KNIGHT RIDER - FALL TV SLOWDOWN CONTINUES

FALL TV SLOWDOWN CONTINUES

The broadcast networks saw their audiences decline Wednesday, due in part to competition from post-season baseball on cable network TBS but also due to widespread audience disinterest in many of the new and returning shows. NBC's Knight Rider and CBS's Gary Unmarried posted an identical 4.6 rating and 7 share, the kind of numbers typical of summer reruns, not fall newcomers. On ABC, the second season premiere of Pushing Davies was buried in fourth place with a 4.3/7, less than half the 9.0/15 it carnered when it debuted a year earlier. Fox replaced the poorly rated new series Do Not Disturb with ' Til Death at 9 00 -- to no avail. Death died with a fourth-place 2.9/5. The highest-rated show of the night remained CBS's CSI NY , which posted a 9.5/16 at 10 00 p.m. Second place went to the season premiere of ABC's Dirty Sexy Money with a 4.6/8 -- well off the 7.9/12 that it recorded when it debuted a year earlier.

02/10/2008