TV Top Ten - Penguin Invasion

American Idol is down to only eight contestants which means we only have to see it in the television top ten for a couple more months. The eighth season of the show pushed its closest competition, Dancing With The Stars back down into third place.

Still painfully absent from the network line-up is any sign of the fading, soon to be finished ER. With only one more episode left NBC can only hope the show's big finale might land them in the top ten. Nothing else on their line-up is even coming close to doing the trick.

It was a great week for Nickelodeon which got a huge boost from its DreamWorks partnership production The Penguins of Madagascar. The show was the second and fourth place with a Nick rerun of Spongebob squeezed in between. The Nickelodeon 2009 Kids' Choice Award took a big first place with a rare 7.6 million cable viewers.

RANK PROGRAM NTWK RATING VIEWERS

NETWORK TELEVISION

1. AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY FOX 14.7 26.025

2. AMER IDL THU RSLT SP-3/26(S) FOX 13.2 23.102

3. DANCING WITH THE STARS ABC 12.9 20.339

4. MENTALIST, THE CBS 11.2 17.62

4. NCIS CBS 11.2 17.832

6. GREY'S ANATOMY-THU 9PM ABC 10.4 16.101

7. DANCING W/STARS RESULTS ABC 10.3 16.117

8. 60 MINUTES CBS 9 14.442

9. CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 8.8 14.358

10. CSI: MIAMI CBS 8.6 13.674

CABLE TELEVISION

1. S KIDS CHOICE 09 NICK 4 7.675

2. PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR NICK 3.3 6.439

3. SPONGEBOB NICK 3.2 4.984

3. PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR NICK 3.2 4.862

5. WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA 3.1 5.466

5. SPONGEBOB NICK 3.1 4.482

7. JON & KATE PLUS 8(S)-03/23/2009 TLC 2.9 4.603

7. SPONGEBOB NICK 2.9 4.272

7. WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE RAW) USA 2.9 4.847

10. SPONGEBOB NICK 2.8 4.004

10. NCIS USA 2.8 4.084