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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1999 11:52:55 ET XXXXX

RATINGS FLASH: NBC'S 'Y2K' MOVIE A RATINGS BUST; FINISHES IN LAST PLACE

NBC ran into its very own Y2K glitch last night when its hyped-out millennium scare movie failed to pull-in viewers.

In numbers released this hour by NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, NBC's Y2K finished in last place during its time slot, with a mild 11.0 rating/16 share.

"My slogan while making the movie was, 'Paranoia is our most important product,'" executive producer David Israel had said.

Israel's 'paranoia' trailed CBS's SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL: WINTER'S END [13.0 rating/19 share] and various ABC programming [PRACTICE, 11.9 rating/18 share].

Top show Sunday night: ABC's WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE, with a 15.9 rating/23 share.

"[Y2K] did not perform like we expected," said a disappointed NBC executive Monday morning from Burbank.

NBC had initially hoped that Y2K would develop into a complete cultural event, much like ABC's nuke film THE DAY AFTER.

The 1983 movie that depicted life after a nuke blast gave ABC a 46.1 rating/62 share -- and ranks #15 on the NIELSEN list of all programs ever aired.

Developing...

-- so much for panic (zzzzzz@zzzzzzzz.zzzzzzzz), November 22, 1999.

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-- controversy (no@boost.at all), November 22, 1999.

Good, everybody is smirked asleep, I have 3 more paychecks to spend on preps without much competition.

-- Jenny (jenny58@aol.comic), November 22, 1999.

NBC thought it might be a complete cultural event? Not with Kosky at the helm. Goebbels hypnotist.

-- i don't care (don't care@don't care.zombie), November 22, 1999.

The ratings are exactly what I would have expected. People do not want to be made to worry about what might happen. Denial would be a step up in awareness for the average individual. Pray that nothing major does happen, because if it does, the bodies will be numerous.

-- really (really@not suprised.com), November 22, 1999.

Denial wafting downstream, easy, pleasant.

When real life failures come pelting the globe in January, with a totally sleeping populace -- sounds Biblical.

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), November 22, 1999.

Now seriously: when was the last time anybody actually saw a touchback in a pro football game???

If Emmitt whacks somebody accidentally with his cast, would that be unsportsmanlike conduct?

Anybody actually tape the Dallas game?

-- lisa (lisa@cowboys.vegetables), November 22, 1999.

>People do not want to be made to worry about what might happen.

What might happen? A cascading blackout and one sits watching t.v. with the lights on in the background, in a biker bar that had naysayed and hadn't made any contingency plans? The script was schizophrenic.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 22, 1999.

Jenny,right on,any thing that keeps the great herd from stampeding while I finish up prepping my last minuet preps.toliet paper,wool socks,rice,beans,razors,tampons,cases of vodka,you can never have too much dried eggs,milk,yeast,wood matches,hollow point+p hand gun ammo,buckshot,anti-diahreah medicine.wool surplus blankets...

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), November 22, 1999.

I compulsivly buy tuna.Wood strike anywear matches still sell out every week here in madison and the bar-b-cue season is way over.The masses refusal to prepair until a mass twitch responce insures a messed up reaction to any real situation.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), November 22, 1999.

If you wasted two hours to see it, this should come as no surprise.

I bet No-skin-em loved it.

-- hunter (way@up.north), November 22, 1999.

Gosh, NBC just found out what its like trying to tell people about y2k! We could have told them how few people would listen or get it.

-- seraphima (seraphima@aol.com), November 22, 1999.

The preppers quietly prep while the masses sleep.I hope as do the polyanna's that tomorrow will be much like today.I just don't have their religious faith in the corporate establishment.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), November 22, 1999.

Well DUH...

That is what happens when you are across from the revered "X- Files"... especially a new season (not a rerun)... I think it was planned that way though...

snoozin'...

The Dog

-- Dog (Desert Dog@-sand.com), November 22, 1999.

What y2k movie?

I was over on MTV watching Jerry springer host Springbreak.

They were timing couples getting into VW bugs swapping their bathing suits--gawd it was soo cool and sexy!

-- db (dciinc@aol.com), November 22, 1999.

Guess I didn't help with the ratings - was painting/caulking out back....at least I was trying to keep the bugs and the cold air from coming in around the cable connection, rather than just watching them creep in .... through the cable connection.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), November 22, 1999.

Whew. I guess we forget just how much Joe Blow really, really doesn't care about this "computer geek stuff". More for me and mine! :)

-- Colin MacDonald (roborogerborg@yahoo.com), November 23, 1999.