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'Raising the Bar' and Clearing It in the Ratings
washingtonpost.com - 9/3/2008
'Raising the Bar' and Clearing It in the Ratings
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Steven Bochco set a new record Monday when his premiering TNT lawyer drama, "Raising the Bar," clocked 7.7 million viewers. It was the biggest audience ever for a new-series launch on an ad-supported cable network.

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Tuned In:  Ratings: CW Up, TNT Even Upper, GOP Down

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Ratings: CW Up, TNT Even Upper, GOP Down
Tuned In — ... , The CW's corporate parents may have pulled the plug on the network if the highly-hyped show bombed. * In other screw-the-critics news, 7.7 million people disagreed with me about TNT's cliched lawyer drama Raising the Bar , at least enough to watch the first episode Monday and make it TNT's biggest debut ever. * Raising the Bar was helped by the fact that, because of Hurricane Gustav, there was no Republican National Convention on the networks Monday. [ Update: Well, technically there was, but the news was mostly about Gustav.] But the second (but for TV purposes, ...

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