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Lost's Bomb vs. Idol's Bombshell
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A Danny Gokey expulsion! A Jack Shephard explosion!
On a Wednesday night as huge as Paulina Porizkova's ego, TV viewers had their channel-changing, DVR-programming work cut out for them. In the end, they spread themselves out nicely, and all the major players won. Well, except for the rocket scientist on Lost who hammered away at the nuclear warhead…
Here's a look at the results—and findings, per preliminary Nielsen estimates:
• People still care who wins American Idol. Last night's results show, setting up the Kris Allen-Adam Lambert finale, was up more than 2 million viewers from Tuesday, and ran nearly even with last year's like episode. Idol scored a night-best 24 million—a number that's sure to go up once its final, goodbye-to-Gokey minutes, which aired from 10-10:03 p.m., are factored in.
• If you're going to air your season finale against Idol's final countdown-to-its-finale show, you better do something big. Which Lost did. For its trouble, the show managed to hold its own. The two-hour episode scored 9.3 million viewers, in line with its season average.
• It wasn't just Idol that left Lost having to literally send up a flare to be seen. At 10 p.m., CSI: NY (12.2 million) outdrew the ABC show's final hour, but Lost handily won the time slot among the 18-49 crowd.
• Not that the fired Porizkova probably ever doubted it, but Tyra Banks is still fierce. At 8 p.m., the season closer of America's Next Top Model beat out the big four networks for women 18-34. The show drew its second-biggest overall crowd of the season, per the CW: 4.2 million.
• Also at 8 p.m., Lie to Me (8.4 million) made good on its second-season renewal by making sure a Lost recap, a repurposed Law & Order: Criminal Intent and a couple of CBS comedies didn't somehow win the hour in either total viewers or adults 18-49.
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