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'Sarah Connor' Is a Winner. Golden Globes? Terminated.

Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Jorge Camara tries to prop up the Golden Globe awards.
Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Jorge Camara tries to prop up the Golden Globe awards. (By Mark J. Terrill -- Associated Press)
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By Lisa de Moraes
Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Football and Sarah Connor saved the day when striking writers brought trophy shows crashing down all around the TV networks.

Here's a look at the week's terminators and terminated:

WINNERS

"Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles." Sunday NFC playoff game lead-in crowd of 40 million + "Terminator" tie-in = Fox's highest-rated scripted series debut in eight years (18.4 million viewers). Plus, 1 million of them stuck around to watch "Family Guy," giving that show its biggest haul since it returned to Fox in May '05.

"Comanche Moon." CBS's latest crack at the "Lonesome Dove" franchise corralled 16 million viewers, the largest audience for any network teleflick in more than two years. But it's a far cry from the nearly 30 million households -- with who knows how many people in them -- who watched "Lonesome Dove" in the late '80s, before total-viewer stats were available.

CBS's Saturday. The AFC semifinal playoff featuring the undefeated New England Patriots copped CBS's biggest Saturday since it carried the XVII Winter Olympics in 1994 -- nearly 31 million viewers.

LOSERS

People's Choice Awards. After the Writers Guild of America declared the People's Choice Awards a "struck" show, CBS was forced to strip it down to its very essence -- Queen Latifah locked in a room, introducing canned acceptance speeches and gushing manically about "the people." Only 6 million viewers could take it. Last year, the show clocked more than 11 million.


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