Prince Harry, Prince William and Matt Lauer by Jeff Overs/NBC Universal Photo
This Monday's ratings bits:• CBS' Creature Comforts delivered 4.3 million total viewers, a week-to-week drop of 370 thou.• NBC's Age of Love debuted to 6.95 mil, landing it in third behind Men-Mother repeats and Hell's Kitchen (7.33 mil).• ABC's Ex-Wives Club (3.81 mil) was down 320K.• Matt Lauer's chat with princes William and Harry gave Dateline its biggest audience — 12.2 million —since January 2005. UPDATE: NBC will rebroadcast this Dateline Sunday, July 1, at 7 pm/ET.• The Closer's Season 3 opener was watched by 8.8 million, besting the TNT hit's previous premiere and setting a new record for ad-supported cable's best delivery of all time for a series telecast.
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Age of Love host Mark Consuelos
Does age matter? That's ostensibly the question at the heart of Age of Love, NBC's new dating series premiering tonight at 9 pm/ET. Hosted by former daytime star Mark Consuelos, the reality show takes 30-year-old Aussie tennis hunk Mark Philippoussis and sends him a-courting with women from two very separate age groups: the "kittens" (aka gals in their twenties) and the "cougars" (ages 38 to 48). TVGuide.com asked Consuelos, the man who gets to call Kelly Ripa his wife, for a look at the semicontroversial program.
TVGuide.com: The last we "spoke," it was you crashing my Q&A with Kelly, tryi
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