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Basketball.
CBS: On a night when the other networks mostly didn’t choose to compete, some enormous upsets in the NCAA TOURNAMENT gave CBS a slam-dunk victory for the night with a (preliminary) 2.2, way higher than last year’s Day 2.
CW: NIKITA returned to the schedule after several weeks of reruns (that show has become so convoluted that its plots have gone way beyond double- and triple-crosses–it’s somewhere around octo-crosses by now) with a steady 0.5. SUPERNATURAL was down a bit from its last original to a still-good-for-CW 0.7.
ABC: The only other network with all-new programming benefited from the lack of competition. SHARK TANK and PRIMETIME were both up 0.3 from last week, while 20/20 (which did have to face a new Dateline) was up 0.1.
NBC: Reruns at 8PM of WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE and at 9PM of the newly-renewed GRIMM delivered twin 0.7 ratings. That didn’t provide much of a lead-in for DATELINE, which was down 0.3 from last week.
FOX: KITCHEN NIGHTMARES reruns delivered a 1.1, still enough to beat NBC for the night.
Tonight NCAA coverage continues on CBS. The low-rated Q’VIVA and 20/20: MY EXTREME AFFLICTION have original episodes on FOX and ABC, respectively, while NBC is all-repeat. On Sunday night, all the networks air new programming, but the biggest noise is likely to be on cable, where AMC has the season finale of THE WALKING DEAD.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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