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Trending Hot -- ABC and NBC comedies took televisions by storm, and a rising trend for medicine came on the heels of NBC's ER and CBS' Chicago Hope. The OJ Simpson trial led to a news craze, as NBC multiplied Dateline NBC to four evenings. Network produced Movies helped putty undesirable timeslots with the 90's trend of "Women in Peril".
Trending Tepid -- Soaps on FOX produced mixed results. 90210 and Melrose Place were red hot, to the point FOX made a wise choice to have MP relaunch Monday evenings with the genius advertisement "Mondays are a B!tch" with an icy portrait of Heather Locklear over the catchphrase. Party of Five ranked closer to WB and UPN, and MP spinoff Models, Inc received creative and Nielsen backlash. Po5 received a renewal, and the Models were told to eat something.... on another network.
CBS comedies hit a stall in the 1994-95 season, as the red-hot 1992 Republican controversy cooled down with age. The Nanny experienced great growth on Mondays, while Dave's World delivered respectable at best. An ill-fated Saturday comedy block rated poorly, and no pilots received a renewal except Cybill.
Trending Cold -- WB and UPN were obscure and had little draws. Paramount backed UPN (United Paramount Network) managed to find great success with Star Trek: Voyager, and that was it. Warner Bros. backed WB entered the sitcom game with four entries, all poorly rated at best.