According to the blood hounds of the celeb-estate beat, the hour-glass-bodied star is set to pay $2.1 million for a two-bedroom, two-bath penthouse in midtown Manhattan.
But both BBC2 shows beat the hour-long offerings on Channel 4 and Channel Five from 8pm, The Ascent of Money and The Gadget Show, which averaged 1.1 million and 1.2 million respectively.
Thames River bridges were jammed with foot traffic, and buses were packed as people tried to beat the rush hour.
It beat the opening hour of Channel 4's movie premiere The Ghost, which had 1.7 million viewers (8.3%) between 9pm and 11.35pm.
This reality series, in which female students at the University of Central Florida compete to be pinned by the B.M.O.C. of the show's title, is not only doing worse than the low-rated "Jack & Bobby" that normally occupies the 9 p.m. slot, but also failed to beat the second hour of a rebroadcast "Vibe Awards" on UPN.
Dr. Lundergan drove on the shoulder of the road to beat the rush-hour traffic.
This man used his office time very effectively, then went home early to beat the rush-hour traffic jams.
After the game, when some of his teammates left quickly to beat the rush-hour traffic on the Grand Central Parkway, Wright was still there.
Then, Dinah Washington, who had taken her 7-year-old son out of school in Manhattan early to beat the rush-hour crowd, saw what looked like a wall of rocks, and began to scream one word: "Run".
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During the 8 p.m. time period, "Idol" beat the Grammys' first hour by more than 13 million viewers.
