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'Facts of Life,' 'Different Strokes' remakes are ABC's best

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Everything old is new again 鈥 at least for ABC's audience. The network's special, star-filled live presentations of old episodes of 鈥淭he Facts of Life鈥 and 鈥淒iff'rent Strokes鈥 reached some 4.

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Everything old is new again 鈥 at least for ABC's audience.

The network's special, star-filled live presentations of old episodes of 鈥淭he Facts of Life鈥 and 鈥淒iff'rent Strokes鈥 reached some 4.8 million viewers last week, the Nielsen company said.

That wasn't earth-shattering, and didn't even crack Nielsen's list of top 30 programs. But it was the network's most-watched program. With stars like Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Hart, John Lithgow, Jon Stewart and Snoop Dogg, the annual exercise hosted by Jimmy Kimmel got some good word-of-mouth.

Otherwise, it was a fairly typical week in television, with football dominating and CBS' 鈥60 Minutes鈥 the top non-sports broadcast.

CBS eked out a weekly win, averaging 5.94 million viewers in prime time to NBC's 5.89 million. Fox averaged 4.5 million, ABC had 2.8 million, Univision had 1.5 million, Telemundo had 1 million and Ion Television had 880,000.

ESPN was the top cable network in prime time, averaging 2.49 million viewers. Fox News Channel had 2.3 million, Hallmark had 1.57 million, MSNBC had 1.12 million and Paramount had 894,000.

ABC's 鈥淲orld News Tonight鈥 won the evening news ratings race, averaging 8 million viewers. NBC's 鈥淣ightly News鈥 had 7.4 million viewers and the 鈥淐BS Evening News鈥 had 5.2 million.

For the week of Dec. 6-12, the top 20 prime time telecasts, their networks and viewers:

1. NFL Football: Chicago at Green Bay, NBC, 18.56 million.

2. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Minnesota, Fox, 14.04 million.

3. NFL Football: New England at Buffalo, ESPN, 13.28 million.

4. 鈥淣FL Pregame,鈥 NBC, 12.48 million.

5. 鈥淣FL Postgame,鈥 Fox, 10.93 million.

6. 鈥60 Minutes,鈥 CBS, 9.32 million.

7. 鈥淣FL Pregame,鈥 Fox, 8.78 million.

8. 鈥淵ellowstone,鈥 Paramount, 7.54 million.

9. 鈥淔ootball Night in America, Part 3,鈥 NBC, 7.35 million.

10. 鈥淣CIS,鈥 CBS, 7.25 million.

11. 鈥淔BI,鈥 CBS, 7.03 million.

12. 鈥淵oung Sheldon,鈥 CBS, 6.96 million.

13. 鈥淭he Voice鈥 (Tuesday), NBC, 6.89 million.

14. 鈥淭he Voice鈥 (Monday), NBC, 6.79 million.

15. 鈥淐hicago Fire,鈥 NBC, 6.77 million.

16. 鈥淣FL Pregame,鈥 ESPN, 6.72 million.

17. 鈥淐hicago Med,鈥 NBC, 6.59 million.

18. 鈥淔BI: International,鈥 CBS, 5.79 million.

19. 鈥淏lue Bloods,鈥 CBS, 5.76 million.

20. 鈥淕hosts,鈥 CBS, 5.75 million.

David Bauder, The Associated Press