If American TV execs are panicking about their ratings being down, they’re not showing it to critics. “This TV season, viewership for NBC is down 9 per cent, for CBS it’s down 3 per cent, ABC is down 5 per cent and Fox isn’t down at all, but it isn’t growing either. In fact Fox can thank a handful of avidly watched baseball games for its holding-steady starts. You’d think this might cause a touch of panic at NBC, for instance, but devil the bit of it.”