Lost's sixth and final season premiere was up 12 percent over last year's opener, but American Idol continued to dominate Tuesday nights.
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Lost's two-hour premiere averaged 12.1 million viewers and dominated the adults-18-to-49 demographic in both timeslots. It was the ABC's best two-hour performance since November 2007. ABC kicked off the night with a Lost clip show, which pulled in a decent 10 million viewers.
Fox dominated at 8 o'clock, however, as American Idol's Denver auditions drew 24.4 million viewers...
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Should House fans hold out any hope for more Huddy? — Maureen
MICKEY: Right now, the best I can promise you is that Dr. Crankypants will experience something of a thaw when it comes to Cuddy in next week's episode. There will still be scads of ice floes between them, but they'll look smaller, like in An Inconvenient Truth, except without all the dead polar bears and with Lucas.
I know it's a little early, but any scoop on what to expect from this year's NCIS finale? — Jackie
ADAM: It's never too early, Jackie! Especially not for executive producer Shane Brennan. "I'm a great believer in planning it out and knowing where we're going to land," he tells me. "The audience has already seen...
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Another Tuesday, another win for American Idol and Fox — but the viewer gap between Idol and NCIS is closing.
Down 12 percent from last Tuesday's episode, Idol's Los Angeles auditions still pulled in 24.2 million viewers, easily making it the night's most watched show, both in total viewers and in the adults 18-to-49 demographic. NCIS, while down slightly from its last original episode, was watched by 20.2 million viewers, the closest it has ever come to Idol's numbers on a given night.
NCIS: Los Angeles jumped 27 percent from its most recent new episode and drew 17.2 million viewers. A repeat of The Good Wife (10.3 million viewers) rounded out CBS' night and was good enough to help the network edge out NBC for second place...
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NCIS
8/7c CBS
It's a classic device that never fails to leave armchair viewers white knuckled — put the good guys and the bad guys together in a place where there's no escape! Add to that the element of not knowing the enemy's identity and things get even more tense. Tony and Ziva return from Paris as escorts assigned to guard a government witness back to the U.S. when they learn that an assassin may be along for the ride.
Read on for previews of American Idol, Lost, 24/7 Jimmie Johnson: Race to Daytona and Teen Mom.
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NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife have both been renewed for second seasons, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
The two dramas are the first CBS prime-time programs to be...
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