‘Dancing With The Stars’ steps over the rest
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Allie @ Gone Hollywood | Wednesday, September 20, 2006 |
The third cycle of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars had its biggest start yet as 20.2 million viewers tuned in Tuesday. I’ll have to admit, I haven’t been able to catch it on TV yet… but I’m dying to watch Jerry Springer cut a rug! He just looks so out of place to me.
•Dance fever. That’s up from 17.5 million for January’s opener and 13.5 million for its start as a regular series in summer 2005, and trails only the two previous finales. Wednesday’s first results show averaged 16.3 million.
•Survivor race. Despite massive publicity from its controversial sorting of teams by race, the Survivor: Cook Islands premiere averaged 18 million viewers Thursday, down from 18.4 million last fall to the smallest opening audience since the series’ first season. The Amazing Race 10 opener averaged 10.1 million viewers Sunday, also down slightly. Tuesday’s Big Brother finale averaged 8.4 million, up from 8.1 million last September. And Wednesday’s Rock Star: Supernova capper (7 million) was down from 7.8 million.
•Gridiron. ESPN’s Monday Night Football debut (12.6 million) set a channel record; a late second game was solid at 10.5 million. NBC’s Sunday game drew 18.4 million, vs. last week’s 22.6 million.
•Trees fall. A special preview of ABC dramedy Men in Trees averaged 11.7 million viewers following Dancing on Tuesday, then withered to a still-first-place 8.1 million in Friday’s regular time slot premiere.
•House divided.Dancing also proved potent against Fox’s Tuesday dramas: House fell to 15.2 million, down 23% from last week’s season opener, while Standoff (9 million) dropped a steep 34%.
•Katie comedown. The CBS Evening News With Katie Couric clung to a razor-thin lead last week, averaging 7.9 million viewers, down from 10.2 million for Couric’s much-hyped debut a week earlier. NBC finished second with 7.83 million, up from 7.1 million; ABC had 7.53 million, up from 6.9 million. (Night by night at right.)
•Whose network? The debut week was weak for MyNetwork TV, which replaced WB or UPN programming with telenovelas on many stations. Desire averaged 1.2 million for its Sept. 5-8 premiere week, and Fashion House claimed 1.3 million, little more than half the audience for UPN summer repeats.source
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