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Friday overnights 18-49 (previous weeks in parentheses):

2.4 (----) (----) (----) Angels Vs. Yankees
2.0 (2.1) (1.7) (2.2) Ghost Whisperer
2.0 (1.5) (1.6) (2.3) 20/20
1.9 (1.9) (1.8) (2.0) Medium
1.8 (1.6) (1.6) (1.7) Numbers
1.6 (1.5) (1.2) (1.3) Law & Order
1.4 (----) (----) (----) Ugly Betty
1.3 (----) (----) (----) Secrets of the Lost Symbol
1.2 (1.4) (1.5) (1.5) The Jay Leno Show
1.1 (0.9) (0.9) (1.0) Smallville
0.6 (0.5) (0.5) (0.5) America’s Next Top Model (r)

* The move from Thursday was not pretty for “Ugly Betty,” which is now the lowest-rated show on ABC (behind even “Eastwick,” “Hank” and “Shark Tank”). It fell 58% from its 2008 premiere.

* “Leno” plummeted to another personal low. The lowest 18-49 score for “Leno” on any night before Friday was a 1.4.

* Despite the ugly performance from lead-in “Betty,” “20/20” made a huge 33% upward jump in 18-49 with a story about a very angry vineyard worker who two decades ago murdered co-workers and most of his own family, and the now-twentysomething daughter who survived the massacre.

* “Law & Order,” “Numbers” and “Smallville,” all hit their best numbers in what is proving a disastrous season for all three series. “Law” remains NBC’s lowest-rated drama. On CBS, only “Cold Case” drew a worse number than “Numbers” this week. On The CW, only the new “Melrose Place” currently pulls a smaller audience in 18-49 than the adventures of young Clark Kent.

* “Secrets of the Lost Symbol,” Matt Lauer’s informercial-ish NBC special looking at the new book by “Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown, scored lower in 18-49 overnights than any Friday edition of “Dateline” this season.

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