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| Total Viewers (million) | 12.46 | 10.60 | 6.22 | 5.30 | 4.37 | 2.45 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.1/10 | 2.9/7 | 2.6/7 | 2.0/5 | 1.7/4 | 1.2/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 3.2/8 | 1.7/4 | 2.5/7 | 1.9/5 | 1.8/5 | 1.9/5 |
CBS dominated the night taking the most viewers and winning both of the demos. The combination of The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother continues to be strong, and Two and a Half Men remains America's most-watched sitcom.
Only Worst Week can be a question mark for CBS. It's performance didn't stink, but it underperformed both shows in the 8pm-9pm block and given the Two and a Half Men lead-in, I imagine CBS is looking for a show in the 9:30pm slot that outperforms what happens between 8p-9p.
Up against new CBS content (last week CBS was repeats) Chuck lost just over 300,000 viewers from the previous week and a tenth of a point among 18-34 year olds. Heroes lost a couple hundred thousand from the previous week but was stable among 18-49 year olds and up two-tenths a point from the previous week among 18-34 year olds. Fans are already wringing their hands over what NBC will do next fall now that it plans to go with Jay Leno five nights a week from 10p-11pm.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was down over 600,000 viewers from last week, and down among 18-49 year olds and 18-34 year olds as well. It has one more new episode on Monday nights before joining Dollhouse on Fridays in February. Prison Break was also down versus last week, though not quite as much as TSCC.
ABC ran with the classic A Charlie Brown Christmas which won the hour in viewers (though it finished second to the 8p-9p comedy block on CBS in the 18-49 demo). Then it was two hours of a farewell to Denny Crane as Boston Legal wrapped up with its series finale. The overall numbers weren't bad, but especially among young people the show was not faring well.
Over on the CW, Privileged appears doomed. Whereas One Tree Hill seems to retain all of (and sometimes then some) Gossip Girl's lead-in, Privileged does not. It couldn't crack two million and particular the loss of 18-34 year olds from Gossip Girl must be disconcerting. Yes, I know the CW only cares about 18-34 females which we haven't seen the data for yet, but we have seen how One Tree Hill does and how Privileged does. Privileged is struggling. Despite this, CW still beat ABC among 18-34 year olds and tied Fox and Univision.
Last Monday's overnight report.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | ABC | A Charlie Brown Christmas (R) | 11.37 | 3.8/10 | 2.6/7 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 10.80 | 3.7/10 | 2.8/6 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 6.93 | 2.5/6 | 2.1/6 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 5.21 | 1.9/5 | 1.6/4 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.64 | 1.8/5 | 2.0/5 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 3.01 | 1.5/4 | 2.3/6 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 10.49 | 4.2/11 | 3.8/10 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men | 15.65 | 5.2/13 | 3.6/9 |
| NBC | Heroes | 7.78 | 3.6/9 | 3.9/10 | |
| ABC | Boston Legal (Series Finale) | 9.91 | 2.3/5 | 1.2/3 | |
| FOX | Prison Break | 5.39 | 2.1/5 | 2.2/5 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 4.60 | 1.8/4 | 2.0/5 | |
| CW | Priviliged | 1.90 | 1.0/2 | 1.5/4 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Worst Week | 10.60 | 3.5/8 | 2.7/7 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 13.62 | 4.1/10 | 2.9/8 |
| ABC | Boston Legal (Series Finale) | 10.52 | 2.6/7 | 1.2/3 | |
| NBC | My Own Worst Enemy | 3.96 | 1.8/5 | 1.5/4 | |
| UNI | Cristina | 3.88 | 1.5/4 | 1.5/4 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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Uhm. Did Chuck lose 30k or 300 k viewers? Last week was 7.25 mill, now i see 6.93 mill, its a bit more than 300k , not a bit more than 30k
Would have liked to seen the demo numbers for T:SCC stay around 2.2. Last night’s episode was designed to be a stand-alone, but I can see how it would be rather confusing for the casual viewer. Can we get the half hours?
TSCC = DOA
I liked the show the 1st season but again how many times can you have a terminator chase John Connor and then they figure out a way to kill/burn it.
There is nowhere for the story to go.
TSCC really sucked last night. This show is going into the crapper. However thanks to my dad, I will look at it (even if I am not glued to the set) until the show dries up.
There wasn’t a terminator chasing John Connor last night. Did you watch the episode? John wasn’t even in the episode at all.
Anyways, next week is the fall finale, it looks promising.
Big daddy, the thing is, none of these Terminators are actually chasing John Connor. They’re all on separate missions. But yeah, there’s really many of them, despite the writers saying way back when that they’re not going to do that.
There’s actually plenty of ways the story can go. There’s still a lot of unresolved stuff, I mean, the Connors don’t even know about Catherine Weaver yet and there’s the Jesse/Riley thing…
I’m going to enjoy every bit of that story very much, for however long it may last, but if it doesn’t gain viewers on Fridays, there will be no season 3. As much as it pains me, it’s the reality.
This most recent Terminator episode disappointed me too, BIG DADDY. I didn’t like the three-part time shifting (Lauren and Derek and the mother in the warehouse, flashbacks to the log cabin chase, and flash-forwards to Derek and Jessie in the future battling biological warfare), and I thought Cameron was used very poorly.
I’m very surprised at this point that Fox made the decision to give Terminator the back 9. Maybe it was cheaper for Fox to buy those 9 episodes than to run reruns in the Friday night slot? Surely that isn’t a conscious strategy for Fox…Although Stargate and Battlestar Galactica have both done very well on Friday nights for SCIFI. (Sanctuary, too, which got 1.6 million viewers… If Sanctuary can get 1.6 million viewers on Friday night at 10, and Terminator can only get 5.2 million viewers on Monday at 8, that’s telling you something…)
Chuck is above the cut-off for being whacked though, right, with a 2.5 in the demo?
Fox purchased the back 9 for Terminator because DVD sales can probably recoup most, if any, losses while they also want the show to run through the spring in order to work as a promotional vehicle for this summer’s new Terminator movie.
One finale time….
Denny Crane!
I’m beginning to think that it may be in TSCC’s best interest to end after this season. The longer the show goes on, the more chances there are for it to go in a totally wrong direction and suck. I’d want it to go out with some dignity… Though I also want it to get the respect and recognition that I feel it deserves.
One more thing. Gusar, can you or anyone explain that Jesse/Riley thing? Are you just referring to the whole thing where Riley has been working with Jesse to get close to John or whatever, or is there something I’m missing here? I saw that bit in the preview for next week’s finale and it left me with a huge, “WTF???”
Yes, Rachel, I’m talking about the Riley working with Jesse bit, nothing more. Like you, I have no idea what exactly that stuff from the preview is about.
There’s something cooler than that happening next week though – A showdown between Riley and Cameron. That should be fun.
I wish Terminator would die already. I’m not watching it anymore, it’s just not interesting anymore.
I really hope Chuck does better in the spring, but I know it won’t…up against House. I think NBC should move Chuck and Heroes to a different night.
Gossip Girl was BRILLIANT!
Ed (Chuck Bass) deserves an Emmy award for last night episode!
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Ben
The real story is the same one at this time every year: the millions who show up to watch a forty-plus-year cartoon in primetime. When are networks going to figure out that viewers, and particularly families, want programming like that, instead of the garbage that’s regularly spewed out? That’s why people are vacating the networks: junk.
It’s funny, I liked last night’s TSCC just fine. I think for some of you if there isn’t anything blowing up or the story adds no or little value to the longer story arc, you hate it! From a storytelling perspective, I thought last night’s episode was very well done as a story about the human will to survive.
I believe they’ll make it up to you next week by blowing up two episodes worth of stuff. Rachel, the tie between Jesse and Riley was established in a previous episode (though only very briefly). The suggestion was Riley takes orders from Jesse begging the question of who does Jesse take orders from?
Best interest or no, the show will end after this season…
NOO! T:TSCC is great and the show can get a third season if the show does well on Fridays @ 8.00 PM. I think the new Friday of Fox with Dollhouse can be a succes. No hughe, but if Terminator can get 5.5 mln viewers and Dollhouse 6/8 mln FOX would go trough with Terminator!
[b](sorry for my bad english! i live in Holland so English is’n my main language
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Wow, Two and a Half Men have 16 million viewers with a rerun! But the new episodes pull in lower numbers? How does that work?
Denny Crane!
too bad for chuck. the shape nbc is in though, i see the show getting another season
very happy to see BL do well. still think it’s a dumb move to get rid of it.
Dennis — Two and a Half Men was not a rerun. That was my bad for not removing the “R” when using last week’s table as a template. I’ve fixed it.