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Last night, viewers took a stand against the hatred of teenage daughters.

ABC: Taking Thanksgiving Eve out of the equation, almost all the network’s shows tied or set season lows (the quasi-exception was HAPPY ENDINGS, 0.1 above its non-holiday low). However, some of those numbers are better than they sound: Happy Endings was facing sitcom competition for the first time all season, and even at its lowered number, REVENGE was only 0.1 out of first place in its timeslot.
CBS: SURVIVOR did a fairly standard number for the season (which in the context of this night looked pretty good), while CRIMINAL MINDS and CSI both tied season lows.
NBC: UP ALL NIGHT tied its non-Thanksgiving Eve low, but that’s pretty much where the show has been mired for the past month. HARRY’S LAW lost the tiny increase it had last week when it aired against reruns on ABC. SVU tied the season low it’s had for the last few weeks (except when ABC aired reruns).
CW: Some good news! AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL‘s cycle finale mustered a 1.0, very strong by CW standards.
A moment of silence: tonight NBC airs what is currently the last-scheduled episode of COMMUNITY. May it return to us soon. Meanwhile, FOX will air what’s become the Fall finale of BONES, because the episode that was supposed to air next week has been pushed to January so it can become the lead-in to the premiere of FINDER, the spin-off that’s replacing it while Emily Deschanel has her real-life maternity leave (s opposed to Bones’ on the show). And ABC will fill the airwaves’ holiday stocking with such lumps of coal as a Christmas edition of AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS and something called THE GREAT BIG AMERICAN AUCTION.
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Mitch Salem
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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