THE BUZZ.

Byline: - Daily News staff and wire services

NBC sitting on interview: NBC News brass is wrestling with what to do with a potentially explosive interview. It's one that correspondent Lisa Myers conducted with Juanita Broaddrick, who has been mentioned as a player in the ongoing White House scandal.

Myers interviewed Broaddrick last week, but the network has yet to air or schedule a slot for the segment.

``We do not comment on our newsgathering,'' said NBC News spokeswoman Alex Constantinople.

Sources say NBC insiders are trying independently to corroborate Broaddrick's story about her dealings with President Clinton and will not air the piece until it's rock-solid.

Since the White House scandal broke, Broaddrick's name has surfaced several times, though she has yet to appear in a television interview.

`Dilbert' debut works: The premiere of UPN's animated comedy ``Dilbert'' generated the largest audience for a UPN sitcom debut since the network launched in January 1995.

The workplace series is based on the newspaper comic strip about a cubicle-bound man, his fellow employees and their pointy-haired boss.

``Dilbert's'' debut averaged 6,792,000 viewers, according to Nielsen. That's an increase of 177 percent over what UPN has averaged this season in the 8 p.m. ET Monday time slot.

Despite its strong debut, ``Dilbert'' finished only sixth in its time period, according to Nielsen. And while the show had strong numbers for UPN, more than half of those watching ``Dilbert'' fled the network when the comedy ``DiResta'' came on.

Ready for `Pokemon'?: Kids WB! has ordered 12 new episodes of hugely popular ``Pokemon,'' the Nintendo Game Boy-inspired series that generated worldwide attention for sending Japanese children to the hospital with epileptic symptoms. Kids WB! will begin airing the half-hour series on Saturdays in February. By fall, however, the animated show will expand to six days a week. ``Pokemon'' was the No. 1-rated children's show and a cultural phenomenon in Japan. Yet such success was shadowed by controversy in 1997, when a segment of the popular animated program was blamed for sending more than 700 viewers - mostly children - to the hospital. The segment of the show believed to have caused reactions involved an explosion, followed by the red-and-blue flashing of one of the character's eyes. Viewers suffered from a variety of ailments, from feeling faint to convulsions and vomiting blood, according to published reports. The action in ``Pokemon'' centers around series hero Ash Ketchum, who aspires to be a coveted Pokemon trainer but first must capture as many fuzzy monsters as possible.