Should The Bionic Woman fear the reaper?

She’s now the Six Million Viewers Woman. Ratings for the much-touted Bionic Woman remake have now more than halved since its premier episode, leading to fears that cancellation is imminent.

The show kicked off with nearly 14 million viewers a couple of months back, but the past two episodes have scored just 6.44 and 6.3 million viewers respectively. These kind of numbers are hard to bounce back from.

Real winners are thin on the ground. Ghost Whisperer (averaging just above 9 million) remains a strong performer, and Moonlight (last episode: 8.2 million) is at least keeping hold of viewers. The brilliant Chuck is averaging between 7.5 and 8 million which is hardly strong, but at least it's not haemorrhaging viewers like some shows. Pretty much the same can be said for Pushing Daisies (last episode: 8.9 million), while Smallville just chugs along pretty much on the same level it has for the past three seasons (4.5 million is pretty much the norm, and not a bad result for CW).

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