and finished second with a 23 average. "Cheers" on NBC, the No. 1 favorite for much of the season, dropped to third.

The three-minute premiere of Fox Broadcasting's new "Simpsons" video, shown at the end of Thursday's regularly scheduled episode, helped push the animated family up the Nielsen ladder.

The video, "Do the Bartman," scored higher ratings than the 30-minute "Simpsons" episode that preceded it. The video earned a 16.1 average. "The Simpsons" earned a 14.9 and landed in 20th place.

In the network news, ABC, with Peter Jennings, won its 48th consecutive week with a 12.2 average. NBC and Tom Brokaw tied with CBS and Dan Rather with a 10.The assets that once served as trade bait are now living, breathing players the Celtics need to develop. It might be time for Boston to focus on what it has, center the team on Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown and find out what they can actually do instead of who else they could become.

The funny thing about first-round picks is they lose value the second a team actually uses one to select a player. For years, the Celtics have been amassing picks in hopes of packaging them for something bigger. On the night of the 2019 draft, which lacked when it came to actual player movement, Boston’s draft assets finally became something tangible, as the team selected Romeo Langford, Grant Williams, Carsen Edwards and Tremont Waters with its