Bent

• Poor NBC has achieved another one of those milestones it would rather avoid. Its newest show, Bent, debuted Wednesday night with the networks lowest ratings ever for an in-season sitcom premiere.
(New York Daily News)
• NBC rolled out a new romantic comedy Wednesday night, Bent, starring Amanda Peet and David Walton. Despite garnering some fairly good reviews (the word "charming" was often used), Bent ended up ranking fourth in the 9 p.m.
(Entertainment Weekly Online)
• LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - NBCs new comedy Bent got off to a discouraging start Wednesday night, while Foxs American Idol, while down slightly from last week, still pushed the network to an overall win for the night, according to preliminary numbers.
(msnbc.com)
• The series premiere of "Bent" on NBC could only muster 2.6 million viewers. In the 18-to-49 category, it was NBC's lowest-rated in-season comedy premiere ever.
(New York Times Blogs)
• Darren Bent's slim hopes of being fit for Euro 2012 were raised today after Villa manager Alex McLeish confirmed his rehabilitation has gone to plan so far.
(Westmidlands.com)
• Seriously, what the headline says. Because the powers-that-be clearly dont get how delightful this new rom-com is, or they wouldnt be burning off all six episodes with three weeks of back-to-back airings.
(TV Guide Online)
• Fox won the night with American Idol (16.55 million, 4.9), down slightly from last week. CBS took second place, despite two of its shows, Survivor: One World (10.2 million, 2.7) and CSI (11.2, 2.5), dropping 10 percent. Criminal Minds (11.9 million, 3.
(YAHOO!)
• While we're the first to admit that BENT may not be the type of genre-busting comedy akin to THE OFFICE or a MODERN FAMILY, NBC's latest attempt to work themselves out of the ratings basement does have two very important things going for it.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• I wont dispute the fact that from the floor to the roof much of Bent, a rom-com sitcom debuting Wednesday on NBC, is made from parts stripped from several ages of earlier romantic comedies. But I would also argue that it doesnt matter much.
(Los Angeles Times)
• LOS ANGELES — After last starring on television in the short-lived series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Amanda Peet (The Whole Nine Yards, Syriana) returns to television once again in the new comedy Bent, which premieres Wednesday night on NBC.
(msnbc.com)