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| Total Viewers (million) | 14.10 | 11.60 | 6.96 | 5.59 | 4.15 | 3.34 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.4/8 | 3.9/10 | 3.0/7 | 2.2/5 | 1.7/4 | 1.7/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.2/6 | 2.7/7 | 2.9/9 | 1.9/5 | 1.9/5 | 2.6/7 |
It was another Monday night of mixed leadership, with ABC taking the total viewers crown, CBS taking the 18-49 year old demographic and NBC winning the most 18-34 year olds.
I'll leave the commenters to opine on the ratings for Chuck and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, as they have both been picked up for the full year I'm not going to worry about two of my favorite shows (and sorry Summer and Lena, but I probably dig Chuck even a little bit more than TSCC) fates until the spring. Edit, while the ratings are languishing I do not believe the quality of the shows is, and I'm very happy about the ability to DVR more than one show at 8pm!
And note the comment from "Paul", he's absolutely right across the board, from NBC's perspective Chuck is probably at least close to being near where they thought it would be. My Own Worst Enemy must be the much bigger disappointment for NBC.
As is typical ABC led total viewers for the night with Dancing with the Stars while CBS took the most 18-49 year olds with its two hour comedy block and CSI: Miami. How I Met Your Mother had especially impressive performance, and bested Two and a Half Men among 18-34 year olds even though it had more than five million fewer viewers. Worst Week remains CBS weakest Monday night link. It had the worst performance of any CBS show in the demos, though it beat Samantha Who? among 18-49 year olds (and Samantha likely had a minute or two of Dancing with the Stars included in the results that will get stripped out in the final numbers.
Heroes is way off its former ratings glory, but still had the most 18-34 year olds, and by a wide margin, of any show on the broadcast networks last night, leading NBC to a win among 18-34 year olds for the night.
The CW's Monday lineup was fairly consistent with past efforts, and the devil is in the 18-34 year old female details, which we won't see until later. But at 9pm, One Tree Hill was second only to Heroes among 18-34 year olds.
Update: Our friend James Hibberd reports that CW was protesting the numbers for Gossip Girl, so we contacted the CW to see what was up. Here's what our contact said:
...protest is kind of a strong word…sounds like we’re out picketing in front of the Nielsen office. It’s more that we’re just seeing some discrepancies in the Gossip Girl ratings from last night (especially in the meter market to fast affiliate translation) and we're asking Nielsen to check into their veracity. Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill have been running neck-and-neck with each other, and with the disparity between the two last night, we want Nielsen to investigate it...
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 18.10 | 4.0/10 | 2.6/7 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 9.28 | 3.5/9 | 2.4/7 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 6.70 | 2.5/6 | 2.4/6 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 5.34 | 2.1/5 | 1.6/4 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.76 | 2.0/5 | 2.3/6 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 3.03 | 1.4/4 | 2.1/6 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 9.36 | 3.9/10 | 3.0/8 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 19.47 | 4.4/10 | 2.7/7 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 14.55 | 5.1/12 | 2.9/7 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 8.46 | 3.9/9 | 4.2/11 | |
| FOX | Prison Break | 5.84 | 2.4/5 | 2.2/6 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 4.95 | 2.0/5 | 2.4/6 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 3.65 | 1.9/4 | 3.1/8 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Samantha Who? | 11.03 | 3.0/7 | 2.1/5 |
| CBS | Worst Week | 9.90 | 3.2/7 | 1.9/5 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 13.25 | 3.8/10 | 2.8/7 |
| ABC | Boston Legal | 8.96 | 2.4/6 | 1.4/4 | |
| NBC | My Own Worst Enemy | 5.72 | 2.5/6 | 2.2/6 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 2.75 | 1.1/3 | 1.1/3 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot. Timeslot demo winners are in bold.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
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.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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Chuck languished?
Shouldn’t it be my own worst enemy?
Chuck posted it’s best numbers this season.
Paul, you’re absolutely right. My Own Worst Enemy *is* languishing. I suspect my bias is shining through in the prose. I love Chuck and TSCC and have never watched an episode of Own Worst…
Sometimes I too am my own worst enemy, but you bring up a fair point.
Is Chuck up from last week?
I have no idea why Fox is giving terminator a full season. I like the show, but the numbers are terrible. Heroes had a really good episode last night, hopefully the viewership will turn around…even the demos are feeling the burn.
Dancing with the Stars ends about mid-season right?
Is anyone else getting sick of CBS’ dominance on almost every night? Monday is an exception, with it taking a close second, but still.
Oh and My Own Worst Enemy is apparently a terrible lead-out from Heroes. I can’t see it lasting for more than 13 episodes.
Is this the first time Heroes has dipped below 4.0 in the demo?
Chuck was up ~10% vs. last week in total viewers..
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/10/14/monday-night-ratings-dancing-with-the-stars-two-and-half-men-lead-night/6155
Worst Week had higher numbers in viewers than both BBT and HIMYM. It just needs to get it’s younger demo up a bit.
Two and a Half Men has run its course. Not funny anymore.
Wow at OTH. Great numbers.
SCC stinks just as its ratings. Kudos to PB for builiding from the lead-i against much tougher competition
Julia, I dream of a completely database-driven environment where it’s *very easy* to find out exactly those types of questions. for now, it’s just a dream…
TSCC is a GREAT show and I’m glad it got a full season pickup.
From what I’ve heard advertisers like TSSC so Fox is happy about that and viewership will probably pick up once American Idol is on.
Also, not sure if I’m right or not but season 1 of TSCC aired mid-season during the WGA strike and didn’t have much competition against it so that’s probably why season 1 did so well compared to now.
The writers strike did not help FOX’s Monday night shows at all. Still the ratings are modest, and that is good enough for a full season pickup.
last nights terminator ep was awful. dont get me wrong i love the show but it stunk last night. the main reason i watch the show is cause of summer glau and they are not writing much for her. she is the star of the show. well her and lena. but thomas dekker is a boring actor. he is so unlikeable.
so is terminator on next week?
Chuck didn’t languish!In fact the numbers (that don’t show the quality of the show) are getting better every week.You should be more careful.Chuck is a great show and will be better in the future (despite the fact that in our days with the dvr and the internet Nielsen Ratings don’t tell the truth about the attractiveness of a show)
Was Terminator picked up for a full season? So how many episodes do we have left and is it going to get cancelled after this season with these numbers? thnx
Why are people even still watching Prison Break is filled with dumbness jeeze and it’s not even good anymore.Even the producers from that show have said in past interviews that right now they don’t care about the viewers or ratings only to get picked up again.What a total disrespect so why even give those bozos from P.B any audiences at all!I guess some are watching out loyalty other than that this season is not even good or entertaining.
i dont know what to say to FOX. I dont understand this terminator move at all. FOX obviously doesnt care about fall at all. So i guess thats why terminator is staying. Tuesdays is the only night where FOX is somewhat competitive.
John A: No, Terminator is not on next week, at least not a new episode. It’s either baseball or a repeat of episode 3.
Oh, and not liking an episode just because Cameron is not the center of it, is a very poor reason. The show has much more to offer than Summer Glau. Thomas Dekker’s performance was brilliant last night. Still, you had the pretzel fight and Cameron’s worrying about John’s well-being. Oh, and she has Asperger’s. LOL to that.
In the end, I just thank $deity for Dodge, they’re I assume one of the main reasons for the full season pick up.
Julia, Yes, this is the first time Heroes has dropped below a 4.0, which it hit for the first time on 10/6.
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PB is great this season, that’s why i’m watching it
TSCC is a great show. I think that after T4 comes out there will be renewed interest in the show which should help boost the numbers.