European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 30, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 to briefs they re off with lbs taking the Lead Etcitt crores. Quot in 1 fur in , opener of Tho fall television scam in morn than two decades the perennially l i i place lbs network is finally no. 1. Lbs emerged from Tho fall preview week in Mace nosing ahead of usually top rated try us two tenths of a ratings Point. 1 he networks Haven t finished this lightly in a Jiff Niilre race since 19g6, network executives sad tuesday in response to the latest ratings re i Vised try the Nielsen co. Lbs Hod a 13.6 average rating had 13.4 and had 13.2. I he rating is the percentage of the nation s Home where the show was watched each ratings Point a a i a a a a i Liis 031,000 Homes Nib i s choirs was the top rated program. A predicted Winner this season Burt Reynolds and co Star Marellu Henner in Quot evening lbs 60 minutes which began its new season it to previous week tied for third with the network s designing women. Abc s Lone top 10 entry was the fall premiere of its popular Blue Collar come cry Roseanne which finished second. The Cosby show opened its season in the no. 5 spot and again embarrassed the Simpsons Ewtuch this plummeted in to in ratings since moving to ii in same time period in an a Valantie of hype. He Amr mod Amity it cod 67lh for the week. Nov Simpsons episodes begin oct. 11, an event f of executives Hopo will boost ratings for the series that once ranked no. 4 in its original night Slot a t by liar the most new shows on television this fall. Ten of lbs 13 original series have already aired. The ambitious slate represents the first fall schedule delivered by entertainment president Jeff Sagansky who has held the Job less than a year. Lbs could use a change. The network has t won a season since 1984, when it had a stable of hits such As Dallas Falcon Crest and magnum . In the latest Nieslen ratings lbs also scored High with the return premieres of Murphy Brown which ranked sixth and major dad which tied for tenth place with s unsolved mysteries. In seventh was s longstanding favorite the Golden girls. No cd a a different world and empty nest ranked eighth and ninth respectively. It was just a year ago that the most Learned observers of the television scene i.e., television critics assured an anxious and concerned american Public that they could count on two shows surviving in the increasingly competitive primetime environment Chicken soup and the famous Teddy z. Both shows you May recall were disasters that were quickly cancelled. Nevertheless we new return battered but unbowed Remote controls to the right of us Onward Ever Onward. Here Are this season s predictions a show most Likely to survive evening Shade because it would be hard to imagine a network As hard up As lbs telling Burt Reynolds a Superb supporting cast and producer Linda blood Worth Thomason to take a hike. A show least Likely to survive it is a tossup Between two lbs dramas . Force and sons and daughters. Network execs virtually admit that . Force is just a Stopgap until something else is ready while the Rumor a few weeks ago was that sons and daughters would be yanked before its scheduled october Start. A show that could be this years Chicken soup none other than fresh Prince of Bel air. Like Chicken soup it has got the hype and a spotlight shining on its breakout Star rapper will Smith. And its rap orientation could go Over in Middle America like Jackie masons Brand of humor. Quot what d he say Martha Quot a Best new hour of television on saturday night with two Classy comedies parenthood and working it out. Neither is going to zoom to the top of the ratings with this time Slot but both should make it through to their second season. And finally Here Are a few possible Ripoff shows if some of the season s More unusual series actually succeed a first Ripoff if fresh Prince is a hit Hammer and Tong. Hilarity results when rap Star . Hammer plays a rapping Streetwise police detective teamed with an older by the Book partner Jack Tong. Pat Morita co stars. A first Ripoff if cop Rock is a hit Hospital hiphop the orderlies rap the emergency room rocks the surgeons sing Arias and the nurses croon melodies in this harmonizing Hospital. Robert Goulet Dolly Parton and Billy idol Star. A first Ripoff if life stores cop Rock Law and order and Fox s undertaker sitcom Good grief Are All hits swing Low Sweet Chariot. A com Edy drama with music that follows a patient from the time he gets to the Hospital through his death autopsy embalming casket selection and funeral ending with a Point of View shot of the dirt coming Down in the grave. In the second season they tackle cremation. Starring Nell Carter David Clayton Thomas Sinead o Connor and Don Knotts As the undertaker. Michael Hill a Baltimore evening Sun a v j of Oniel Sens the following Are the latest available rankings of television shows in America starting with the top shows As compiled by the . Nielsen co. The season to Date ranking is in parentheses or an a a a Quot for first time showing and the final figure is the rating which notes the percentage of the nation s 92.1 million Homes where people watched the show.1 cheers 1 22.0 rating.2 Roseanne 2 20.1. 3 60 minutes 6 lbs 20.0.3 designing women tie 3 lbs 20.0. 5 the Cosby show 4 19.8.6 Murphy Brown 5 lbs 19.6. 7 Golden girls 7 18.8.8 a different world 8 18.6. 9 empty nest 9 18.4,10 unsolved mysteries 10 17,7. 10 major dad 10 lbs 17.7.a/ind these Are the least watched shows the ones at the Bottom of the Nielsen a ratings. 79 True colors Fox 4.9. 60 cops Fox 4.7. 81 totally hidden video Fox 4.5. 82 haywire Fox 4.2. 83 against the Law Fox 3.9 84 Dea Fox 3.5. 84 21 jump Street tie Fox 3.5. 86 glory Days Fox 3.1. 87 alien nation Fox 2.7. 88 american chronicles Fox 2.6. What they re watching c in plus sunday september 307199b
