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Ratings Report :: "America's Got Talent" Delivers!

The final game in the NBA Finals was the top program on network television ... Game Six saw the Boston Celtics clinch the title over the Los Angeles Lakers ... and 16.9 million viewers watched ...

NBC saw a strong second season opening for America's Got Talent (second place, 12.8 million) ...

CBS' Million Dollar Password (12th place, 8.2 million) may have fallen out of the Top 10 ... but the game show revival was picked up for an additional six episodes ...

Here are the top 10 shows for the week ending Sunday ...

1. NBA Finals Game Six (Boston vs. Los Angeles), ABC, 16.9 million viewers
2. America's Got Talent, NBC, 12.8 million viewers
3. 60 Minutes, 9.1 million viewers
4. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 8.9 million viewers
5. So You Think You Can Dance (Thursday), Fox, 8.87 million viewers
6. So You Think You Can Dance (Wednesday), Fox, 8.86 million viewers
7. Deal or No Deal (Tuesday), NBC, 8.7 million viewers
8. House, Fox, 8.6 million viewers
9. Deal or No Deal (Wednesday), NBC, 8.3 million viewers
10. Hell's Kitchen, Fox, 8.25 million viewers

~Papi Chulo~

Jimmy Kimmel Live! :: "Uncle Frank & Aunt Chippy Visit a Dairy Farm"

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! :: Steve Carell Flips the Script!

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Michelle Obama on "The View"

First Lady-in-waiting Michelle Obama was the guest co-host on ABC's The View Wednesday ...

Obama discusses a variety of topics ... including her fist bumps with her husband ... what Barack Obama did after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination ... and her reaction to the support Laura Bush gave her ...

~Papi Chulo~

ABC Renews Jimmy Kimmel

ABC has renewed Jimmy Kimmel Live! through 2010 ...

ABC's decision to give the late-night talk show an early renewal was due to the success of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Game Night ... a series of six half-hour specials that ran prior to the NBA Finals games ... guests during those shows have included Magic Johnson, David Cook and Barack Obama ...

The primetime specials averaged 3 million viewers ... nearly doubling Kimmel's late-night audience ...

~Papi Chulo~

Jimmy Kimmel Live! :: Guillermo in "The Hulk"

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Ratings Report :: Can't Beat the Celtics-Lakers Rivalry

ABC has been benefiting from the renewed Boston Celties-Los Angeles Lakers rivalry ... Viewership for the first five NBA Finals games are up 57% over last year ... Game six airs tonight ...

The most watched television program was a repeat of CBS' Two and a Half Men (fourth place, 10.7 million) ... CBS' Million Dollar Password (seventh place, 9.36 million) was the most watched summer series ...

CBS' controversial new summer series Swingtown continued to bring in viewers (21st place, 7 million) ...

Here are the top 10 shows for the week ending Sunday ...

1. NBA Finals Game Five (Boston vs. Los Angeles), ABC, 17.4 million viewers
2. NBA Finals Game Three (Boston vs. Los Angeles), ABC, 14.5 million viewers
3. NBA Finals Game Four (Boston vs. Los Angeles), ABC, 13.8 million viewers
4. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 10.7 million viewers
5. NCIS, CBS, 10.2 million viewers
6. CSI, CBS, 9.4 million viewers
7. Million Dollar Password, CBS, 9.36 million viewers
8. 48 Hours Mystery (Tuesday), CBS, 9.2 million viewers
9. CSI: NY, CBS, 9.18 million viewers
10. So You Think You Can Dance (Wednesday), Fox, 8.9 million viewers

~Papi Chulo~

Ratings Report :: NBA Finals Dominate!

The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers made for good TV viewing ... The first two games of the NBA finals (first place, 13.5 million for Game 2; second place, 13.4 million for Game 1) were up from last year ...

CBS' Million Dollar Password (fifth place, 9.62 million) became the week's most watched summer show ...

Thursday launched two new summer series on NBC and CBS ... NBC's new horror anthology series Fear Itself (41st place, 5.3 million) was outdone by the swinging swingers on CBS' Swingtown (14th place, 8.6 million) ...

Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals (24th place, 6.8 million) was up 111% from hockey's last Game 6 in 2006 ...

Over on cable ... The second season premiere of Lifetime's Army Wives (4.5 million) was up 30% from last year's series premiere ... making it a second place finish for a scripted series on cable ... It landed behind an original episode of USA's Law & Order: Criminal Intent (4.53 million) ...

Here are the top 10 shows for the week ending Sunday ...

1. NBA Finals Game 2 (Los Angeles vs. Boston), ABC, 13.5 million
2. NBA Finals Game 1 (Los Angeles vs. Boston), ABC, 13.4 million
3. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 9.81 million viewers
4. 60 Minutes, CBS, 9.8 million viewers
5. Million Dollar Password, CBS, 9.62 million viewers
6. CSI, CBS, 9.6 million viewers
7. So You Think You Can Dance (Wednesday), Fox, 9.56 million viewers
8. House, Fox, 9.4 million viewers
9. Hell's Kitchen, Fox, 9.36 million viewers
10. So You Think You Can Dance (Thursday), Fox, 9.3 million viewers

~Papi Chulo~

Michelle Obama's "View"

Michelle Obama will be a guest host on the ABC chatfest The View ...

The potential first lady of the United States has been invited to join the panel for the June 18th episode ...

Celebrity guests haven't been booked yet for the episode ...

~Papi Chulo~

LOST :: "The Economist" Deleted Scene

"The Economist" is the third episode of LOST's fourth season ...

The episode is Sayid-centric and follows his exploits off the island ... in the near future ... as a member of the "Oceanic 6" ...

The episode is noted for having a long lost deleted scene ... that has had fans salivating ...

It features Sayid, Kate and Miles at the pylons surrounding where the Others live ...

Here is the deleted scene ...

~Papi Chulo~

Ratings Report :: Regis Knocks Out Kimbo Slice

Million Dollar Password became the top new series of the week ... The Regis Philbin-hosted game show drew 10.6 million viewers for a third place finish ...

ABC aired the finale of LOST out of season ... and the mystery-laden two-hours landed in the top spot with 12.3 million ...

CBS' inaugural Saturday Night Fights ... a mixed martial arts event with headliner Kimbo Slice ... averaged 4.9 million viewers (49th place) ... peaking from 11:30-11:51pm with 6.5 million viewers for a fight between Slice and James "Colossus" Thompson ...

FOX's So You Think You Can Dance (eighth place, 9.56 million on Thursday; 10th place, 9.4 million on Wednesday) brought in its usual summer numbers ...

NBC's American Gladiators was up 25% (43rd place, 5.1 million) ...

Here are the top 10 shows for the week ending Sunday ...

1. LOST, ABC, 12.3 million viewers
2. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 10.8 million viewers
3. Million Dollar Password, CBS, 10.6 million viewers
4. 60 Minutes, CBS, 10.3 million viewers
5. NCIS, CBS, 9.8 million viewers
6. Criminal Minds, CBS, 9.7 million viewers
7. CSI: NY, CBS, 9.6 million viewers
8. So You Think You Can Dance (Thursday), Fox, 9.56 million viewers
9. Hell's Kitchen, Fox, 9.5 million viewers
10. So You Think You Can Dance (Wednesday), Fox, 9.4 million viewers

~Papi Chulo~

LOST :: Finale Finds Viewers

LOST's two-hour fourth season finale averaged 12.2 million viewers ... The show's final half-hour peaked with 12.7 million tuning in to find out who was the ... umm ... "lucky" coffin dweller ...

Nearly every show has posted low numbers this season ...

Once the final numbers are in ... LOST's ratings should go up a bit ... The serialized series usually gains 2 million viewers once DVR playback is tabulated ...

~Papi Chulo~

LOST :: Extended Press Conference Scene

ABC re-aired the first part of the fourth season finale of LOST on Thursday ...

The re-airing was an extended and enhanced version of the first parter ... It included an extended Oceanic 6 Press Conference ...

Here is the full scene ...

~Papi Chulo~

LOST :: Season Finale Alternate Endings

LOST's fourth season ended last night with one stumper of an ending ...

Viewers found out exactly who was inside the infamous coffin that Jack Shepherd visited during the third season's flashforward ...

There were three different endings filmed for the episode as a means to stop the secret identity from coming out ...

Good Morning America aired the other two versions this morning ... and if you are a fan of LOST ... you can sort of see that these two alternate versions really don't make sense if you look at the entire LOST canvas ...

~Papi Chulo~

Talk of the Town :: Jeffrey Harris Jilted by "Bachelorette"

At the end of the premiere episode of The Bachelorette's new season ... ten guys had to go ... and Jeffrey Harris, 27, was one of them ...

DeAnna Pappas did not choose the math teacher from North Miami, FL ... and he's not bitter about it ...

Here is an excerpt from an interview with Harris ...

What made you decide to do the show?

"I had just received my masters degree and my friends wanted to get me out of the house. But I was disappointed by the women I was meeting. My mother loved The Bachelor and loved DeAnna. I had never really seen the show."

How was the experience?

"Well, it was me and 24 guys in the house, so it was extremely wild but fun."

Lots of competition and testosterone?

"There was no ill-will toward anyone. We understood that there was a situation where we all there for one goal: To see if DeAnna or I or whoever else were bonding. We were supportive of each other. We all knew that we had to try to individually get noticed."

What did you do to impress her?

"I had a card that my students had made for her. They all signed it."

How did you get along?

"There was a physical connection -- she's extremely pretty in person. I don't think we hit it off. I see us more as friends."

Do you think she chose her 15 suitors well?

"All the ones who got roses are good guys, but there was one guy -- everyone felt the same way -- Twilley [debt manager from Tulsa] wasn't there for the right reasons."

Do you regret not jumping in the pool or doing something crazy to get noticed?

"No. That guy who did that [ Paul from Canada] -- that's not the way I would conduct myself. He put her name on his swim trunks!"

So what is your status now?

"I would say single and looking."

~Papi Chulo~

Ratings Report :: "CSI" Offed by "Housewives"

Desperate Housewives has dethroned CSI as the most-watched scripted show on television ...

Desperate Housewives ends its fourth season on top among scripted shows ... A first for the series ... It averaged 17.3 million viewers during the 2007-2008 television season ... Desperate Housewives was up 2% compared to last season ...

For the first time in five years ... CSI is not the most-watched scripted series ... the Vegas-set crime show averaged 16 million viewers this past season ...

Desperate Housewives finishes in sixth place ... behind various editions of Dancing With the Stars and American Idol ...

Grey's Anatomy is among a list of many scripted series that took huge pl