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ABC may have some ratings winners with “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost,” but its Thursday night schedule has been stuck in fourth place.

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The network hopes to change that starting this week. ABC is swapping 7 p.m.’s “Extreme Makeover” and 8 p.m.’s “life as we know it.”

“Life as we know it” will no longer have to compete with NBC’s “The Apprentice” or CBS’ “CSI.” But the move does put the high school soap in direct competition with Fox’s successful soap “The O.C.”

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