The extreme home-improvement series “Disaster House” premieres at 8 p.m. Based on the pilot, this looks like a one-note medical show, more serious than soap operatic like “Grey’s Anatomy,” but highlighting a great deal of earnest rushing around with no let up. Alex O’Loughlin, Katherine Moennig and Alfre Wood- ard are part of a large ensemble. on Channel 4), about an organ-transplant team based at a Pittsburgh hospital. Could be habit forming.ĬBS’s “Three Rivers,” on Sunday (8 p.m. They play a team of explorers stuck in a faraway corner of the universe on an old spaceship, part of a long-ago experiment, unable to return to Earth. Launching with a two-hour movie, the cast boasts Robert Carlyle, David Blue and Ming Na. SyFy’s “Stargate Universe,” on Friday, a brand new story that welcomes viewers who never joined the previous “Stargate” franchise. This half-hour doesn’t need to be cutting edge or gimmicky, just funny. Heaton plays the role with smarts - it’s not that this woman is inept, it’s that the responsibilities are never ending, the time management impossible. So far, it seems to have paid off.ĪBC’s “The Middle,” on Wednesday (7:30 on Channel 7), which finds pure laughs in an old-fashioned situation comedy about a harried working wife and mother in the Midwest, played by Patricia Heaton. The network’s move of “The Mentalist,” last year’s strongest new series, from Tuesday to Thursday nights was a gamble. Meanwhile, in prime time, CBS appears to be off to a very strong start - including its best premiere week Tuesday ratings in 16 years, an audience of 21 million for the return of “NCIS,” which retained 19 million viewers for the new spinoff “NCIS: Los Angeles,” and then 14 million for the Julianna Margulies drama, “The Good Wife.”ĭon’t write the obituary for network television just yet.
But their gain is Channel 4’s loss: Channel 4 slipped 28 percent from last year’s “Dr. That’s good news for Channel 7, which jumped more than 20 percent above last year’s average ratings with “Jeopardy” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” It’s also good news for Channel 9, which grew 30 percent over last year’s “Ellen” average). Oz Show” on KMGH was next with a 2.3 rating, “Dr. They’re all within four-tenths of a ratings point: “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” on KUSA led with a 2.6 rating, “The Dr. While the styles vary, the shows’ ratings are not so wildly different. And taking some remarkably personal questions from audience members. Oz was talking kidney stones, yoga and fatty foods. Phil was talking to overwhelmed moms and a teen who desperately wants to mother multiple kids, and while Ellen DeGeneres was dancing and giving away cash prizes, Dr. The styles and content of the competing shows are wildly different. Oz” good medicine for KMGH-Channel 7 – The Denver Post Close Menu