TV Stretches Its Second Season
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By Gary Levin  September. January. March.    Until recently, TV networks rolled out their arsenals like clockwork.
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Despite the Hollywood writers' strike, two late-night shows will air new episodes next month.
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ABC is reshuffling its  Wednesday lineup, launching a two-hour comedy block and moving  the hit drama "Lost" to 10 p.m.
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Despite the Hollywood writers' strike, the big TV networks have more than a hundred episodes of scripted series ready to roll out over the next few months.
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LOS ANGELES  - There will be less "Dirt" and "Riches" on FX's schedule this year. In a sign of what's in store for TV series whose production was affected by the writers' strike, FX has opted not to produce more episodes for the two series' second seasons.
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Prime-time TV seems more and more like a carnival. It's not so much a schedule of shows as, well, a sideshow hawking reality fare.
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ABC so far this new season is in the midst of something it has not experienced in half a decade: a ratings surge.
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For many of the broadcast networks' new fall shows, interested fans don't have to wait until they actually appear on television. How old-fashioned.
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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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Americans average 2 hours and 34 minutes of TV a day, compared to 20 minutes a day exercising.
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The new TV season includes mysteries, mayhem, and Matthew Perry. And money, lots of it.
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Last year this time, "Heroes" was just another new show hoping to find some viewers. As everyone who owns a TV knows, it succeeded. Last season's top-rated freshman series, about a group of ordinary people with extraordinary abilities, now has fans scratching for second-season details.
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American TV audiences may not have the Simpson family to kick   around much longer.
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Two weeks into the fall prime-time season, new series such as ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost" are among the most-watched shows on network television.
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Television on the wane? Not  according to a forecast released Wednesday by Nielsen Media  Research, which projects that the nation's TV households will  grow 47% to 163.7 million by 2050.
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The hugely popular show, characterised by Bachchan's baritone and personality, was in its second season when it had to be cut short due to the star's sudden illness.
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LOS ANGELES  - On a busy Monday night  for the Big Four networks, "24" stayed healthy for Fox in the  second night of its two-pronged season premiere, while the new  Patricia Arquette drama "Medium" averaged more high numbers for  NBC in its second outing.