The TV Zone

You know and I know and pretty much everyone else knows that ratings stories are kinda boring unless they're the Oscars or something to do with P. Diddy. Since this is about the latter, we proceed: Last night's "special" presentation of "A Raisin in the Sun" was seen by 12.7 million, which easily helped ABC win the night AND turn in the network's best Monday this year. Monday - when not propped by "DWTS" - has been a tough night for the Alphabet. And - in fact - the whole idea of "movie of the week" has turned into one of the late, great anachronisms of the network TV biz. Not that "Raisin" is or was an "MOW" - it was a "special" based on a classic with some other very famous names attached (Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald.) Nevertheless, one never knows how these things might turn out... After the horrific Oscars performance, ABC got a little ray of sun last night, pun intended. (Above: From the Broadway production.)