Lifetime drew 2.6 million pairs of eyeballs for the bow of detective drama 'Angela's Eyes.'
Premiere of Lifetime's crime drama "Angela's Eyes" arrested a modest crowd Sunday, while A&E's new reality series "Driving Force" drove off with a solid showing Monday.
"Angela's" attracted 2.6 million viewers (1.1 national rating/3 share in women 18-49, 1.0/3 in women 25-54), on par with past Lifetime dramas such as long-running medical hour "Strong Medicine."
However, those numbers pale in comparison to those of the last scripted dramas to bow on the cabler: "Missing" and "Wild Card" premiered to 3.3 million and 2.8 million viewers, respectively, in 2003.
Sunday premiere built in overall viewers from its lead-in, the movie "Vanished," but suffered slight losses in key female demos.
A&E's "Driving Force," about a family of racecar drivers, drew 1.8 million total viewers (0.9/3, 18-49) Monday, making the 9 p.m. episode the most-watched series preem for A&E since the 2004 debut of "Dog the Bounty Hunter." A rerun at 9:30 drew another 1.5 million.
Meanwhile, a promotional airing of Showtime's "Brotherhood" on CBS drew a solid 3.4 million viewers Saturday, but failed to drive them to the skein's second episode on the pay cabler.
Despite strong sampling on the Eye, Sunday's second episode on Showtime delivered just 158,000 viewers at 10 (and another 117,000 at 11). That's down from the July 9 haul of 694,000 viewers.
However, indicative tally for the second seg will be the weekly cume. First episode of "Brotherhood" scored the majority of viewers over subsequent airings (1.2 million over seven plays).
On Saturday, second-season opener of Oxygen's "Mo'Nique's Fat Chance" delivered 674,000 viewers, making July 15 the most-watched day in the cabler's history.
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