Kourtney & Khloé Take Over?

Second-season finale scores series-best ratings; Hell's Kitchen, Rizzoli & Isles, Jersey Shore hot, too

By Joal Ryan Aug 17, 2010 7:58 PMTags
Kourtney Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kourtney & Khloe Take MiamiTimothy White/E! Networks

Kourtney & Khloé Take Miami, Hell's Kitchen and So You Think You Can Dance ended their seasons. But which, if any, of the shows ended up on top?

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

1. Really, now, is Scott Disick good for anything?  We've said it before, we'll say it again: He's good for drawing a crowd. The continuing drama surrounding Kourtney Kardashian's snappish boyfriend helped deliver a series-high 3.7 million viewers to Kourtney & Khloé's second-season finale.

2. How hot is Hell's KitchenUnderstandably cooler than it was during its fall run, but hotter than any other summer series around last week. Gordon Ramsay's seventh-season closer (7.2 million overall viewers) was TV's No. 1 show among the demographically desirable, per Nielsen Media Research stats.

3. How hot is SYTYCD? Likewise cooler than it was during its fall run, but also cooler than, say, reruns of The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men. Still, the show's seventh-season finale nearly won killer Thursday, averaging 6.7 million viewers. (A Mentalist rerun was the tough night's most-watched show.)

4. Name three more notable finales. Pretty Little Liars closed out its summer before a cable-great 3.1 million. (It'll finish off its freshman season in January.) The Next Food Network Star's Aarti Sequeira-crowning sixth-season ender cooked up a cable-fantastic 4.7 million. We were going to mention Last Comic Standing's seventh-season finale, but it probably doesn't count as notable (broadcast-lousy 3.9 million) unless you're Felipe Esparza. (Psst… He's the guy who won.)

5. Is there such a thing as too much skin? Probably not, but the bikini-loving Bachelor Pad was down 1 million viewers last night from its series premiere: estimated 5.4 million viewers versus 6.4 million.

6. There's "probably not" such a thing as too much skin?!? OK, we stand corrected: There's no such thing. As Jersey Shore (cable-phenomenal 5.5 million viewers) continues to prove. 

7. Seriously, Rizzoli & Isles? Seriously. It was back on top as cable's most-watched show, with 7.4 million viewers. 

Here's a look at the 10 most-watched, all-new broadcast and cable primetime shows for the week ended Sunday, per Nielsen Media Research:

  1. America's Got Talent (Wednesday), 10.7 million
  2. America's Got Talent (Tuesday), 10.5 million
  3. Wipeout (Tuesday), 8 million
  4. Big Brother (Sunday), 7.5 million
  5. Rizzoli & Isles, 7.4 million
  6. Hell's Kitchen, 7.243 million
  7. Big Brother (Thursday), 7.241 million
  8. The Closer, 7.2 million
  9. Big Brother (Wednesday), 7.1 million
  10. So You Think You Can Dance (Thursday), 6.7 million

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