'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others || 'Pushing Daisies' was honored with an award from the Casting Society of America, winning an Artios Awards, the Hollywood Reporter says || James Cromwell, who played Zefram Cochrane in 1996's 'Star Trek: First Contact,' broke his collarbone in a fall off his bicycle last weekend, Yahoo! News reports. He's expected to fully recover. || ABC's 'Lost' will return to Wednesday nights starting Jan. 21. A clip show will run at 8 followed by a two-hour premiere. || All of the Star Trek movies could be coming to Blu-Ray as early as next year, Digital Bits says. Paramount had supported HD-DVD, but has conceded defeat to Blu-Ray, and is now moving to the format || SciFi Channel's 'Warehouse 13' has completed its creative staff with the likes of Jack Kenny, David Simkins, Drew Greenberg, Stephen Scaia, and others ||

'Moonlight' Returns With Stable Numbers

By MICHAEL HINMAN
Source: Zap2it
Apr-28-2008

"Moonlight" pretty much picked up where it left off Friday night as a show that is maintaining its stable ratings despite being CBS' lowest-rated program.

But that hasn't stopped the vampire drama from being the best show in the 9 p.m. hour with a 5.0 rating/9 share, according to Fast National ratings from Nielsen Media Research. That was enough to slip past "Dateline" on NBC, which had a 4.8/9, and the Fox movie "13 Going on 30," which barely beat programming on The CW.

That's down nearly 4 percent from the last "Moonlight" episode that aired pre-writers strike, but still is less than 14 percent off from its premiere.

"Moonlight" lost about 12 percent of its "Ghost Whisperer" lead-in, which also led its hour with a 5.7/11, according to Zap2it. It had absolutely no competition from ABC, NBC or Fox, all of which were competing more with The CW in how small of an audience each network could attract.

"Numbers" actually led the night for all networks with a 6.1/11 in the 10 p.m. hour, gaining 22 percent on top of the lead-in audience it picked up from "Moonlight." The news magazines "Dateline" and "20/20" made up the rest of the network viewing audience.

CBS, of course, easily won Friday night with a 5.6/10, well ahead of the 4.0/7 from NBC and 3.0/5 from ABC. Fox was able to manage only a 2.6/5.

Fast Nationals usually provide a snapshot of what Americans are watching by pulling numbers from the top urban markets that includes both live viewing and same-day timeshifted viewing. A rating point generally represents more than 1.1 million households while the share indicates the percentage of televisions turned on that was tuned to the specific program. These numbers typically shift when final ratings are issued.

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