• by Wayne Friedman , June 13, 2008

This summer has yet to produce any new high-rated programming blood--but some new shows are delivering better results. NBC's new reality effort "Celebrity Circus"--which features celebrities doing circus acts--built on its "Deal or No Deal" lead-in and finished the night with a respectable 2.3 rating/7 share among 18-49 viewers for its hour-and-a-half run from 9:30 to 11 p.m.

It won the 10 p.m. time period--albeit against CBS' "CSI: NY" rerun, which drew 2.5 million more total viewers than "Circus."

In a special 90-minute episode, NBC's "Deal" earned a 2.2/7. Overall, this gave NBC second place on the night with a 2.2/7.

Fox again took the top spot with its now-steady summer reality leader, "So You Think You Can Dance?" The two-hour episode--the best ratings of any show on the night--posted a 3.4/11 among 18-49 viewers. Fox finished with a 3.4 rating/11 share for the night.

Without much hoopla, ABC ran the series finale of its 2-year-old show "Men In Trees," which finished with a below-show season average of 1.1/3. Earlier in the night, "Wife Swap" earned a 1.4/5 and "Supernanny" brought in a 1.5/4. This gave ABC a 1.4/4 for the evening, for fifth place.

On Wednesday night, CBS was third at 1.7/5 and Univision fourth at 1.6/5. With a repeat of "America's Next Top Model" (a 0.4/1) and an original "Farmer Wants a Wife" (a 0.8/2), CW landed in sixth place with a 0.6/2. MyNetworkTV came in at a 0.4/1.