Andrew Ryan
From Friday's Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Nov. 06, 2009 12:00AM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 2:26AM EST
JANET SPEAKS!
Let the November sweeps begin: ABC has lined up a prime-time interview special with pop star Janet Jackson, in which she is expected to discuss her relationship with her late brother Michael. Scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 18, the interview will take place in the singer's home in Malibu, Calif., and will be handled by Good Morning America correspondent Robin Roberts. The special will mark Janet Jackson's first televised interview since Michael's sudden death last June. In order to accommodate the program, ABC will pre-empt the struggling drama Eastwick.
ALIEN INVASION
The Visitors have arrived. The alien drama V has already surfaced as this season's highest-rated new series. This week's debut of the ABC series delivered stellar ratings on either side of the border. In Canada, the Tuesday-night premiere pulled in 2.16-million viewers for CTV, making it the No. 1 new series of the fall season and the only rookie premiere to deliver more than two million viewers (CBC's Battle of the Blades is in second place with 1.99-million viewers). In the U.S., the ABC series went out to slightly more than 14 million viewers, making it the second-highest new show debut, following CBS's launch of NCIS: Los Angeles. Adapted from a 1984 miniseries of the same name, V stars Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell as an FBI agent fighting off the scourge of seemingly benign extraterrestrials known as The Visitors.
NUMB3RS COUNTDOWN
The end appears to be nigh for the crime-drama Numb3rs. According to a report in Variety, CBC has reduced this season's show order from 22 to 16 episodes in order to make room for the return of the Canadian-made Flashpoint and the new dramas The Bridge and Undercover Boss. Currently in its sixth season, Numb3rs has been gradually waning in U.S. Nielsen ratings since returning to the Friday-night lineup in September. At the same time, CBS extended the episode order for the new sitcom Accidentally on Purpose, which now joins NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife as rookie CBS shows with full-season pickups.
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