At PBS, a Change in the Lineup

Alma Awards . With an average of 4.2 million viewers, ABC's broadcast of this show honoring Latino artistic achievement scored twice as many viewers as the last time it aired, in 2002, also on ABC, on a Saturday night.

"Meerkat Manor." The debut of Animal Planet's 13-part series, in which cameras record a meerkat family as it struggles to survive in Africa's Kalahari Desert (" 'Hamlet' only hairier," according to network promos), averaged more than 1 million viewers from 8 to 9 p.m. Friday -- the network's biggest series debut in three years.

LOSERS

"Lovespring International." Lifetime's new improv comedy show averaged 996,000 viewers Monday at 11 p.m. The previous four-week average in the time slot with "Will & Grace" reruns: 1.2 million.

MTV Movie Awards. Yawn! -- collective opinion of more than 30 percent of last year's audience for the trying-way-too-hard trophy show, who gave it a pass this year. Among younger viewers it copped its smallest audience since 1997. Overall its haul was 3.2 million; as recently as 2002 the show was must-see TV, with an average of more than 7 million.

The week's 10 most-watched programs, in order, were: NBC's "Deal or No Deal"; CBS's "CSI"; ABC's NBA Finals Game 2; CBS's "CSI: Miami"; ABC's NBA Finals Game 1; CBS's "Without a Trace"; NBC's "Apprentice" Season 5 finale; Fox's Wednesday and Thursday "So You Think You Can Dance"; and CBS's "60 Minutes."