The ratings are in for Wednesday's premiere of the FX Iraq-war drama, "Over There," which averaged 4.1 million viewers from 10 to 11 p.m. (Combined with an encore run at 11 p.m., it drew 5.8 million, a hefty percentage of them in the advertiser-friendly 18 -to 49-year-old demo.) About 60 percent of the viewers were male.

The good news (or maybe not so good news) for watchdog groups that are probably already fired up by the violence and subject matter of the first TV drama ever about an ongoing conflict, is that according to an FX spokesman, 92 percent of the viewers were 18 or older.

While those numbers place the drama from Steven Bochco and Chris Gerolmo among the Top 10 basic-cable premieres -- putting it on a par with last year's debut of FX's "Rescue Me" -- widespread coverage of the show probably helped drive viewership for the first week.

Will they come back next week? We'll see.