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THE WEEK, Page 24CULTURECheerless
NBC drops a top show and could lose Letterman, its late-night
franchise
The timing of the announcement -- the 51st anniversary of
Pearl Harbor -- was appropriate. NBC disclosed that this will be
the last season for Cheers, the network's top hit and one of the
most successful comedies in TV history. The show's producers
decided to close the fictional Boston bar after 11 years.
The news didn't get better. A day later, it was revealed
that David Letterman, host of NBC's popular late-night show,
had been offered more than $14 million a year from CBS to jump
networks. NBC has a month to match the deal, but will be hard
pressed to do so. The ratings last week showed NBC trailing CBS
and ABC by a large margin. It all looked, as Letterman
explained sardonically, like a grand plan to keep NBC in last
place.