News > CBS orders the Shark soup
October 23, 2006
Content taken from TV.com:
CBS is gonna need a bigger boat.
The network has picked up freshman drama Shark, which stars James Woods as sassy, fast-talking lawyer Sebastian Stark, for a full season. Sharkis the highest-rated new drama of the season.
Shark averages 14.36 million total weekly viewers and a 5.3 rating/13 share in adults. The show airs Thursday nights at 10 p.m. opposite ER and Six Degrees, and costars former Star Trek babe Jeri Ryan.
CBS already picked up nuclear drama Jericho, which averages a solid 11 million viewers per week. After three airings, the network removed from the schedule the Ray Liotta crime thriller Smith, which dipped in the ratings after its premiere.
