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Are You Watching Less TV This Summer Than Usual?
Summer is not usually a time for massive TV ratings, but this year is looking even worse than normal: last week, the networks combined for the worst ratings in the 18-49 demographic ever. Yeah, ever.
Even the buzzed-about I'm a Celebrity .
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- 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 final half-hour.
- A little gleeful.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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