A doctor (Dermot Mulroney) secretly sends his newborn daughter to an institution when he discovers she has Down syndrome. But the nurse (Emily Watson) ordered to drop off the baby keeps her and raises the child as her own. Based on the best seller by Kim Edwards. Gretchen Mol also stars.
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Ratings: Monday Missteps for Everyone! | Today's News: Our Take | 4/15/2008
Monday's highlights (as it were):8 pm/ETDancing with the Stars was the night's most watched show (17 million total viewers), but stumbled to the tune of a 12-percent week-to-week drop. (Too uneven a competition this season? Discuss.) Bones placed second in the hour, returning to an audience of 8.5 mil (down 1.12 mil from its last fresh eppy). Big Bang (7.69 mil, down a mil) and Mother (7.99 mil, down 17 percent) both took hits.9 pmCBS' combo of Men (13.84 mil, slipping 600K) and Rules of Engagement (welcomed back by 10.32 mil, down 15 percent) topped the hour. Samantha Who? made a date with 10 mil, losing a mil from last week. The season finale of New Amsterdam dipped 700 thou to 6.77 mil. One Tree Hill scored 2.72 mil on its new night, giving The CW its best ever Monday-at-9 numbers in the 18-34 demo.10 pmTrailing a CSI: Miami repeat, Medium delivered 9.58 mil (sliding 1.1 mil), while The Bachelor held steady at about seven mil.In other ratings news: The Memory Keeper's Daughter... read more
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Preview: Memory Keeper's Daughter Takes a Novel Approach | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/11/2008
The channel that branded itself as "television for women" ventures into HBO and Showtime territory with a top-notch adaptation of Kim Edwards' best-selling novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter (Saturday at 9 pm/ET, Lifetime).
Starring a trio of feature-film actors ? Dermot Mulroney, Gretchen Mol and two-time Oscar nominee Emily Watson ? director Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) tells us he "got the sense that [Lifetime] wanted a more ambitious movie as it were, rather than a movie of the week." ... read more
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