- Some things should stay secret. After registering just 4.6 million viewers for its premiere on Tuesday, Secret Talents of the Stars was yanked from the CBS schedule — which means we'll never get to see Ben Stein dance the jitterbug.
- The Office is open for business. The long layoff doesn't seem to have hurt The Office [1], which came back relatively strong with 9.2 million viewers on Thursday.
- On the other hand . . . 30 Rock [2] didn't have such a great showing, with just 5.7 million viewers — the worst performing of NBC's four comedies.
- Loser is big. Even though it's up against American Idol [3], NBC's The Biggest Loser [4] can still, er, pull its weight on Tuesdays. While it started the night with just 7.5 million viewers, its audience shot up over 10 million at 9 p.m., once Idol was over.
- A Battlestar boost. The season premiere of Battlestar Galactica [5] last Friday was the show's best outing in two years, with 2.1 million viewers, 1.4 million of them in the key 18-49 demographic.
- Sad Sunday. Nearly every network took a hit on Sunday; the New York Times noted it was the worst Sunday overall since Christmas Eve 2006 [6]! among the worst: NBC's airings of cable hits Monk [7] and Psych [8], which got just 5.7 million and 4 million viewers, respectively.
- Basketball bounce. Good news if you're a Jayhawks fan: The Kansas team's win in the NCAA basketball tournament was seen by 41.7 million people, the highest for the tournament's finale in three years.
Photo courtesy of CBS [9]