If you're toiling away at a broadcast network these days, getting the Nielsen overnights every morning has to be a lousy way to start the day. If your gig is at NBC, it's got to be a daily punch in the gut: The network is off 16% in its target 18-49 demo from a year ago. Everybody else, except ABC, is off or at best basically flat season-to-date. Strikingly, there wasn't one breakout hit by the end of the November sweeps that compares with last year, when newbies Desperate Housewives and Lost already were both established watercooler series.
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