The most-watched series on cable last week among viewers 18-49 and 25-54, "Spaces" has been a ratings juggernaut for TLC, routinely outperforming even broadcast fare among female viewers. With the channel's 2003 programming budget getting a hefty 40% boost over last year (estimated at $83 million by Kagan World Media), "Spaces" will stay busy as a promotional and scheduling launch pad for new programming. The concept will get its first test this weekend with two new primetime series: "Faking It," which plucks people from their ordinary lives and replants them in stranger circumstances, and "What Not to Wear," which rescues the stylistically challenged.

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