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'Idol' falters with Final 4
USA TODAY, May, 2008 by Bill Keveney
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*False note. Fox's American Idol drew just 21.8 million viewers for Tuesday's Top 4 performance show, its worst finals performance showing since Season 2 in 2003 and down more than 3 million from the previous week's performance show. Wednesday's results show (22.9 million) was slightly ahead of the previous Wednesday.
*Graceful leap. Dancing With the Stars' results show Tuesday (18.4 million), the ABC competition's 100th episode, jumped more than 1 million from the previous week. The results show trailed only the two Idol episodes.
*Helping hands. Monday's Two and a Half Men (13.6 million) may have received a boost from its crossover with CSI, in which each CBS series' writers wrote the others' script. It drew 12.9 million a week earlier. CSI (18.1 million), the week's top scripted show, showed a modest jump of fewer than 100,000 viewers vs. its past week. ...
