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  • ‘Sex and the City’s finale lures 10.6 million viewers

    ‘Sex and the City’s finale lures 10.6 million viewers

    MUMBAI:10.6 million viewers tuned in on Sunday night to bid adieu to Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda- the four central actors in Sex and the City’..

    The 45 minute telecast of the of farewell turned out to be a roaring hit as the Home Box offices’s Sex and the City bewitched its biggest audience ever.

    The finale emerge as the second most watched show at that hour Sunday night, says a company release.

    The telecast gave beating all the broadcast networks except ABC, which drew 17.5 million viewers for its first edition of Super Millionaire.

    It also managed to draw the highest household rating on HBO since the September 2002 premiere of the fourth season of mob drama The Sopranos.

    Sex and the City, a signature show that established HBO as a creative powerhouse and the first cable series to win an Emmy Award for best comedy may just be treading the Hollywood route.

    So its not adieu after all.

  • ‘Super Millionaire’ gives ABC a leg up in the ratings

    ‘Super Millionaire’ gives ABC a leg up in the ratings

    MUMBAI: Star Plus may have decided not to restart the game show Kaun Banega Crorepati but recent ratings show that in the US viewers are still hooked onto this kind of game show format.

    ABC aired the debut episode of its new show Super Millionaire with a prize money of $10 million on 22 February. The show averaged 17.5 million viewers and thus became that night?s most-watched programme. Reports indicate that the show held its own against HBO’s highly touted Sex And The City finale. It managed a 5.7 average among adults 18-49.

    As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com the format is the same as Millionaire, which used to air on ABC till 2002. Ten finalists compete against each other in the fastest finger round to answer one question. The winner then attempts to navigate 15 multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty on a broad range of topics.

    An AP report adds that for the week 16-22 February Super Millionaire finished No. 14 in the standings out of 133 prime-time shows. CBS’ acclaimed crime drama CSI topped the charts with 30.8 million viewers tuning in. In India the show airs on AXN. Fox’s music based reality show American Idol was placed second with 25.1 million viewers. An episode of NBC’s Friends got 24.2 million viewers to give the GE owned broadcaster the third spot.