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With Thanksgiving over, we’re in the mix of original episodes, specials and reruns that mark December.
ABC: ONCE UPON A TIME weathered its first preemption last week pretty well, falling a bit but still very comfortable with a 3.4 that was the highest scripted number of the night. After that, though, things fell off a cliff with the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV-movie HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, a disastrous 1.1 (and not even impressive with the older audience, coming in behind NBC and CBS in total viewers).
FOX: A bad night for Animation Domination. Season lows across the board, and ALLEN GREGORY lost 40% of the SIMPSONS audience, almost surely sealing its fate.
CBS: Due to almost an hour of football overrun–Tebowmonium!– which benefited 60 MINUTES, and with atypically low competition on ABC, it’s hard to gauge the 9-11PM PERSON OF INTEREST experiment. However, even with a repeat at 10PM it was only 0.4 below what new episodes of CSI MIAMI have been doing in that slot, so a move there at least seems promising.
NBC: Not very many more weeks of Sunday football are left to keep NBC from looking less pathetic than it is. Last night’s match-up of Pittsburgh vs. Kansas City was a bit below par, but its number will still triple almost everything else on the network’s schedule for the week.
Tonight: can TERRA NOVA benefit from CBS airing reruns of its sitcoms 8-9PM?
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