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"Alias" Ratings Rebirth
Katie Holmes and Brooke Shields were much watched new mothers last week. But where the prime-time TV ratings were concerned, Sydney Bristow was the most watched new mother.
Back-to-back episodes of Alias, featuring Jennifer Garner's alter ego going into labor and giving birth, posted the spy show's best numbers since its season premiere, ABC said.
The two-hour labor-inducing event averaged 7.5 million viewers, placing 48th in the latest Nielsen Media Research rankings.
In addition to Bristow's blessed event, the episodes marked Alias' return to prime time after a four-month layoff. It was in December, just weeks after Garner gave birth to her and husband Ben Affleck's first child, that the Emmy-winning show was benched, having bombed, like many ABC scripted shows before it, on Thursday nights.
While Alias showed life on Wednesday--it'll air its 100th episode there this week--the end is near. The series finale is scheduled for May.
On the upside of cancellation, Bristow can look forward to handling diaper changes in relative privacy.
Elsewhere in the TV week ended Sunday:
The Chicken Little curse continues: Fox's American Idol has yet to top 30 million viewers on either a Tuesday (first place, 28.4 million) or a Wednesday (second place, 27.6 million) since 16-year-old Kevin Covais was voted off Mar. 22. Fox's M.D. drama, House (third place, 22.6 million), has a fever that its Friday-night movie franchise (115th place, 2.7 million) isn't catching. Can High School Musical air too many times? No. Four months after its Disney Channel premiere, a combined 8 million caught Friday repeats of the made-for-TV movie and its special sing-along version. Bragging rights are bragging rights: On Sunday night, a Desperate Housewives clip job, subtitled The More You Know, the Juicier It Gets (ninth place, 15.7 million), beat a Grey's Anatomy clip job, subtitled Under Pressure (13th place, 14.6 million). Judging by 20/20's ratings, viewers are even less interested in Tom Cruise's new baby and new movie, Mission: Impossible III--both were covered in a special edition of the ABC newsmagazine (59th place, 6.4 million)--than they were in Tom Cruise's pregnancy, covered by the show in its Apr. 14 edition (48th place, 7 million). The 55th annual Miss USA celebration of "savvy, goal-oriented and aware" swimsuit wearers (44th place, 7.7 million) fell to its lowest ratings in four years, but unlike Miss America, at least it's still on broadcast network TV, or, well, NBC. ABC comedy Less Than Perfect (82nd place, 4.5 million) made its belated fourth-season debut en route to its (presumed) cancellation next month. The fleeting life span of a reality TV show: Last Monday, the Diddy-produced Celebrity Cooking Showdown was a modest performer for NBC (37th place, 8.2 million). On Tuesday, it was a bomb (102nd place, 3.3 million). On Wednesday, it was on the comeback trail (75th place, 4.8 million). On Thursday, it was canceled, replaced by repeats of Will & Grace and My Name Is Earl, and turned into Webcasts. On Saturday, the Web episodes made their broadcast debuts, and nobody cared (122 place, 2.5 million for the first hour; 113th place, 2.8 million for the second hour).For those keeping score at home, CBS was the week's most watched network among total viewers, averaging 11.9 million viewers; Fox was the most watched network among among 18- to 49-year-old viewers.
As is the usual order of things, CBS ran second in the key demo, while Fox ran second in viewers (9.8 million).
ABC (7.9 million) placed third in both categories, followed by the Celebrity Cooking-burned NBC (7.1 million).
1. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 28.4 million
2. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 27.6 million
3. House, Fox, 22.6 million
4. CSI, CBS, 18.9 million
5. Without a Trace, CBS, 16.9 million
6. CSI: Miami, CBS, 16.3 million
7. Survivor: Panama--Exile Island, CBS, 16.26 million
8. NCIS, CBS, 15.9 million
9. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 15.7 million
10. The Unit, CBS, 15.6 million
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