Some recent ratings highlights:
Friday
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader schooled 5.7 million total viewers, a 33 percent surge from its season opener. Lead-out Mental (3.68 mil), in turn, enjoyed a 250K bump.
Saturday
Harper's Island sewed up 13 episodes of slicing and dicing before an audience of 3.84 mil, up 8 percent from its last outing. Elsewhere, Kings (1.64 mil) gained 340 thou and Eli Stone signed off for good with 2.76 mil.
Sunday
Big Brother 11's first Sunday airing drew 6.76 million viewers, making it the night's second most-watched program (behind 60 Minutes, 7.9 mil). NBC's Merlin (3.65 mil) saw 15 percent of its audience magically disappear. The Peacock's Meteor premiered to 5.04 mil, but really — Marla Sokoloff versus Armageddon?
Lifetime's Drop Dread Diva weighed in with a premiere audience of 2.8 mil and the cabler's best delivery of women 18-49 since Army Wives' June 2007 arrival.
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Harper's Island
9 pm/ET CBS
Serial killer John Wakefield is still alive but why is he intent on murdering everyone — and is he acting alone? These are the two big questions fans want answered on tonight's two-hour series finale that promises to reveal all. While suspicion centers on Jimmy, is his alleged criminal past simply a red herring to throw viewers off? And what about Henry? After all, he's from the island and he planned the wedding.
Read on for previews of Eli Stone, The Gambler, the Girl and the Gunslinger, Sunny's Summer Eats and Keyshawn Johnson: Tackling Design.
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Some recent ratings highlights:
• Jon & Kate plus their big announcement on Monday drew a whopping audience of 10.6 million total viewers — setting a new all-time high for not only the hiatus-bound series but for TLC as a whole. Week-to-week, the series enjoyed a 365 percent gain.
• I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! delivered its smallest Monday audience to date, just 4.3 mil. It all ends Wednesday!
• The Season 2 launch of The Secret Life of the American Teenager spoke to 4.7 million viewers, making it the ABC Family series' most-watched ...
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Destroy Build Destroy
8:30 pm/ET Cartoon Network
Rocker Andrew W.K. hosts this new competition series, which is part of Cartoon Network's CN Real block of reality programming. The show follows two teams of teens as they destroy a large structure using a wrecking ball, explosions or other methods. The teams then must use the debris to create something entirely new. In tonight's episode, the teams build air-cannon vehicles that shoot tennis balls. The winning team receives a cash prize and gets to destroy the other team's vehicle.
Read on for previews of Eli Stone ,Beverly Hills Groomer, MLB Baseball and Can You Duet.
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New releases announced today, May 22:
Astroboy - Set 1 and Astroboy - Set 2 will be coming out September 29
Dirty Sexy Money Season 2 will be coming out August 18
Eli Stone Season 2 will be coming out August 18
Greek Chapter 3 will be coming out August 18
Lie to Me - Season 1 (DVD and Blu-ray Disc) will be coming out August 11
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