Jamie Lynn Goes Out on Top
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And for her first baby shower present, Jamie Lynn Spears got a hit Zoey 101. One last time.
The hourlong season—and series—finale of the hit Nick tween comedy, billed as the Zoey 101 movie Chasing Zoey, was the most watched show in the 10,000-show cable universe, averaging 5.1 million viewers, per the latest Nielsen Media Research rankings.
Another Zoey 101 airing after the finale placed second, with 5 million viewers.
The shows aired Friday, the night before the pregnant Spears celebrated a baby shower in Louisiana with her family, elder sister Britney Spears included.
In real life, the 17-year-old Spears is expecting her first out-of-wedlock child this summer. In Zoey life, Spears' character went gently into the prom night after sharing a chaste first kiss with her star-crossed crush, Sean Flynn's Chase Matthews.
As previously announced, Zoey's just-concluded fourth season was its last.
One of Nick's top shows, the comedy only got bigger with its with-child star. January's season opener, airing a month after the Spears pregnancy story broke, averaged a series-best 7.3 million viewers.
Here are other ratings highlights from the TV week ended Sunday:
- In American Idol news, Neil Diamond night (first place, 25.1 million) was bigger than the previous week's Andrew Lloyd Webber night (24.7 million). But the Brooke White farewell (second place, 22.8 million) was less well-attended than the Carly Smithson goodbye (23.2 million).
- While it's fun to speculate why Idol is down this season—5 percent on Tuesdays, and 10 percent on Wednesdays—it's ludicrous to portray the show as troubled when CSI (fourth place, 18 million) is down 19 percent, and Grey's Anatomy (seventh place, 15.3 million) and CSI: Miami (10th place, 13.9 million) are both down 20 percent. If Idol's in trouble, then those Top 10 hits are about to be canceled. Which they're not.
- Here's what's endangered: The habit of watching TV on TV. Through the first two weeks of the May sweeps, every English-language broadcast network, save Fox, is down at least 15 percent from last year. Fox, which airs Idol, is "only" down 7 percent. MyNetworkTV, which cleverly scored as low as possible ratings last year, so as to make this year's ratings look fantastic by comparison, is up a whopping 40 percent.
- Among TV's top hits, only two shows are up right now over last year: Dancing with the Stars' results show (fifth place, 17.1 million); and, Desperate Housewives (sixth place, 16.8 million), which are both on ABC, which overall is down, natch, 14 percent for the season.
- Fox's Hell's Kitchen (16th place, 11.9 million) is actually pretty hot. (Airing after Idol will do that to a show.) It's even hotter among 18- to 49-year-olds, where it finished sixth.
- Lindsay Lohan can't show up soon enough on ABC's Ugly Betty (37th place, 7.9 million), which is drawing the kind of numbers has CBS' Moonlight (36th place, 7.9 million) on the bubble for a fall renewal.
- Out of all NBC's trendy Thursday night shows, untrendy ER (38th place, 7.8 million) drew the most viewers.
- In cable, MTV's The Hills (4 million) and Nick's Zoey 101 heir apparent, iCarly (3.9 million), were among the top performers.
- George W. Bush was the old ratings draw for Fox News. Hillary Clinton is the new one. The Democratic presidential contender stopped by The O'Reilly Factor, and led the show to its weekly best—3.7 million viewers.
In the network races, CBS was the most watched network, averaging 10 million procedural crime fans. Fox was the most watched network by 18- to 49-year-olds, averaging 4.6 million Idol worshippers and others.
Among the cable networks, TNT was the top prime-time network (2.8 million), followed by USA (2.3 million) and Disney Channel (2.1 million).
Here's a look at the 10 most watched broadcast network prime-time shows for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research:
- American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 25.1 million viewers
- American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 22.8 million viewers
- Dancing With the Stars (Monday), ABC, 18.2 million viewers
- CSI, CBS, 18 million viewers
- Dancing With the Stars (Tuesday), ABC, 17.1 million viewers
- Desperate Housewives, ABC, 16.8 million viewers
- Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 15.3 million viewers
- NCIS, CBS, 14.8 million viewers
- House, Fox, 14.6 million viewer
- CSI: Miami, CBS, 13.9 million viewers
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17 Comments
momo95 Tue, May 6, 2008 1:31 PM
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WATCHED CHASING ZOEY LIKE 7 TIMES!!!! IT IS SSSOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!! BUT THE FUNNY PART IS WHEN MARK RUNS OVER STACY DILLSEN!!!! LOL!!!!!!!
ReportKelsi Tue, May 6, 2008 1:34 PM
Hello i KNOW WERE YOU LIVE!!!
ReportVyllyn Tue, May 6, 2008 1:35 PM
ANOTHER piece of trash dear to the hearts of all that right-wing Christian trash. Underage, unprotected sex with a minor, and ANOTHER ******* to add to the list of 'stars' acting like even bigger trash. Maybe she'll do us all some good and take a Scarlett O'Hara down a steep stairway.
ReportShonathan Hilton Tue, May 6, 2008 1:36 PM
Well everone tuned in to see the movie because people think she was gonna show her pregnancy belly on tv. People dont realize it was filmed time ago. So shea! www.myspace.com/itsjonabitch
Reportjoseph Tue, May 6, 2008 1:59 PM
****
Reportjoseph Tue, May 6, 2008 1:59 PM
****
Reportlol Tue, May 6, 2008 2:24 PM
Too bad. They could have kept the show going had Jamie Lynn and her boyfriend tried some birth control. Honestly, how hard is it, when you make millions of dollars, to go out and buy a box of comdoms or go talk to a doctor about another form of birth control.
Reportvictor Tue, May 6, 2008 2:25 PM
it chase and zoe and zoe 101 sucks balls
ReportBethB Tue, May 6, 2008 2:56 PM
I'm sorry Jamie but I do hope you end up being a better mother to your child then your older sister is, I think you will be a better mother by seeing the mistakes your sister made. Pay attention to the kids make sure that they are well taken care of and if you think about having unprotected sex again with your boyfriend, think before you let him slide in, and wrap that sucker! You and he will be thankful for that small favor! As having two babies back to back is hard on the woman's body in less then two years.
Reportmeprobably Tue, May 6, 2008 3:42 PM
Alright. I dont think any of you can say she or her boyfriend are dumb or stupid or w/e. You can say it was a bad choice but thats it. If you dont agree ask yourself these questions. Do you know of someone who was a "mistake baby"? Do you know of someone who did have sex around 16 or so? Do you know of anyone who got pregnant on accident? If you answered no to all three then you can keep repeating all the same things about her.
Reportxxdevilschildxx Tue, May 6, 2008 4:13 PM
shes still a hore like her sister!!!!!!!!
Reportalicia Tue, May 6, 2008 5:52 PM
its not the series finale because they said when she announced she was pregnant that there was still another season after this one. I'm about 89 percent sure thats what was said. zoey 101 rocks! i loved the hour special show.
Reportshamrock123 Tue, May 6, 2008 9:28 PM
"In real life, the 17-year-old Spears is expecting her first out-of-wedlock child this summer." Is this an indication that E! believes this will be the first of many out-of-wedlock children?
Reportbmin Wed, May 7, 2008 5:32 AM
no one has the right to judge anyone. people make mistakes, we are all human. and as for * Vyllyn * up there. Hopefully you pray because your going to need too. no baby is a mistake, and "falling down stairs"? maybe you should try that.
Reportimteenmommy Wed, May 7, 2008 9:15 AM
kids are having sex younger and younger...so guess what that means, more babies to unwed mothers...i dont think that jamie lynn is trash, actually i think she's pretty brave for having her baby instead of aborting (like most teen girls use as a form of birth control) i watched her show a couple times,and i thought she was preety good
Reportkathy Wed, May 7, 2008 10:09 AM
well umm dont be calling her a hore ok so wat if you got pregnant too then there you would be called a hore or put it like this way was your mother a hore cause she had you so i say you shut the **** up ok. and i hope every thing goes well with her.
ReportParis Wed, May 7, 2008 2:01 PM
Spears girls are all sleezy like their mother.
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