Nielsens: 'Army Wives,' 'Millionaire' cash in

?Not so secret. ABC's remake of Secret Millionaire, Fox's short-lived 2008 reality series, scored with 12.7 million viewers Sunday, easily outpacing time-slot competitors including CBS' The Amazing Race (9.8 million) and the debut of NBC's America's Next Great Restaurant (a weak 4.6 million). Afterward, the season opener of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice drew 7.9 million, down 5% from last spring's start.

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  By Jim Bridges, Lifetime Television

  No. 4 on cable for Season 5 premiere: Catherine Bell and Kim Delaney star in Army Wives.

By Jim Bridges, Lifetime Television

No. 4 on cable for Season 5 premiere: Catherine Bell and Kim Delaney star in Army Wives.

?Army salute. The fifth-season opener of Lifetime's Army Wivescommanded 4.2 million viewers Sunday, up nearly a million from last year's. And the premiere of companion reality series Coming Home, featuring surprise reunions of military families, claimed 2.7 million.

?Sitcoms soar. American Idollead-ins sent special episodes of Fox's Raising Hope (8.7 million viewers Tuesday) and Traffic Light (7.3 million Wednesday) to still-modest series highs.

?Superdud. NBC's latest superhero saga, The Cape, faded out quietly Monday with 4.1 million viewers, tying its series low.

?No Breakout. Sunday's premiere of A&E drama Breakout Kings averaged 2.8 million viewers, down from last summer's start for The Glades (3.6 million).

?Weaker Image. Fox's NAACP Image Awards fell to a record-low 2.3 million viewers Friday. But the same-sized audience was good news for smaller VH1's Basketball Wives: Sunday's season finale, a series high, was the channel's most-watched program in 17 months.

?Sheen style. Charlie Sheen interviews gave ABC's 20/20 (9.3 million viewers Tuesday) its biggest audience in two years and CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight (1.3 million) its biggest since its premiere featuring Oprah Winfrey.

?More cable openers. Bravo's Real Housewives of O.C. (2.1 million viewers Sunday) and Bethenny Ever After (1.5 million Monday); E!'s After Lately (1.2 million Sunday); Animal Planet's Taking on Tyson (a modest 560,000 Sunday).

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