Ratings: HBO's Not-so-big Love, Closer's Record Finale

Tim DeKay and Ally Walker in Tell Me You Love Me by Doug Hyun/HBO

• The racy Tell Me You Love Me bedded only 910,000 viewers with its Sunday debut, falling 53 percent below HBO's month-prior average in the time slot and coming up way short versus the premieres of, say, John from Cincinnati (3.4 mil), Big Love (4.6 mil) and Rome (3.8 mil). As a result, lead-out Curb Your Enthusiasm drew its lowest season-premiere audience ever, 1.17 mil.

• Monday's season-ender for TNT's The Closer delivered 9.2 million viewers, setting a new all-time high for an ad-supported cable series telecast (besting The Closer's Season 3 opener).

• Katie Couric's jaunt to Iraq enlisted 5.46 mil, matching Evening News' previous all-time low.

• Nick's iCarly accumulated 13 million viewers over its entire premiere weekend.

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Matt Webb Mitovich

Sep 12, 2007 9:23 AM

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Hey Matt, So sad to hear that Curb's ratings were so low.....seriously, Sunday night's epi was one of the funniest ever. So many great moments, so many great lines, so much awkwardness!! Any plans for a blog for this show??
Posted by Heather Sep 12, 2007 10:32 AM Report Abuse

Awesome news for The Closer. Thanks, Matt!
Posted by Rod Sep 12, 2007 11:39 AM Report Abuse

I'd love to watch Tell Me You Love Me but I don't get HBO ... bummer.
Posted by SissyP Sep 12, 2007 11:46 AM Report Abuse

Tell Me had a pretty good opener, sad to see it do worse than the ABYSMAL John From..., hopefully this will give HBO a wake up call to start moving on the Song of Fire and Ice series that they picked up the rights to. Also sad about Curb, the season 6 premiere was one of the best episodes I've seen in years.
Posted by blueseed1 Sep 12, 2007 12:48 PM Report Abuse

I tuned in to watch Tell Me You Love Me and I liked it, but to be honest, I was a little disappointed as well. I had heard it had alot of sexual scenes in it, and it did, so I was trying to figure out why I was disappointed. What I came up with was that all the characters were so somber. Everyone was having sex, but not too many of them were enjoying it very much. It was like the old show "Thirtysomething" only we got to watch the main characters have sex. Another new show that has alot of sex in it is Californication with David Duchovny. I like that show alot better because it has a bit of comedy in it and David is such an obvious bad boy. You hate him and love him at the same time. I don't think there are any characters in Tell Me You Love Me that will bring out any of those emotions in me. That, plus David enjoys sex a whole lot more than anybody else on TV and that's fun to watch. I'll give Tell Me You Love Me a little more time to grow on me. I just hope the characters start to get a little happier sometimes.

Posted by pattijen2222

Sep 12, 2007 1:24 PM

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Tell Me That You Love Me was so depressing I felt like I had just broken up with every woman I had ever met in one 60 minute episode! Lighten things up a bit HBO - I still feel blue and it was on Sunday! I'm sure that Suicide Hotlines all over America showed a spike in business!
Posted by Ranger99 Sep 12, 2007 2:19 PM Report Abuse

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! The Closer i'm ready for next season!
Posted by qmmp Sep 12, 2007 3:40 PM Report Abuse

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