Pod Racers combat one another in mid-air during STAR WARS: EPISODE I, THE PHANTOM MENACE
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Weekly Genre Show Ratings (May 6-11)
By: Christopher Allan SmithDate: Thursday, May 16, 2002
Source: USA Today
For the third week in a row, big Hollywood movies and network specials took over slots in the genre to ten usually filled by hour-long heavy-hitters. STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE made a big splash on Thursday, while the first part of ABC's adaptation of the DINOTOPIA childrens' book series drew monster ratings.
Other points of interest: the season finale of ALIAS beat out the second to last episode of THE X-FILES, which is a first.
As for the rest...
The list reads as follows Genre Top Ten rank, (Overall rank), title, then in parenthesis (Viewers in millions/Rating/Share) [Network].
Here are the top ten numbers:
1. (2) C.S.I. (27.1/16.5/25) [CBS]
2. (19) DINOTOPIA, PART 1 (17.0/8.4/15) [ABC]
3. (38) ALIAS (11.3/6.5/10) [ABC]
4. (40) THE SIMPSONS (11.2/6.4/11) [FOX]
5. (46) THE X-FILES (10.3/ 6.2/ 10) [FOX]
6. (40) C.S.I. (special rerun) (10.0/ 6.4/ 13) [CBS]
7. (62) STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (movie, rerun) (8.2/ 5.2/ 8) [FOX]
8. (67) 24 (7.6/ 4.8/ 7) [FOX]
9. (78) SMALLVILLE (6.4/ 3.9/ 6) [WB]
10. (79) THREE KINGS (movie) (5.6/ 3.8/ 7) [NBC]
