Monday's numbers:8 pm/ETThe Bachelor: Where Are They Now? topped the hour with a scant 7.7 million total viewers, but enough to edge out the debut of Canterbury's Law. The legal drama delivered 7.6 mil, qualifying as Fox's lowest-rated series premiere in the time period, ever. (MediaWeek's Marc Berman makes a great comparison, noting that a House repeat did 9.7 mil in the time slot a year ago.) An Old Christine (7.5 mil) improved considerably upon last week's Welcome to the Captain.9 pmTrailing Deal or No Deal (11.6 mil) and CBS' old Men/new Old Christine combo, New Amsterdam drew 8.8 mil, a 17 percent drop from its most recent (Thursday) broadcast. October Road's two-hour season finale averaged 4.7 mil — or 50K for every inch of guest star Stacy Keibler's two legs — dropping 600 thou. Girlicious did a typical 1.7 mil.10 pmBehind a CSI: Miami retread, Medium was up just a hair, to 9.2 mil.
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USA Network has coughed up some $40 million to nab broadcast rights to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (to hit the cabler in 2011), as well as the first three films (to be broadcast around the time of No. 4's May 22 release). Watch the Skull trailer here.... Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor and now TV Guide Network's Hollywood 411, interviews ABC's latest Bachelor, Matt Grant, tonight at 9 pm/ET.... Chuck Heaton, a legendary sportswriter and the father of Back to You's Patricia Heaton, died Thursday of pneumonia. He was 90.
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DeAnna Pappas, the 26-year-old real-estate agent from Georgia who emerged as the last woman standing during the most recent run of The Bachelor — only to have Brad Womack take a pass on her as well — will choose from 25 bachelors in her own bid for true love, when The Bachelorette returns to ABC this summer."Interested and eligible men," ABC says, can learn more about casting events and the application process by logging on to TheBachelor.tv. Whoa, not so fast, Sean Penn....
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Mary Delgado — the former Tampa Bay Buccaneers cheerleader who was proposed to by fisherman Byron Velvick at the end of the 2004 edition of ABC's The Bachelor — was taken into custody late Wednesday night on a battery charge, and was under the influence of alcohol when she was arrested, the AP reports. Although the police affidavit does not identify her fiancé by name, Delgado is accused of punching in the mouth "a man she lives with." Subsequent reports have confirmed the battered as being Velvick, adding that the assault resulted in a bloody lip. Not too often you hear of a fisherman getting a hook in his own mouth.
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Although Jen Schefft, who in 2005 shot down two marriage-minded suitors as The Bachelorette, applauds Bachelor Brad Womack's decision not to propose to anyone in this season's finale, she's still steamed that he isn't taking as much heat for his non-choice as she did. Where, she asks on the Huffington Post, is the outrage and "negative press I personally received after announcing I didn’t want to be with any of the guys I met on the show? I haven’t seen much denouncing him as a jerk... or proclaiming he made the biggest mistake of his life and that he’d be single forever.” Um, remind me never to ask Schefft to come to my defense. — Ben Katner
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