Dancing With The Stars Beats Idol, Stands Atop Weekly Ratings

As the calendar moves to May, that means it’s the final weeks of TV’s regular season. To put it another way, time is drawing near until the season finales for ABC’s Dancing With The Stars and Fox’s American Idol.

The real competition has been in the ratings between the two shows. In the weekly New York prime time numbers, according to Nielsen, it’s Dancing that won the week. The Monday night, two-hour performances had an estimated 1.4

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