"Samantha Who?", "Back to You" Doing Well
The ratings for the new season's TV shows are starting to solidify, and the results are clarifying successes and failures. Fox has renewed the Kelsey-Grammer-Patricia Heaton sitcom has been picked up for the fulll season, as the network has asked for an additional eleven episodes for a total of twenty-four.
The most highly rated new sitcom, however, is ABC's Samantha Who?, starring Christina Applegate as an amnesia victim who discovers that she was a terrible person in her previous life and decides to try to reform. ABC has asked for six additional episodes and is reportedly leaning toward committing to a full season.
The same network's Cavemen, by contrast, has continued its ratings free-fall, and ABC has not asked for additional episodes. ABC has picked up the well-reviewed Pushing Daisies for the full season, which finished second in its time slot last night despite suffering a 15 percent audience dropoff compared with the previous week.
