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    World Series a mixed bag in TV ratings; Nielsen week in review

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    The Houston Astros celebrate their 4-1 World Series win against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6 on Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

    By Ronald Blum, Baseball Writer

    NEW YORK & LAS VEGAS (AP) --

    While four games in baseball’s World Series ranked #3 to #6 in the past week’s most-watched programs in Nielsen’s primetime TV ratings, historically speaking the match-up between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies ranked next to last in all-time Fall Classic viewership 

    The Astros’ six-game victory over the Phillies finished as the second least-watched World Series ever on television.

    The six games averaged 11,784,000 on Fox, down 1.3% from the 11,940,000 for the Atlanta Braves’ six-game win over the Astros last year and ahead of only the 9,946,000 for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ six-game victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in 2020.

    Houston’s 3-1 win in Game 6 on Saturday night was seen by 12,549,000 viewers on Fox, down 11% from 14,140,000 Atlanta’s 7-0 victory over the Astros in last year’s finale, played on a Tuesday night. Including Fox Deportes and streaming, this year’s Game 6 was viewed by 12,871,000.

    Game 6 was played opposite several college football games, including Alabama-LSU on ESPN, Clemson-Notre Dame on NBC and Florida State-Miami on ABC.

    The World Series finished with a 6.1 Nielsen rating and 17 share. The rating was the second-lowest behind the 5.2 for 2020, which had a 12 share. This year’s share marked a 1% increase from last year.

    Including Fox Deportes and streaming, this year’s Series averaged 12,023,000 viewers.

    Viewers peaked at 51,560,000 for Game 7 of the 1975 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds.

    Totals declined with the rise of cable television and then of streaming services, giving viewers more choices.

    The Series had a 25.0 rating and a 52 share in Philadelphia and a 24.0/55 in Houston.

    The rating is the percentage of television households tuned in to a broadcast. The share is the percentage viewing a telecast among those households with TVs on at the time.

    Here are the 20 most-watched programs in primetime television for the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, according to the Nielsen company.

    1. NFL Football: Tennessee at Kansas City, NBC, 17.69 million.
    2. “NFL Pregame” (Sunday), NBC, 13.81 million.
    3. World Series Game 5: Houston at Philadelphia, Fox, 12.77 million.
    4. World Series Game 6: Philadelphia at Houston, Fox, 12.55 million.
    5. World Series Game 4: Houston at Philadelphia, Fox, 11.81 million.
    6. World Series Game 3: Houston at Philadelphia, Fox, 11.16 million.
    7. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 10.678 million.
    8. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.676 million.
    9. NFL Football: Cincinnati at Cleveland, ESPN, 10.01 million.
    10. College Football: Alabama at LSU, ESPN, 7.58 million.
    11. “Football Night in America, Part 2,” NBC, 6.98 million.
    12. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.89 million.
    13. “FBI,” CBS, 6.88 million.
    14. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 6.58 million.
    15. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 6.56 million.
    16. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 6.26 million.
    17. “Ghosts,” CBS, 6.15 million.
    18. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 6.09 million.
    19. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 5.81 million.
    20. “Fire Country,” CBS, 5.53 million.

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    Theodor Pištěk, Czech Oscar-winning costume designer, dies at 93

    Thursday, December 4, 2025
    Theodor Pistek, Czech costume and stage designer and painter in Prague, Oct. 18, 2022. Pistek, who won an Academy Award for his work on “Amadeus” has died. He was 93. (Katerina Sulova/CTK via AP, File)

    Theodor Pištěk, a Czech costume and stage designer and painter who won an Academy Award for his work on the 1984 film "Amadeus," has died. He was 93.

    His death was announced on Thursday by the town of Mukařov, just east of Prague, where he lived and was confirmed by his family to the local CTK news agency. They said he died on Wednesday but gave no other details.

    Pištěk's costumes appeared in the films of director František Vláčil from the end of 1950s, including "Marketa Lazarová" and "The Valley of the Bees," but his most famous work appears in the movies by late Czech-born director Milos Forman.

    The two became friends during their mandatory military service in communist Czechoslovakia.

    Forman ended up settling in the United States following the 1968 Soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia, and while Pištěk remained in Czechoslovakia, they two nonetheless cooperated on films.

    Pištěk won an Academy Award for best costume design in multiple-Oscar winner "Amadeus," which was filmed in Czechoslovakia.

    As he accepted the award in 1985, he called it "the biggest and happiest day of my film career."

    Pištěk was also nominated for an Academy award for Forman's 1989 movie "Valmont." He won the the French Cesar award for that film.

    Pištěk and Forman also worked together on "The People vs. Larry Flynt."

    Pištěk was born on Oct 25, 1932, in Prague to parents who were both actors. He graduated from Prague's Academy of Fine Arts in 1958. Until the middle of the 1970s, Pištěk was also involved in motor racing as a driver and cars became a subject of paintings he made that were displayed in the United States and elsewhere.

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