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| Total Viewers (million) | 11.820 | 9.221 | 8.630 | 6.701 | 4.495 | 3.612 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.5/12 | 3.4/9 | 2.2/6 | 2.9/8 | 1.8/5 | 1.5/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 4.5/13 | 2.7/8 | 1.3/4 | 2.6/8 | 2.1/6 | 1.5/4 |
With CBS in reruns, Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice played ABC to a sweeping win on Thursday night. Fox's Thursday spring line up showed its strength as well, taking second in viewers and both demos as Bones swept the 8pm hour.
At 8pm, Bones is settling in nicely, winning the hour. It was up two ticks in the 18-49 demo since it's last new episode. Ugly Betty was almost dead even with it's last new episode, while My Name is Earl and Kath & Kim were both down. Get your Kath & Kim while you can, it's not coming back. Smallville was mixed in the age demos vs. last week.
With CBS resting the CSI dreadnought, Grey's Anatomy won easily at 9pm, up a couple adults 18-49 rating ticks from its last new episode. The Office was down three ratings ticks in both demos from its last new episode. So much for post-Super Bowl promotion! Hell's Kitchen was down sharply, 1.4 adults 18-49 demo rating points, from it's premiere that followed American Idol. Next week's The results of its next new show on 2/19 against all new competition will be telling. Supernatural was down a few demo ratings points from last week. 30 Rock fell 0.2 18-49 demo points from its last fresh outing.
With a new Grey's at 9, and reportedly sync-ed up plotlines, Private Practice nearly doubled its 18-49 demo from last week, and did double its 18-34 demo, dominating the 10pm hour. PP loves to have Grey's company! ER was down noticeably, 0.4 18-49 ratings points, and 0.6 18-34 demo rating points, even with a CBS repeat. Where have you gone, George Clooney!
For comparison here are last Thursday's fast affiliate results.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/ Share | 18-34 Rating/ Share |
| 8:00 | FOX | Bones | 10.759 | 3.2/9 | 2.3/7 |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 7.273 | 2.4/7 | 2.2/7 | |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory (repeat) | 6.174 | 2.0/6 | 1.2/4 | |
| NBC | My Name Is Earl | 6.160 | 2.5/7 | 1.8/6 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Ángel | 4.641 | 1.8/5 | 2.1/7 | |
| CW | Smallville | 3.882 | 1.6/4 | 1.6/5 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother (repeat) | 5.949 | 2.0/5 | 1.4/4 |
| NBC | Kath & Kim | 4.717 | 2.0/5 | 1.7/5 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 15.196 | 5.8/14 | 5.8/15 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 11.652 | 2.7/7 | 1.6/4 | |
| NBC | The Office | 8.396 | 4.3/11 | 5.0/14 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 7.683 | 3.5/9 | 3.0/8 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 5.282 | 2.2/5 | 2.5/7 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 3.342 | 1.3/3 | 1.4/4 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | 30 Rock | 6.333 | 3.0/7 | 3.1/8 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Private Practice | 12.990 | 5.4/14 | 5.6/16 |
| CBS | Eleventh Hour (repeat) | 8.176 | 2.0/5 | 1.2/3 | |
| NBC | E.R. | 7.299 | 2.7/7 | 1.9/6 | |
| UNI | Rosa de Guadalupe | 3.561 | 1.5/4 | 1.7/5 |
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Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot. Timeslot demo winners are in bold.
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Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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That’s a series high for Private Practice!
Im so happy to see those numbers for bones, i cant wait for it to get a run of episodes going week after week to actualy build on that number.
a very happy bones fan!!!!!!!!!
Priavte Practise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! look at the veiwers + demos
. Show high?
Great reatings for such a mediocre show like Private Practice. Without Grey’s Anatomy it would be canceled a looong time ago.
BTW You made a mistake, you wrote CBS Private Practice, and ABC Eleveth Hour instead of other way around
I was expecting more viewers for Smallville.
nice rise in viewers for PP. but still a awful show.
Wow! It was a big night over at ABC! Thirteen million viewers tuned in for Private Practice. If I’m not mistaken that’s a million viewers short of doubling its Wedneday night numbers. With DWTS just weeks away and some new potential hits about to start, ABC has the potential to turn its spring around just like FOX.
I am really happy for Bones.
Also it looks like the Super Bowl didn’t have any impact on The Office numbers.
yay bones yay greys yay private practice. love all 3 and all 3 did really well.
Actually, Private Practice has improved a lot.
Well it certainly doesn’t look like the Post Super Bowl airing of The Office did much for it…
private practice is much better than last season but last few eps have been a bit mediocre. i havent seen last nights ep yet
So, SUPERNATURAL returns to its normal marketing schedule and loses out in the prime demo. Still it’s retaining overall viewer numbers above 3.25M meaning it’s doing better than the 3M and 1.1 and 1.2s it was pulling in the early season.
If anything THE OFFICE SB episode did what I thought it would do after watching it: SCARE AWAY NEW VIEWERS. That episode was just awful as a whole, yes it had funny moments, but it was not good TV.
looks like Bones did nicely.
Fox has made several hits this year and seems like they’ll have a legitimate lineup next year for Fall, rather than needing to wait for American Idol.
You got Bones that will probably start to build and anchor Thursday, Lie to Me which might have staying power on Wednesday, Fringe which may gain enough of a following to stay viable and get better ratings than the pitiful ratings of Prison Break, and of course House which will probably stick to Mondays so it doesn’t have to lose to The Mentalist. It seems like it might work out for them consistently for a change.
Of course then you have Til Death, which I love that no one watches and everyone else hates, which might be a rare strong Friday contender given that it’s targeted at mature couples — people that aren’t necessarily out on “party night.” Potentially good numbers but low demos.
How did Burn Notice do?
marenamoo, those numbers won’t be released until I think next week as “cable weekly ratings.”
Anyone has the breakdown of Private Practice?