Fall TV: Uphill climb for major networks
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Here's one of the safest bets you'll find this fall: one month into the new television season the media will be filled with stories about how poorly the networks are doing.
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Baseball's lively League Championship Series kept Fox atop the primetime standings on Monday.
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The fall TV   season looks to have produced two early casualties this week: NBC's   Last Comic Standing 3 and Fox's The Next Great Champ.
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The Red Sox and Fox rhymed beautifully in the ratings last week when Boston's stunning comeback in the American League Championship Series and wins in the first two World Series games at Fenway Park propelled the network to its highest numbers in more than 2-1/2 years.
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From Chuck to Bionic Woman, networks mine sci-fi and the pocket-protector clich&#233;s, looking for gold in their fall offerings.
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Three new broadcast network shows that most media agencies and TV critics did not expect to last very long produced solid ratings last week, proving that audience viewing patterns are unpredictable.
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Fall is in the air. Texas is coming to town. The Big 12 is up for grabs.
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Judging by what&#039;s coming up next season, Kiefer Sutherland may now be the most influential man in television. The success of Fox&#039;s &quot;24,&quot; and to a certain extent ABC&#039;s &quot;Lost,&quot; is fueling an insatiable taste for thrillers and mysteries evident in the fall schedule announcements made this past week by the five biggest broadcast networks.
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By Frazier Moore< Associated Press  NEW YORK - The fall TV season is about to begin. The push is on from the broadcast networks to tempt you into watching what they spent the past year pounding into shape.
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By John Keenan, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 15--With the fall season opening this month, Fox has "Vanished" from a rural Nebraska cable system.
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Trends come in threes, and now Fox is the latest network to offer free downloads of new shows, following the lead of NBC and ABC earlier this week.
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TiVo has announced a partnership with CBS that will allow the service's subscribers to see one of the network's fall shows a full week before it airs on the network.
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The fall season opened  Monday with so-so starts for two anticipated series, NBC's  "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and CBS' "The Class."
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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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By SCOTT COLLINGS Los Angeles Times  HOLLYWOOD - NBC has called a Hail Mary pass with one of its new fall shows.   Its a weekly drama set against the backdrop of prep sports, a relatively unglamorous world that hasnt yielded a TV hit in nearly 30 years.
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Study says CBS&#39; &#39;CSI-NY&#39; and NBC&#39;s &#39;Medical Investigation&#39; most eagerly awaited in new fall lineups. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Politicians looking for a quick boost this campaign season might want to look at
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By David Zurawik, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 18--After years of offering a glut of mean-spirited reality fare and formulaic sitcoms, network executives are going for drama this fall.