Sigh. Here is how Friday's fare fared:
8 pm/ET
A repeat of Ghost Whisperer's season opener topped the hour with 8.35 million total viewers. Trailing both a warmed-over Wife Swap (4.09 mil) and Howie Do It (3.89 mil), Sarah Connor Chronicles came in fourth with 3.84 million viewers, up four percent from its Friday time-slot premiere.
9 pm
Dollhouse came in third behind a Flashpoint repeat (8.06 million viewers) and Supernanny (5.25 mil), dipping 10 percent from its premiere to 4.22 mil. That said, Dollhouse actually gained viewers over the hour. Friday Night Lights surged 14 percent to just under four mil.
10 pm
A Numbers repeat was No. 1 with 7.99 million viewers, followed by 20/20 (7.27 mil) and Dateline (5.57 mil).
Late Night
Conan O'Brien's final Late Night drew the talker's best numbers since Dec. 8, 2006, representing a 44 percent increase on his average for this season.
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Monk
9 pm/ET USA
The seventh season wraps up tonight with a case that has special significance to Monk. He's investigating the disappearance of a city official who was lobbying to preserve a parking garage. But what's so personal about that? Well, it's the garage where Monk's wife was killed by a car bomb that he believes was intended for him. The series is scheduled to return for its eighth and final season this summer.
Read on for previews of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Psych, Real Time with Bill Maher and Battlestar Galactica.
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Cheers to Artie Lange for giving Cheers & Jeers a shout-out on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Read, discuss and vote on this complete Cheer after the jump.
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Cheers to Julia Louis-Drefyus for proving she's not a sore loser. The New Adventures of Old Christine star, who lost the best comedy actress Emmy to Tina Fey, participated in an hysterical bit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in which she broke into the 30 Rocker's dressing room and stole the statuette. Fey suddenly showed up and told Louis-Dreyfus to keep the award, but demanded Conan return what he'd swiped: a pair of Tina's panties. As Elaine Benes might've said: Get out! Watch it here!
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Cheers to Russell Brand for an instant-classic appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The bad-boy British stand-up, best known in this country for his outlandish role as rocker Aldous Snow in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, opened his hyperkinetic segment by comparing coifs with the carrot-topped host: "We could build an arch of hair across the Atlantic uniting our two countries...We'd make a mockery of Lindbergh's achievements!" His verbal torrent continued with uproarious anecdotes about meeting the Queen ("a little part of me was thinking, 'Grab her boobs!'") and feuding with Rod Stewart ("a man who in his prime wore leopard-skin tights on a daily basis"). Conan concluded by calling Brand "the funniest person I've talked to in a long time" — and if you don't believe it, type "Russell Brand" and "Conan" into YouTube and laugh for yourself. • Share your own raves and rants about other shows on the Reader Cheers & Jeers discussion board.• We may feature your Chee...
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