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| Total Viewers (million) | 14.60 | 13.20 | 11.04 | 6.59 | 2.71 | .60 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.9/9 | 5.0/12 | 3.8/9 | 3.2/8 | 1.1/3 | 0.2/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.9/8 | 4.3/11 | 2.9/8 | 3.8/10 | 1.3/3 | 0.2/0 |
Twenty minutes or so of football overrun led CBS to a nightly victory. Please note that while numbers for live sporting events are always off in these preliminary overnights (and this is true for Sunday Night Football as well) because 60 Minutes didn't exactly start on the half hour, all the half hourly totals combine two shows. Rather than spend another half hour entering alllll the half hourly data, I ran with the hour combinations, but you will not be able to make much of CBS' numbers other than at the aggregate level. We'll have the final numbers for CBS shows in the weekly info we post tomorrow though.
CBS won the night in total viewers, and NBC captured both of the demos with the Sunday Night Football matchup between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles. ABC's shows performed about average and excluding last Sunday, the Fox shows seemed about average as well (which means "animation domination" fared well in the age demos, and Family Guy did win the 18-34 outright at 9pm).
If you want to compare with last week's overnight report for Sunday, have at it.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 7:00 | CBS | NFL Football/60 Minutes | 21.28 | 5.9/16 | 4.9/15 |
| ABC | NASCAR Racing: Sprint Cup | 7.38 | 2.1/6 | 1.1/4 | |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 7.25 | 2.6/7 | 2.1/6 | |
| FOX | King of the Hill (R) | 4.00 | 1.7/5 | 1.8/6 | |
| UNI | Hora Pico | 2.43 | 1.0/3 | 1.2/3 | |
| CW | In Harms Way (R) | 0.69 | 0.2/1 | 0.2/1 | |
| 7:30 | FOX | The Simpsons (R) | 5.38 | 2.5/7 | 2.9/9 |
| 8:00 | NBC | Football Night in America/SNF | 14.97 | 5.5/13 | 4.5/12 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes/The Amazing Race | 14.10 | 3.7/9 | 2.7/7 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 10.85 | 3.5/8 | 2.7/7 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons | 8.16 | 3.9/10 | 4.4/12 | |
| UNI | Show de los Seunos | 2.71 | 1.1/3 | 1.3/3 | |
| CW | Valentine (R) | 0.62 | 0.2/0 | 0.1/0 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | King of the Hill | 6.79 | 3.3/8 | 3.8/10 |
| 9:00 | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 15.75 | 5.8/13 | 5.0/12 |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives | 15.71 | 5.9/13 | 4.9/12 | |
| CBS | The Amazing Race/Cold Case | 11.96 | 3.1/7 | 2.1/5 | |
| FOX | Family Guy | 8.60 | 4.3/10 | 5.4/13 | |
| UNI | Show de los Seunos | 3.17 | 1.3/3 | 1.5/3 | |
| CW | Easy Money (R) | 0.50 | 0.2/0 | 0.1/0 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | American Dad | 6.61 | 3.3/7 | 4.0/10 |
| 10:00 | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 14.85 | 5.9/14 | 5.6/15 |
| CBS | Cold Case/The Unit | 11.07 | 2.9/7 | 1.9/5 | |
| ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 10.23 | 3.7/9 | 3.0/8 | |
| UNI | Show de los Seunos | 2.55 | 1.1/3 | 1.1/3 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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Impressive numbers for Family Guy.
Can’t believe ABC is only at 3rd place
NBC is just relying on Sports
good numbers for everybody.
Didn’t NASCAR do much better in years past?
Julia, I don’t believe so, we’ve got lots of old NASCAR numbers on the site. Since NASCAR races are at different times and days and networks the comparisons are not entirely apples to apples.
But am I remembering wrong, or did it do very well on FOX at some point in time in the recent past?
whats wrong with using sports ABCFanatic? If you have a good viewer puller then use it, although sports mean that because of football seasons not being the same as tv NBC will be falling behind on Sundays in the mid-season.
Julia, in the spring it did slightly better for Fox, but it wasn’t up against NFL.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/05/28/top-fox-primetime-shows-may-19-25/3920
glad TAR rebounded from last weeks dismal performance against the Simpsons Holloween fright night!
Thanks for the info!
How does the Unit figure into all of this? I know they are low on the renew list because they don’t do well in the 18-34 demo, but they have a pretty decent sized audience, which I would assume is a more affluent audience than most shows. That argument didn’t get Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip or whatever it was called very far. They touted they had the richest audience, but the show cost too much and didn’t have enough viewers and was cut.
It has performed well on Tueday behind NCIS and now it has done well late on Sunday nights, but the demo numbers aren’t great.
I would assume that it is an expensive show to make, which further would lead me to believe it won’t make the cut.
Is there something I am missing, or is the Unit going to have to pick up some young viewers or else get the ax?
Can anyone explain why KotH was cancelled (again!)?
Is it just that the show has been on so long that they have to pay the actors so much more?
Brandon, out of curiosity, why would you guess that The Unit has a more affluent audience than most shows?
As for its chances, they are not good at this point. It’s the lowest rated drama for CBS other than its Friday shows. They need to cancel something to make room for new shows next season. If the ratings don’t pick up significantly, it’s gone.
James, I haven’t heard anything definitive, but here are two datapoints:
(1) Fox has not renewed the show, but will continue to air the episodes they have already purchased through sometime (reportedly) in Fall 2009.
(2) There have been rumors of other networks being interested in the show.
My conclusion based on this is that Fox decided it was better off with another animated show in that timeslot likely because of economic reasons, which probably were related to what the producer of the show wanted. Another network, however, might be motivated by other factors to pay more.
i think koth his was casnceled because fox really has no where else to put it in their lineup. they have to try to add new hits to the sunday lineup and something has to move. simps and fg are going nowhere and american dad needs more episodes to syndicate.
funny that koth did a little better than AD in most areas with a slightly lesser lead in.
cleveland has been pushed back to the fall. and where will they put it? only 2 options. after simps or FG.
i still think abc will pick it up
Last Week, FOX did a record high wiht the Animated Shows, this week, it realy went down from simpsons haveing 12 million viewers, ending up with 3 more years on FOX, to 8 million.
R.J.– The difference is that last week, FOX had an NFL Football lead-in to The Simpsons……..not the case last night.
rob: football was the lead in to the simpsons (the ot part anyway on the east coast) but simpsons did better. it increased all demos and viewers significantly. there was a definite must see factor involved.
rj: you make it sound like you think fox reupped the actors for three years on the simpsons based on this one halloween episode of the simpsons. you don’t think that… do you?
don’t forget that last week was also the halloween themed episode for the simpsons, which always does better than the season average.
some shows never go anywhere: the Simpsons is one of them. It can even outlive the lives of its actors/producers/creator because it is animated. It can even survive because its cost is much lower than producing a new non-animated show. People have just gotten used to it; it is as much a part of the television landscape as SNL or law and order.
Im glad that Brothers and Sisters is holding steady at around 10 million viewers. The show is very entertaining!
Chuck