Nice Globes!, part duex!

The biggest loser at next Sunday's Golden Globe Awards could be NBC. With the event less than a week away, plans for the ceremony are still up in the air because of the writers' strike. An announcement from Golden Globe organizers, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, could come by midday today. The actors' union has already said its members likely will not cross picket lines to either present or receive awards at the Globes.

One possible resolution, according to Variety, could be to turn the Globes into a non-televised event, which would likely garner the approval of the striking Writers Guild of America. But that obviously would not be the best-case scenario for NBC, which declared last week that it still planned to air the show on January 13th. NBC, the network home of the ceremony since 1996, brings in millions in ad revenue with the annual telecast.

Dick Clark Productions, which produces the Globes, criticized the WGA on Friday for allegedly treating it differently than DAVID LETTERMAN's production company, whose Late Show on CBS is back on the air under an interim agreement with the Writers Guild.

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Jamie Lynn Spears' TV show, Zoey 101 has reportedly been axed just weeks after she confessed she is pregnant with her first child. The 16-year-old initially had the support of her bosses at Nickelodeon, but it didn't last long as the network is trying to decide whether or not to air season four, which has already been produced.

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TV This Weekend

FRIDAY

ABC: Grey's Anatomy, Women's Murder Club (NEW), 20/20 (NEW)

CBS: Ghost Whisperer, Moonlight, Numbers

NBC: 1 vs. 100 (NEW), Friday Night Lights (NEW), Las Vegas (NEW)

FOX: Bones, House CW: WWE Friday Night Smackdown!

SATURDAY

ABC: Presidential Debate

CBS: High Crimes (2002), 48 Hrs Mystery (NEW)

NBC: NFL: Jacksonville vs Pittsburgh

FOX: Cops (1hr), America's Most Wanted

SUNDAY

ABC: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (NEW), Desperate Housewives (NEW), Cashmere Mafia (NEW-Pilot)

CBS: 60 Minutes, The Amazing Race (NEW), Cold Case (NEW), Shark (NEW)

NBC: Deal or No Deal (NEW), American Gladiators (NEW)

FOX: The Simpsons (NEW), King of the Hill (NEW), Family Guy, American Dad (NEW)

CW: Life is Wild (NEW), crowned: The Mother of all Pageants

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TV Boogoloo

There's yet another edition of Law & Order on the way, but U.S. audiences may not get the chance to see it. NBC Universal is in talks to create a version of Law & Order for British audiences, which would be called Law & Order: London...

Meet the newest stars of NBC: Crush, Fury, Venom, Mayhem, and Wolf. They're among the 12 men and women who will do battle with contestants on American Gladiators, an updated remake of the pseudo-athletic competition premiering this Sunday night. Some of the more familiar games from the original show, which aired from 1989-1997, are back, including the Joust and the Wall. There are also some new twists to liven up the series, such as special effects. HULK HOGAN and boxer and former Dancing with the Stars contestant LAILA ALI host American Gladiators, airing this Sunday on NBC at 9 p.m. Eastern time...

On ABC, LUCY LIU stars in a new dramedy titled Cashmere Mafia. The show revolves around four career women and their personal and professional lives in New York City. Plot sound familiar? It should come as no surprise that Sex and the City creator DARREN STAR is an executive producer for Cashmere Mafia, which premieres on ABC this Sunday night at 10 p.m. Eastern time. It moves to Wednesday nights later in the week.

Nielsen Ratings

No writers? No problem for JAY LENO, at least on Wednesday night, when several major late-night TV shows ended an eight-week hiatus brought on by the writers' strike. Seven-point-two million viewers watched Leno on NBC's Tonight Show, which secured a comfortable victory over DAVID LETTERMAN and CBS' Late Show, despite Letterman's returning writing staff, thanks to a separate agreement with the Writers Guild of America.

The newly-bearded Letterman was seen by 5.5 million viewers. NBC's CONAN O'BRIEN was more popular with viewers than CBS' CRAIG FERGUSON later in the night, even though he also was without his writers. O'Brien and Late Night attracted 2.8 million viewers, while 2.2 million people watched Ferguson and Late Late Show. Ferguson went back on the air with his writers under the same agreement made by Letterman's production company.

The country was certainly curious to see how these hosts would respond to the ongoing strike. Leno, Letterman, O'Brien and Ferguson all saw a spike in ratings in comparison to their pre-strike averages, with The Tonight Show enjoying a 43-percent increase.

In other Nielsens news, the NFL regular season ended with a bang last weekend. Most notably, the New England Patriots' victory over the New York Giants Saturday night was seen by 34.5 million people. The NFL Network's telecast of the game, in which the Patriots became the first team in 35 years to finish a regular season undefeated, was simulcast on NBC and CBS.

CBS won the primetime ratings race last week, followed by NBC, Fox, ABC, the CW, MyNetworkTV and ION Television.

Here are the top 10 primetime programs for the week of December 24th-30th, according to Nielsen Media Research:

1. NBC Sunday Night Football: Tennessee at Indianapolis, NBC, 15.8 million viewers.

2. NFL Football: New England at N.Y. Giants, CBS, 15.68 million viewers.

3. NFL Football: New England at N.Y. Giants, NBC, 13.23 million viewers.

4. 60 Minutes, CBS, 12.39 million viewers.

5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 10.69 million viewers.

6. Without a Trace, CBS, 10.54 million viewers.

7. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick, NBC, 10.38 million viewers.

8. Deal Or No Deal, (Tuesday) NBC, 9.78 million viewers.

9. Amazing Race 12, CBS, 9.69 million viewers.

10. CSI: NY, (Thursday) CBS, 9.49 million viewers.

Jay Jay the Jet Plane

JAY LENO says he supports the striking writers, but the feeling ain't mutual. The Writers Guild of America said yesterday that The Tonight Show host broke its rules by writing and telling jokes when his late night program returned Wednesday night for its first all-new show since the strike began nearly two months ago. The Guild didn't specify what, if anything, it plans to do in response to Leno's infraction.

The issue appears to be that Leno is a WGA member, which means when he wrote and performed his own jokes Wednesday night, he broke the rule prohibiting members from, quote, "performing any writing services during a strike for any and all struck companies."

Leno didn't address the budding controversy on last night's episode of The Tonight Show, but NBC spoke out on his behalf. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the network defended Leno by saying, quote, "The WGA agreement permits Jay Leno to write his own monologues for The Tonight Show. The WGA is not permitted to implement rules that conflict with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement between the studios and the WGA."

Leno hasn't been shy about expressing his support for striking writers, handing out doughnuts on the picket line and mentioning on Wednesday's show that he's on their side. When asked to comment on the alleged infraction, a publicist for Leno said the comedian was, quote, "busying himself with the show."

TV Tonight (1/3)

ABC: Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives

CBS: Without a Trace, CSI, Without a Trace

NBC: Deal or No Deal, The Celebrity Apprentice (NEW), ER

FOX: FedEx Orange Bowl: Kansas vs. Virginia Tech

CW: Smallville, Supernatural

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