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| Total Viewers (million) | 16.12 | 11.54 | 7.62 | 5.29 | 3.92 | 3.48 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.8/10 | 3.9/10 | 3.3/8 | 2.0/5 | 1.6/4 | 1.9/5 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.6/7 | 2.8/7 | 3.3/9 | 1.8/5 | 1.8/5 | 2.7/7 |
Dancing with the Stars led ABC to victory in total viewers, but it was split leadership with CBS winning the 18-49 demo and NBC winning the 18-34 demo (and somewhat handily at that).
The 8pm hour saw the premiere of Chuck get bested by DWTS and The Big Bang Theory/How I Met Your Mother on CBS. While Chuck with 6.62 million in its premiere was down well below its premiere in season one where it did over nine million viewers, it performed OK in both the 18-49 and 18-34 demos (though Gossip Girl beat it among 18-34 year olds). I know some knuckleheads will chime in about how the Chuck premiere has been available on the Internet via Hulu for a week, but we doubt that significantly impacted the numbers. I really love this show, so I hope it turns out I'm wrong and that three million people watched it over the Internet last week. I'd guess more like 300,000. Still Chuck performed better across the board than Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Sorry Summer Glau. I still love you, but the numbers are the numbers.
At 9pm Two and a Half Men took the win among 18-49 year olds, but DWTS, 2.5 Men and Heroes were pretty bunched up in that demo. Among 18-34 year olds, Heroes was on steroids, completely dominating the field. The good news for CBS is over at the CW, One Tree Hill had a 2.7/7 with 18-34 year olds - the bad news for CBS is that actually tied with Two and a Half Men.
At 10pm, CSI: Miami won handily across the board. And although the return of Life only brought 6.92 million viewers, with almost three million fewer viewers than Boston Legal, it beat it in both demographics.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Dancing With The Stars | 18.85 | 4.4/12 | 1.8/5 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 8.76 | 3.5/9 | 2.8/8 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 6.62 | 2.6/7 | 2.4/7 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 5.53 | 2.0/5 | 1.6/5 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 3.85 | 1.5/4 | 1.8/5 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 3.54 | 1.9/5 | 2.6/8 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 8.81 | 3.7/9 | 3.0/9 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 19.72 | 4.6/11 | 3.1/6 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 13.76 | 4.7/11 | 2.7/7 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 9.34 | 4.5/10 | 4.9/13 | |
| FOX | Prison Break | 5.26 | 2.0/5 | 1.9/5 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 4.52 | 1.8/4 | 2.1/5 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 3.42 | 1.9/4 | 2.7/7 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Worst Week | 9.31 | 3.1/7 | 1.9/5 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 14.32 | 4.4/11 | 3.1/9 |
| ABC | Boston Legal | 9.80 | 2.4/6 | 1.7/5 | |
| NBC | Life | 6.92 | 2.8/7 | 2.5/7 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 3.38 | 1.4/3 | 1.5/4 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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Fast Affiliate Overnight Ratings: Local metered-market ratings service of Nielsen Station Index (NSI) in which household ratings and shares are provided to clients the morning following the day or evening of telecast. While routinely used for "next day" immediate analysis, these fast affiliate ratings are by process inaccurate for programs that air live across a network since they represent affiliate time period performance. For example, last night's 10-11pm affiliate #'s would reflect 10pm on the East Coast but also 10pm on the West Coast which for a live event would not represent the same broadcast or portion of the broadcast.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
LIVE+SD: The number that watched a program either while it was broadcast OR watched via DVR on the same day [through 3AM the next day] the program was broadcast.
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Fox is getting beat bad every monday night
I think FOX should move Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles to Wednesday. The programming on that day is not as busy as Monday, and Knight Rider is horrible. Chances are it would do much better. Last night’s episode was fantastic. You gotta love Summer Glau.
After New Amsterdam, Life was my fav show of last season. They both have similar qualities, but I guess not the qualities that appeal to the viewing audience. That shedding of 1 million views and 1.0 demo is terrible. Ugh. Glad that it’s moving to Fridays, although I think it should return to Weds at 10pm.
I looked at Berman’s Winners & Losers list. You guys notice that all of the winners are older skewing shows? Dancing with the Stars, CSI: Miami and 2 1/2 men. Yes, they also win the demo, but the demo is quite low, proportionally. I think there is a story in here somewhere.
All the other winners this last week have been older-skewing shows. Has the strike permanently alienated the younger audience? Or are they just fleeing permanently to DVR and streams?
Maybe the new demo threshold for determining success should be 2.0 instead of 3.0.
Maybe the new demo threshold for determining success should be 2.0 instead of 3.0.
Correction: 2.5 instead of 3.
@ Andrea, Life was prereleased on the internet a week before its premiere, possibly affecting its ratings
Gee, thanks for the correction, Andrea. Just cut us Terminator fans off at the knees why dontcha?
I remain seething at Fox for ruining Terminator by putting it in this time slot. I just hope they at least air out the remaining episodes.
Damn Fox.
Good news for heroes that it didn’t lose many viewers from last week but the numbers are still pretty bad, Chuck was amazing but the numbers weren’t hopefully it pulls more viewers next week.CW must be pleased with it’s combination of Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill, Their demos are great for the low audience that they attract. If this is One Tree Hills final year, which i doubt with these numbers Gossip Girl & 90210 would be a good companion.
Andrea, there is a story there, but they are fleeing mostly for cable and other television offerings we do not see data for. The aggregate share of 18-34 viewers watching the broadcast offerings we do get access too (which is several more than we list, but mostly those nets produce tiny numbers) was ~42%. That means 58% were watching something else.
Last night anyway, I think Heroes was the benchmark among 18-34 year olds watching broadcast television. That How I Met Your Mother outperformed Two and a Half Men among the 18-34 year old demo *is* a story. But it’s not likely one you’ll see commented on anywhere but here…
Terminator is getting clobbered in this timeslot. And the fact that Fox is only promoting Fringe and absolutely nothing else isn’t helping either. But even Chuck did bad, so there’s something really weird going on.
Yesterday’s Terminator episode was amazing, another Saturn award for Summer is a given, and if the Emmys wouldn’t think so low of sci-fi a nomination there would be in order too.
Jackson,
It’s a possibility. Heck, I watched the stream on Friday night, didn’t watch it yesterday. I’m trending to watching more streams, especially on the weekend, and skipping “prime time”, myself. I’m going to download more stuff once I get a hard drive extension.
I just noticed that in the 18-34 demo, Life did a 2.5, unless that’s a typo
Compare that to the demo and numbers for CSI: Miami. I wonder if Life’s audience are primarily living in college dorms.
I’m not sure how much stock the networks place in 18-34, as opposed to 18-49 though.
Oh…come on!?…DWTS is C-H-E-E-S-Y…the dances and the costumes are horrible…it looks like “CIRCUS With The Stars” or “The Gong Show with the Stars?!!?
Sarah Connor is a great show – …well at least it did better as a lead in show – FOX NEEDS TO MOVE THIS TO WEDNESDAY but at a LATER TIME…I’m on central time and watching a show like this at 7pm is a little tricky – you’re having dinner or still taking care of things because it’s still daylight out – I have to tape it every week to catch it myself…come on FOX…move into the 10pm/9c time slot for these kind of shows – move the local news to a later time!
Outlander, I always thought Terminator was doomed anyway. First the numbers for spring were not good; I don’t know if any night would have saved it. But I think FOX was doing it no favors by putting it in the 8pm Monday time slot.
TSCC is pretty much doomed with under 6 million viewrs and a low key demo. Moving it wouldnt help. While I watch it, I am indifferent to the fact it will be ending soon. Part of the problem is every episode more terminators and resistance fighters appear out of nowhere – I could swallow a few being sent back to different points in time like T1, T2 and T3, but with TSCC its like theres some kind of time highway clogged with dozens humans and terminators. What they should have done is start a series after the Terminator 4 movie was out and make the series about the resistances battle with Skynet – leaving out the time travel for the most part. The most interesting parts of TSCC are the flashes of the future and what goes on there.
Prison Break is thankfully on the road to cancellation. What a total mess that show has become. Stopped watching that one.
HEROES continues to lose viewers – its only salvation is its high key demos.
…and by the way…they are NOT “stars” on “Dancing (Circus) With The Stars”…Bruce Willis is a star, Julia Roberts is a star, Gene Hackman is a star…
^^^^No matter where you move the bad shows to.It’s not the time or day it’s moved to, it’s the shows it self.A few of those FOX shows stink.They are badly acted and badly written people are tunning out and wising up!
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R.G.: But the retirement community loves it!
Paul: I watched some reruns of Chuck over the summer. It reminded me of She Spies but without the underlining wit.
ETA after crash: A poster on Programming Insider says he has reliable info that Prison Break and TSCC will wrap after 13 eps.
Time for TSCC to shop to Sci Fi!
Nat, not all shows that get low ratings are bad shows.
Im glad CHUCK appears on the verge of being Chucked out the door with under 7 million viewers and a so-so key demo. The guy reminds me of Greg Brady from the Brady Bunch. Never could stomach watching it.
LIFE will soon change its name to DEATH if ratings dont go up. Never watched that one. Wont care when it dies.
CSI Miami? No stopping that juggernaut.