31.   It seemed all simian grunts and power tools, hardly a foundation for a hit show.

32.   It means the network will share in whatever profit a hit show makes in the long run, of course.

33.   It is not surprising that a spot between two hit shows has long been the most desirable place to be on a network schedule.

34.   Otherwise, the network is broadening its focus beyond the sink-or-swim dynamic of hit shows.

35.   Ozzy Osbourne during a taping of the hit show.

36.   Overall, these are tough times for all the networks, which find it increasingly hard to create hit shows.

37.   Partly, it is the nature of the job, which demands new hit shows and upwardly mobile Nielsen ratings.

38.   Ratings continue to decline across the board as networks struggle to find hit shows to break through the ever more competitive prime-time landscape.

39.   She was no longer that spunky Soweto schoolgirl fighting the injustices of apartheid in a hit Broadway show.

40.   So popular have the races become that one was featured on the hit TV show, Home Improvement.