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Minnie Driver--what a face that actress has. And jeez what a presence.

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I've never understood why her career dropped off so dramatically. Hopefully, this will give her a much needed boost. When you can overcome cornrows and no make-up, and not have it "take over" your performance, you deserve some credit.

Here's the ratings report. Hopefully, it can hold it to the audience:

Riches," a drama starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as con artists, averaged 3.8 million total viewers and 2.5 million adults 18-49 in its debut at 10 p.m., according to Nielsen Media Research. Those figures put it just ahead of FX's previous series premiere, "Dirt," on January 2 (3.7 million total viewers, 2.4 million in adults 18-49). An encore episode of "Riches" at 11:10 p.m. delivered 1.4 million total viewers and nearly 800,000 in the demo.

"Riches" also performed slightly better than the series premiere of FX's "Nip/Tuck" in July 2003 (3.7 million) but was off when compared with the series debuts of "The Shield" (4.8 million in March 2002), "Rescue Me" (4.1 million in July 2004) and the network's short-lived "Over There" (4.1 million in July 2005). However, FX pointed out that the debut of "Riches" marked the first time that the network has launched a show on a Monday night and that the episode more than doubled FX's previous best delivery in the Monday 10-11 p.m. hour in total viewers and 18-49.

In adults 18-49, the performance of "Riches" ranks as the network's second-best series premiere, behind "The Shield" (3 million). It also came in as No. 1 in the demo among all basic cable entertainment programs in primetime Monday.

FX is planning to run the series debut again at 10 p.m. Saturday and 11 p.m. Sunday.