Overnights
ABC's 'Housewives' gains momentum
Comedy hits its best numbers since returning from strike hiatus, with a 6.2 in 18-49s, up 7 percent, giving network an easy win

Television
Media buyers now see weaker upfront
Three quarters of readers see spending up 2 percent or less, and nearly a quarter see total network ad sales falling from last year

Television
This May sweeps, a far muddier track
Fox is ahead, no surprise, but well down from last year, and the other networks are hurting far worse as strike's losses linger

Popcult
The newest British invader, just Duffy
No first name but she's got a top album in the UK and Europe, and it's coming to the U.S. next week. The sound: Sixties soul.

Out of Home
Your client tapping into the music set
Advertisers run surveys on jukeboxes in clubs and bars, reaching the hip young crowd as they play their favorite selection of songs

TV This Week
For House, the play will indeed go on
Fox's cranky doctor spots alarming symptoms on the part of an actor on a soap he likes. He leaps to the rescue, quite unwanted.