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Carver Good to "Nip/Tuck"
The Carver is sick, sadistic--and popular.
The two-hour season finale of Nip/Tuck, in which the serial disfigurer known as the Carver was revealed to be Dr. Quentin Costa, was braved by 5.7 million, a record for an FX original series.
The show easily outdrew broadcast network competition on UPN and the WB, and lured a season-high number of desirable 18- to 49-year-olds to cable. Overall, it was the fourth-most watched program on all of cable in 2005, Variety reported.
Nip/Tuck's Carver storyline dates back to season two--or around the time the bad Dr. Costa checked in to Miami.
Played by former Jesse nice guy Bruno Campos, Costa cut up models and defiled Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) in cahoots with his secret sister--the finale's final twist--police detective Kit McGraw (Rhona Mitra). It was explained that Costa and Kit had troubled upbringings. Also, Costa was vexed by his lack of a penis.
Nip/Tuck is due back for a fourth season.
Elsewhere in the TV week ended Sunday:
The game-show miniseries Deal or No Deal was a winner for luckless NBC, averaging 12.7 million viewers over its five broadcasts, per Nielsen Media Research. The Wednesday installment alone enthralled 14.1 million (sixth place) with Howie Mandel's box collection.Quarterback Brett Favre's woes in a Monday Night Football rout on ABC (12th place, 12 million) seemed to drive viewers to the canned-laugh comfort of CBS comedies, with Two and a Half Men (third place, 17.7 million) and Out of Practice (fourth place, 15 million) soaring to season highs.
If Dawna Stone is hired in a forest or on the series finale of NBC's already fired The Apprentice: Martha Stewart (34th place, 7.3 million), does she really have a job? Answer: Yes, she does. Stone's joining Stewart's Body + Soul magazine as director of development.
The ailing Bo Bice and Ashlee Simpson weren't the only ones who missed NBC's Radio Music Awards (63rd place, 5.3 million) telecast. So did the audience.
If Barbara Walters' celestial-seeking ABC special (seventh place, 13.8 million) had bothered to ask, Belinda Carlisle could have testified that heaven is a place on earth.
Overall, it was another week, and another weekly win for CBS, which dominated in total viewers (averaging 10 million) and the 18-to-49 demo. The Eyeball was led by the top-rated CSI: Miami (20.3 million), which had what most of the competition didn't--a new episode.
NBC (7.7 million) perked up to second place in viewers, followed by ABC (7.3 million) and Fox (6.7 million). UPN (3 million) prevailed in the Yuletide week over the WB (2 million).
Here's a look of the 10 most watched prime-time shows for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research:
1. CSI: Miami, CBS, 20.3 million viewers
2. CSI, CBS, 18.9 million viewers
3. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 17.7 million viewers
4. Out of Practice, CBS, 15 million viewers
5. Without a Trace, CBS, 14.4 million viewers
6. Deal or No Deal (Wednesday), NBC, 14.1 million viewers
7. Barbara Walters Presents: Heaven--Where Is It? How Do We Get There?, ABC, 13.8 million viewers
8. Deal or No Deal (Thursday), NBC, 13.5 million viewers
9. CSI: NY, CBS, 12.7 million viewers
10. Deal or No Deal (Tuesday), NBC, 12.6 million viewers
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