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| Total Viewers (million) | 12.70 | 11.93 | 11.00 | 5.20 | 4.33 | 3.09 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.1/7 | 4.4/10 | 3.8/9 | 2.1/5 | 1.7/4 | 1.7/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.0/5 | 3.9/10 | 2.6/7 | 1.8/4 | 1.8/5 | 2.5/6 |
ABC led in total viewers, though the Monday airing was at series lows. NBC easily won both the 18-49 and 18-34 age demographics with strong numbers from Saturday Night Live: Presidential Bash 2008. Things were not so rosy for Fox...
Daylight Saving Time might have helped The Big Bang Theory, but it did not help our friends at Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. TSCC pulled in 5.16 million viewers. Two weeks ago, it had 5.34 million in the overnights. The show did not air last Monday due to the World Series. The end of DST may have helped The Big Bang Theory which hauled in nearly 10 million (9.73) and had very good numbers in the demos. I know a lot of people will say "But TSCC has to run against Monday Night Football (a bad loss for my Redskins) ", but so does everything else at 8pm and The Big Bang Theory/How I Met Your Mother combo netted their best results of the season.
Dancing with the Stars still had the most viewers of any show, but according to what we read it was the program's lowest regular performance show (dancing, not results) and off 11% from its season averages.
Too bad for NBC that the election isn't all the time and that Deal or No Deal is the regular programming. Deal's 200th episode was a yawner ratings-wise, but the Saturday Night Live: Presidential Bash 2008 could overcome even that, averaging a 5.6 rating among 18-49 year olds and easily winning the night in the demo for NBC.
Up against stiffer competition from NBC, CBS was down from its usual pace (and last week) from 9pm-11pm. Samantha Who? again beat Worst Week in total viewers (though this lead may evaporate when the minute or two of DWTS is taken out of Samantha's numbers in the finals) but Worse Week still had the edge in the demo. Here are last week's overnight numbers if you want to do any week-to-week comparisons.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 16.99 | 3.9/9 | 2.5/6 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 9.90 | 3.8/10 | 3.0/8 | |
| NBC | Deal or No Deal | 7.08 | 2.0/5 | 1.6/4 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 5.16 | 2.0/5 | 1.6/4 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.96 | 1.9/5 | 2.1/5 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 3.16 | 1.7/4 | 2.4/6 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 9.56 | 4.1/10 | 2.6/7 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 18.06 | 4.2/9 | 2.6/6 |
| NBC | Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008 | 15.40 | 5.9/13 | 5.3/13 | |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 12.80 | 4.6/10 | 3.0/7 | |
| FOX | Prison Break | 5.24 | 2.1/5 | 2.0/5 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 5.17 | 2.0/5 | 2.1/5 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 3.02 | 1.7/4 | 2.5/6 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Samantha Who? | 9.71 | 2.7/6 | 1.9/5 |
| CBS | Worst Week | 8.40 | 2.7/6 | 1.8/4 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Saturday Night Live Presidential Bash 2008 | 13.31 | 5.5/13 | 4.8/13 |
| CBS | CSI: Miami | 12.67 | 3.6/9 | 2.2/6 | |
| ABC | Boston Legal | 7.22 | 2.1/5 | 1.4/4 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 2.86 | 1.2/3 | 1.2/3 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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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Is it me or has PB rose a touch?
Okay – SARAH is not as bad as it appears – being OFF & ON over the last 4 weeks, a presidential mess of people planning their day today and the time change – I think SARAH will be nearer the 6 million mark next week…ALL is okay – but I hope they make it to 8 million by seasons end.
Darn! Great episode of TSCC last night too. It’s making me crazy that the ratings are like this.
Well it looks like this is the week that Samantha beat the awful Worst Week.
I don’t think MNF is the problem for Terminator. I’m more inclined to say that it’s BBT, or the timeslot overall, but saying that could be seen as just looking for excuses. It’s somethign else. Considering that Chuck, Pushing Daisies, etc. are also having problems, I’m calling it the “curse of sophomore shows”. The only exception to the curse seems to be BBT.
Was 12.8 average, above, or below the norm for Two and a half men this season?
Well below.
BBT is a half hour light hearted comedy. Sarah is a very dark drama. It’s not really suprising that a comedy is doing so well, considering the economical and political uncertinity we face. I’m not going to get too worried about a season 3 of T:SCC until I see how it performs in ’09. If the show gets a new time slot and a decent lead in, anything is possible.
It may not get the ratings/demos it deserves but next week’s TSCC ep. looks like it will be awesome!
Now that the election is almost over, NBC will sink further into the ratings toilet. I bet they wish they could get ratings like this from Heroes. My prediction for next week is that Heroes will fall into the 7-8 million range. Stick a fork in Heroes, it’s just about done! I know many of you think the demo will save it, but if you look at the $4 million per episode cost of that show, it may not be enough.
Gerry, indeed, next week’s TSCC episode will rock. Three words: John. Cameron. Bed.
If that doesn’t result in higher ratings…
Wow, SNL Presidential Bash gave NBC a real boost in viewers and demos, eh?
Wasn’t Deal or No Deal a much higher ratings-winner in past seasons? Looks like that show’s reached its saturation point, IMHO.
I wonder why DTWS saw that bit of boost in between the 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. hours?
WOW, huge numbers for SNL, for by and large (at least the few minutes I saw) repeats of skits from the Thursday editions the last few weeks. CSI:Miami is really taking it on the chin these days. Not that it’s in any danger of dropping from #1 in its timeslot, but it used to be really strong. Now, it’s just solid, but not extremely impressive.
Gossip Girl >> 2.4/6 (18-34)
wow!
Jenny wasnt my fav. character, but she rules this season!
xxx
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The Big Bang Theory 9.73 4.0/10 3.3/9,are this numbers correct? at pifeedback they have 9,9 and 3,8 in the 18-49?and they have 1,6 for the demo for gossip girl.which one is correct?
Huge numbers for SNL. So people do know where NBC is on their remotes on Monday nights. So that must be that Heroes is just that bad.
Pretty pathetic for Samantha Who? Unfortunately for ABC, they don’t really have any comedies that do any better, unless one of their midseason replacements take off.
Its pretty bad for TSCC when it almost gets beat by “Cuidado con el Angel”? Maybe if TSCC was done in Spanish it would higher ratings.
Gee, let’s see…
Terminator went down last airing after it hadn’t aired in two weeks and went down some more this time after doing the same. I for one am shocked. *rolls eyes* If you’re going to talk negatively about one show, do it the same for others. Prison Break went down as well, yet you don’t even mention it.
HEROES? More like ZEROES these days. Sinking like a rock. Season 1 rocked then it all fell apart.