Fallen Idol. American Idol crushed everything in its wake this week, but there's still a cautionary note: Both the performance and results portions of the finales were the lowest rated in the series' history. Tuesday's performance show got just above 23 million viewers, while Wednesday's results show averaged about 28.8 million viewers — though it peaked at about 34 million viewers in the Read more

Great Grey's? It's mostly good news this week for Grey's Anatomy, which finished its season with 16.3 million viewers, beating out the finales of two different CSI installments. The only bad thing? That was the show's lowest-rated finale ever. Castle climbs. Castle made a big push for renewal on Monday, closing out its first season with 9.7 million viewers — even though its lead-in, Dancing Read more

Goin' to the chapel. Thursday's Grey's Anatomy wedding brought 15.3 million viewers along as guests. That made it first in its time slot, as competitor CSI finished with 14.6 million viewers. So long, Sacred Heart. Scrubs went out on Wednesday with 5.1 million viewers tuning in for the show's final episode — at least of the season, if not the series. Shut down. Sit Down, Shut Up is Read more

Betty's back, but . . . Ugly Betty made its return to the Thursday lineup this week, and while its 6.8 million viewers were better than how comedies Samantha Who? and In the Motherhood did in that slot, it's still way down from Betty's heyday. Nobody's gossiping. Maybe it was that long break, but Gossip Girl is having some ratings trouble this Spring. Monday's episode barely topped 2 million Read more

Big death? Meh. Edie Britt's farewell on Desperate Housewives didn't exactly draw a crowd, with a below-average 13.9 million people tuning in. Actually pretty typical. The Unusuals got a high-profile tryout after Dancing With the Stars this week but couldn't do much with the slot, pulling in just 6.3 million viewers. In its regular slot on Wednesday, it came in just below 5 million Read more

Happy Monday. After weeks of bad news, all of NBC's Monday shows were up this week: Chuck brought in 6.2 million viewers, while Heroes nabbed 6.8 million and Medium finished the night with 7.6 million. Spelling some ratings. Tori Spelling's return to 90210 didn't exactly bring viewers to the show in droves, but it did tick up a little to 2.1 million viewers. Terminated? Last Friday's season Read more

Battle of the Thursday premieres. Three new series premiered on Thursday, and all had solid (if not blockbuster) results. Parks and Recreation nabbed 6.8 million viewers for its premiere, keeping almost all of the 7.2 million folks who watched the episode of The Office before it. At 10 p.m., Harper's Island won in total viewers (10.5 million), but Southland was close behind (9.7 million Read more

Call it! ER may have reached its time of death on Thursday, but at least it went out on top: 16.2 million viewers tuned in for the show's two-hour finale, apparently the best-rated drama series finale since The X-Files. No foolin'. One of the week's big ratings surprises was I Get That a Lot, CBS's celebrity-filled April Fools' special. The show won its time slot on Wednesday with 10.3 million Read more

It's a . . . winner! The Secret Life of the American Teenager pulled in 4.5 million viewers for its season finale on Monday, more than double what Gossip Girl nabbed in the same time slot. Reaping the benefits. Speaking of things that beat Gossip Girl this week: With most of the networks showing President Obama's speech or repeats, Reaper managed to pull in a season high in the ratings on Read more