| Scoreboard for Tue. May 6, 2008 |  |
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| Total Viewers (million) | 16.25 | 12.44 | 10.62 | 6.24 | 2.05 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 6.7/18 | 3.0/8 | 2.3/6 | 2.1/6 | 0.9/2 |
FOX was noticeably off of the week ago Tuesday performance, let alone last year's numbers. Still, it was enough to win the night for FOX as American Idol once again dominated. Hell's Kitchen again won the 18-49 demographic in the 9pm hour, and although it too was off versus last week's overnight numbers and will be adjusted downward some in the finals to compensate for a couple of minutes of American Idol overrun.
ABC improved its performance versus last week largely because a one hour Dancing with the Stars 100th episode special performed markedly better than According to Jim. Women's Murder Club improved over last week in the 10pm slot by a little (last week's overnight numbers were 8.14m and a 1.9/5, this week was 8.68m and a 2.2/6 in the 18-49 demographic). Better is better, but it can't help that in the 18-34 demo, with more than five million fewer viewers, Aqui' y Ahora pulled better 18-34 demo numbers than WMC (1.5/4 vs. 1.2/4).
NBC added an extra half hour repeat of Most Outrageous Moments and a repeat of Law & Order: SVU instead of a "best of" Saturday Night Live rerun, and the performance was a bit better than last weeks. But the regular airing of Law & Order: SVU at 10pm was down versus last week when it pulled 12.06m and a 4.1/11 in the demo. This week it garnered only 10.44m and a 3.5/10, though it still won the 10pm hour easily.
CBS's NCIS also underperformed versus last week - losing about 800K viewers and .2 in the 18-49. I think you can chalk a lot of that as well as Idol's losses up to ABC getting over 6 million more viewers with its DWTS special than it did with According to Jim. Shark remains on the bubble at 9pm but performed consistently versus last week netting 10.43m viewers and a 2.2/5 in the demo. At 10pm, CBS ran a rerun of CSI: Miami which did almost exactly the same as a repeat of CSI in that slot last week. Both reruns did better than Jericho or Secret Talents of the Stars!
Still on the bubble Reaper on CW had more overall viewers than already renewed Gossip Girl did on Monday. Though Reaper probably didn't perform as well with teens and women, it performed way better than its lead-in, Beauty and the Geek. CW is going to need *some* shows, I'm guessing they'll keep Reaper around. We'll see. Either way, like Gossip Girl, Reaper is no Fuego en la Sangre, which pulled 4.7m and a 2.0/5 in the 18-49 demo for Univision at 9pm.
Tuesday night's details:
| Time | Network | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
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| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol 8p-9p | 21.25 | 8.2/23 |
| CBS | NCIS | 13.79 | 2.8/8 | |
| NBC | Most Outrageous Moments | 4.21 | 1.3/4 | |
| ABC | Dancing w/Stars 100th Episode Special | 10.5 | 2.4/7 | |
| CW | Beauty and the Geek | 1.63 | 0.7/2 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Shark | 10.43 | 2.2/5 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 18.14 | 4.4/11 | |
| FOX | Hells Kitchen | 11.25 | 5.2/13 | |
| CW | Reaper | 2.47 | 1.0/3 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (Repeat) | 4.06 | 1.4/4 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (Repeat) | 7.62 | 1.9/5 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU | 10.44 | 3.5/10 | |
| ABC | Womens Murder Club | 8.68 | 2.2/6 |
Nielsen Ratings Source: Nielsen Media Research. Full night's results available via Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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While everybody else is airing new episodes in the month of may sweeps. NBC can only program one hour of new television. A clip show is not new television. I guess there is only so many nights NBC can fill with Deal or no Deal
CW will hopefully renew reaper. They have to fill hours somehow and I suspect its cheaper to renew a show than to develop a whole bunch of new ones. Plus reaper is good and its audience should build.
WMC improved by half a million viewers over last week… but Dancing improved 1.5 million. with the run over into the timeslot WMC will see a bigger drop in the nationals than last week which was a drop of half a million viewers and .2 in the demo.
enough already with law and order and csi reruns filling space. wouldn’t tv be a wonderful place if csi and law and order… al 32 of them… just disappeared off the tv landscape and forced their respective networks to do something new. i’m not a fan of most of abc’s shows but at least they seem to have lots of scripted, fun shows that are different. Law shows, medical shows, serious soaps, funny soaps, single camera comedies (trying at least).
at least cbs and nbc have their sitcom nights otherwise they’ve gotten pretty lazy at programming a sked. procedurals on cbs and deal and law on nbc. no wonder people have stopped watching.
WMC improved by half a million viewers over last week… but Dancing improved 1.5 million. with the run over into the timeslot WMC will see a bigger drop in the nationals than last week which was a drop of half a million viewers and .2 in the demo.
enough already with law and order and csi reruns filling space. wouldn’t tv be a wonderful place if csi and law and order… al 32 of them… just disappeared off the tv landscape and forced their respective networks to do something new. i’m not a fan of most of abc’s shows but at least they seem to have lots of scripted, fun shows that are different. Law shows, medical shows, serious soaps, funny soaps, single camera comedies (trying at least).
at least cbs and nbc have their sitcom nights otherwise they’ve gotten pretty lazy at programming a sked. procedurals on cbs and deal and law on nbc. no wonder people have stopped watching.
WMC improved by half a million viewers over last week… but Dancing improved 1.5 million. with the run over into the timeslot WMC will see a bigger drop in the nationals than last week which was a drop of half a million viewers and .2 in the demo.
enough already with law and order and csi reruns filling space. wouldn’t tv be a wonderful place if csi and law and order… al 32 of them… just disappeared off the tv landscape and forced their respective networks to do something new. i’m not a fan of most of abc’s shows but at least they seem to have lots of scripted, fun shows that are different. Law shows, medical shows, serious soaps, funny soaps, single camera comedies (trying at least).
at least cbs and nbc have their sitcom nights otherwise they’ve gotten pretty lazy at programming a sked. procedurals on cbs and deal and law on nbc. no wonder people have stopped watching.
Isn’t CW “on the bubble” right now?
Isn’t CW “on the bubble” right now?
Isn’t CW “on the bubble” right now?
Daniel, if you’re asking me, I think the CW’s bubble *already* burst and is just continuing on as if it didn’t. Sometimes denial can be your friend though.
Daniel, if you’re asking me, I think the CW’s bubble *already* burst and is just continuing on as if it didn’t. Sometimes denial can be your friend though.
Daniel, if you’re asking me, I think the CW’s bubble *already* burst and is just continuing on as if it didn’t. Sometimes denial can be your friend though.
Of course a csi rerun is going to draw 7.5 million viewers, it draws millions in reruns on cable. Also it is funny that Shark was dog meat at the 10pm slot, but moves up an hour to the slot people wanted Jericho in and finds several million more viewers.
Bah. Shark ran what, once as a RERUN in the Tuesday 10pm slot? Once. As a repeat. Please.
Am I crazy or is Hell’sKitchen (not a watcher) the runaway surprise hit of the season. the 5.2 is startling.
re: Aqui y Ahora – another fragmenting of network TV..
Also… Shark was pretty good… that’s what I watched (and then forgot WMC was on a new night and missed it). I wonder how many viewers these networks are losing because of time-slot switches… I also forgot House on Monday.
Am I crazy or is Hell’sKitchen (not a watcher) the runaway surprise hit of the season. the 5.2 is startling.
re: Aqui y Ahora – another fragmenting of network TV..
Also… Shark was pretty good… that’s what I watched (and then forgot WMC was on a new night and missed it). I wonder how many viewers these networks are losing because of time-slot switches… I also forgot House on Monday.
Am I crazy or is Hell’sKitchen (not a watcher) the runaway surprise hit of the season. the 5.2 is startling.
re: Aqui y Ahora – another fragmenting of network TV..
Also… Shark was pretty good… that’s what I watched (and then forgot WMC was on a new night and missed it). I wonder how many viewers these networks are losing because of time-slot switches… I also forgot House on Monday.
p.s. – Took me forever to get into the new system (I got stuck in a loop and the prompts to escape its evil clutches were less than definitive).
Disqus has some kinks to work out as far as the regstration and avatar process, but they’re good people, i’m sure they’ll sort it out. Thanks for taking the time to register, Jon.
As for HK, I’d seen all three summer seasons so I am not surprised it’s doing well among the 18-49 year olds, but it’s doing ~25% better than I expected. I figured it would do high 3s in the demo and it looks on track to average in the high 4s. I was originially joking when I wrote is Gordon Ramsay a bigger deal than Oprah? but, it’s looking like at least in terms of making cash during primetime — he is!
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/04/16/is-oprah-overrated-gordon-ramsay-vs-oprah-winfrey-who-ya-got/3378
Disqus has some kinks to work out as far as the regstration and avatar process, but they’re good people, i’m sure they’ll sort it out. Thanks for taking the time to register, Jon.
As for HK, I’d seen all three summer seasons so I am not surprised it’s doing well among the 18-49 year olds, but it’s doing ~25% better than I expected. I figured it would do high 3s in the demo and it looks on track to average in the high 4s. I was originially joking when I wrote is Gordon Ramsay a bigger deal than Oprah? but, it’s looking like at least in terms of making cash during primetime — he is!
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/04/16/is-oprah-overrated-gordon-ramsay-vs-oprah-winfrey-who-ya-got/3378
Disqus has some kinks to work out as far as the regstration and avatar process, but they’re good people, i’m sure they’ll sort it out. Thanks for taking the time to register, Jon.
As for HK, I’d seen all three summer seasons so I am not surprised it’s doing well among the 18-49 year olds, but it’s doing ~25% better than I expected. I figured it would do high 3s in the demo and it looks on track to average in the high 4s. I was originially joking when I wrote is Gordon Ramsay a bigger deal than Oprah? but, it’s looking like at least in terms of making cash during primetime — he is!
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/04/16/is-oprah-overrated-gordon-ramsay-vs-oprah-winfrey-who-ya-got/3378
Is it just me or is this one of American Idol’s lowest rated episodes in years? I keep seeing numbers of 28 to 31 million related to the Tuesday episodes, yet this week had only 21 million?