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Syndicated weekly hours, such as Paramount's cult favorite, Star Trek: The NextGeneration or Universal's Xena: Warrior Princess , no longer can garner high enough ratings to make them worth syndicators' efforts.
"We don't do a lot of weekly first-run syndicated shows any more," said Paramount President of Programming Greg Meidel at last week's NATPE. "It's just not viable."
But Paramount is having some success with two weekly programs, half-hour movie-review show Hot Ticket and hour unscripted show Unexplained Mysteries , according to Executive Vice President of...