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| Total Viewers (million) | 9.93 | 8.87 | 6.41 | 5.82 | 4.48 | 2.64 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.0/7 | 2.7/7 | 2.6/6 | 2.2/5 | 1.8/4 | 1.2/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.0/5 | 1.8/5 | 2.5/7 | 2.1/6 | 1.9/5 | 1.9/5 |
An impressive night for CBS. A night of reruns and CBS still won the night in total viewers and the 18-49 demo. NBC took the 18-34 year old demo. I'm not going to talk much about the "usual suspects" of Chuck, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Heroes, but feel free to talk amongst yourselves.
While on the one hand it is impressive to see that our friend Dr. Seuss is still on the loose, ABC didn't milk as much mileage out of its Christmas block of Shrek the Halls and How The Grinch Stole Christmas (which I think still performed impressively considering its almost as old as I am) as it did last year. Shrek had a monster 18-49 demo number last year (7.2/20) which fed into stellar numbers for The Grinch (6.8/17). But ABC must feel like they woke up on Christmas morning like all the Whos down in Whoville who will cry BooHoo!
This year Shrek pulled a 3.3/9 and The Grinch a 3.8/9. So the 18-49 demo numbers were off by 54% and 44% respectively.
And I don't wanna go all "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch" on you, but it gets worse for ABC! Samantha Who? can not "dance" alone. Back to back episodes of Samantha Who? delivered the lowest original show ratings (at least in the demo) ever. It got beat by a repeat of Worst Week! There's just no way to stick deer antlers on that dog and make it look cute.
I'm not sure whether to be Grinchy with the CW or not. It definitely was competitive among 18-34 year olds last night. I think it may have waited to long to try the experiment with Privileged in the 9pm slot after Gossip Girl. But moreover, where Gossip Girl did get all the buzz, that's not happening for Privileged and promoting it only via Gossip Girl doesn't appear to be enough.
It looks like CW might have to promote Privileged the old fashioned way -- spend money promoting it in venues besides the CW. Or, perhaps it just needs to be patient. Privileged beat Samantha Who? from 9-9:30p among 18-34 year olds (1.6 to 1.5) but Samatha Who? somehow eked out a narrow 1.5 to 1.4 advantage from 9:30p-10p.
That seems a bit odd since Privileged only dropped 5,000 total viewers from the first half hour to the second -- though Samantha Who? did gain 11,000 total viewers in the second half hour. Bottom line, those 18-34 numbers can't be OK with ABC, but the CW might be OK with them.
Privileged will air after Gossip Girl again next week. CW may have a problem though, at least based on one data point my hypothesis that One Tree Hill fans would find it no matter what and it could stand on its own appears flawed. Last week when OTH ran in the 8pm Monday Gossip Girl slot, its numbers were not good. Update: Privileged hits series highs in key demos.
Last week's overnight report is available if you feel like comparing things.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | Shrek The Halls (R) | 11.17 | 3.3/9 | 2.3/7 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 8.02 | 2.5/7 | 1.7/5 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 7.25 | 2.5/6 | 2.2/6 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 5.83 | 2.2/6 | 1.8/5 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.86 | 1.9/5 | 2.1/6 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 3.08 | 1.5/4 | 2.2/6 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | How the Grinch Stole Christmas (R) | 11.71 | 3.8/9 | 2.6/7 |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 8.03 | 2.8/7 | 2.3/6 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 13.66 | 4.1/10 | 2.2/6 |
| NBC | Heroes | 7.96 | 3.6/9 | 3.7/10 | |
| ABC | Samantha Who? | 6.78 | 2.2/5 | 1.5/4 | |
| FOX | Prison Break | 5.80 | 2.2/5 | 2.3/6 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 5.03 | 2.0/5 | 2.2/6 | |
| CW | Priviliged | 2.20 | 1.0/2 | 1.5/4 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Worst Week (R) | 7.87 | 2.2/5 | 1.3/3 |
| ABC | Samantha Who? | 6.79 | 2.1/5 | 1.5/4 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 11.01 | 3.1/8 | 2.0/6 |
| ABC | Boston Legal | 8.39 | 2.3/6 | 1.3/4 | |
| NBC | My Own Worst Enemy | 4.03 | 1.7/4 | 1.5/4 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 3.54 | 1.4/4 | 1.3/4 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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I haven’t seen those types of numbers for Terminator since… I can’t remember the last time it got over 5.5 million.
Good show for Chuck!! Too bad House and NBC are going to conspire to ruin any gains come February. NBC is making a collossal mistake not airing Chuck in Janaury.
And Heroes gets it lowest 18-49 rating in the fast nationals ever. (This ties with the final numbers from last week.) Guess DwtS didn’t affect it all that much after all.
without dancing with the stars and the repeats on cbs almost 10 millions viewers disapear last night from 8 to 10 pm.
T:SCC increased 1.2 million viewers from last week. Not to shabby. Next weeks episode seems to be really good; hopefully they can capitalize on the upswing, and keep trending upward.
Paul, they disappeared from *broadcast* television. My guess (since we don’t see data to back it up) is they were still watching television, just on cable networks.
And it has to be disheartening for the competition when CBS can beat your first run shows with reruns.
Hey there TVBTN team,
The Berman page notes that we should expect “Rules of Engagement” to return in place of “Worst Week” fairly soon. WW is not holding its lead-in numbers very well, repeats or otherwise. What’s your opinion? Last time I checked the Renew/Cancel index, WW may be safe? I’ve never seen either show, so I cannot comment on which is “better” IMO.
Clutz, my opinion is that for CBS, Worst Week is the weakest link on Mondays. Rules always planned a comeback in mid-season, but coming back earlier than normal wouldn’t be a good sign for WW. The question really is what CBS will do with its 8pm block on Wednesdays. It has been on an uptick — and might stick around as it is. Relatively speaking, my opinion is CBS likes Gary Unmarried better than Worst Week.
And it has to be disheartening for the competition when CBS can beat your first run shows with reruns. [2]
Julia, DWTS doesn’t have that appeal in the demos – TAAHM always wins the 18-49 in Mondays anyway.
My predictive accuracy is improving. Yesterday on the Sunday Night ratings post, I said:
“I’m going to be an extreme optimist and will say [TSCC will] get 6.5 million viewers and a 2.2 or higher in the 18-49 demo.”
I was slightly off on the total viewers, but nailed the 18-49 demo. Unfortunately, the damage to the series has already been done, and I don’t see how they’re going to be able to add a huge number of extra viewers at this point. But at least I know I won’t be the only person in the country watching the remaining 11 episodes of TSCC yet to air.
Worst Week has had additional scripts and episodes ordered, although not a full “back 9″. I’d be surprised if it was canned before the end of this season.
Chuck got over 7 million viewers for the first time this season but the demos are still disappointing.
Hopefully, Chuck will see greater increase with its massively advertised 3D episode in February.
If TSCC holds up and increases for the rest of the Season, there may be some hope for it. If not on FOX then maybe SCI-FI. But Im still thinking its being kept around mostly as an outlet for T4 movie promotional efforts. Key demo is NOT good and getting blown away by Shrek and Grinch reruns isnt good either.
HEROES – key demo all but insures another Season if it holds over 3.0. But I still expect budget and cast cuts by the end of this season. Expect major Sylar induced carnage to lower the production budget.
Sometimes shows pop then go right back down again. Next weeks ratings will be telling.
Hopefully, Chuck will see greater increase with its massively advertised 3D episode in February.
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everyone point and laugh at samantha who? ABC is making a mistake in keeping that and getting rid of Boston Legal. BL has shown for 5 seasons now that it is one of the most consistent shows for ABC yet they cancel it and keep a show like SW who is completely dependent on its lead in
Bill, assuming CBS sticks with trying to build the Wednesday block (and it seems likely it will), I agree with you completely. But if CBS pulls the plug on that before the year is up, the renew/cancel index numbers for Worst Week relative to Gary Unmarried/Old Christine won’t mean much at all
With a horrible MNF game and CBS repeats, Chuck did so-so. It did scored higher than 7 million viewers for the 1st time this season but the demos are similar to last week.
you wrote that heroes was up with 11 percent
but there is wrote that heroes has 7,90 milions where is this
11 percent?
With a horrible MNF game and CBS repeats, Chuck did so-so. It did scored higher than 7 million viewers for the 1st time this season but the demos are similar to last week.
Hopefully, the heavily promoted 3D episode in February will increase the ratings…so we can see a season 3.
Jimmy, keeping Samantha Who may be a mistake and with numbers like the ones above, that doesn’t seem a likely outcome. But Boston Legal is another matter entirely. Given costs of that show (and apparently that David E. Kelley and ABC didn’t get along all that well at the end), the decision to renew or cancel BL had absolutely nothing to do with Samantha Who?