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Turkey, Reruns and "The Osbournes"
Thanksgiving week in TV land: The Osbournes brought the stuffing; Dinotopia played the turkey.
Ozzy's F-bomb-dropping MTV clan launched their second season last Tuesday with a premiere episode watched by 6.6 million viewers. That number was down from the 8 million The Osbournes averaged last May, but good enough to make the show the most watched cable program of the night.
The number also was about 1 million people bigger than the one posted by ABC's Dinotopia. The big-budget adventure series got gobbled up by the competition (reruns, mostly) on Thanksgiving night, its debut episode watched by 5.7 million viewers. The show, intro'd via a May 2002 miniseries of the same name, ranked 78th among all 103 prime-time broadcast shows for the ratings week ended Sunday.
Still, ABC execs say they aren't panicking--yet. "Dinotopia aired on an anomalous night of TV," ABC's Kevin Brockman tells the New York Daily News. "I don't think we can extrapolate too much from the initial numbers, but we'll see how it does in the weeks to come."
Elsewhere, CBS was the most watched broadcast network of the holiday week--a week that, once the November sweeps wrapped, served up TV's version of leftovers: the rerun. Previously aired shows of everything from Friends to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation left viewers with slim pickings--unless they were in the seasonal spirit.
CBS' The Christmas Shoes, a two-hanky weepy starring Rob Lowe, became the most watched made-for-TV flick of the season, drawing nearly 17 million Santa fans and landing in the top 10.
NBC's It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, with Snoop Dogg or no, finished a cheery 33rd, with 10.98 million viewers. The Peacock also clicked with a trio of all-new music specials featuring Faith Hill (31st place, 11.3 million), her hubby, Tim McGraw (40th place, 10 million), and the dead-but-not-over Elvis (36th place, 10.7 million).
NBC also may have stumbled onto a sure-fire ratings strategy: When in doubt, run Erin Brockovich. The network twice broadcast Julia Roberts' 2000 Oscar-winning turn in a push-up bra--once on Monday night, once on Saturday night. The twin outings combined to attract 20.1 million viewers.
Among new specials, only ABC's Paul McCartney concert special, Back in the U.S., proved a disappointment. The former Beatles' primetime outing managed only 8.1 million mop-top fans, for a so-so 60th place.
CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond, which offered viewers that rarest of gifts--a new episode, was the week's most watched show. Overall, CBS programs averaged 13.1 million viewers. NBC finished second with 12.5 million. ABC and Fox placed third and fourth, respectively, with 10.2 million and 9.7 million, respectively.
Per usual, the WB outdistanced the UPN in the battle of the netlets, 4.8 million viewers to 4 million.
Here's a rundown of the 10 most watched shows for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research:
1. Everybody Loves Raymond, CBS, 20.5 million
2. CSI: Miami, CBS, 18.8 million
3. Monday Night Football, ABC, 16.9 million
4. CBS Sunday Night Movie: The Christmas Shoes, CBS, 16.6 million
5. Still Standing, CBS, 16.3 million
6. Law & Order, NBC, 15.8 million
7. JAG, CBS, 15.2 million
8. The Simpsons, Fox, 15.1 million
9. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS, 15 million
10. The King of Queens, CBS, 14.9 million
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