Fox held its ratings top spot last week (AP)

NEW YORK - Singing and dancing scored again with viewers last week. Fox's "American Idol" placed first and second in the ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research, with ABC's two editions of "Dancing With the Stars" right behind.

CBS's crime drama, "CSI: Miami," followed in fifth place. But the week's most-watched shows were chiefly in the reality area. ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Oprah's Big Give" and "Primetime: What Would You Do?," CBS' "60 Minutes" and an NCAA championship basketball game (Louisville vs. UNC), NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" and "Deal or No Deal," and Fox's "Moment of Truth" all landed in the Top 20.

Fox's legal drama, "Canterbury's Law," premiered in a puny 78th place, with just 4.74 million viewers welcoming Julianna Margulies back to series TV.

Overall, Fox won the week, averaging 9.93 million viewers (with a 5.9 rating and 10 share) -- the network's 11th straight weekly victory.

CBS was a close runner-up with 9.47 million viewers (6.1 rating, 10 share), while ABC had 8.83 million viewers (5.7 rating, 9 share) and NBC had 7.69 million viewers (5.1 rating, 8 share). The CW had 2.30 million viewers (1.5 rating, 2 share), My Network TV had 1.30 million viewers (0.8, 1) and ION Television had 520,000 viewers (0.3 rating, 1 share).

Among the Spanish-language networks, Univision led with a 3.85 million viewer average (1.9 rating, 3 share), Telemundo had 1.02 million viewers (0.6 rating, 1 share), TeleFutura had 480,000 viewers (0.3, 0 share) and Azteca had 190,000 viewers (0.1 rating, 0 share).

There was a tie in the nightly news race, with both ABC's "World News" and NBC's "Nightly News" averaging 8.41 million viewers. ("World News" had a 5.8 rating and 12 share, while "Nightly News" had a 5.7 rating and 12 share.) In its customary third place, "CBS Evening News" had 6.6 million viewers (4.4 rating, 9 share).

A ratings point represents 1,128,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 112.8 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.

For the week of March 24-30, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "American Idol" (Wednesday), Fox, 25.74 million; "American Idol" (Tuesday), Fox, 24.76 million; "Dancing With the Stars" (Monday), ABC, 20.52 million; "Dancing With the Stars" (Tuesday), ABC, 17.49 million; "CSI: Miami," CBS, 16.07 million; NCAA Post-game Show, CBS, 14.36 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 14.24 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 13.36 million; "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," ABC, 12.96 million; "Celebrity Apprentice," NBC, 12.13 million.

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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is a division of CBS Corp. Fox is a unit of News Corp. NBC is owned by General Electric Co. Telemundo is owned by General Electric. TeleFutura is a division of Univision. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.

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