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In the newsBy Times staff report
© St. Petersburg Times, Series beats Emmys Despite significant ratings for Sunday's Emmy Awards broadcast, Fox's telecast of the seventh game of the World Series took the night's ratings crown, drawing an estimated 71.9-million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research figures provided by Fox. The Arizona Diamondbacks' victory over the New York Yankees brought a 23.5 preliminary national rating and a 34 share, meaning 23.5 percent of homes that have TVs tuned in and 34 percent of homes that had their TVs on watched. Final ratings will be available today. The Emmys drew an estimated 17.1-million viewers on CBS, earning an 11.5 rating and a 16 share. Locally, the World Series game drew a 24.6 rating and 33 share for WTVT-Ch. 13, its highest baseball rating since 1997. The Emmys earned a 13 rating/19 share for WTSP-Ch. 10. No motivation to keep 'Bob'ABC canceled Bob Patterson, the second prime-time series featuring a Seinfeld alumnus that has failed to survive more than a few weeks. The heavily promoted comedy, starring Jason Alexander as a motivational speaker, is the first ABC cancellation this fall. Seinfeld supporting player Michael Richards starred in a short-lived NBC comedy last season. Movie notesMonsters, Inc. outgrossed the competition at the weekend box office, snatching the top spot with $62.5-million. The digitally rendered Pixar-Disney comedy had the biggest debut for an animated film, outearning the $57.4-million recorded by the companies' previous collaboration, 1999's Toy Story 2. The Jet Li sci-fi adventure The One was second with $19.1-million, and John Travolta's child-in-peril thriller, Domestic Disturbance, was third with $14-million. ... The British press had nothing but gushingly positive reviews for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone in the United States), which premiered in London on Sunday.President Laura IngallsMelissa Gilbert was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild last week, beating veteran TV star Valerie Harper in a bitter contest some saw as a rebuff to the militant stance the union took over the last two years.Gilbert, 37, best known for her work as Laura Ingalls on House on the Prairie, received 45.3 percent of the just under 28,000 ballots cast. Harper, 61, got 39.4 percent. The remainder of the votes went to two lesser-known candidates. Harper, known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, was endorsed by incumbent William Daniels (St. Elsewhere), whose advocacy of a tougher stance at the bargaining table deeply divided the union. Brooks, Jones will sing as Brooks plans big TV monthA spokesperson for Garth Brooks told launch.com the singer and George Jones will perform their duet, Beer Run, at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday. Jones' camp had said Brooks was backing out of a commitment to sing; Brooks said he told them he was making sure CBS, which will air the show, had a spot for the duo.Also, Brooks will back up the Nov. 13 release of his new album, Scarecrow, with three one-hour concert specials on CBS, Newsday said. The specials will air on the last three Wednesdays of November, each from a different city with a different slate of guest stars. The Nov. 14 show will take place at the Forum in Los Angeles. The Nov. 21 show will be in Norfolk, Va., where Brooks will welcome home the men and women of the aircraft carrier Enterprise as they return from the Middle East. CBS would not disclose the Nov. 28 site.
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