IT'S ANOTHER `MUST-SEE' SEASON FOR `SUDDENLY SUSAN' ON NBC.Byline: Daily News Wire Services The folks at ``Suddenly Susan'' can rest easy. The first-year adj. 1. Being in the first year of an experience especially in a U. S. high school or college; - of a person. Adj. 1. first-year - used of a person in the first year of an experience (especially in United States high school or college); "a NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. sitcom has been renewed for another season, sources say. Despite its status as the third-most-watched series of the season, there has been talk that Brooke Brooke , Rupert 1887-1915. British poet known for his war poetry suffused with a romantic patriotic quality. Noun 1. Brooke - English lyric poet (1887-1915) Rupert Brooke Shields' program might not make it to a sophomore season because it has continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. lost a chunk of the audience delivered to it by the show airing before it. (For the most part, that was TV's top comedy, ``Seinfeld''). In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , the knock has been that ``Susan'' is nothing more than a time-slot hit. (If NBC aired a test pattern between ``Seinfeld'' and top-rated ``ER,'' the half-hour would probably still end up in the top 10 for the week, the thinking goes.) With 28 weeks of the 36-week season in the record books, ``Seinfeld'' is No. 1 with an average weekly audience of 30.7 million viewers. ``Suddenly Susan'' is No. 3 - and the top-rated new comedy of the season - with an average audience of 25.3 million viewers. Apparently, NBC does not feel that 5 million-viewer drop-off is all that significant. Recently, the network moved the show to 8:30 p.m., behind ``Friends,'' where it performed better than ``The Single Guy'' did in the slot. Moreover, ``Suddenly Susan'' fared better this season in the post- post- word element [L.], after; behind. post- pref. 1. After; later: postpartum. 2. Behind; posterior to: postaxial. ``Seinfeld'' 9:30 p.m. slot than did ``The Naked Truth,'' which will soon be replaced in that primo spot by Sharon Lawrence's new comedy, ``Fired Up.'' |
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