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Hopkins is ABC's Prescription For Ratings Win

Viewers were definitely not afraid to see the doctor. Thursday's premiere of Hopkins on ABC registered 5.8 million viewers for the net, and built upon on its lead-in by 2.4 million sets of eyeballs. Good enough to win its 10 pm/ET time slot.TVNewser.com reports Hopkins, a six-week series examining life inside Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital, eeked out the win over CBS's Swingtown by just 100,000 viewers.For ABC, it was the best summertime, non-sports, 10 pm perfomance in two years. — J.R. Whalen

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Viewers were definitely not afraid to see the doctor. Thursday's premiere of Hopkins on ABC registered 5.8 million viewers for the net, and built upon on its lead-in by 2.4 million sets of eyeballs. Good enough to win its 10 pm/ET time slot.
TVNewser.com reports Hopkins, a six-week series examining life inside Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital, eeked out the win over CBS's Swingtown by just 100,000 viewers.
For ABC, it was the best summertime, non-sports, 10 pm perfomance in two years. - J.R. Whalen