The cleaned-up, f-word-free "Sex and the City" got off to a solid start on TBS this week.

The former HBO show drew about 4 million viewers in its first basic-cable airing at 10 p.m. ET Tuesday (June 15) -- not the heights it reached late in its first fun but still quite strong for a cable show. It was the most-watched show on cable for the night.

A second episode the same night drew 3.4 million people, giving "Sex" a 3.7 million-viewer average for the night -- which, the Washington Post notes, is just about the same number of people who watched its HBO debut in 1998.

TBS has been running two-episode blocks of "favorite" episodes from the series this week. The first featured Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) taking part in a New York fashion show, then taking a spill on the runway, to her horror and that of her friends.

Starting Tuesday, June 22, the network will run the entire 90-plus episodes in order, two episodes at a time. Some of the racier dialogue has been redubbed, nudity has been excised and other cuts have been made to fit the 22-minute running time of a half-hour show on commercial TV.

The 10 p.m. Wednesday episode took a bit of a hit, thanks in part to the return of "Newlyweds" on MTV. The continuing adventures of Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey brought in about 3.1 million viewers, a little better than "SATC."