NEWS & NOTES : STREISAND APPEARANCE BRINGS `ROSIE' HUGE NIELSEN NUMBERS.Byline: Daily News Wire Services People, people who need ratings, are (sometimes) the happiest people in the world. And that's surely how Rosie O'Donnell is feeling today. Our apologies to Barbra Streisand Noun 1. Barbra Streisand - United States singer and actress (born in 1942) Barbra Joan Streisand, Streisand , but after looking at the Nielsen ratings Nielsen ratings National ratings of the popularity of U.S. television shows. Developed by A.C. Nielsen in 1950, the system now samples television viewing in about 5,000 homes. for her appearance on Friday's ``Rosie O'Donnell Show,'' we just couldn't help ourselves. Babs brought Rosie eye-popping Nielsen numbers - the show's best ever, dropping the former top gun, a ``Rosie'' featuring Tom Cruise, to No. 2. Around the country, ``Rosie's'' numbers were boffo bof·fo Slang adj. Extremely successful; great. n. pl. bof·fos See boff1. [Alteration of boff1.] Adj. 1. . The program averaged a 10.2 overnight rating (percentage of Nielsen's sampling of 38 major markets, representing about 57 million TV homes) and a 26 share. That tops the previous high of 8.9/26 - set last December with Cruise. Short-term expansion: For fans of ABC's ``NYPD Blue NYPD Blue is an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. It was created by Steven Bochco and David Milch and inspired by Milch's relationship with a former member of the New York City Police Department Bill Clark (who ,'' there will be a little more of the show to go around on Dec. 9. On that night, the program will expand to 90 minutes and start at 9:30 to wrap up a story line that started this week in the show's usual 10 p.m. slot. (Next Tuesday, the hour is given over to a Barbara Walters Barbara Jill Walters[1] (born September 25, 1929[2]) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20 special.) The Dec. 9 episode will mark the first time in the five-year history of the show that it has been expanded beyond its 60-minute format. `War' heating up: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy Patrick G. Duffy (born March 17, 1949 in Townsend, Montana) is an American television actor, who appeared primarily in soap operas and television, who is of Irish descent. , Linda Gray Linda Ann Gray (born September 12, 1940 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress, best known for her role as Larry Hagman's long-suffering wife, Sue Ellen Ewing on the television soap opera Dallas , Steve Kanaly and George Kennedy are reprising their ``Dallas'' roles later this season in ``Dallas: The War of the Ewings,'' a TV movie that has just wrapped production. ``Dallas,'' with 356 episodes during 13 seasons starting in 1978, remains TV's second-longest-running prime-time entertainment series, surpassed only by CBS' ``Gunsmoke'' (402 episodes). More than `Friends': Jon Favreau, the writer, co-producer and star of the picture ``Swingers'' - as well as an occasional player on ``Friends'' as Monica's billionaire would-be boyfriend - has signed an exclusive one-year development deal with Disney's Touchstone TV, his first entry into small-screen production. He'll develop, write, produce and direct series and long-form TV programming for the studio. |
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