ABC's 'Primetime' Tsunami Special Tops Wednesday
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LOS ANGELES  - Two hours of fictional  disaster drama and an hourlong special on the real-life tsunami  tragedy in Asia kept ABC atop the primetime standings  Wednesday.
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Variety - On a night when each of the major networks devoted most of primetime to the first Bush-Kerry presidential debate, CBS reality adventure series "Survivor: Vanuatu" drew the best numbers for an entertainment program Thursday, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen.
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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By DAVID BAUDER, Associated Press writer  NEW YORK   ABC faced growing pressure Friday about its planned miniseries on the buildup to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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TORONTO (CP) - The cream of Canadian show business, the arts and sports assembled at the CBC broadcasting centre Thursday evening to take part in Canada For Asia, a three-hour, history-making live telecast in support of relief efforts for the tsunami victims of South Asia.
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NEW YORK  - ABC scored its highest  Wednesday night numbers in more than two years with the first  fresh installment of "Lost" since Dec. 8 and the fourth-season  debut of "Alias."
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By TIM CUPRISIN  The top-rated television show Sunday night wasn't ABC's much- discussed dramatization of the events leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks.
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PORT BLAIR, India, Jan. 4 -- It was just before sunset on the first day of the new year. The helicopter circled above Campbell Bay Island for hours, searching for tsunami survivors marooned on the southernmost points of the Nicobar Islands.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia and killed more than 23,000 will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases
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Rarely has such a far-off tragedy seemed so close to home. News of Asia's devastating tsunami reached the living rooms of most Americans in a matter of just hours, through dramatic video taken by tourists, Internet postings and cell phones. The catastrophe has tugged at heartstrings in a way few international disasters have.
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Giant tsunamis are more likely to hit the U.S. Pacific coast than to hit Asia, scientists say. Coastal residents may have only 15 minutes' warning.
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Under pressure from former   President Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party, ABC scrambled   on Friday to make 11th-hour changes to a miniseries suggesting   he was inattentive to the Islamic militant threat that led to   the September 11 attacks.
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LOS ANGELES  - ABC and CBS split the  nightly win on another active Wednesday in primetime.
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It&#39;s one thing to watch a special-effects-laden disaster movie about a tsunami or other outrageous act of nature; it&#39;s quite another to watch the TV news and see the devastation wrought by a real-life magnitude 9 earthquake that struck under the Indian
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Saturday's tsunami relief telethon on NBC, with its many celebrity appearances, tapped into our weakness for feel-good moments - Extreme Makeover: Disaster Edition.
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Wednesday, after a momentum-shattering 13-week hiatus, ABC's "Lost" will be found.  But will viewers still care, and tune in? And if they do, will they get swept back into the riptide of what was once TV's hottest water-cooler show?  They ought to.
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The return of âLost,â albeit a two-hour repeat of last seasonâs finale, buoyed ABCâs ratings on Wednesday during a night otherwise dominated by Foxâs âAmerican Idolâ and âThe Moment of Truth.â