1.   Recently the longrunning TV drama series has been losing viewers, and scriptwriters have tried to pep it up by introducing some new characters.

2.   As they lose viewers to cable at a rapid pace, the networks clearly want to tiptoe toward the cable-delineated edge whenever possible.

3.   Besides, the networks are losing viewers to cable and other mass media anyway.

4.   A presidency hangs in the balance, and TV news crews are worried about who says what first, figuring latecomers will lose viewers looking for better innuendo elsewhere.

5.   ABC, CBS and NBC have been steadily losing viewers to cable for years, but in recent months the erosion of network watching has accelerated.

6.   But now they are losing viewers to all sorts of competitors.

7.   But Sports Illustrated never parlayed its authoritative reputation into TV, and the networks began losing viewers to cable.

8.   But what happened, he said, is TV lost older viewers without making up the loss with younger ones.

9.   Did the producers fear that a less agitated treatment might lose some viewers?

10.   For all its success last season, it lost viewers almost as rapidly as ABC.