NEWS & NOTE : NBC'S `WILL & GRACE' SLIDES INTO ENVIED THURSDAY NIGHT SLOT.Byline: Daily News Wire Services NBC's hot new sitcom, ``Will & Grace,'' is about to get hotter. (Yes!) ``W&G,'' starring Eric McCormack Eric James McCormack (b. April 18 1963,[1] in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American actor of Canadian, Irish and Cherokee descent. He maintains residences in Los Angeles and Vancouver. and Debra Messing as a gay lawyer and his straight female roommate, will move from Tuesdays to NBC's most primo real estate - Thursdays. At 8:30 p.m., no less, following the second-highest-rated show in the known universe, ``Friends.'' The fun begins April 8. This will be the third move for ``W&G,'' which began the season on Mondays. In December, it went to 9:30 p.m. Tuesdays, where it has regularly beaten ABC's critically adored ``Sports Night.'' NBC's current occupant at 8:30 Thursdays, Christina Applegate's freshman ``Jesse,'' will have finished its season's run of originals by April 8. It's expected to return in the fall. 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. will replace ``W&G'' at 9:30 Tuesdays with ``Everything's Relative,'' a new comedy starring Larry Sanders alum Jeffrey Tambor and Jill Clayburgh as divorced parents of two 20-something sons. It gets a four-episode tryout as of April 6. No Monica mania: Brits proved largely indifferent to watching former White House intern Monica Lewinsky reveal her side of her affair with President Clinton, with only 3 million viewers tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune to an interview broadcast Thursday night. The interview was conducted by Jon Snow, anchor of the network's nightly ``Channel 4 News,'' who professed himself ``impressed'' by Lewinsky's poise and optimism. The ratings, which amount to only 14 percent of peak-time audience share, were considerably lower than the 23 million who tuned in to the BBC's similarly confessional conversation with Princess Diana or the 8 million who watched a BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. interview with Louise Woodward, the British nanny convicted of manslaughter in a Massachusetts case. The network said it has sold the interview into 36 nations. ``Given that Channel 4 is a smaller station than ITV (1) See interactive TV. (2) (iTV) The code name for Apple's video media hub (see Apple TV). , it is obvious that our ratings are going to be lower than if it had been broadcast on ITV,'' a Channel 4 spokesman said. ``But we were very pleased with the interview.'' Short stuff: ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. has ordered 13 episodes of ``Sugar Hill,'' a new sitcom created by ``Spin City's'' Gary David Goldberg. In his network TV debut, Charlie Sheen (``Platoon'') will star as a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of cop. Co-stars include Joe Pantoliano (``EZ Streets'') and Teri Polo (``Sports Night''). |
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