Welcome back to PopWatch’s Winner of the Week feature, where we honor the entertainer who enjoyed the most noteworthy success during the past seven days. This week was a dismal one, especially on network TV, where shows that hadn’t been seen for nearly a year because of the writers’ strike limped back onto the air, only to find dwindling audiences. But one network bucked the trend: CBS. The Eye network’s procedural dramas Criminal Minds (pictured, left), NCIS (right), CSI:NY, and Without a Trace have all seen big ratings jumps this fall. So has returning comedy How I Met Your Mother. New crime drama The Mentalist is doing well, even against ABC’s Dancing With the Stars and Fox’s new Fringe. (And judging by the many pro-Mentalist comments on this post, a lot of you are fans of the new Simon Baker series as well.)
And so, last week’s champ, Tina Fey, hands over the tiara to CBS, the new Winner of the Week. Congratulations, CBS! And PopWatchers, please feel free to nominate your own winners of the week, either for the past seven days or the week to come, in the comments below.
More on TV ratings:
Vice presidential debate scores massive ratings
Ratings: Chuck, Life premieres take a nosedive
Ratings: NCIS blasts competition; Mentalist starts strong
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If I get that annoying ad for Life on Mars again, I’m not going to watch it out of spite.
I have ALWAYS loved Simon Baker as an actor – I think the “Mentalist” is just the best series ever as it combines elements of CSI with that of The Medium with that of Psych…I am so happy to see him back and hope he stays on the air for a long time – The Guardian was good but this is even better.
Mark Harmon has still got it going on! I love NCIS; the cast is terrific.
I accidentally didn’t tape Criminal Minds this week and was crushed to find out that CBS doesn’t have full episodes of the show on its website. Why IS that? I don’t understand. It is absurd for them not to make them available online the next day. Not only does it let down the fans who might have missed one episode, but it doesn’t allow people who might read an article like this to check it out for the first time. Why, CBS, WHY?
I know from my Season Pass that NCIS was repeated during and after the writer’s strike. I don’t know about Criminal Minds but I’m going to guess that it was, too. I know that procedurals like NCIS, Criminal Minds and L&O repeat better, theoretically, than most, but I have to wonder how much positive impact repeating has on these numbers? I thin NBC erred in not repeating Chuck and Life, two sophomore dramas that are struggling. I think if they had made a point to have the shows on their schedule during spring and summer, just to have it front of mind if nothing else, their ratings to start the fall would have been better.
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