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| Total Viewers (million) | 10.41 | 4.91 | 4.58 | 4.12 | 1.16 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.2/8 | 1.4/5 | 1.1/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.5/2 |
Updated with data tables...
While one data point does not make a trend CBS had its best 9pm hour in a good long while and its best Friday night of the season on the first Friday of November sweeps. It was led by a repeat of NCIS. A repeat! But CBS boosted its nightly average by more than two million viewers versus last week and almost doubled the 9pm hour. The NCIS repeat drew 11.21 million and last week The Ex List drew 5.65 million at 9pm.
The 9p-10p hour is usually the laggardly hour for CBS, with Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs performing better on either side of it. But it was the best hour for CBS last night, and certainly seemed to help Numb3rs which was up 1.5 million viewers versus last week.
CBS is actually making a decent night out of Fridays. Nobody else in broadcast is. NBC is flailing with Deal or No Deal at series lows on Fridays, Crusoe's ship has run aground and the recently relocated Lipstick Jungle had series low ratings, too and numbers worse than even Quarterlife.
The game show Friday thing doesn't seem to be working out for Fox and while ABC's unscripted programming has fared well in the demo in the past, even on a relative basis I'm not sure the numbers could be considered "faring well". Not even 20/20 cracked a 2.0 among 18-49 year olds. Halloween was only a "treat" for CBS.
The post-Friday Night Smackdown! world looks apocalyptic for the CW on a raw ratings numbers basis.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 9.41 | 2.2/8 |
| NBC | Deal or No Deal | 5.02 | 0.9/4 | |
| FOX | Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader | 4.60 | 1.0/4 | |
| ABC | Wife Swap | 3.59 | 1.1/4 | |
| CW | Everybody Hates Chris | 1.26 | 0.5/2 | |
| 8:30 | CW | The Game | 1.24 | 0.6/2 |
| 9:00 | CBS | NCIS (R) | 11.21 | 2.3/8 |
| FOX | Don't Forget the Lyrics | 4.56 | 1.3/5 | |
| ABC | Supernanny | 4.17 | 1.3/4 | |
| NBC | Crusoe | 4.17 | 0.8/3 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (R) | 1.06 | 0.4/2 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Numb3rs | 10.62 | 2.3/8 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 6.94 | 1.7/6 | |
| NBC | Lipstick Jungle | 3.18 | 0.9/3 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
Definitions:
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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.
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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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It is expected. Also, Valentine and In Harms way got canned! Tough.
CW’s new show, check it out, airing at 8pm tonight
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844653/
here is a 10 min preview:
http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/firstten.html
they got canned a while ago, it just went from “production halted” to “production halted forever”. I think all 8 episodes of each will probably run anyway though. They’re still showing up in my program guide as airing tomorrow.
Wow at the NCIS repeat. It did twice as better than The Ex-List and managed to get the most viewers of the night. It also helped Numb3rs reach a season high.
OMG! I know, can’t wait! This may be my luck! Could make me finally renew my faith in viewing TV shows in their original timeslot.
Robert. I think you highlighted the wrong ‘winning demo’ in the 9pm hour. You highlight Don’t Forget the Lyrics instead of NCIS. Just thought I should point that out.
Thanks again for the info!
Alex, the CW doesn’t program nationally on Saturdays and that show is “all over the place”, and people will need to look up where it’s on locally. I can watch it on either the chicago superstation (WGN) or a local independent station that is not a CW affiliate (KICU in San Francisco).
You bend the figures and you stink of it. CRUSOE ROCKS!!!!
I checked several websites and all of them are not reporting the demo for Numb3rs. I wonder what happened?
usually only Berman would report the demo info on Saturday, i think the omission was merely an oversight. Good call on the bold-ing issue, i’d meant to remove it altogether which now I have done.
Sorry but it is you who stink of Poo, Poo. I did not “bend” the numbers, I just typed them in. From a numbers perspective, Crusoe rocks like SuperNanny, only not as hard.
Surely you jest WGN? Do people still watch that channel?
NCIS doing so well is just proof that Fridays don’t have to be “dead.” The producers at Numb3rs have to be pretty excited.
You’re right. I just got carried away. Apologies.
I don’t understand what WGN is. Is it just a local broadcast station in Chicago that gets nationally distributed over cable?
Outlander, WGN is a local Chicago station that is broadcast nationally. TBS is another example of a local station that is broadcast nationally. TBS is an Atlanta station.
I know too many rational humans who like Crusoe for its entertaining freshness. And I agree with them – to a point. I mean, I can watch this with my nephew with no danger of embarrassment, and that’s a very rare thing these days. I don’t see why NBC aren’t advertising its strengths. Though, NCIS clearly was a shrewd move from CBS, stealing viewers from what had been the #1 9PM show (Crusoe!!).
Wow. A first run, NBC drama is pulling in CW numbers. Way to go, Lipstick Jungle.
BTW, Marc Berman posted the 18-49 rating for Numb3rs. It’s 2.3/8
thanks, Holly.