"Alias" Ratings Rebirthby Joal Ryan
Katie Holmes and Brooke Shields were much watched new mothers last week. But where the prime-time TV ratings were concerned, Sydney Bristow was the most watched new mother.
Back-to-back episodes of Alias, featuring Jennifer Garner's alter ego going into labor and giving birth, posted the spy show's best numbers since its season premiere, ABC said.
The two-hour labor-inducing event averaged 7.5 million viewers, placing 48th in the latest Nielsen Media Research rankings.
In addition to Bristow's blessed event, the episodes marked Alias' return to prime time after a four-month layoff. It was in December, just weeks after Garner gave birth to her and husband Ben Affleck's first child, that the Emmy-winning show was benched, having bombed, like many ABC scripted shows before it, on Thursday nights.
While Alias showed life on Wednesday--it'll air its 100th episode there this week--the end is near. The series finale is scheduled for May.
On the upside of cancellation, Bristow can look forward to handling diaper changes in relative privacy.
From:
E! Online
