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Ratings: HBO's Not-so-big Love, Closer's Record Finale

• The racy Tell Me You Love Me bedded only 910,000 viewers with its Sunday debut, falling 53 percent below HBO's month-prior average in the time slot and coming up way short versus the premieres of, say, John from Cincinnati (3.4 mil), Big Love (4.6 mil) and Rome (3.8 mil). As a result, lead-out Curb Your Enthusiasm drew its lowest season-premiere audience ever, 1.17 mil.• Monday's season-ender for TNT's The Closer delivered 9.2 million viewers, setting a new all-time high for an ad-supported cable series telecast (besting The Closer's Season 3 opener).• Katie Couric's jaunt to Iraq enlisted 5.46 mil, matching Evening News' previous all-time low.• Nick's iCarly accumulated 13 million viewers over its entire premiere weekend.

Matt Mitovich

" The racy Tell Me You Love Me bedded only 910,000 viewers with its Sunday debut, falling 53 percent below HBO's month-prior average in the time slot and coming up way short versus the premieres of, say, John from Cincinnati (3.4 mil), Big Love (4.6 mil) and Rome (3.8 mil). As a result, lead-out Curb Your Enthusiasm drew its lowest season-premiere audience ever, 1.17 mil.
" Monday's season-ender for TNT's The Closer delivered 9.2 million viewers, setting a new all-time high for an ad-supported cable series telecast (besting The Closer's Season 3 opener).
" Katie Couric's jaunt to Iraq enlisted 5.46 mil, matching Evening News' previous all-time low.
" Nick's iCarly accumulated 13 million viewers over its entire premiere weekend.