At 8 p.m., Fox's forensic-focused "Bones" was up 18% over its season average, easily beating the return of "Pushing Daisies," which fell in half from last fall's program premiere. "Daisies," the candy-coated love story that lost so much media momentum during last year's writers strike, delivered a 2.0/6 rating and share in the ad-centric adult 18-49 demographic, a third lower than "Bones" ' 3.2/9. Second in the hour was the second week of NBC's "Knight Rider" (2.4/7), which performed right about even with last week's series premiere.

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