Out in Left Field: New Series, World Series

"7th Heaven." CW gave its aged soap a full-season pickup, surprising many who thought the show already had it.

"Criminal Minds." Mandy Patinkin's wonderful weekly exercise in scenery-chewing has pulled to within 10,000 viewers of ABC's too-hip-to-live "Lost" at 9 on Wednesdays. Chew on, Mandy!

LOSERS

"Extreme Makeover." ABC pulled its nip-tuck reality series after its one -- and apparently only -- broadcast, which attracted an anorexic 4.8 million viewers on Friday. Appropriately, "Grey's Anatomy" reruns will return to the slot, though this week it will be filled by "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown."

"Runaway." Donnie Wahlberg drama about family on the lam attracted just 1.7 million viewers -- too small a crowd even for the CW network, so it's kaput after just three broadcasts.

"Waterfront." Topping even Wahlberg's performance, however, this CBS series, starring Joe Pantoliano as the ethically challenged mayor of Providence, was pulled before it even got a time slot or a debut date. That brings to three the number of new CBS shows starring Pantoliano that canceled almost immediately -- the others being "The Handler" and "Dr. Vegas," though Rob Lowe deserves some of the credit on that one -- securing Pantoliano a place in the pantheon of Certified Show Killers.

"Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" apparently has leveled off with an audience of just under 8 million, barely ahead of ABC's "What About Brian" and about 10 million behind CBS's "CSI: Miami" in the Monday 10 p.m. time slot. Aaron Sorkin's only hope for his show's survival is the upscaleness of those 8 million.

The week's 10 most watched shows, in order, were: ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and "Dancing With the Stars"; CBS's "CSI"; ABC's "Desperate Housewives" and "Dancing" results show; Fox's World Series Game 2; CBS's "CSI: Miami"; NBC's Monday "Deal or No Deal"; Fox's Thursday baseball playoffs Game 7; and ABC's "Lost."