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In a television season with few new outright hits, network programmers seem to be exercising an extremely rare virtue: patience.
Following their own familiar script when confronted with new hits, network executives are planning many more reality series.
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But its high of 6.6 million viewers last week does not approach the level of viewers a hit network series can reach.
Shows that appear to be marginal in the traditional ratings can look like pleasant surprises when delayed viewing is counted, and hit network shows can add to their audience totals, sometimes in staggering numbers.
It's worth considering for a moment because studies like this always end up hitting network news after a day or two, with ridiculous simplifications and ominous speculations.
The telecoms regulator said hackers used a Chinese address to plant a malicious code that hit networks at six organisations on Wednesday.
As with last summer's Blaster worm, which had hackers taking 26 days to write code to infiltrate unprotected machines after Microsoft published a patch, Sasser and its variants hit networks less than two weeks after the patch was distributed.
But in a fragmented media environment where there are no longer surefire ratings hits, networks are cautious about making major financial commitments.
Because "Millionaire" emerged from Britain as a fully developed hit, network executives have started looking at other European shows.
It is a night that has not spawned a true hit network series in more than a decade.
THE NANNY In the 1990s an actual hit network sitcom included a person working in Broadway theater as a leading character: Maxwell Sheffield (Charles Shaughnessy), a Broadway producer.
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