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I I I'WI i riv-n I tLLIGLMKR JuLU.YVL, La.NCAMLK, Fa. Iriup, Mu 4, 2uv7 aj Gilmore Girls no more Poll puts Couric behind news rivals NEW YORK (AP) One-third of Americans say they have a negative view of Katie Couric, her personal popularity lagging behind rivals Charles Gibson and Brian Williams just as her evening news program trails in the ratings. Katie Couric The Gallup Poll survey released Thursday found that 51 percent of Americans said they had a positive view of Couric, who jumped from NBCs Today show to CBS last fall Courics stumbling start. Shes handicapped by the number of people 29 percent in this poll who explained their negative opinion by saying they simply dont like her, Gallup said. Once one of the most popular personalities in TV news, her negative ratings crept up during her final years at Today.

At least people know who she is. Only 13 percent of the respondents said they had never heard of Couric, compared to 19 percent each for Gibson and Williams. Gibson (16 percent) and Williams (18 percent) had much smaller negative ratings. Some in the news business believe the amiable Gibson has improved ABCs ratings because hes easier to listen to in a period of bad news. popularity.

ABCs Gibson was viewed positively by 62 percent of TV viewers and NBCs Williams by 59 percent, but that is within the samplings margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. That also mirrors the competition between the anchors in the television ratings. Gibson began the evening job last spring and trailed Williams consistently for the rest of 2006. But in the past three months ABCs World News has logged the most viewers during eight weeks, while NBCs Nightly News won four weeks. CBS recently hired former CNN and MSNBC president Rick Kaplan as CBS Evening News executive producer in an attempt to recover from Alexis Bledel as Rory Gilmore, left, and Lauren Graham as Lorelai Gilmore, appear in a scene from the Gilmore Girls television series.

The poll found Gibson and Williams essentially running neck-and-neck in terms of Show to end nut after 7 years BY LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES Goodbye Gilmore Girls. The sharp-witted saga of an independent mother and daughter that added to the luster of the young WB network will end its run after seven seasons. The show, which last year moved to the CW network created by the merger of WB and UPN, will air its final episode May 15 at 8 p.m., CW and producer Warner Bros. Television announced Thursday. Gilmore Girls, starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel and created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, helped define a network and created a fantastic storybook world featuring some of televisions most memorable, lovable characters, CW and the studio said in a joint statement.

They thanked fans for their passionate support promised to give the show the send-off it deserves. Ratings had dipped this season for the series, which lost Sherman-Palladino as its guiding hand because of a contract dispute. The drama with comic overtones followed the lives of single mom Lorelai Gilmore (Graham) and her equally bright and beautiful daughter as they grew up together, struggled through romances and tried to find their place in the world. Rapid-fire patter, the series hallmark, delighted fans but Television: Highlights for viewing be if a Graham, Gilmore took a toll on its cast. Getting the language perfect requires a number of takes that you might not have on another show, Graham told The Associated Press in January 2006.

Its just a lot of work 13, 14 hours door to door. Ive missed weddings, Ive missed babies being bom. Im" not complaining, because of what it has brought me, but I would be ready for a different balance. Sherman-Palladino and her husband and fellow executive producer, Daniel Palladino, left after failing to come to terms with the studio on a new deal, and the series struggled creatively and in the ratings this It would nightmare show with Lauren The season. The April 24 episode drew fewer than 4 million viewers, down about 25 percent compared to the same time last year.

As production on the show got under way last fad, its future then uncertain, Graham speculated about the final chapter. I care very much how the story ends, Graham said told the AP. It would be my worst nightmare if we end the show with a wedding. To me, the premise of the show was, What if your parent was your best friend? Thats the thing you leave people with, the strength of this family and this relationship, she said. my worst we end the wedding.

ro-star Girls SERIES NOTES Kids out of control on Nanny 911 (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14, V) Escape to Los Angeles on a two-hour Greys Anatomy (8 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) Wrestling on Friday Night SmackDown! (8 p.m., CW, TV-PG) Human remains found in a bear raise questions on Bones (9 p.m., Fox, TV-14- LATE NIGHT Ray Romano and Dennis Haysbert appear on Late Show with David Letterman (11:35 p.m., CBS) Jay Leno hosts Thomas Haden Church and Ne-Yo on The Tonight Show (11:35 p.m NBC) Peter Krause and Garry Marshall appear on Jimmy Kim-mel Live (12:05 a.m., ABC) Snoop Dogg and Tom Waits chat on Late Night with Conan OBrien (12:35 a.m., NBC) Craig Ferguson hosts Molly Shannon, Duane Martin and Ozomatli on The Late, Late Show (12:37 a.m., CBS). E-mail: A brainy loner (Jerry Lewis) concocts a potion that turns him into a lounge-singer lady-killer in the 1963 comedy The Nutty Professor (8 p.m., TCM). A secret agent (Bruce Lee) takes on a drug lord in the 1973 martial arts adventure Enter the Dragon (8 p.m., AMC). A crooked cop faces a second trial for murder on Close to Home (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14, V). Purloined toxins may be in the hands of terrorists on Numb3rs (10 p.m, CBS, TV-14).

A known predator is accused of the roadside slaying of a young boy on Law Order (10 p.m., NBC, TV-14). CRITICS CHOICE Only the Coen brothers could combine an homage to 1930s chain-gang movies, Homers Odyssey and a bestselling soundtrack to make the 2000 comedy Brother, Where Art Thou? (9:05 p.m., IFC). Look for John Goodman in a Ku Klux Klan rally patterned on The Wizard of Oz. Continued from A4 But now Daniels may face a sex scandal of his own. And that brings us back to tonights 2020.

When it comes to sweeps programming from the news and entertainment divisions, sex and scandal still sell. And, much to the chagrin of Freedom Fries aficionados, I think the French said it best: Cher-chez La Femme. MORE HIGHLIGHTS A ghost prophet has a dark vision for Melinda on the first half of a two-part season finale of Ghost Whisperer (8 p.m., CBS, Scheduled on Dateline (8 p.m., NBC): A former beauty queen and mother of seven stands accused of having one lover kill another. Threes a shroud on Star-gate SG-1 (8 p.m., Sci Fi). Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst and James Franco star in the 2004 sequel Spider-Man 2 (8 p.m., FX).

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