NBC's Tuesday Win Helped by 'Loser'
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"The Biggest Loser" threw its weight around for NBC on Tuesday, driving the network's nightly win on an otherwise lackluster night in primetime for the Big Four.
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By Alan Pergament  Things have gone so badly for fourth-place NBC in the last few seasons that it had to lob a Hail Mary pass and make a deal with the National Football League.
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NBC won Christmas night  with a two-hour "Deal or No Deal" that was one of only two  originals on broadcast TV.
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The high ratings for the program have come at a high price for NBC, as some advertisers say they are wary of being associated with the showâs content.
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Reggie Bush and the New  Orlean Saints' defeat of the Dallas Cowboys led NBC to a  primetime win Sunday night without the tough front line of  ABC's "Desperate Housewives" on the field.
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A two-hour &quot;America&#39;s Got  Talent&quot; gave NBC a second Tuesday win in a row.
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NBC won a slim victory over second-place CBS in the ratings on Wednesday, largely because of its game-show programming at 8.
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NBC took top honors during  the last week before Christmas, winning the adults 18-49  demographic and claiming the two top shows, "Sunday Night  Football" and the season finale of "The Biggest Loser." CBS won  in viewership.
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Fox and NBC tied for the  demographic win in primetime, while CBS won in viewership  during the last week of the 2006-07 TV season, Nielsen Media  Research said Tuesday.
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The broadcast companyâs loss stemmed from write-downs, breakup costs and weak advertising sales.
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There's an easy way to separate the winners from the losers. But don't expect the media to help you find it.
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"Deal or No Deal" and a new  game show, "Identity," made NBC victorious in Monday primetime  during a night of mostly repeats on the other networks.
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Twin brothers are pound-by-pound the biggest winners on NBC's "The Biggest Loser."
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-Yesterday's Winners: Joey (NBC), Committed (NBC), CSI (CBS), ER (NBC), Without A Trace
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-Yesterday's Winners (Taking the Expected Fast Affiliate Results into Account): Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (ABC), American Gladiators (NBC), Deal or No Deal (NBC), Two and a Half Men R (CBS), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox), CSI: Miami R
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NBCâs âCelebrity Apprenticeâ won Thursday nightâs ratings among adults 18 to 49. Nielsen estimated that the premiere of the latest edition of the reality show, with celebrities including the boxer Lennox Lewis, below, had 11 million viewers in the 9 oâclock hour, an improvement of almost 2 million over last seasonâs debut. NBC tied Fox for No. 1 over all, leading at 8 with âDeal or No Dealâ (13.3 million) but trailing at 10 with âERâ (9.6 million). CBS ranked third, despite drawing the largest audience of the night with a repeat of âCSIâ at 9 (13.5 million). ABC was a distant fourth.
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Kid Nation premiered last Wednesday, and the show was, for lack of  a better term, fascinating. It was formulaic and, well, just plain bad. But it was also fascinating. In case you missed it, the premise revolves around sending 40 children to a ghost town in New Mexico for 40 days. The ages of the children range from 8-15, with the majority lying somewhere in the 10-12 range. Once there, the kids will have no supervision beyond that of a couple of camera crew and the host, Jonathan Karsh, who comes and goes randomly, but always to help the kids on their path.    There's all kinds of hullabaloo about whether or not it's ethical to take kids and simply drop them off in the middle of nowhere. Though they immediately showed the largest factor in the parents' decision to let these kids on to a TV show that could do a mind job on them for years: A gold star (cute) worth $20,000. A star is handed out by the "town council" at every meeting, so presumably about 5 kids will go home with prize money. My guess is that at least one of them will also win some ridiculous prize at the end of the show...say a million bucks.    I'd like to say that's where the show gets "better", but it doesn't. On this show no one gets voted off, and everyone's going home a winner.