The American Gladiators finale and the Knight Rider movie narrowly lost out to ABC in the viewers.  The Peacock network, though, did win in the demos.

8pm

• Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (4.6/11 in 18-49) built a 13.5 million-sized audience over two hours.
• The Simpsons (7.8 million, 3.6/9) was up almost 1 million from last week. American Gladiators (3.0/8) ended its run with 7.3 million fans.
• Big Brother 9 (2.2/6) had 6.8 million gawkers.
• King of the Hill (6.5 million, 2.9/7) raised 400,000 more.
• Everybody Hates Chris* (1.06 million, 0.4/10) and Aliens in America* (0.92 million, 0.4/1) were both slightly down.

9pm

• Knight Rider (5.0/12 in 18-49) raced away with 12.8 million.
• Cold Case (2.2/5) warmed up 9.6 million.
• Family Guy (7.2 million, 3.6/8) did better than its lead-in; American Dad (5.4 million, 2.5/6) did not.
• Girlfriends* (900,000, 0.4/1) did the same as last week; The Game* (800,000, 0.4/1) had a small slide.

10pm

• Brothers & Sisters (8.5 million, 3.0/8 in 18-49) was steady with last Sunday.
• The premiere of Dexter (2.3/6) drew a bloody 8.2 million.

*denotes repeat

(You can review last Sunday’s numbers here.)