Cops Tops Bailey Bailout

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Have TV viewers already tired of holiday specials?

It's A Wonderfule Life lost out to "it can be a pretty depressing one" Saturday night, as did Elf and Finding Nemo and everything else on broadcast TV.

The top-rated show of the night at a 2.3/8 was Fox's Cops at 8-9, although enough viewers turned in to see George Bailey come up with ZuZu's petals and claim a moral, if not literal, victory over Mr. Potter that Wonderful Life's last hour on NBC won the 10-11 time period.

Not that many people were watching broadcast network TV, anyway, with the four-network total--CW is on Saturday night--claiming less than a quarter of the TV audience (23%).

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.