Francis told them they had just played her new hit.

For the last few years, they had failed to come up with new hits.

Will the networks actually need new hit shows to make money?

But he has not exactly burned up the track with new hits.

"Each new positive hit gets us closer, but we just aren't there yet," an official involved in the investigation said.

The biggest problem for the networks is, as usual, a lack of new hits.

But the network has failed to develop any major new hits in the last few seasons.

Once again, the networks lack a new hit for the fall television season.

He noted that Fox always seems to come up with a new hit when it needs one.

The absence of a new hit hurt all the more because most established shows lost ground, and few gained.