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While it was down about 17% from last year’s numbers, Lost was still the night’s top draw. The season finale gave ABC a win in both the viewers and the demos.

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Lost's Jin

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Despite a good turnout for the Country Music Awards, Desperate Housewives was easily the night’s most-watched program.  The finale gave ABC a win in both the viewers and demos.

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Taylor Swift, Country Music Awards

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Gallery: Sunday Ratings: ABC Finales Lead Competition


The Bachelorette, DeAnna Pappas

A new season calls for a new schedule.

If you’re without anything to do this summer, this updated programming schedule may help keep you occupied.  Over the next few months, networks will be introducing a crop of reality shows (Celebrity Circus, Greatest American Dog), some experimental dramas (Swingtown, Fear Itself) and the usual horde of repeats.

This list is a

compilation of the calendars

for the five major networks.

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A full slate of finales gave NBC a boost in the ratings.  The network was third with the viewers but second in the demos.

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Last night’s three-hour Survivor finale helped CBS make a dent in ABC’s long streak.  The Eye network took a win in the viewers and narrowly took the demos as well.

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Survivor: Micronesia, Parvati Shallow

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American Gladiators, Rocket and Jet

 

MONDAY (5/12)

Tonight’s finales: The Hills, Medium, Samantha Who?, The Bachelor

  • American Gladiators (NBC, 8pm):  Season Two premiere includes new gladiators (‘Rocket’ and ‘Jet’).  Seriously, how intimidating could a smiling Gladiator be?
  • Bones (FOX, 8pm):  “When the body of an aspiring singer (Ace Young of ) is discovered, Booth and Brennan probe a club’s open-mike night.”  Uhh—which one was Ace again?
  • Gossip Girl (CW, 8pm):  “An embarrassed Serena resurrects some troubling old habits as she continues to hide the truth from Dan.”  If he only knew she’d been sharing her jeans with three other girls.
  • How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8:30pm):  “Britney Spears returns as Abby, who is now dating Barney.”  First Robin Sparkles, now Britney.  I’m not sure if that’s a step up or down for Barney.

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CBS was almost a double victor last night.  The network had the largest number of viewers and came narrowly close to passing ABC in the demos.

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Scrubs, Donald Faison

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Psych, USA NetworkAs we all know, the recent forced programmers to fill their schedules creatively.  CBS brought Big Brother in early, FOX aired endless repeats of House and NBC borrowed shows from other areas.  Unfortunately for the Peacock network, their experiments have all ended with a thud.

Back in February, NBC pulled quarterlife after only one episode.  Fortunately, that internet series still had its regular fan base to return to.  Now two other programs on the network are going back to where they came from.

Come next week, both Monk and Psych will be dropped from the Sunday lineup.  Reruns of the USA Network shows starting airing on their sister channel back in April.  Unfortunately, both programs have had only churned out horrible demos since their debut.

A two-hour block of The Office will fill in for the time being.

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Gallery: NBC Drops Monk, Psych


Despite a win in the demos, ABC’s lineup hit record lows.  Grey’s Anatomy and Ugly Betty saw their lowest 18-49 turnouts ever.

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ER, Mekhi Phifer

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House, Hugh Laurie

(You can view TV Envy’s Post-Strike Television Schedule here.)

 

MONDAY (4/28)
  • Deal or No Deal (NBC, 8pm):  “Darth Vader subs for The Banker in a -themed episode that also features Carrie Fisher, R2-D2 and Chewbacca, who cheer on contesants in a winner-take-all match.”  As if I needed a reason to avoid this program altogether.
  • House (FOX, 9pm):  New episode.  “House suspects that an ER patient with a sunny disposition has a bigger problem than was initially diagnosed.  The reason:  He thinks the patient is too nice.”  I have to admit it—cheery people are a freak of nature.
  • Medium (NBC, 10pm):  “Joe surprises Allison by buying her a used car, but Allison’s subsequent visions warn of the vehicle’s unsavory past.”  Is it a 1958 Plymouth Fury that responds to the name ‘Christine’?
  • CSI: Miami (CBS, 10pm):  “A clue in a case involving the discovery of a body point the CSIs to a robbery that’s being planned on a target who holds a disturbing secret.”  Murders have never been linked to anti-climatic or lame secrets.

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