In the early metered market numbers, CBS looks poised to win the night in overall viewers by a wide margin. crime procedurals worked for CBS with Criminal Minds getting a 9.9/15 (household rating/share) and CSI: NY pulling a 9.5/16. Unfortunately the 8pm comedy block isn't working out well with The New Adventures of Old Christine pulling a 4.5/7 and Gary Unmarried a 4.6/7.
None of the returning ABC dramas fared well at all with Pushing Daisies netting a 4.3/7 (worse than Knight Rider's 4.6.7). Private Practice scored a 5.3/8 at 9pm - a distant third behind NBC's America's Got Talent (7.6/12) and the aforementioned Criminal Minds. Dirty Sexy Money's debut at 10pm drew a 4.6/8, and the only good thing to say about that is it outperformed Lipstick Jungle's 4.2/7 on NBC.
With the exception of the CBS comedies which may get a longer leash, look for every show on ABC last night to be on a very short leash. Same for Lipstick Jungle and Knight Rider over on NBC.
Meanwhile it was good news/bad news over at Fox. Bones won the 8pm hour with a 6.7/11, and surely will win the demos as well, but at 9pm it was a full hour of ‘Til Death (one half hour replacing the already cancelled Do Not Disturb) which scored a mere 2.9/5. Ouch.
America's Next Top Model pulled a 3.3/5 at 8pm on the CW, and a repeat of 90210 got a 1.5/2.
Cancel or move Til Death and put Terminator in that time slot on Wednesdays.
Ouch for ABC… They’re probably trying to figure out how to air 5-6 hours of DWTS every week now.
People dont know what they are missing! Dirty Sexy Money was great last night! I hope more people tune-in so it continues on….
I don’t really understand shares being a UK resident. What do those numbers mean? And do we know how many millions of viewers yet for those shows?
Cameron, shares are the percentage of households actually watching TV at the time who are watching that program. Ratings are the percentage of all households with a TV in them who are watching that program. Each percentage point is equal to about 1.14 million households, but usually the number of total viewers is higher, due to more than one person watching in each household.
ABC has done quite a poor job promoting their Wednesday line-up. Seriously, I don’t remember watching much, if any, promos for Dirty Sexy Money, Private Practice, or Pushing Daisies. I did see a ton of Lipstick Jungle promos though, but that show simply sucks.
Dirty Sexy Money was great.
On the other hand, congrats to Bones for holding up well.
Well, I see Sarah Connor has a lot of “friends” on a short leash with her.
I thought those Wednesday ABC shows could be vulnerable to disappointment. Dirty Sexy Money just barely escaped cancellation, resting just at the magic 92% relative 18-49 rating mark last season.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/08/27/the-renewcancel-index-our-predictor-of-show-futures/4800
Pushing Daisies also didn’t exactly dominate last season either, and if Private Practice doesn’ hold up, ABC is in for a world of hurt.
While I know ABC has a pretty big stock of mid-season replacements, could they really dump a whole night and start again come February? It would be interesting to see if they would go that route.
Cameron, share represents (in this case) the percentage of televisions that were actually turned on that were tuned into a specific program. The household rating is the percentage of homes whether the TV’s were on or not, share is a percentage of only the TVs that were on.
And if i had paid more attention I would’ve noticed Julia already answered this!
Julia, thank you for the explanation. In the UK they tend to just say how many millions watched, it’s probably only in the last few years that they’ve started to talk about viewing share as well.
Pushing Daisies got such a glowing review from Variety for its premiere episode, but viewers just aren’t interested. A spin off of a successful show goes out on a Wednesday night on ABC and does badly? That was Joanie Loves Chachi. And now 25 years later we have history repeating itself with Private Practice. So it is official, ABC have come full circle! Should we run a book on how long Kate Walsh goes back permanently to Grey’s Anatomy and this show gets axed?
Is there anything ABC can do about Wednesdays?
I saw a ton of promos for ABC’s Wednesday night line-up – on TV, magazines, subways, online, etc… They also did a starter kit recap thing for all their shows which were awesome!
http://abc.go.com/primetime/fallcatchup/index?pn=index&clip=127240&playlist=123460
Anyone know how the baseball play-offs did and their impact on network tv?
PUSHING DAISIES AND DIRTY SEXY MONEY ARE SO GOOD! They’re so much fun to watch. if they get cancelled i’m giving up tv.
Come on America! Don’t ruin my happiness and just watch these great shows ok? Thanks.
and Please Network Executives, let them live!!! Don’t punish quality programs by cancellation! Reward them for their awesomeness and promote the heck out of them and let them live!!!
Julia, I think the impact last night would have been minimal even with some good teams in the mix because other than the Red Sox/Angels, none of the games ran fully in primetime. The LDS don’t traditionally score a ton of viewers (nowhere near Monday Night Football levels). we won’t see the playoff numbers for TBS until someone else publishes them,
Oh crap. If Pushing Daisies gets canceled, it’s going to be the WORST quality TV getting canceled since Firefly. And I will cry a lot. Damn, I thought my favorite shows were all safe. I really cannot understand an American public who would watch more DWTS than Pushing Daisies, the most original, imaginative, beautiful and smart show on TV.
wow
stunned by the numbers a little.
I really enjoyed DSM, and hopefully viewership will grow. The bright side?
DSM outperformed PD and Lipstick Jungle, and managed to hold the majority of PP lead in.
DSM is great , tune in nxt week !
Thanks Robert! Interesting stuff… I am a Yankees fan so its now officially football season in my house. No MLB play-off watching for us! Thank God Big Blue is off to a good start!
I don’t know if Bill updated this chart w/2007 data, but the “red” line in it represents the average viewers for the LDS round. it combines *all* games/series for the LDS round, and is not an average of the individual games or series — there are four series in that round