"Daisies" Blooms In Ratings, "Bionic Woman" Tanks

Variety:

ABC's critically adored drama "Pushing Daisies" opened well Wednesday night, winning its hour in key demos and teaming with "Private Practice" and "Dirty Sexy Money" to lift the net to victory. Wednesday also saw a rather steep 30% second-week decline for NBC's "Bionic Woman," and a roughly 25% dropoff for the same net's "Life."

According to preliminary Nielsen national estimates that include live viewing plus same-day DVR playback, "Pushing Daisies" averaged a 4.2 rating/12 share in adults 18-49 and 12.8 million viewers overall -- the strongest bow for any show premiering in the 8 o'clock hour this fall and the third best overall, behind just "Bionic Woman" and "Private Practice." It seemed to have an affect on other shows in the hour, as Fox's "Back to You" (2.4/7 in 18-49, 6.6 million viewers overall) and CBS' "Kid Nation" (2.4/7 in 18-49, 7.5 million viewers overall) slid further in their third weeks, while NBC's "Deal or No Deal" (2.8/8 in 18-49, 11.1 million viewers overall) was up a tick week to week.

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Comments

[lvogt]

10:13 AM on 10/05/2007

"Daisies" is excellent. It's obviously styled after the French film "Amalie", a wonderful film and one of my favorites. There's a little "Stranger Than Fiction" and a touch of Tim Burton as well.

I wanted to like "Bionic Woman" because I'm a huge "Battlestar Galactica" fan but "Bionic" is very routine. The lead character is not at all compelling. Yawn.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

10:08 PM on 10/04/2007

Well, I am just an aging old fella, but my lesbian niece agrees with me that there can never be another Jamie!

[Smirk]

05:53 PM on 10/04/2007

I like "Daisies," but it's so stylized I'm not sure it can survive. It's from some of the same people who created "Dead Like Me."