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CBS wins week with basketball and hit series
NEW YORK
The Nielsen ratings company says basketball and a slate of hit television series have handed CBS another winning week. It was CBS’ sixth straight weekly win in prime-time viewers.
The network had 15 of the top 20 shows, led by the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship game between UConn and Kentucky, which attracted more than 21 million viewers.
CBS averaged nearly 10 million viewers overall, leaving ABC behind with 6.2 million, followed by NBC and Fox.
USA was the week’s most-popular cable network in prime time, averaging about 2.1 million viewers.
NBC’s “Nightly News” topped the evening newscasts, followed by ABC’s “World News” and the “CBS Evening News.”
Walker’s brothers to help finish movie
NEW YORK
Paul Walker’s brothers are filling in to help finish filming on “Fast & Furious 7.”
Universal Pictures announced Tuesday that Caleb Walker and Cody Walker have been enlisted to complete the shooting of some of the film’s action scenes. Production has resumed after it was suspended in the wake of Walker’s death in late November.
Universal says in a statement on the film’s Facebook page having Walker’s brothers on set has made them feel he’s with them, too.
The 40-year-old Walker died in a car crash outside Los Angeles along with his friend Roger Rodas. A police investigation found the Porsche that Rodas was driving was traveling up to 94 mph when it went out of control.
Singer Juan Gabriel hospitalized in Vegas
LAS VEGAS
Mexican musical icon Juan Gabriel has been hospitalized in Las Vegas with pneumonia, postponing three California shows this week that were part of the top-selling artist’s “Volver” tour.
The 64-year-old singer was rushed to intensive care Monday morning after waking up with a fever and congestion, according to a statement issued Tuesday by tour company publicity firm D. Baron Media Relations. Gabriel had performed an extended, three-hour concert the night before at the Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip.
Officials at the publicity firm said Gabriel’s condition was improving Tuesday, and he was expected to be released from the hospital in a few days.
Shows scheduled for today and Thursday in Los Angeles were called off, along with a Saturday concert in San Jose, Calif. New dates for the shows were expected to be announced later in the week by tour producers CMN Events, according to the statement. It says the singer will return to the stage May 1 in Los Angeles.
Gabriel is known as “El Divo de Juarez” and is one of the best-selling Latin recording artists of all time, with more than 100 million albums sold in a career spanning decades.
Associated Press