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EW: Winners & Losern on Monday!
EW comments on the current TV-season. "Prison Break" is the Mondays winner, "Kitchen Confidential" is a loser, "How I Met Your Mother" and "7th Heaven" are anywhere between. |
 Monday
Breaking out on Monday proved difficult for any new show not called Prison Break (No. 43, pictured). With an early fall debut and loads of promotion, viewers found — and stayed with — Break. Its success did little to lift lead-ins Kitchen Confidential (No. 98) and Arrested Development (No. 96) — both of which will likely be canceled. ''It's a quality night of television,'' says Fox's exec VP of programming, Preston Beckman. ''But I've learned the hard way that if you try to save one show, you can really destroy your schedule.'' The WB collapsed as its longtime savior 7th Heaven (No. 89) — in its 10th and last season — failed to cast a glow over Don Johnson's 568th attempted comeback, Just Legal (No. 111), and its new companion, NutraSweet-sister dramedy Related (No. 118). ''The network has been built on a mantra of patience and slow growth,'' WB Entertainment president David Janollari says. ''We think Related, like Gilmore Girls — which started out very slow in its first season — will be a strong long-term player for us.'' CBS, meanwhile, is fumbling a bit (at least by No. 1-network standards) in its first Raymond-less season: Two and a Half Men (No. 14) is down 1.2 million viewers from last year, Out of Practice (No. 25) can't seem to carry Men's audience to CSI: Miami (No. 6), and How I Met Your Mother (No. 36) is scoring better with reviewers than viewers. But for now, the Eye's situation is hardly dire. ''How I Met Your Mother has turned comedy on its head a little bit and has gotten some nice response,'' says CBS senior executive VP of programming Kelly Kahl.
OTHER MONDAY WINNERS Surface, NBC (No. 37), isn't making a huge splash, but earned a full-season pickup.
OTHER MONDAY LOSERS Monday Night Football, ABC (No. 9), has fumbled 200,000 viewers in its final season on the network.
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