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| Total Viewers (million) | 19.310 | 10.956 | 10.407 | 6.348 | 4.559 | 1.087 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 7.5/18 | 2.9/7 | 4.5/11 | 1.9/5 | 1.7/4 | 0.5/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 6.9/19 | 1.8/5 | 4.2/11 | 1.6/4 | 1.8/5 | 0.6/2 |
Though of course American Idol was the most watched program of the night, at 9pm, the series premiere of Lie To Me drew more viewers than the return of LOST. In the 9pm hour Lie To Me averaged 13.188 million to LOST's 11.656 million between 9pm-10pm. Lie To Me and LOST tied in the 18-49 rating for that hour, with a 5.2 rating.
But included in that mix are three minutes of American Idol (which averaged 25.43 million between 8p-9pm) and the news isn't all great for FOX. Lie To Me averaged 14.996 million and a 5.9 rating among 18-49 year olds between 9p-9:30p, but only 11.379 and a 4.5 between 9:30p-10p (LOST actually beat it in the second half hour).
Either way Criminal Minds won the most viewers for the 9pm hour with 13.86 million, but with only a 3.5 rating among 18-49 year olds, it trailed both LOST and Lie To Me.
From 10pm-11pm the LOST premiere averaged 11.08 million and a 5.0 rating among 18-49 year olds. While the overall numbers for LOST are a bit lighter than I thought they might be, the 18-49 numbers are inline with predictions. It will be interesting to see where things shake out in the final numbers when the three minutes of American Idol that Lie To Me is benefiting from in the numbers cited here are stripped out.
Please note: all numbers listed here are not timezone adjusted (which is almost always the case with overnight numbers), but FOX has just released timezone adjusted numbers for its shows and wound up with 25.43 million for Idol and 12.37 million for Lie To Me.
Update: data table added.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol | 25.43 | 9.7/24 | 8.7/24 |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine | 7.44 | 2.1/6 | 1.3/4 | |
| ABC | LOST: Destiny Calls | 8.48 | 3.4/9 | 3.1/9 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 5.13 | 1.9/5 | 2.1/6 | |
| NBC | Knight Rider | 4.98 | 1.5/4 | 1.3/4 | |
| CW | 13 - Fear is Real | 1.36 | 0.5/1 | 0.7/2 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried | 7.07 | 2.2/5 | 1.4/4 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds | 13.86 | 3.5/8 | 2.1/5 |
| FOX | Lie To Me (series premiere) | 13.19 | 5.2/13 | 5.1/13 | |
| ABC | LOST (season premiere) | 11.66 | 5.2/12 | 4.9/13 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (R) | 5.57 | 1.7/4 | 1.5/4 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 5.07 | 1.9/5 | 2.1/5 | |
| CW | 90210 (R) | 0.82 | 0.4/1 | 0.6/1 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY | 11.75 | 3.0/8 | 1.9/5 |
| ABC | LOST (season premiere) | 11.08 | 5.0/13 | 4.6/12 | |
| NBC | Law & Order | 8.49 | 2.5/6 | 1.9/5 | |
| UNI | Don Francisco Presenta | 3.47 | 1.3/3 | 1.3/3 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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Hey guys,
Marc Berman’s message is different: He has Lie To Me as “disappointing” and Lost as “down but not out.”
L2M’s percentage looks similar to Fringe’s out of AI. I wonder if it will be another prop-up “hit” or will it stand on its own?
Aww Lost is down but still great. With all these shows falling down in ratings, 11 million is great. With the DVR it must be around 13 million.
Maybe Lie to Me has a second change to do a bit better next week when Criminal Minds is in repeat and Lost bleeds some of the premiere audience, but it definitely did not hit the ground running. It did only marginally better than Fringe (probably about en par considering AI bounced back too).
Gotta love how shows like NCIS and Criminal Minds stand up to anything thrown at them (AI, House, Lost). Smart little show that could.
I was guessing 12.5 mil for LOST, so it’s only down a bit more than I expected. We’ll see just how much it bleeds next week. Disappointing for Lie to Me.
I didn’t think that Lost was going to beat Lie to me for the simple fact that it’s a show that’s hard to jump into. I didn’t think that Lie to Me was going to pull 13 million viewers. I’m guessing most viewers who are turned of by Lost or felt they couldn’t get into Lost watched Lie to Me. I’d like to see what the second episode pulls for Lie to Me. It’s like comic books the first issue always sells better then the second. So I’d like to see if it retains most of its viewers. I will still choose Lost over anything on Wed night.
So… looks like LOSTs low this year might hit 8m.. unless it’ll just stay consistent the rest of the season.
At least the key demo(18-49) still is doing great.
Andrea, Marc usually thinks anything that doesn’t retain 65% of its lead-in is disappointing, even if the lead-in is AI.
The numbers for both shows were a bit lower than I thought they’d be for total viewers (especially LOST) but in the ballpark on the demos. It’s too early for me to call disappointment on either show. And I actually saw both shows and liked them both
With so many great shows in the 9:00 slot, I bet DVR numbers skew everything pretty heavily. Personally I watched LOST, dvr’d Criminal Minds AND Lie To Me.
Robert,
I guess House is the standard by which all AI lead-out shows will be judged. I’m starting to think that House was a big-hit fluke for FOX, and no scripted show will ever come close in the future. But will see
it’ll be interesting to see how Lie to Me will do on its own once it moves to the 8:00 timeslot. without idol, it might slip. LOST will probably slip more as well when idol’s results show moves to 9:00.
LOST still maintains huge 18-49 demo around 5. In any case its only going one more season after this one for its planned ending. Which is good. Babylon 5 did it that way in the 90s. Better to end the series in a pre-planned ending before it is diluted too much. X-Files was an example of bleeding a great show dry until theres nothing left but a dried husk.
Why is LOST: Destiny Calls bellow New Adventures of Old Christine?
docarzt, DVR viewing will increase the totals for those 9pm shows, but my guess is that it won’t *skew* them (that is, shift the competitive balance of the Live+SD results above) very much.
Normally I would agree with Bill, but here I believe LOST will even up or slightly pass Lie to Me when DVR is factored in. We won’t probably ever see the DVR info for just 9p-10p, but my guess is ~1.5 million for LTM and ~3+ million for LOST.
It will be a few weeks before those numbers are released. hopefully we will see them!
Lie to me went down hard in the second half hour according to the numbers posted on http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/921101581/p/1
It lost 3.59 millions viewers from 14.97m to 11.38m and the demo went from 5.9 to 4.5.
As for Lost it also lost steam, it went from 11.85m and demo 5.1 at 9h00 to 10.98m demo 4.9 at 10h30. It lost viewers in every half hour.
Criminal Minds did great against shows that were heavily promoted and had the buzz factor. But as much as I have complained about CBS last week for almost no promo for CM, it wasn’t the case this week, I saw short promo on many of CBS shows for both CM and CSI:NY.
rviewer: WOW, 5.1 to 4.9 huge drop! yea, VERy comparable with lie to me.
lost > lie to me from next week on.
WOW, Lie To me Did better than i tough. It did good!
It occurs to me that if those are the best ratings Lost can pull these days, it is not going to be of any help to Life on Mars at all. Which sucks, because I wanted Jason O’Mara to break the curse.
Well, I’ve been an Idol junkie since season 1, so of course I watch every episode.
I decided to give Lie to Me a shot and it was pretty good, actually. It was cool seeing the guy who played Andy Goode from TSCC there, lol. Will the show’s ratings hold up throughout the rest of the season though, especially when it moves to the 8 pm slot in front of Idol? We’ll see…
I was expecting both LOST and Lie to Me to get bigger ratings, but apparently not.
Y la UNIVISIÓN sigue haciendo muy bonito, principalmente en la amostra 18-49. Casi empatar con SVU? Esto es ótimo!