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- THE WEEK, Page 24CULTURECheerless
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- NBC drops a top show and could lose Letterman, its late-night
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- 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.
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- 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.
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