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GET THIS: Inside scoop on the ratings

Curious what the ratings are for your favorite show? Wondering if it's waiting for the ax to fall? All network-related answers reside at The Programming Insider, a great weekday e-letter from Mediaweek's Mr. Television columnist, Marc Berman. He's got overnight ratings numbers, series opinions, longer-term trend observations, and a fun daily trivia question about vintage tube faves.

Marc is an entertaining read who's also a go-to straightshooter when critics need quotes to shed light on TV's numbers game. He's got decades of experience in the biz, including stints in network research. Yet he's no geek, always appreciating TV from a viewer's perspective. (Please forgive him his Big Brother obsession.)

This guy loves the tube as much as Dave and I do. And that's no small crush.

Subscribe to The Programming Insider -- it's free -- by visiting the Mediaweek site and clicking on Newsletter Sign Up (top right corner of page, in orange letters). Marc also does a daily podcast, if you want to hear it straight from Mr. Television's mouth.

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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