All downhill to me

Is it just me, or have the Olympics failed to get any more interesting this week? Maybe I’m just the wrong demo, but the pacing of the prime-time show -- all the figure skating, the back and forth to speed skating or bobsled – just hasn’t captured my attention. I found myself flipping back and forth to “American Idol,” and wondered what would happen if NBC let viewers call in and vote for their favorite figure skater, as “American Idol” does? Who can understand the new skating judging system anyway?

Golden Idol
Here’s a first: The Winter Olympics last week finished out of medal contention in the weekly Nielsen ratings. The highest-rated Olympics telecast (Monday) was 5th for the week, behind two “American Idols,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Desperate Housewives.”
“Dancing with the Stars” and “House,” CSI” “Lost” also finished in the top 14, ahead of the lowest-rated Olympic night (Wednesday). I'm not surprised.
Here is the top 20
1. American Idol, Weds
2. American Idol, Tues
3 Grey’s Anatomy
4 Desperate Housewives
5. Olymics, Monday
6. Olympics, Saturday
7. Olympics, Thursday
8 Dancing with the Stars
9 Olympics, Sunday
10 House
11. Olympics, Friday
12 CSI
13 Olympics, Tuesday
14 Lost
15 Olympics, Weds
16 Survivor
17 Dancing with the Stars Results, Fri
18 Without a Trace
19 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
20 Two And A Half Men.