Race goes to the summer reruns

The weekly list of television’s 10 most-watched shows was composed entirely of reruns last week for the first time in the summer season, according to Nielsen Media Research figures released Tuesday.

Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” came closest among original programs to cracking the Top 10 for Aug. 15 through Sunday. The competition program finished 11th with 8.7 million viewers, its largest audience since the 10.3 million who watched its premiere July 20.

NBC’s summer-long struggle to attract viewers to new unscripted programming continued last week with the premiere of “Tommy Lee Goes to College.”

The premiere of the six-episode series chronicling the Motley Crue drummer’s experiences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln drew slightly more than 5.2 million viewers, putting it third in its 9 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday time slot and 54th among the prime-time programs shown on the six major broadcast networks last week.

However, viewership increased nearly 17%, to 6.1 million, for a second episode shown from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The trend of viewers tuning away from first-run programming was also illustrated by ABC’s “Brat Camp,” which had its smallest audience -- nearly 7.3 million -- during its five-week run.

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Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Aug. 15-21) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number or people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

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*--* 1 CSI CBS 13.03 2 Without a Trace CBS 12.92 3 60 Minutes CBS 10.32 4 NCIS CBS 10.00 5 CSI: Miami CBS 9.90

6 Cold Case CBS 9.42 7 Law & Order: SVU NBC 9.33 8 Two and a Half Men (9:30 p.m.) CBS 9.03 9 Two and a Half Men (9 p.m.) CBS 9.02 10 Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC 8.98

11 So You Think You Can Dance FOX 8.72 12 Big Brother 6 (Tue.) CBS 8.70 13 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 8.36 14 Big Brother 6 (Thu.) CBS 8.24 15 CSI: NY CBS 8.23

16 Crossing Jordan (Sun.) NBC 8.00 17 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8 p.m.) ABC 7.77 18 “Remember the Titans” ABC 7.67 19 “Living With the Dead,” Part 2 CBS 7.57 20 Brat Camp (9 p.m.) ABC 7.27

21 King of Queens (Mon.) CBS 7.06 22 20/20 ABC 6.93 23 Law & Order NBC 6.92 24 “NFL on Fox Preseason” FOX 6.78 25 Primetime ABC 6.64

26 Rock Star: INXS (Tue.) CBS 6.49 Dateline: NBC (Fri.) NBC 6.49 28 Rodney (9:30 p.m.) ABC 6.47 29 According to Jim (9 p.m.) ABC 6.45 30 Medium NBC 6.30

31 Family Guy FOX 6.15 32 “Tommy Lee Goes to College” (9:30 p.m.) NBC 6.10 33 So You Think You Can Dance pre-show FOX 6.07 34 Family Guy FOX 6.06 35 “The Tuxedo” ABC 6.02

36 Big Brother 6 (Sat.) CBS 5.85 37 According to Jim (8 p.m.) ABC 5.83 38 Yes, Dear CBS 5.75 39 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Sat.) NBC 5.69 40 My Kind of Town ABC 5.65

41 Desperate Housewives ABC 5.59 42 Dateline: NBC (Sun.) NBC 5.57 43 Crossing Jordan (Fri.) NBC 5.53 The Simpsons FOX 5.53 45 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (7 p.m.) ABC 5.49

46 Las Vegas NBC 5.46 47 “NFL Pre-Season Football” CBS 5.41 48 Brat Camp (8 p.m.) ABC 5.40 49 Rock Star: INXS (Wed.) CBS 5.34 50 Still Standing CBS 5.27

51 America’s Most Wanted FOX 5.26 Law & Order (Sat.) NBC 5.26 53 Rodney (8:30 p.m.) ABC 5.25 54 “Tommy Lee Goes to College” (9 p.m.) NBC 5.22 55 King of Queens (Wed.) CBS 5.19

56 Joey NBC 5.16 American Dad FOX 5.16 58 48 Hours Mystery CBS 5.15 59 Meet Mister Mom NBC 5.13 60 Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 5.06

61 Boston Legal ABC 4.97 62 “2005 Teen Choice Awards” FOX 4.86 63 Will & Grace NBC 4.85 64 Scrubs (9:30 p.m.) NBC 4.67 65 Scrubs (9 p.m.) NBC 4.60

66 WWE Smackdown! UPN 4.57 67 Crimetime Saturday CBS 4.44 68 Fear Factor NBC 4.42 69 Cops FOX 4.41 70 Hope and Faith (8:30 p.m.) ABC 4.38

71 Hope and Faith (9 p.m.) ABC 4.31 ER NBC 4.31 73 8 Simple Rules ABC 4.24 74 Lost ABC 4.21 75 Less Than Perfect ABC 4.14

76 Law & Order: Trial by Jury (Sat.) NBC 3.71 77 The Office (8 p.m.) NBC 3.38 House FOX 3.38 79 The Office (9:30 p.m.) NBC 3.34 80 King of the Hill FOX 3.31

81 “A Beautiful Mind” ABC 3.22 82 Renovate My Family FOX 3.18 The Office (9 p.m.) NBC 3.18 84 The Office (8:30 p.m.) NBC 2.93 85 Gilmore Girls (9 p.m.) WB 2.84

86 Malcolm in the Middle FOX 2.71 87 RU the Girl: T-Boz & Chilli UPN 2.48 88 Gilmore Girls (8 p.m.) WB 2.47 89 Reba WB 2.44 90 Arrested Development (8 p.m.) FOX 2.40

91 One on One (Mon.) UPN 2.35 92 All of Us UPN 2.31 93 “Double Take” UPN 2.30 94 Girlfriends UPN 2.29 95 Half and Half UPN 2.23

96 Smallville (Wed.) WB 2.16 97 Smallville (Thu.) WB 2.13 98 RU the Girl: Encore UPN 2.07 99 Eve UPN 2.05 100 Veronica Mars UPN 2.03

101 One on One (Tue.) UPN 2.02 102 Arrested Development (8:30 p.m.) FOX 2.00 103 Arrested Development (9:30 p.m.) FOX 1.97 104 Arrested Development (9 p.m.) FOX 1.96 105 Living With Fran WB 1.88

106 7th Heaven WB 1.78 107 Blue Collar TV WB 1.73 108 Summerland WB 1.61 109 One Tree Hill WB 1.48 110 “O” WB 1.47

111 What I Like About You WB 1.38 112 Everwood WB 1.34

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Network averages

Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season.

*--* Network Last week Season to date CBS 7.80 11.48

ABC 5.69 9.00

NBC 5.68 8.79

FOX 5.07 8.76

UPN 2.70 3.16

WB 1.83 2.99

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