Wednesday's round-up:8 pm/ETMoment of Truth dropped 30 percent of last week's après-Idol audience yet still dominated the hour with 10.58 million total viewers. Deal or No Deal placed second with 10.19 mil. Big Brother mustered up just 5.31 mill, while Top Model drew 3.65 mil.9 pmIdol drummed up 27.13 mil, followed distantly by Law & Order: Criminal Intent (7.90 mil).10 pmLaw & Order, guest-starring Lara Flynn Boyle, wowed with 11.85 million viewers, its largest audience since the Jan. 2 season-opener. Behind a CSI: NY repeat, Men in Trees matched last week's 5.67 mil.
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Jeers to Lara Flynn Boyle for her ludicrous performance on Law & Order. Virtually unrecognizable from her days on another legal drama, The Practice, the puffed-up actress so overplayed the role of unscrupulous reporter Dawn Talley — who slept with not one but two murder suspects — she made Dirt's Lucy Spiller (Courteney Cox) look like Jim Lehrer. And we were supposed to believe that hard-charging ADA Michael Cutter (Linus Roache) was temporarily hoodwinked by this "lying slut" (as Alana De La Garza's ADA Connie Rubirosa called her)? That's out of Order!• For more Cheers & Jeers (and more "slut" name-calling!), check out the new vodcast.• Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Cheer or Jeer on TVGuide.com or in TV Guide magazine!
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Lara Flynn Boyle, whose past beaus have included fellow Twin Peaks vet Kyle MacLachlan, Jack Nicholson and David Spade, recently married Donald Ray Thomas in San Antonio, Texas, the actress' publicist tells the Associated Press. No details were released, other than that the wedding cake was a small salad.
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On Showtime's Huff (Sundays at 10 pm/ET), Paget Brewster plays the forlorn and fed-up wife of Hank Azaria's sad-sack psychiatrist. Could she be playing someone more different from the hottie Friends' Chandler stole from Joey? TVGuide.com spoke to the actress about her Huffing and puffing,
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Tonight's two-hour 24 "event" (beginning at 8 pm/ET on Fox) will host a parade of faces new and familiar, including Elisha Cuthbert's return as Jack's beleaguered daughter and the debut of C. Thomas Howell as Kim's (overdue, if you ask me) therapist. The evening also introduces us to Vice President Hal Gardner, who has been choicely cast with Ray Wise, a star of the Oscar-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck and who is familiar to TV fans as Twin Peaks' very bad dad, Leland Palmer. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to ask Wise about his 24 VP, working with George Clooney
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