TV Season Update--some surprises, no big breakthroughs

In TV Land This Season, a Few Happy Surprises but No Breakthrough Hits - New York Times: "Three weeks into the new network television season, three new shows are giving early signs of being winners: “Heroes” on NBC, “Jericho” on CBS and “Ugly Betty” on ABC. And some scheduling moves have worked brilliantly, like ABC’s shift of “Grey’s Anatomy,” now television’s hottest show, to Thursday night.

But on the down side for the networks, several new shows have already been dropped from schedules and many new series have wasted huge audiences from the hit shows that precede them. Those include three new entries on ABC, which still has reason to worry that it may never find companion shows to capitalize on three smash hits — “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Lost” — it introduced two years ago.

One ABC hopeful, “Six Degrees,” has been driving viewers away in thundering herds, bleeding more than 13 million viewers from “Grey’s Anatomy” last week."