Fox is not expected to renew Arrested Development for a fourth season. Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz is weighing offers from ABC and Showtime, but is "hesitant" about continuing the show, E! Online TV columnist Kristin Veitch reported.

On one hand, Fox didn't do the Bluths any favors by sending off their series with four back-to-back episodes on a Friday--against the Winter Olympics opening ceremony on NBC. On the other hand, the Bluths haven't done well by Fox no matter where the network's aired the dysfunctional clan.

In its first season, Arrested Development averaged 6.2 million viewers--and it was all downhill from there, even as the accolades, including a 2004 Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series, piled up.

"It was a great run, and it's great that the network didn't cancel us outright," star Jason Bateman told Veitch last November, when Fox ordered Arrested to wrap its third-season developments earlier than planned.

Friday's season-closer featured Bateman's real-life sister Justine Bateman as his character's presumed long-lost sister. The crowd didn't quite go wild. The "most watched" half-hour was at 9 p.m. It registered 3.5 million viewers and placed 105th for the TV week ended Sunday, per Nielsen Media Research. Even an episode of Malcolm in the Middle (101st place, 3.9 million), which Fox has already canceled, fared better.

Ratings or no, at least the Bluths will always have each other. Of course, maybe that's not such a good thing, either.

Elsewhere:

• The Winter Olympics couldn't have been too big a drain on Arrested Development--not with the opening ceremony from Turin, Italy, going down as the lowest rated one on record. But at NBC these days success is as relative as it is rare. Thanks to the Olympics, the Peacock placed three programs in the top 10, including the opening ceremony (ninth place, 22.17 million), enjoyed its best ratings since the 2004 Summer Olympics, and won the week in total viewers (15.6 million) and demographically desirable ones aged 18 to 49.
• NBC estimated that a combined 112 million people caught its Olympic coverage over the weekend on its broadcast and cable networks. A few even understood the new figure skating scoring system.
• On Sunday night, ABC's Grey's Anatomy (fourth place, 25.4 million) eclipsed lead-in Desperate Housewives (fifth place, 23.5 million)--the first time the hospital soap has ever outdrawn an all-new episode of the suburban soap. The credit goes to either Grey's Super Bowl exposure, or the men's Olympic downhill, which NBC conveniently ran in Housewives' 9-10 p.m. slot.
• On Thursday night, ABC's Dancing with the Stars (11th place, 20 million) eclipsed CBS' Survivor: Panama--Exile Island (12th place, 18.8 million)--the first time that's happened in the shows' extremely brief matchup history. The credit goes to Stacy Keibler just because she knows how to wrestle and it's probably best not to get on her bad side.
• Young adults tuned in to watch senior citizen George Hamilton get tapped out on Friday's Dancing with the Stars (20th place, 14.6 million). Jerry Rice, age 43, is the oldest hoofer left standing. For now.
• CBS estimated that 44 million watched some or all of the 48th Annual Grammy Awards (15th place, 17 million overall average). It did not estimate how many million chose instead to watch some or all of Wednesday's American Idol (second place, 28.7 million) on Fox.
• NBC isn't complaining, but My Name Is Earl (36th place, 10.2 million) isn't pulling the numbers on Thursday night that it was on Tuesday night.
• Surface (41st place, 9.5 million) has ended its first season on NBC. It's still to be determined if it's finished its final season on NBC.
• CBS' Love Monkey (75th place, 5.4 million) "is on hiatus and there's no scheduled return date." But other than that...
• It's UPN's Get This Party Started (134th place, 1.7 million), and it'll cry if it wants to.

Among networks not airing the Olympics, CBS nabbed the most overall viewers (12.6 million), and Fox nabbed the most 18-to-49-year-olds.

ABC (11.9 million) ran third in viewers, followed by Fox (11 million). The WB (3.4 million) topped its fellow doomed netlet UPN (3 million).

Here's a look at the 10 most watched prime-time shows for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen Media Research:

1. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 31.2 million viewers
2. American Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 28.7 million viewers
3. CSI, CBS, 27.4 million viewers
4. Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 25.4 million viewers
5. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 23.5 million viewers
6. Winter Olympics (Sunday), NBC, 23.244 million viewers
7. Winter Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 23.24 million viewers
8. House, Fox, 22.2 million viewers
9. Winter Olympics (Friday), NBC, 22.17 million viewers
10. Without a Trace, CBS, 20.3 million viewers