This image is not the life support monitor for Patrick Swayze, all though by the looks of his chain smoking and the way this graph is steering, it might as well be. Rather, it's a chart of network television ratings for this season vs. last season. Some obvious highlights: The CW is nearly off the charts, in a very bad way; for all its awesome new shows, ABC is dragging; American Idol cannot support the entire Fox channel; and NBC, once the top network and then suddenly the No. 4 loser, is the only channel showing gains.

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