BETTER THAN NORMAL BOW
The debut of
John Goodman's new Fox comedy,
Normal, Ohio, got off to a decent start Wednesday night. The sitcom — featuring the former
Roseanne star as a gay dad — attracted 12.17 million viewers, second only to ABC's
Who Wants to be a Millionaire. What's more,
Normal finished first in the adults 18-49 demographic and retained 95% of its Halloween-themed
Simpsons lead-in in that bracket. Meanwhile, the series premiere of Fox's much-hyped Wall Street soap
The Street crashed and burned at 9 pm, coming in fourth place among total viewers (7.26 million).