Olbermann's first show back attracted 1.5 million viewers -- about 50 percent more than usually come to his prime-time show. And after that, his lead-out, Rachel Maddow, snagged more than 1.3 million viewers -- a nice spike relative to her October average of 953,000. As if that weren't enough, Lawrence O'Donnell's MSNBC show bagged nearly 1 million viewers at 10; he'd averaged about 784,000 in October.