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| Total Viewers (million) | 12.83 | 8.23 | 6.01 | 5.88 | 4.23 | 3.48 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.5/10 | 2.6/7 | 1.8/5 | 2.0/5 | 1.5/4 | 1.7/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.1/6 | 2.2/6 | 1.4/4 | 1.8/5 | 1.5/5 | 2.0/6 |
What, you thought the headline was going to be "Pushing Daisies DOOMED?" We already knew that and the headline of "CBS Wins, Pushing Daisies, Dirty Sexy Money, Life and Knight Rider Lose" is too long for our home page to handle elegantly so...yay Tyra Banks!
CBS won the most viewers for the night, as well as the 18-49 year old demographic, and Fox took the 18-34 demographic on the strength of Bones (and a rerun of House).
The writing is scrawled across the wall for Pushing Daisies. And it's scrawled in big letters. PD averaged less than 5 million viewers (4.86) and further, it lost viewers from one half hour to the next (5.21 million to 4.51 million). Dirty Sexy Money's numbers weren't as bad as Pushing Daisies when it came to total viewers, it at least crossed the five million viewers mark, but it did just as badly among 18-49 year olds as Pushing Daisies did, and Daisies did better among 18-34 year olds. Private Practice is the lone ABC Wednesday entry that can claim even moderate ratings success.
Normally the writing on the wall (we think) should be fairly easy to read. But then there's NBC. We're sure they have a wall, and we're sure there's writing on it, but you must be under the influence of hallucinogenics to comprehend what they have written on it. I don't think ABC is on hallucinogenics like that though, but fans of PD and DSM can hope ABC will take a page out of NBC's book and give full season orders to the shows as NBC did with Knight Rider and Life.
Please note, this is not commentary on the quality of any show mentioned -- only the numbers for the shows.
The CBS comedy block is gaining some strength at 8pm, and as ever, Criminal Minds led the way at 9pm. And both Criminal Minds and CSI: NY were up significantly versus last week when there was stiffer competition from the CMA Awards on ABC.
Tyra Banks has some legs on her literally, and as a ratings metaphor. Last night's finale of America's Next Top Model pulled in almost 5 million (4.8 million) and scored a hefty 4.3 rating among women 18-34. It was the night's top show with women 18-34 and for all 18-34 year old viewing. According to the CW it was the best ANTM ratings performance since last December. Stylista got a little bump up as a result, but had well under half as many viewers as ANTM.
If you want to compare with last week's overnight, here it is (but last week the CMAs ran on ABC)
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | FOX | Bones | 10.73 | 3.1/9 | 2.6/8 |
| CBS | The New Adventures of Old Christine | 8.09 | 2.5/7 | 1.4/5 | |
| NBC | Knight Rider | 5.12 | 1.5/4 | 1.4/4 | |
| ABC | Pushing Daisies | 4.86 | 1.8/5 | 1.8/6 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model | 4.80 | 2.3/6 | 2.8/8 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.69 | 1.7/4 | 1.8/5 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried | 8.14 | 2.7/7 | 1.7/5 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds | 16.38 | 4.3/11 | 2.7/7 |
| ABC | Private Practice | 7.14 | 2.4/6 | 2.2/6 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 5.73 | 2.2/5 | 1.8/5 | |
| NBC | Life | 5.32 | 1.7/4 | 1.4/4 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 4.62 | 1.6/4 | 1.8/5 | |
| CW | Stylista | 2.16 | 1.0/3 | 1.2/6 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY | 14.00 | 3.8/10 | 2.2/7 |
| NBC | Law & Order | 7.58 | 2.2/6 | 1.4/4 | |
| ABC | Dirty Sexy Money | 5.63 | 1.8/5 | 1.4/4 | |
| UNI | Don Francisco Presenta | 3.38 | 1.2/3 | 1.2/4 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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damnit. bye daisies, you will be missed more than firefly!
Why all the ratings are so low ?? Was it a special day in United States ?
yeah!!!!!!!!! gary unmarried hit 8 million!!!!!!!!!! such a funny show!
All the good shows get canceled! They should have a network for the people who enjoy the cult type shows. I mean Moonlight last year, probably Pushing Daisies and Eli Stone this year. And that’s jut to name a few. But most of the truly original, creative shows get canceled. Why do people mostly just want to watch the same old procedural and reality shows?
All ABC shows hit series lows last night, including ‘Private Practice.’ Still, I think ‘Eli Stone’ is the worst performing show on the network. Its 39% retention rate out of DWTS is beyond hideous.
When CW and Univision are nearly matching ABC in TOTAL VIEWERS at 8pm, then you know there’s a problem.
I really dont see why more people dont watch Life (other than its been moved 3 times already) because to me its such an enjoyable show. I’m realy glad Bones is doing such great numbers as I always get the impression the FOX hates the show. Private Practice is also doing ok but I would expect it to get a bump when it gets paired with Grey’s Anatomy. I think DSM, PD, STylista should get canceled and replaced by something better. I dont know about Knight RIder though haven’t watched and I read its undergoing some creative tweeking so time should tell.
What should I mail to UNI to save “Don Francisco Presenta” ?
I don’t believe the total viewers metrics matters in the least in this case, but when the CW is beating you outright in the 18-49 demographic by 28%, there is no spoonful of sugar to make that medicine go down.
Alex, I agree about Life.
To answer your question, probably because it’s on NBC and people don’t watch NBC (except on Thursdays).
Can anyone who watched ANTM last nigh, were there any previews for Supernatural? With GG, OTH, 90210 & Privleged not getting past 3 million, it makes me a little worried for SPN.
Is it safe to call gary unmarried a modest hit. I think it is. Correct me if i’m wrong but it has grown since its premiere and is encroaching on a 3.0 in the demo. I’d be surprised if this show doesn’t make it to the 100 episode syndication threshold.
It’s sad that Fox never moved T:SCC to Wednesdays at 9 pm. Sarah would have pulled in better numbers than House re-runs.
Amber,
I blabbed this same answer to a similar question in another post: People are creatures of habit. Apparently millions upon millions of people like to keep to a safe, comfortable daily routine – to keep it comfortable, I guess these people stick to the same shows, or styles of shows, that they’ve enjoyed in years past.
It wasn’t its own network, but Bravo used to have special runs of “Brilliant but Cancelled” series. They would rerun all the critically acclaimed but failed shows. I don’t know if they still do that.
With the continued fractionation of the TV viewing audience, there are some opportunities for “niche” shows such as PD and Eli. DirecTV’s the 101 is keeping “Friday Night Lights” alive. Universal HD airs “Jericho,” plus a few other shortly-lived series. Bravo used to do “Brilliant but Cancelled” features, I don’t know if they still do that or not. Niche markets may become profitable enough someday to support new series too. I hope so!
Robert, I have a theory… What if the NBC wall is like the garage wall in Terminator? And an NBC executive from the future came back in time and wrote all this cryptic crap on the wall and they know it’s important but have no idea what it all means, so they spend each week investigating the wall and comparing it to the numbers but have no idea if they’re making the future better or worse.
Of course, at the end of this season when House and 24 are dominating on Mondays, Idol is dominating everywhere else, and NBC is left with sunk or sinking shows, they may come to realize that the NBC executive time traveler was actually from FOX.
RE: “Niche markets may become profitable enough someday to support new series too. I hope so!”, clutz12001.
That’s what the web is for.
clutz, if it’s not the “viewers are too stupid,” it’s the “viewers are lemmings,” argument. There has never been anything to prove either one. In fact some “weird,” “sci fi,” and “critically acclaimed,” shows have been massive successes.
Sometimes good shows get bad time slots. Sometimes good shows don’t get promoted. Sometimes good serials are aired out of order and killed before they start. With PUSHING DAISIES you can’t say any of that. The only real competition for PUSHING DAISIES is BONES. However for much of the season KNIGHT RIDER was beating it. PUSHING DAISIES also was extremely well promoted.
There are probably real reasons that viewers started tuning out to PUSHING DAISIES. ABC has viewer panels to tell them why. I’m rather sure there isn’t anything that can be done to save PUSHING DAISIES from a fan or production stand point.
I wonder if ANTM was on ABC what kind of numbers it would have ?
“damnit. bye daisies, you will be missed more than firefly!”
No, it surely won’t.
Bones is always overlooked, its ratings and demo numbers have been great this year yet its garnered very little respect. Its always got the tag of ‘solid’ but i think its gone beyond that to a ratings winner and popular show. As a long time bones fans seeing the numbers its been getting this year is something to celebrate given fox’s obvious backburnering of the show and lack of promotion.
As for Pushing Daises its dead and buried, the numbers its pulling in just aren’t good enough.