No Resisting a LeAnn Rimes-Eddie Cibrian Reunion

Not Lifetime, which scores OK ratings for a well-timed rerun of Rimes and Cibrian's TV-movie

By Joal Ryan Aug 04, 2009 6:41 PMTags
LeAnn Rimes, Eddie CibrianDan Power, Lifetime Networks

Did you ever doubt Lifetime would rerun that LeAnn Rimes-Eddie Cibrian TV-movie? Did you ever think True Blood could get any hotter? And exactly what is a Saved By the Bell reunion worth?

The answers—and more questions—in the latest TV quiz:

1. How many days after Rimes and Cibrian's respective marital splits did Lifetime wait to revisit the scene of their crime work place? In the case of Rimes, eight long ones. In the case of Cibrian, 11 even longer ones. For its patience, Lifetime scored 1.6 million viewers, an above-average prime-time audience for the network, for its Saturday rerun of Nora Roberts' Northern Lights.

2. How high can True Blood go? That's still to be determined. Sunday's episode, though, marked another new series high, with 4.3 million viewers, HBO said. The vampire show continued to take Hung (3.4 million) and Entourage (3.3 million) along for the ride. All three shows have been renewed.

3. Was there any value in People magazine's Saved By the Bell cast reunion cover? Apparently some, yes. Mark-Paul Gosselaar's Raising the Bar beefed up to 3.5 million viewers in the latest Nielsen cable rankings, while TBS' most-watched SBTB rerun added 1,000 diehard fans, up to 715,000.

4. Was there any value in Tiffani Thiessen's turducken reference at the end of "Tiffani Thiessen Is Busy?" Aside from the laugh factor, no. As our feathered friends will be happy to learn, the duck dish has not become a hot Internet search item since the clip premiered last week.

5. Besides airing after True Blood, what do you have to do to earn a new season? Be like Royal Pains, and hang every week at the top of the cable ratings with The Closer and Burn Notice. In the latest standings, The Closer was No. 1, with 7.5 million viewers, followed by Burn Notice (6.6 million) and the renewed Royals Pains (6.4 million).

6. What was the most inaptly named new show of the week? A tie between Fox's little-watched More to Love (4 million) and ABC's even-less-watched Defying Gravity (3.7 million). The Tuesday edition of NBC's America's Got Talent was TV's No. 1 show of the week, with 13.2 million viewers.

7. Atlanta, New Jersey, New York or Orange County: What's the hottest Housewives territory? According to Bravo, The Real Housewives of Atlanta scored a new franchise high for a season opener: 2.7 million viewers.

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