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The Amish, as a rule, reject television. However, television - or at least UPN - is loving the Amish right now.

Wednesday's premiere of the reality series Amish in the City scored some of UPN's best ratings for a Wednesday night in recent history. About 5.4 million people bore witness to the debut, UPN's best Wednesday performance since November 2001.

The show sparked protests when UPN announced it, but reviews have been largely favorable. Worries that the Amish would look foolish melted when the city kids were the ones who looked silly in the premiere.

Ultimate makeover

No longer content to make over just one facet of life per show, Fox is throwing the whole self-, home- and life-improvement TV universe into one series.

The network has ordered a show called Family Tim, in which author Jay McGraw - son of Dr. Phil McGraw - will take families through personal makeovers and life-improvement tips while their houses and cars undergo renovation at the same time.

Think Queer Eye for the Straight Guy meets The Swan meets Pimp My Ride meets Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

'Restaurant' may go dark

A New York judge cleared the way for Jeffrey Chodorow and other backers to shut down Rocco's on 22nd Street and also barred co-founder Rocco DiSpirito from entering the restaurant. The founding of Rocco's was the subject of the successful first season of NBC's reality series The Restaurant, which aired last summer. The second season, which depicted the eroding relationship between DiSpirito and Chodorow, failed to draw the same audience this spring and the show was ultimately yanked.