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| Total Viewers (million) | 14.205 | 12.223 | 7.246 | 4.246 | 4.229 | 2.188 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.1/11 | 4.7/12 | 3.1/8 | 1.8/5 | 1.4/4 | 0.9/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.4/7 | 4.7/14 | 3.0/9 | 2.0/6 | 1.4/4 | 0.8/2 |
After almost 9 years and 18 incarnations, Survivor still has gas left in the tank, and with it CBS averaged 14.2 million viewers to top Thursday night, but the youth belonged to ABC as the Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice pairing swept the younger demos from 9-11pm against all new CBS competition.
The premiere of Survivor: Tocantins dominated the 8pm hour with a 4.5 rating for adults 18-49 and an average of 13.8 million viewers . That was almost identical to the 2 hour Survivor:Gabon premiere last fall. Ugly Betty gave it a fight in the 18-34 demo with a 2.4. My Name is Earl was up a few demo ticks from last week. It will be interesting to see this hour's results next week when Bones returns. Fox went with the 40th NAACP Image Awards from 8-10 and got crushed. Perhaps someone who knows more about the industry dynamics can tell me why Fox would kill the Bones/Hell's Kitchen momentum while getting pummeled for the night by programming something like the Image Awards during a competitive week.
Last week we could ascribe some of ABC's 9-11pm success to the CBS reruns, but with CBS airing all new episodes last night, Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice did even better, both increasing across the board and sweeping the demos for both hours. The Mouse is celebrating. CSI did top the viewership at 9pm, but it was small consolation. The Office was close to its averages, but 30 Rock was noticeably above its season average demos.
Eleventh Hour was completely overwhelmed by Private Practice at 10. E.R. was relatively flat vs. last week and competitive in the demos with Eleventh Hour.
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 | CBS | Survivor: Tocantins (premiere) | 13.795 | 4.5/13 | 2.6/8 |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 7.444 | 2.3/7 | 2.4/7 | |
| NBC | My Name Is Earl | 6.305 | 2.6/8 | 2.1/7 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Ángel | 4.312 | 1.7/5 | 1.9/6 | |
| FOX | 40th NAACP Image Awards | 4.174 | 1.4/4 | 1.5/5 | |
| CW | Smallville (repeat) | 2.395 | 0.9/3 | 0.8/3 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | Kath & Kim | 5.478 | 2.4/6 | 2.3/7 |
| 9:00 | CBS | CSI | 17.781 | 4.9/12 | 2.9/8 |
| ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 15.704 | 6.0/14 | 6.1/16 | |
| NBC | The Office | 8.887 | 4.6/11 | 5.4/15 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 5.088 | 2.2/5 | 2.5/7 | |
| FOX | 40th NAACP Image Awards | 4.284 | 1.4/3 | 1.3/3 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 1.982 | 0.8/2 | 0.8/2 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | 30 Rock | 7.617 | 3.8/9 | 4.3/11 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Private Practice | 14.151 | 5.8/15 | 5.8/16 |
| CBS | Eleventh Hour | 11.038 | 2.7/7 | 1.6/5 | |
| NBC | E.R. | 7.246 | 2.6/7 | 1.9/5 | |
| UNI | Rosa de Guadalupe | 3.339 | 1.4/4 | 1.6/4 |
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Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot. Timeslot demo winners are in bold.
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Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
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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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30 Rock did quite well — haven’t seen that demo in a few months now.
30 rock is back to its best numbers after a few low rated episodes
Oh, and the fact that the hideous Kath & Kim tied/beat Ugly Betty in the demos is just disturbing…
Wow, CSI has about twice of Office’s viewers but only slightly above Office in 18-49 and about half of office in 18-34. I thought it did better than that, actually. Similarly with Survivor.
And I find it interesting how close Grey’s/Private’s 18-49 and 18-34 are with each other.
Probably none of this is new but i just never noticed.
after the greys/pp crossover is done pp will be back to about 10m viewers and a 4.0 ish demo
They should make the next Survivor on the LOST Island and one by one Locke, Sawyer, Sayid, Ben and the smoke monster dispose of them as they take turns pushing the button every 108 minutes. As the winner (the only survivor is whisked off the Island by Jeff Probst) they stand on the shore screaming “Stay the hell off our Island!”
NAACP lost out to Univision? Sign O the Times.
fox would have finished dead last if the cw had aired new episodes
impressive figure for private practice. it prob be back to its 8-10 million again next week
CSI: is still a beast without Grissom and a better show with Fishburne.
Next week is Survivor vs Bones so Survivor will be going down.
NBC Thursday is pathetic and the traditional cams should return will soon to the network.
2 NITE FOLKS ITS EITHER:
FRIDAY THE 13th, which was great vs Dollhouse & T:SCC. Either you’re going to the theater tonight, watching Jeff Hardy return, or watching FOX.
Is there anywhere, any place where we can get the numbers for the markets in the Central timezone? The reason I ask is because, there GA is at 8, and PP is at 9, the higher HUT hour. Last week PP did better than GA in the Dallas-Forth Worth area, that I am really curious about those numbers.
GA and PP are doing really good, which is even better considering they’re not very good shows (in my opinion, of course).
Even if PP goes back to 10 million viewers and a 4.0 that will still be a success for the whole “revive Private Practice” project. After the disaster that was there whole Wednesday line up in the early season, salvaging that show was about the best they could have hoped for. And 10 million and a 4.0 demo would be Lost numbers, there are only two shows on ABC reliably doing better.
Amazing that Greys is ticking up from the crossover too though, it looked like that would be a one way street.
yes people please watch TSCC tonight. forget ghost whisperer or whatever else is on watch Terminator and keep it alive.
I love weeks when 30 Rock beats Heroes.
S., we don’t see any market specific numbers, and I don’t know of any to be found online, sorry.
Kath and Kim matching Ugly Betty in the demos. Should I laugh or cry?
And Kath & Kim is generally regarded as finished on NBC, while Ugly Betty has a fighting chance to return. The quirks of the TV industry!
I just don’t understand how GA has those numbers. It’s slowly turning into ER, everything happens to them!!! PP is slightly better, but still…
CSI has impressive numbers, who said it would go down after Grissom left? Wrong. Eleventh Hour needs more publicity. It’s a good show. Could do better. HAS done better.
Bones is back next week, watch out.
Does anybody know why the CW is going trough another 6 weeks hiatus?
Wow. What? Ugly Betty lost to Kath and Kim in the demos?! The underdog “30 Rock” beat Heroes in viewers this week… What? (Congrats 30 Rock.) Someone at NBC did something right. I think the promos for NBC’s Thursday night were great this week.
Weird.
I got to admit, I sort of watched Kath and Kim last night waiting for The Office. It’s not as horrible anymore. (Key word “as”.) Molly Shannon and Selma Blair are actually pretty great.
Whatever it can still give it’s spot to the Amy Poehler show.