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| Total Viewers (million) | 14.53 | 12.65 | 6.13 | 5.60 | 4.36 | 2.80 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.4/8 | 4.1/10 | 2.7/7 | 2.1/5 | 1.7/4 | 1.4/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.2/6 | 2.8/7 | 2.5/7 | 1.9/5 | 1.8/5 | 2.1/5 |
ABC won the most viewers for the night, but CBS took both the 18-34 and 18-49 age demographics.
Chuck fans will be happy to know that when it comes to Chuck vs. Last Week, Chuck was up, both among 18-49 year olds and 18-34 year olds. The same can't be said for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, or NBC's Heroes. And since My Own Worst Enemy has been cancelled, it's probably not worth talking about.
Dancing with the Stars still rules the roost in viewers, with CBS comedies and CSI: Miami taking the demos. That's pretty standard lately. DWTS still has its legs, pulling in well over 20 million average viewers for its final half hour. And Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother are performing very well for CBS. Tip o' the cap to HIMYM, it again had a better 18-34 rating than Two and a Half Men with many fewer viewers.
Heroes fans: a.) I'm still watching. Begrudgingly perhaps, but still watching. b.) it's not going to get cancelled at these levels, but it can't keep going down either, and finally, and most of all, c.) all that DVR, internet viewing, iTunes, blah, blah, blah? Save it for someone who cares (perhaps Ben Silverman)!? There are two reasons it doesn't matter:
It's true these numbers don't count all viewing, but it's also true that it's basically these broadcast viewing numbers (or a variant of them we don't have access to) that pays the bills. And even factoring all of that other stuff in, the trend is definitely down. In the most recent live+7 viewing, Heroes didn't crack 10 million viewers even with DVR baked in. While the method that NBC uses to report its internet streaming is BS and they haven't really figured out how to make any money from it, even that trend is down.
I think the best NBC can really hope to do is stop the bleeding for Heroes here at these levels. It's very hard for serialized shows to reclaim viewers once it has lost them. If you think that those viewers are now watching online, you're wrong. Some of the lost viewing, sure, but make no mistake: Heroes has less viewing than it had in season one or season two, or even at the beginning of the current season. Those viewers didn't find an alternate viewing mechanism, they bailed on the show completely. NBC knows this.
Both Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill were down versus last week for the CW, but a quick scan of the female 18-34 viewing audiences the shows target, looks to be the same week over week.
If you want to compare with last week's overnight results, have at it!
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 19.30 | 4.2/10 | 2.8/8 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 9.70 | 3.7/10 | 2.7/8 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 6.80 | 2.6/7 | 2.1/6 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 5.31 | 2.0/5 | 1.6/4 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.45 | 1.7/4 | 1.9/5 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 2.88 | 1.5/4 | 2.2/6 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 9.84 | 4.3/10 | 3.7/10 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 20.69 | 4.6/11 | 2.9/7 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 15.23 | 5.3/12 | 3.2/8 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 7.59 | 3.6/8 | 3.8/9 | |
| FOX | Prison Break | 5.89 | 2.3/5 | 2.3/6 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 4.94 | 1.9/4 | 2.1/5 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 2.73 | 1.3/3 | 2.0/5 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Samantha Who? | 11.12 | 3.0/7 | 2.1/5 |
| CBS | Worst Week | 10.37 | 3.2/7 | 2.0/5 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 15.39 | 4.2/11 | 2.6/7 |
| ABC | Boston Legal | 8.43 | 2.3/6 | 1.4/4 | |
| NBC | My Own Worst Enemy | 3.99 | 1.9/5 | 1.8/5 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 3.68 | 1.5/4 | 1.5/4 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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So Heroes did lose a bit in the 18-34 demo. (BTW, I love that you now link to the previous week for easy comparison. I know you did a lot of the time anyway, but everyday is better!) But no doom and gloom predictions from me this week, since it did stay level. If it really has leveled out here, I guess they’ll get a fourth season to figure out what went wrong the past two seasons.
can some plz explain why FOX is not bringing back prison break in jan when last night it had 5.89 million whereas terminator had 5.31 million and prison break gets higher demos as well????
also Heroes ratings are disappointing
7.59 million compared to season 1 ratings is terrible
Heroes had another series low in viewers for the second week in a row
cam: from article:
“Prison Break” will also be back later in the season after its SCHEDULED winter hiatus.”
PB keeps getting better numbers. It won’t save it but hopefully it’ll make FOX give it a proper ending
Prison Break is a piece of garbage but, wow heroes is doing pretty bad.
If someone wants to see ratings in viewers from season one on Heroes, here you go:
http://www.heroes-list.net/page.php?29
All as usual – CBS leads in viewers with help TW&H & CSI-Miami, also TW&H and other CBS comedy are strong in demo. I glad for Chuck, TBBT & CSI.
Prison Break is coming back. FOX clearly wanted to give Sci-Fi Friday a try. PB will probably air on Mondays with 24 when it comes back, once House is all out of episodes.
T:SCC is up on total viewers, compared to last week(Not that it means much). But, at least people are sticking with it in it’s crappy time slot. Considering, how complex this episode was, and having far less action compared to last week, I’m pleasently suprised.
Amb@ss@dor, I’m usually good with acronyms, but what in the world is TW&H?
Chuck gaining about 600,000 viewers is definitely good news, especially in the week NBC canned two shows. haha…if NBC had actually advertised the show, or you know, Yvonne’s “shower” scene, might have been more. I would imagine after that cliffhanger there will be a slight bump in the ratings next week. They really should not have shown the preview though. Would have been awesome just closing the episode with Sarah holding the watch.
Terminator looks to have gained about 200,000. Not much but I suppose that can’t hurt. At least it’s trending the right direction.
Curious to see what NBC does with Heroes, if they’ll promote it as heavily for next week just to keep the ratings steady.
Heroes had almost half the number of veiwers as two and a half men thats low
Not bad in the 18-49′s but i guess for the show its terrible. NBC must be pulling its hair out.
Hope Heroes recovers: i really hope people continue to watch… really sad
Julia, based on the context, I’d say Two & a Half Men?
I think the HEROES numbers are horrible. NBC spent the last week promoting the hell out of the show. I was confused by the promo though. It appears it was really a promo for NEXT WEEK. Which couldn’t have made people who hadn’t tuned in for a while happy (to be fooled). HEROES has had steady ratings drops. Then they promote the hell out of it on multiple GE owned networks. The result? A drop of 200,000 viewers and some in the 18-34 demo. Meanwhile the 18-49 holds strong.
I believe they had a HEROES promo during every other commercial break during Sunday Night Football including having Al Michaels talk about the episode at one point (during live on air promo spots). All they could do from that was keep the demo the same? How many people who had been watching stopped watching (because the show gets worse and worse)? How many people who don’t normally watch (but maybe used to) watched because of the promos?
NBC wanted the numbers up not down. To me this wasn’t good considering the strong push for the show. Meanwhile the show that wasn’t pushed nearly as much, CHUCK went up about 600,000 viewers and in the demos.
Also I think MOWE went up because new people watched HEROES who hadn’t been watching and they just decided to watch the new show (maybe clueless it was canceled).
I figured, Holly, but I can’t figure out how TW&H=Two and a Half Men.
I agree Nick some of the promos are really shit to be honest and make the show out bad if you ask me: i hope that the big episodes will draw in new veiwers: god every Heroes fan is crossing their fingers. Personally although Heroes may not be as good as it once was but i still think season 3 is better than 2: gotta say though Heroes is still my favourite show: with some others (30 Rock, Ugly Betty, DH, Family Guy, Simpsons, American Dad and South Park from America) but Heroes is the only one that may be gone by the end of the year if the numbers continue this way.
Soooo – for once I was home and had nothing to do when SARAH CHRONILCES came on – so I watched it “live” and didn’t have to tape it – I love the possible “multiple futures” scene… another solid episode for SARAH CONNOR…
To all you sick of CHUCK & HEROES continued up and down episodes – SARAH hasn’t missed a beat -You can watch any season 2 episode on internet and season 1 (9 episodes) on DVD…
I would think SARAH will be on hiatus during Christmas so you’ll have time to catch up and then get ready to at least tape SARAH on Fridays this FEB.
ROCK ON SARAH!
P.S. – I love the sneak peek at THE STAR TREK MOVIE coming out in MAY they showed during SARAH last night…W- O- W- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I only hope, as SARAH gets closer to MAY, they will do the same for a T-4 TRAILER.