Duel (tv program)

At 20th Century Fox Studios in the 1960s, Lillian Gallo earned the nickname Mrs. Average America. She turned out to be anything but. Then a producer's assistant, she was asked to screen the dailies of nearly every television show in the Fox pipeline. She...

SOON it will be "American Idol" season, that sweet time of year when the world stops to crown a new singing sensation. The naysayers predicted that last year would be the year Americans stopped idolizing, and they were so, so wrong. With the...

Fast National ratings for Friday, April 25, 2008. With the return of "Moonlight," all three of CBS' Friday dramas are now back in original episodes, helping the network to easily tame the otherwise sluggish competition. Overall, CBS had a 5.6 rating/...

Fast National ratings for Friday, April 18, 2008 TV Viewers were in a newsmagazine mood on Friday night, with NBC leading the charge with a 4.5 rating/8 share for the night on the strength of a two-hour "Dateline NBC." CBS was second with a 4.2/8,...

Fast National ratings for Friday, April 4, 2008 The return of two drama series carried CBS to a ratings win Friday night, but even with those shows back, the demographic ratings weren't much to celebrate. CBS averaged a 5.9 rating/10 share for the...

Fast National ratings for Friday, April 11, 2008 Thanks to new episodes of its popular dramas, CBS continued to enjoy its ratings domination over the other networks on Friday. CBS averaged a 5.6 rating/10 share for the night, quite well ahead over ABC,...

Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007 No new episodes was no problem for CBS Wednesday, as its lineup of repeats coasted to an easy ratings victory. CBS averaged a 6.5 rating/11 share for the night, topping second-place NBC, 4.6/8, by a...

Fast National ratings for Monday, Dec. 17, 2007 An original episode of "CSI: Miami" and decent showings by its comedy repeats gave CBS a ratings win Monday. CBS averaged a 7.1 rating/11 share for the night to beat the competition by a fair margin. The...

You'd be forgiven for not remembering ABC's game show "Duel" from earlier this season. The network is just hoping you'll pay attention to it in a few weeks. "Duel" will return to ABC's schedule on a regular basis starting Friday, April 4. The show, which...

Though the 2007-08 season has yet to begin officially, networks are already stocking up on programming for the future. New acquisitions by ABC and NBC have a Gallic flavor: ABC has picked up the rights to a French game show called "Duel," while the...

George Eckstein, a television writer and producer who co-wrote the historic final episode of "The Fugitive" TV series in the 1960s and produced the acclaimed Steven Spielberg-directed TV-movie "Duel" in the '70s, has died. He was 81. Eckstein died of...