Wednesday Night Ratings

Norm aired November 24, 1999

Millionaire

Drew Carey

Norm

15.8 / 28 / 8.2

19.4 / 33 / 11.2

10.0 / 17 / 7.8

7.2 / 12 / 5.7

Dateline

The West Wing

4.7 / 8 / 1.9

4.7 / 8 / 2.1

7.6 / 13 / 4.0

8.3 / 14 / 4.7

Celine Dion

CBS Movie: Two Babies Switched at Birth

8.4 / 15 / 3.9

8.2 / 14 / 3.7

7.3 / 12 / 3.1

7.8 / 13 / 3.4

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Greed

5.1 / 9 / 3.6

4.7 / 8 / 3.3

6.5 / 11 / 3.8

6.9 / 12 / 4.2

Dawson's Creek

Roswell

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7 Days

Star Trek: Voyager

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overall rating / overall share / 18-49 year-olds rating

November 25, 1999

So there.

If Norm was considered a hit, then we must be a mega-smash. Norm's audience fell off yet again this week. On a night when Millionaire went out with a huge bang, one half-hour later, Norm turned in household and demographic numbers that were equivalent to our "bad" weeks. Their audience retention from Drew was even worse than our "bad" weeks. ABC just does not know what they are doing, and now they've got this behemouth of Millionaire on their hands and they have no idea what to do with it either. But if any network could screw it up, Lord knows ABC can.

Maybe it's time to stop focusing on the lame showing of Norm and start looking ahead to our new night. Two weeks from now we re-launch on Tuesday nights. It's Like, You Know had been in that spot this season until November and had underperformed (as did we on Wednesday). Now it's our turn to take a shot at the Spin City audience.


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