Fox TV's 'Who's Your Daddy?' Draws Low Ratings
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Amid a chorus of protests from child-adoption advocates and sneers from critics, the general reaction of viewers to the controversial Fox special "Who's Your Daddy?" seemed to be "Who Cares?"
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Controversial reality programme Who's The Daddy fails to make an impact on the US TV ratings.
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By LYNN ELBER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Sometimes a TV series needs a tuneup. Tweak the plots, juice the promotion, and it may end up a challenger in the ratings race.
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There's a reason why rival television executives not-so-fondly refer to Fox's "American Idol" as the "death star." The talent show, which attracted more than 32 million viewers for each of its audition episodes last week, eclipsed everything in prime-time TV last week and was particularly cruel for the shows unlucky enough to air at the same time, Nielsen Media Research said on Tuesday.
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Fox News Channel will mark its 10th anniversary this week in an unusual position: knocked back on its heels. The network is in the midst of its first-ever ratings slump. Cable news' most stable lineup is being juggled. And the blow-up over President Clinton's interview with Chris Wallace suggests that Democrats are attacking Fox because they perceive the same vulnerability in the network as they do in the Bush administration.
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There are a lot of words  you can use to describe reality-style competitions on TV, but  until the broadcast of NBC's "My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad"  on Monday, "wholesome" was not among them. There is more good  sportsmanship in this series than you'll find on a half-dozen  peewee soccer fields.
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The network that brought you Homer Simpson took fatherhood to a whole new level Monday night. Fox aired a tear-soaked reality special, "Who's Your Daddy?", that reunited a woman with the former Marine and his old high school girlfriend who gave her up for adoption about 30 years ago.
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A TV ad showing a computer-illiterate father being chided for trying to help his Internet-savvy daughter with her homework has roused the anger of fatherhood activists, who are calling on Verizon Communications Inc. to take it off the air.
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The "American Idol" triumph of 17-year-old Jordin Sparks drew nearly 6 million fewer viewers than last year's finale, in the latest sign that U.S. television's highest-rated show may have finally hit its peak.
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Fox notched another victory  in the advertiser-friendly adults 18-49 demographic last week,  but CBS won the viewership stakes by just 60,000 people.
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Fewer than a half-million people were watching MSNBC when David Shuster made his comment that Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign had "pimped out" daughter Chelsea by having her make political phone calls.
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LOS ANGELES  - As NBC continues its  post-Olympics fall season rollout, the heavily promoted  computer-animated comedy "Father of the Pride" got off to a  modest start in its premiere Tuesday.
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NEW YORK  - Fox notched another victory in the advertiser-friendly adults 18-49 demographic last week, but CBS won the viewership stakes by just 60,000 people.
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The 56th annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday night scored the franchise&#39;s smallest audience -- about 14 million viewers -- since the disaster of 1990.
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ABC&#39;s telecast of the 56th annual Primetime Emmy Awards proved to be one of the least watched editions of the show in years, with 14 million viewers tuning in, according to preliminary figures on Monday.
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Ratings for Fox's top-ranked "American Idol" will probably decline as the television talent search show enters its fourth season this week, a network official said on Monday.
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LOS ANGELES  - Fox took the crown for the week ending July 15 in both total viewers and the adults 18-49 demographic thanks to the performance of such series as "Hell's Kitchen," "Don't Forget the Lyrics" and "So You Think You Can Dance."