

window Thursdays as a stop-gap measure starting in January. ABC, set to air several college football bowl games in prime time New Year’s week, is expected to run movies to fill the 8 to 10 p.m.

26, after drawing dismal ratings (about 5 million viewers a week, based on Nielsen estimates) opposite “Friends” on NBC and “Survivor” on CBS. “Dinotopia,” which didn’t premiere until Thanksgiving, will have its final telecast Dec. ABC, in the throes of trying to rebuild its prime-time lineup, has completed a dubious sweep of its fledgling dramatic series by canceling the dinosaur fantasy “Dinotopia” - meaning all four of this fall’s new dramas became extinct before 2003.
