The season finale of "Lost" can be found at the top of last week's ratings roster.
It was an uncommonly strong performance for the ABC mystery serial, which is ranked 19th for the season in viewers. On the other hand, "Lost" had puny opposition as most scripted series moved into postseason rerun mode and viewing overall dropped significantly from the week before.
"Lost" had 12.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Happily for CBS, the premiere of "Million Dollar Password" drew 10.62 million viewers.
The Regis Philbin-hosted game show ranked third for the week.
Back for its new season, Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" premiered Wednesday in 10th place, with the second edition (airing Thursday) ranked 8th.
For the week, CBS was the top network in prime time, averaging 7.33 million viewers (4.9 rating, nine share). Runner-up Fox had 6.07 million viewers (3.8 rating, seven share), while ABC had 5.52 million (3.6 rating, six share) and NBC had 5.29 million (3.4 rating, six share).
A ratings point represents 1,128,000 households, or one per cent of the country's estimated 112.8 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
For the week of May 26-June 1, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: "Lost," ABC, 12.30 million; "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 10.81 million; "Million Dollar Password," CBS, 10.62 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 10.29 million; "NCIS," CBS, 9.77 million; "Criminal Minds," CBS, 9.73 million; "CSI: NY," CBS, 9.56 million; "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 9.56 million; "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 9.50 million; "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 9.36 million.
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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. CBS is a division of CBS Corp. Fox is a unit of News Corp. NBC is owned by General Electric Co. Telemundo is owned by General Electric. TeleFutura is a division of Univision. ION Television is owned by ION Media Networks.
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