ABC hitless; Bruckheimer hits a high

0 Comments | USA TODAY, February, 2004 | by Gary Levin

In a slump. As ABC executives pointed out last week to an investors' conference in Orlando, the network is bereft of hits. Here's how bad things have gotten: No ABC show appears among last week's top 30 programs. ( The Bachelorette came in 33rd.) But its latest reality show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition , showed promise Sunday with 11 million viewers, up sharply from canceled cop drama 10-8.

Crime pays. Jerry Bruckheimer's trio of CBS dramas -- CSI , Without a Trace and Cold Case -- each notched their most-watched episodes last week. Top-ranked CSI snared 30.9 million viewers, Trace had 20.1 million (ranking eighth) and Cold Case 17.3 million (12th).

Sex sells. The penultimate episode of HBO's Sex and the City scored 6.1 million viewers; though no record, ratings...