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We're in the doldrums

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published August 25, 2006

NEW YORK - In the final summer week before the earliest fall shows arrive, Nielsen Media Research's Top 10 remained a drowsy festival of repeats and talent competitions.

Two editions of NBC's America's Got Talent claimed the week's top slots, followed by a rerun of CBS's 60 Minutes.

Otherwise, the Top 10 included a pair of CBS's CSI, two episodes of that network's Without a Trace, plus Fox's House, and finales of So You Think You Can Dance and Hell's Kitchen.

CBS led the pack with an average of 7.5-million viewers in prime time. NBC had 6.5-million, Fox had 6.3-million and ABC had 5.8-million. UPN had 1.8-million and the WB had 1.7-million (both 1.2 rating, 2 share).

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision averaged 3.3-million viewers, Telemundo had 830,000 and TeleFutura had 470,000.

NBC's Nightly News won the evening news ratings race, averaging 7.8-million viewers. ABC's World News was runnerup with 7.3-million viewers. The CBS Evening News remained in third place with 6.8-million viewers.

Here are the Top 20 listings for the week of Aug. 14-20, include season-to-date rankings in parentheses (an "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time presentation).

1. (74) America's Got Talent (Thur.), NBC.

2. (42) America's Got Talent (Wed.), NBC.

3. (26) 60 Minutes, CBS.

4. (7) CSI: Miami, CBS.

5. (53) So You Think You Can Dance finale (Wed.), Fox.

6. (3) CSI, CBS.

7. (12) House, Fox.

8. (5) Without a Trace (Thur.), CBS.

9. (98) Hell's Kitchen, Fox.

10. (62) Without a Trace (Sun.), CBS.

11. (23) Cold Case, CBS.

12. (16) Two and a Half Men, CBS.

13. (88) Primetime, ABC.

14. (20) CSI: NY, CBS.

15. (113) Big Brother 7 (Sun.), CBS.

16. (37) Law & Order, NBC.

17. (X) NFL Preseason (Sun.), NBC.

18. (72) Two and a Half Men (Mon., 8 p.m.), CBS.

19. (120) So You Think You Can Dance (Wed., 8 p.m.), Fox.

20. (21) Law & Order: SVU, NBC.

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