MOSES IS STILL A RATINGS DRAW

Perhaps it was simply a case of there not being anything else worth watching on a Saturday night — a night that the networks have all but abandoned — but ABC’s telecast of the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille classic The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, captured nearly 7 million viewers on Saturday, making it the […]

MOSES RETURNS TO MOUNTAIN TOP

After being knocked into second place a year ago, when it competed against basketball, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston as Moses, averaged 7.05 million viewers. That compares with the dismal 5.88 million who tuned in for the ABC telecast of the holiday classic a year ago. In 2009, ABC’s telecast of […]