Send In the Clowns. Don't Bother, Sanjaya's Here.

"Dancing With the Stars."

ABC's dance competition series scored its best ever kickoff for the results show on Tuesday -- 18 million viewers -- despite an "American Idol" overlap of seven minutes.

LOSERS

"The Great American Dream Vote." ABC scrubbed this "Queen for a Day" update after just two broadcasts: Tuesday's unveiling, which fumbled two-thirds of its "Dancing With the Stars" lead-in audience, and Wednesday's show, which lost another 1.5 million.

"The Wedding Bells." Ask not for whom the bell tolls, David E. Kelley, it tolls for "Wedding Bells." It's still on the schedule this week, but that's a dead-cat bounce; it got the hook after a 4.4-million-viewer showing on Friday.

"Six Degrees." Deep-sixed after logging 3 million viewers on Friday. Friday, by the way, is where networks send freshman series to die quietly. It was the smallest audience for any Friday series on any of the five English-language broadcast networks, including CW, in four months -- back to Nov. 10 when similarly lamented "Vanished" did 2.9 million.

"The Black Donnellys." Say bye-bye to "Black Donnellys." NBC yanked it out of its Monday 10 p.m. berth to make way for a new reality series about the hilarity that ensues when improv actors crash weddings with the knowledge of the bride and groom but not their families and friends. "Black Donnellys" was scorched after posting 5.4 million viewers last week on Monday, off a "Deal or No Deal" lead-in crowd of 12.2 million.

"7th Heaven." CW has canceled this prime-time soap -- again. It was brought back from the dead, after cancellation last spring, but this time CW swears the May 13 finale really will be its last episode ever and our long nightmare will be over.

The week's 10 most watched programs, in order, were: Fox's Tuesday and Wednesday "American Idol"; CBS's "CSI"; Fox's "House"; ABC's Monday "Dancing With the Stars" debut and Tuesday results show; CBS's "Shark"; Fox's "'Til Death"; and CBS's Saturday basketball championship game and "Survivor: Fiji."