Ratings: HBO's Not-so-big Love, Closer's Record Finale
Tim DeKay and Ally Walker in Tell Me You Love Me by Doug Hyun/HBO
" The racy
Tell Me You Love Me bedded only 910,000 viewers with its Sunday debut, falling 53 percent below HBO's month-prior average in the time slot and coming up way short versus the premieres of, say,
John from Cincinnati (3.4 mil),
Big Love (4.6 mil) and
Rome (3.8 mil). As a result, lead-out
Curb Your Enthusiasm drew its lowest season-premiere audience ever, 1.17 mil.
" Monday's season-ender for TNT's
The Closer delivered 9.2 million viewers, setting a new all-time high for an ad-supported cable series telecast (besting
The Closer's Season 3 opener).
"
Katie Couric's jaunt to Iraq enlisted 5.46 mil, matching
Evening News' previous all-time low.
" Nick's
iCarly accumulated 13 million viewers over its entire premiere weekend.
