Joe came in with 6.8 million viewers landing it in third place for that time slot and some of those viewers seemed to hit the remote before the beginning of the much hyped new drama from Jerry Bruckheimer, “Skin”, about the star-crossed forbidden love between the children of a D.A. and a porn king, which only managed to attract 6.3 million viewers, landing it in a solid fourth place for the time period. 

Fox remains hopeful that the ratings will pick up for both shows as the season progresses. "We would have liked to have seen higher numbers, but we're going to be very patient with 'Skin' and we're going to give it every chance we can," said Fox spokesman Scott Grogin.  That translates to the five scheduled episodes. 

Meanwhile the fantasy teen soap “The O.C.” which premiered over the summer will return to the network. Variety reports that five more episodes of the show have been ordered by Fox, for a total of 27 total episodes for this season. 

[for the record] That show is built around the account of a boy from the wrong side of the tracks being immersed into a fictional rich neighborhood in Orange County. We say fictional because the show may purport to be about Orange County, Ca., but the community portrayed in the drama bares little resemblance to the real Orange County. This makes sense when you consider that the show is filmed primarily in Redondo and Hermosa Beach (LA County). And no one except insipid Fox producers would call O.C. “The O.C.”. 

And for fans of the Jack Black film “Orange County”, for the record that movie’s portrayal was bogus as well. But it’s nice to know that Irvine suddenly became beach front property and we have a University called OCU. It would be interesting to know if the writers and producers of either the film or the television show have actually been to Orange County or if they decided to project Brentwood like values on it for the hell of it. But Jack Black is still the man! (antiMUSIC is based out of the REAL Orange County).