Programming

Programming

an age of 21.2. The youngest show returning to the schedule next season was The WB's

Popstars, at 24.4. The oldest show on the schedule was CBS' now -defunct Diagnosis Murder, at 57.7, followed by the returning GO

Minutes, at 57.0. (G0 Minutes was No. 1 in the ratings last week.) The accompanying list supplied by TN Media shows the median ages for 2000 -01 network programs that are returning in the fall.

How old are your viewers?

Prune time._Qctober 2000 -May 2001

Program

Median age

ABC

The Mote

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (8:30 p.m.)

The Drew Carey Shov.

Wonderful World of Disney Spin City ?Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Job Once and Again My Wife & Kids (8 p.m.) 1Dharma & Greg ABC Saturday Night Movie

rWhat About Joan

NFL Monday Night Football NYPD Blue The Practice 1120/20 (Friday) 20/20 (Downtown) ',Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Sunday) PrimeTime Thursday

38.5 39.2 40.0 40.0 40.1 41.1 41.2 41.8 42.2 42.4 42.9 43.1 43.7 46.8 48.4 51.3 52.0 52.4 53.1

CBS

Survivor

des, Dear

King of Cueens gEverybody Loves Raymond

Becker

BM: Crime Scene Investigation

Family Low

FIBS Sunday Movie

That's Life

148 Hours

Judging Amy FThe District

JAG

Touched by an Angel 60 Minutes II

160 Minutes

Fox

The Simpsons

Malcolm in the Middle Groundec for Life

Ping of the Hill

Futurama

Temptation Island

Titus

What

Show

Dark Angel

!9The X -Files

39.6 45.7 47.2 47.6 49.5 49.5 51.0 52.1 52.3 52.8 53.1 53.6 53.8 55.2 56.4 57.0

27.8 28.8 29.4 29.5 29.8 30.4 30.8 31.3 34.8 36.1

Program

Boston Public Ally McBeal Cops America's Most Wanted

NBC

Will & Grace !` Just Shoot Me

Friends

ER

Weakest Link NBC Sunday Night Movie Three Sisters NBC Saturday Night Movies Frasier Ed Third Watch Dateline (Tuesday) Law & Order The West Wing Law & Order: SVU Dateline (Sunday 8 p.m.)

Provide,e

Dateline (Friday) Dateline (Sunday 7 p.m.)

UPN

WWF Smackdown! The Parkers The Hughleys Girlfriends UPN's Movie Friday Star Trek Special Unit 2

The WB

Popstars Nikki Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Dawson's Creek Felicity Buffy the Vampire Slayer Roswell Angel Gilmore Girls (Monday) The Steve Harvey Show Gilmore Girls 7th Heaver Charmed

Median age

38.2 38.7 41.4 42.3

37.8 37.9 38.1 41.1 42.1 43.3 43.4 44.0 45.2 45.7 46.0 46.7 48.7 49.7 50.1 51.3 51.4 51.6 52.8

26.6 28.3 29.0 30.5 37.5 40.1 41.5

24.4 25.2 25.3 26.1 27.9 28.8 29.9 30.8 30.9 30.9 31.8 32.2 33.2

Source: TN Media

IN BRIEF

IT'S TRUE: MILLIONAIRE TO BE STRIPPED Buena Vista has confirmed that

it's offering a strip version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Prospective hosts are still being mulled over for the half-hour syndicated show, which is being shopped for a fall 2002 debut.

Rosie O'Donnell, once thought to be a candidate, is more likely to just host Warner Bros. prospective game show Let's Make a Deal.

As expected, Michael Davies, executive producer of the ABC network version of Millionaire, is

"of course" heading up the syndicated series, says a Buena

Vista spokesperson. No clearance information has

been revealed, but Hearst -Argyle stations and Young Broadcasting stations have expressed interest.

MCGOWAN IS CHARMED

Rose McGowan has charmed her way into The WB. McGowan, bestknown for her relationship with

shock -rocker Marilyn Manson, will replace the departing Shannen Doherty on Charmed next fall.

FOX CHOOSES NATHAN'S CHOICE Fox has picked up for midseason Nathan's Choice, a half-hour comedy for which viewers determine, by voting online or by phone, the ending to each episode.

Nathan, from Dharma & Greg co- creator Chuck Lorre, features a college graduate trying to figure out his way in life. Each episode

will be packaged with two endings, and viewers will choose one each week. The episode with the ending that doesn't air may wind up on Fox sister cable outlet FX.

Also, Fox is said to be close to signing up for midseason Andy Richter Controls the Universe, a project that would star former Late Night With Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter.

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