Entertainment

Starr report

For all the hoo-ha of “Leno vs. Letterman,” it’s actually ABC’s “Nightline” that’s making the most noise in late night as we near the year’s end.

For the week of Nov. 14, “Nightline” (Cynthia McFadden, Terry Moran and Bill Weir) averaged nearly 4 million viewers at 11:30 p.m., compared to roughly 3.6 million for both “Late Show” and “The Tonight Show.” (To be exact, “Late Show” actually beat “Tonight” by 20,000 viewers). It was also up 10 percent in total viewers from the same week last year.

“Nightline” also bested both Letterman and Leno in the “news demo” of adults 25-54, while finishing second to Letterman in adults 18-49 (Leno came in a distant third).

In other ratings news, it was a good start for TNT’s “Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse,” which premiered to 3.3 million viewers last Friday night (10 p.m.) — which grew to 3.4 million for the 10:30 episode. The series stars Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Kent Faulcon, Crystle Stewart, Jason Olive and Kiki Haynes.

And “The Chew” continues to show some viewership growth, averaging 2.4 million viewers for the week of Nov. 14 — a series high. It also snared series highs in women demos (18-34, 18-49 and 25-54), while network stablemate “The View” scored its most-watched week in nine months (3.9 million viewers).

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — how cool is Antenna TV? The retro station, whose roster includes “Sanford and Son,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” “The Three Stooges,” “The Jack Benny Show” and “The Partridge Family” — among many others — will air marathons on both Christmas weekend and New Year’s Eve.

The Christmas weekend marathon includes holiday-themed episodes of “The Burns and Allen Show,” “Father Knows Best,” “McHale’s Navy” (starring Ernie Borgnine, who turns 95 in January) and many others. The New Year’s Eve marathon features 34 episodes of “The Jack Benny Show” and a “Burns and Allen” marathon. Fun stuff for classic TV connoisseurs.

Antenna TV airs here on Ch.¤11’s digital tier (Ch.¤11.4) and on various area cable systems (Cablevision/Ch.¤114, Time Warner Cable/Ch.¤166, Comcast/Ch.¤252, FIOS/Ch.¤465, RCN/Ch.¤22 and Charter/Ch.¤244).

And, in that vein, add this to the “Who Knew?” category: ex-“Frasier” star Jane Leeves was, for a short time, one of Benny Hill’s scantily clad “Hill’s Angels” on the old “Benny Hill Show” — which, by the way, airs on Antenna TV. I gleaned the Leeves info from reading Mark Lewisohn’s 350-page biography of Hill, “Funny, Peculiar,” which was very good.