•Standing room only. The NBA Finals, won Thursday by the Miami Heat, scored the highest five-game average in viewers and young adults since 2004. Last week's final two games Tuesday and Thursday attracted 17.4 million and 18.5 million viewers respectively.
•Lower-grade fever. NBC's two-part Justin Bieber: All Around the World averaged just about 3 million viewers on Wednesday and Thursday.
•Curiosity deficit. TNT's Dallas attracted 4.8 million viewers Wednesday in its second week, down a substantial 30% from the 6.9 million who tuned into the premiere a week earlier.
•Ratings pallor.Bristol Palin: Life's a Tripp, the new Lifetime reality series, premiered to an anemic 726,000 viewers Tuesday. Other debuts: ABC's The Glass House (4 million Monday); MTV's Snooki & JWOWW (2.4 million Thursday); TNT's The Great Escape (1.6 million Sunday); and Bravo's Miss Advised (566,000 Monday).
•Good news. Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom drew 2.1 million viewers Sunday, HBO's third-highest series premiere since 2008, trailing Boardwalk Empire and Game ofThrones.
