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ABC/Greg Zabilski

Guess not too many people are planning to stay for the end credits of High School Musical 3.

High School Musical: Get in the Picture, the new ABC reality show that promises to cast its winner in a music video to play during HSM3's aforementioned crawl, failed its first—and second—ratings tests.

Sunday's inaugural episode placed 69th in Nielsen Media Research's latest weekly rankings. It finished fourth, or last, in its time slot behind nonstellar broadcast competition led by CBS' Big Brother (33rd place, 5.7 million). Its 4 million viewers were more fitting for an umpteenth HSM rerun on Disney Channel than a broadcast premiere.

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Bravo

New York is obviously the place to see and be seen. Well, being Heidi Klum helps with the latter.

Nearly 3 million people tuned in to the fifth-season premiere of Project Runway last night, giving Bravo its largest-ever audience for a series season premiere, according to figures released by the network.

And of the 2.915 million who tuned in for the Peabody Award-winning competition show's last season on Bravo before it heads to Lifetime, a record 1.81 million fell into that oh-so-important 18-49-year-old bracket, the age group most attractive to the advertisers who stick all those annoying commercials in between snips of the scissors.

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Andrew Eccles/TNT

The Closer's back. One million viewers aren't.

TNT's hit detective drama kicked off its fourth season last night before, on average, 7.8 million viewers, the network said, down 1 million viewers from last summer's third-season opener.

The premiere audience was the smallest for the Kyra Sedgwick show since the first season's inaugural episode averaged 7 million back in 2005.

Coincidentally, or perhaps not, last night's opener marked the first time The Closer began its season in July, rather than in June.

Still, even a smaller-than-last-year Closer is a big Closer.

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Patrick Ecclesine/FOX

The appetizer was hot.

The penultimate episode of Hell's Kitchen was TV's most watched show among young adults, the latest Nielsen Media Research stats show.

Overall, the Fox cooking-and-yelling series averaged just over 8 million viewers, and finished 10th.

The installment featured finalists Louis Petrozza and Christina Machamer building their "dream" restaurants. Harsh taskmaster Gordon Ramsay makes his final call tonight, bringing to a close the show's fourth season.

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ABC/ADAM LARKEY

Splash, splat, waaah…

The sounds of summer TV are distinctive—and popular, with solid premieres last week for Wipeout, I Survived a Japanese Game Show and The Baby Borrowers, per Nielsen Media Research stats.

ABC's Wipeout, a slippery, sloppy obstacle course fit for American gladiators, but tackled by American Joes and Janes, was the most watched show among TV's prized, but ever-dwindling pool of 18-to-49-year-olds.

Overall, it averaged 10 million viewers, posted its network's biggest summer premiere in three years, and ranked second behind NBC's veteran summer show, America's Got Talent (11.7 million).

I Survived a Japanese Game Show, an ABC offering fit for a Survivor-chosen island, but set on, yes, a pads-and-helmets-required Japanese game show, pulled in at 10th place (8 million).

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Disney Channel / Fred Hayes

Camp Rock premiered big and repeated well. Now it only has to keep it up for another, oh, two and a half years.

Like High School Musical.

Giving the Jonas Brothers' vehicle something to shoot for, the original HSM kept on keeping on last week, scoring nearly as many viewers for its 33rd—yes, 33rd—airing as a two-day-old rerun of Camp Rock.

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Disney Channel/John Medland

The question was: Could three Jonases take down one Zac Efron? The answer was yes—and no.

Friday night's premiere of the Jonas Brothers-populated TV musical Camp Rock averaged 8.9 million viewers, the Disney Channel said today.

That's bigger than the original, Efron-led High School Musical, which debuted before 7.7 million viewers. But it's smaller—significantly smaller—than the 17.2 million who turned out for last August's return of Efron in High School Musical 2.

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Disney Channel/John Medland

So, 9-year-old girls are kinda looking forward to Camp Rock, huh?

To quote tween expert Denise Restauri, "Let me just say, omigod!"

All signs—and Camp Rock viewing parties—point to potentially record-setting ratings for the TV-movie musical premiering Friday night on the Disney Channel. The film, about rockin' music campers, as the title suggests, stars Barney & Friends alum Demi Lovato and, oh, yes, a little trio called the Jonas Brothers.

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AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian

Fueled by the resurgent NBA Finals, TV ratings are going where TV ratings rarely go: up.

Through the first three full weeks of the summer season, the big four broadcast networks have combined to average 6.4 million viewers, up from 6.2 million for the same period last year.

The gain is modest—3 percent—but it's a gain. Unlike the 10 percent decline the big four networks collectively suffered during the just-completed regular season.

The summer, and especially ABC, have benefited from basketball's renewed Boston Celtics-Los Angeles Lakers rivalry.

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Megan Tantillo/Lifetime Television

John McCain and Barack Obama know where the votes viewers are.

The second-season premiere of Lifetime's Army Wives, featuring testimonials from both presidential contenders, soared to the top of the cable ratings.

The Sunday hourlong averaged 4.5 million viewers, per Nielsen Media Research. That's up nearly 30 percent over the show's opener last year, the network said.

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AP Photo/Rich Schultz

It's going to be a weird TV summer.

Prime-time ratings for hockey, that favorite beach-season sport, were way up. But they weren't big enough to beat CBS' foray into brawls. And Kimbo Slice wasn't man enough to take down Regis Philbin.

Well, OK, the Regis thing wasn't all that odd.

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ABC

Lost is what it is.

Last night's two-hour season finale averaged a steady 12.2 million viewers, per Nielsen Media Research estimates. The show peaked in its coffin-revealing final half-hour, with 12.7 million.

The overall performance was on par with its strike-shortened season average (up 4 percent).

It was far off from last year's season finale (down 12 percent) and this year's season premiere (down 24 percent).

Noting that the number marked Lost's lowest-ever season finale is to point out something that's both true and virtually insignificant. Given the ongoing ratings erosion, nearly every show posts its lowest-ever season finale with each successive season.

(Spoilers ahead, consider yourselves warned.)

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