia, and the local bloke, Ben (Nathan Phillips), they hook up with for a road trip across the inhospitable outback. Writer-di- rector Greg McLean admirably attempts to breathe life into the genre by taking his time to get to the gore, but rather than yielding interesting characters it merely deflates the suspense. (K.C., Dec. 23) (1:39) for strong gruesome violence, and for language.

Yours, Mine Ours Aclunky, crude, grossly exaggerated remake of the delightful and surprisingly sophisticated 1968 original starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda viti- ates the terrific chemistry between Dennis widower with eight kids and Rene Russo as a widow with 10 who impulsively elope only to discover their children, unpre- pared and raised very differently, do not mesh well. Quaid, Russo and others de- serve better than this strained, synthetic clinker. (K.Th., Nov. 23) (1:32) Rated PG for some mild crude humor. Events Revivals 7 Dudley Cinema Sponto Gallery, 7 Dudley Venice.

(310) 306-7330. Venice Film Festival 6:30 p.m. Fantasy by the Sea Tom Sewell Tom documentary on the colorful locals of Venice Beach. 8 p.m. American Cinematheque at the Aero 1328 Montana Santa Monica.

(323) 466- 3456. The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1962) The boys get ahold of a time machine, and the predictable chaos ensues. Also, We Want Our Mummy (1939) 7:30 p.m. Three Stooges Seventieth Annivoisary Screen- ings of Men in Black (1934 Col- lars (1935), From Nurse to Worse (1940) and others. 7:30 p.m.

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It Happened One Night (1934) One of the most enduringly enjoyable movies of all time, with Clark breezy reporter and Claudette runaway heiress meet- ing on a bus bound from Florida to New York. One of Frank greatest. Also, The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) 7:30 p.m. Way Out West (1937) This is the best of Laurel features; it has the magically slowed-down rhythm and gracefully prat- falling slapstick of their best silent shorts. The plot is a Western hodgepodge of mine deeds and beautiful daughters, but a peg for some of their most wonder- ful routines including their classic soft shoe to Trail of the Lonesome Also, Sons of the Desert (1933) 5 p.m.

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By comparison, the first five episodes of Wants to Be a which ushered in a short-lived era of prime-time game shows, averaged 11.5 mil- lion viewers in August 1999, when television viewership was lower. All but the Dec. 20 episode re- corded season-high viewership in the time period for NBC. The five episodes all won their time slots and exceeded viewership in the time slots by an average of and among viewers ages 18 to 49, the group targeted by NBC, ABC and Fox Broadcasting. NBC has ordered additional episodes, which are expected to begin airing in March, a network official said.

time a show achieves good ratings, a bit of a sur- prise, especially in mar- ket, where hits have become par- ticularly said David Goldberg, president of Endemol USA, which produces or No certainly believed in the show and were confident based on or No broad international success. However, that automatically guar- antee success, as seen many In a week with little original scripted programming, CBS had the five most-watched shows from Dec. 19 through Sunday, to easily extend its streak of being the most-watched network for each week of the season to 14, the first network to do so since NBC in 1988. CBS averaged 10 million view- ers, followed by NBC with 7.7 mil- lion, ABC with 7.3 million, Fox with 6.8 million, UPN with 2.9 million and the WB with 2 million. ABC was handicapped be- cause Sunday, its most-viewed night, was Christmas, a day with traditionally low viewership, and its three serial drama hits and which fare poorly in reruns were all in reruns last week.

However, ABC did benefit from the two-hour special bara Walters Presents: Heaven. Where Is It? How Do We Get It was Dec. most- watched program and seventh for the week with 13.8 million viewers. With CBS showing a rerun of Crime Scene a first-run episode of its spinoff was the most-watched show, at- tracting a season-high 20.3 million viewers. Crime Scene has been the most-watched show for 11 of the 14 weeks, finishing sec- ond each of the other three weeks, twice with reruns.

CBS also had the most- watched first-year series, the comedy of which finished fourth overall with a se- ries-high 15 million viewers. of retained of the audience of its lead-in, and aHalf which finished third with a season-high 17.7 million viewers. Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Dec. 19-25) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a pro- gram from start to finish.

Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Net- work View- ersProgram Net- work View- ers 1 CSI: MiamiCBS20.33 2 CSICBS18.94 3 Two and a Half MenCBS17.71 4 Out of PracticeCBS15.01 5 Without a TraceCBS14.37 6 or No 7 Walters ABC13.76 8 or No 9 CSI: NYCBS12.68 10 or No --------------------------------------------11 Criminal MindsCBS12.42 12 Monday Night FootballABC12.04 13 or No 14 or No 15 NFL Monday ShowcaseABC11.41 --------------------------------------------16 King of QueensCBS11.31 17 NCISCBS10.67 18 How I Met Your MotherCBS10.36 19 NFL Post-Game 20 My Name Is EarlNBC10.17 --------------------------------------------21 HouseFOX9.17 22 Law Order: SVUNBC9.16 23 Law OrderNBC8.97 24 Dateline: NBC 25 Close to HomeCBS8.61 --------------------------------------------26 Numb3rsCBS8.56 27 Law Order: Criminal Intent (Fri.) NBC8.39 28 Without a TraceCBS8.29 29 Cold CaseCBS7.95 30 RodneyABC7.52 --------------------------------------------31 George LopezABC7.51 Wife SwapABC7.51 33 John 34 Apprentice: MarthaNBC7.30 35 AnatomyABC7.27 --------------------------------------------36 Crimetime (8 p.m.)CBS7.23 37 According to JimABC7.21 38 The SimpsonsFOX7.18 39 Lost (9 p.m.)ABC7.10 40 Ghost WhispererCBS6.91 --------------------------------------------41 42 Lost (10 p.m.)ABC6.79 43 Crimetime Saturday (9 p.m.) CBS6.67 44 ERNBC6.58 45 48 Hours Mystery --------------------------------------------46 Desperate HousewivesABC6.53 47 JoeyNBC6.49 48 OfficeNBC6.46 Trading SpousesFOX6.46 50 Nanny 911FOX6.42 --------------------------------------------51 52 Family GuyFOX6.35 53 60 MinutesCBS6.33 54 FreddieABC6.23 55 Crossing JordanNBC6.20 --------------------------------------------56 48 Hours Mystery 57 PrimetimeABC5.94 58 Funniest Home Videos (Sun.) ABC5.92 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Sun.) ABC5.92 60 Law Order: Criminal Intent (Sun.) NBC5.88 --------------------------------------------61 King of the HillFOX5.79 62 Will GraceNBC5.57 63 Music 64 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Thu.) ABC5.24 65 BonesFOX5.05 --------------------------------------------66 Funniest Home Videos (Sat.) ABC4.99 67 That ShowFOX4.93 68 SupernannyABC4.67 69 Be Home for ABC4.55 70 a Wonderful --------------------------------------------71 for the 72 Doolittle 73 Dateline: NBC 74 Everybody Hates Chris (Thu.) UPN4.17 75 Arrested Development (8 p.m.) FOX4.14 --------------------------------------------76 StackedFOX4.10 77 Hope and FaithABC4.00 78 Everybody Hates Chris (Tue.) UPN3.95 79 Hot PropertiesABC3.65 80 Everybody Hates Chris (Mon.) UPN3.59 --------------------------------------------81 WWE 82 Arrested Development (8:30 p.m.) FOX3.43 83 Everybody Hates Chris (Wed.) UPN3.30 84 7th HeavenWB3.27 85 One on OneUPN3.26 --------------------------------------------86 Girlfriends 87 All of UsUPN2.89 88 Love Inc.UPN2.81 89 Half and HalfUPN2.69 90 SmallvilleWB2.67 --------------------------------------------91 The West WingNBC2.64 92 Gilmore GirlsWB2.60 93 The O.C. (9 p.m.)FOX2.55 94 95 EveUPN2.46 --------------------------------------------96 The O.C.

(8 p.m.)FOX2.43 97 Girlfriends 98 CutsUPN2.22 99 Next Top Model 5 UPN2.01 100 Veronica MarsUPN1.91 --------------------------------------------101 Reba 7:30 p.m.)WB1.84 102 Supernatural 103 One Tree HillWB1.76 104 CharmedWB1.72 105 Reba (7 p.m.)WB1.57 --------------------------------------------106 Related 107 EverwoodWB1.47 108 Related 109 Supernatural 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 CBS9.9913.13 NBC7.729.22 ABC7.3210.55 FOX6.758.06 UPN2.953.56 WB2.013.40 Prime-time TV Rankings NBC is game for more A MERCHANT IVORY PRODUCTION RALPH FIENNES NATASHA RICHARDSON VANESSA REDGRAVE LYNN REDGRAVE HIROYUKI SANADA STYLISTICALLY VENTURESOME EXPLORATION. WELL WORTH SEEING FOR THE PERFORMANCES AND MR. -ANDREW SARRIS, THE NEW YORK OBSERVER SHANGHAI 1936. AN EX-DIPLOMAT.

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