Comments on: Updated: NBA All-Star festivities, The Closer, WWE RAW, and Monk lead week, Damages to return despite ratings

By: serialnik

serialnik — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:26:21 +0000

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/media_entertainment/top-10-cable-tv-rankings-february-16-february-22-2009/

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:39:27 +0000

I think Pysch and Monk have different fan bases, but they are both detective shows. USA may want to try and add a show aimed at younger viewers that will capture more viewers in the key demos for Pysch’s lead-in.

By: Molly

Molly — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:43:40 +0000

Do you get ratings for digital cable? It would be interesting to see how the 1 hr premiere of Degrassi did last Friday on The N.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:07:15 +0000

I wonder what is accounting for the decline in MTV’s ratings? The Real World debuted with over 2.5 million and has somehow lost a million viewers. The City’s ratings seem to be down signficantly which makes me wonder why MTV renewed the show for a second season. America’s best Dance Crew seems to be their top show.

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:53:37 +0000

ive given up watching Damages. its so dull this yr.

By: moonlightfan

moonlightfan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:02:16 +0000

Hi,

Thank you for posting moonlight numbers. last week for the first time it aired I think invasion wasn’t on. there was a star treck mini-marathon. I know, cause I watched it. Looks like sci-fi decided to take Invasion out of the equation. But it also seems as if Moonlight built on Invasion’s numbers. Startrek reruns not helping. But they are keeping moonlight for bsg’s lead in.

By: Christy0405

Christy0405 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:55:39 +0000

Thanks Robert you’re the best

By: Elyk

Elyk — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:00:09 +0000

I asked you last week for The Price is Right. Maybe next week?

By: sam

sam — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:15:19 +0000

Robert i know you HATE this but could you please tell me the numbers for Chelsea Lately even though it airs more then once a week (5) just one nights good

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:20:45 +0000

Christy, yes, the way I do these lists that would definitelybe possible, but it wasn’t the case this time (The City averaged 1.186 million).

By: Christy0405

Christy0405 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:01:19 +0000

Thanks Robert i didn’t understand !
So is it possible that The City drew more numbers than Rock of love ?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:07:54 +0000

Monk’s next season is the final one, not the current season. Therefore, next week’s episode is the season (not series) finale.

By: Jon K.

Jon K. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:10:40 +0000

Robert, if you have a chance could you post the ratings for Iron Chef America next week.

By: Jimmy McAwesome

Jimmy McAwesome — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:46:44 +0000

I’m very interested to see how Psych does once Monk is gone.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:18:58 +0000

Christy, I’m not sure what you’re talking about since I didn’t post any numbers for The City. It wasn’t under a million. remember outside of the top 20, the shows while sorted by # of viewers are NOT ranked. HUNDREDS of airings have been omitted.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:10:02 +0000

dadnapped killed spectacular in the ratings

By: Christy0405

Christy0405 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:38:00 +0000

I still don’t understand how is it possible for The City to be watched by 1.6 millions for it’s first three episodes and then under 1 million people :-/

By: Stephany

Stephany — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:28:59 +0000

Do we see the ratings of Monday, February, 16th next tuesday? I want to see what got more viewers, Dadnapped or Spectacular! I’m rooting for Nick!

By: Ladiesman217

Ladiesman217 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:14:25 +0000

Where is Dadnapped?

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:05:54 +0000

How do you lose roughly 4 million viwers in an hour i mean The Closer got 5.44 and Trust Me 1.91??? Its official Trust Me is dead and i thought so since its premiere since the show sucks.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:01:36 +0000

All I can say is myself and my husband who enjoy Damages we do DVR the show because it comes on so late 11pm in our area. So we watch it the next evening. When daylight savings time kicks in on March 8th then we will be able to see the show at 10pm.

By: John

John — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:39:11 +0000

How did star wars perform after all star Saturday night on TNT?

By: Noah

Noah — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:37:09 +0000

Thanks for that bit on Damages, Robert
Very reassuring.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:29:44 +0000

Josh, normally we get a weekly ABC Family highlights ratings press release, but probably due to the Monday holiday, this week we didn’t see it.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:28:11 +0000

Hey ROB i know you dont like when people ask cerrtain ratings but i was woundering what was TNA IMPACT ratings?

By: josh

josh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:21:30 +0000

wow, FNL does nearly as well as damages on FX! i know your not taking requests for this week anymore, but would you be able to put more from abc family on next week please.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:49:40 +0000

thanks robert…….how are those numbers compared to the other shows on there respected networks (food and fox reality)

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:38:06 +0000

Victor, it should be in the table above (between the two That’s So Ravens). I’ve cleared our caching so hopefully it will show up (originally i had a table without it), but if it doesn’t, try clearing your browser cache.

By: NYC

NYC — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:33:15 +0000

WOW-Kyle XY WENT UP in ratings last week. That’s good to know.

Thanks so much, Robert.

By: Victor Brazil

Victor Brazil — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:27:49 +0000

Hi!Robert, could you please tell me how “Trust Me” did?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:11:23 +0000

serialnik: Leverage averaged 2.656M on 12/23.

Sam: Food Detectives = 920,000, Solitary 3.0 = 212,000. I will not be reporting those numbers regularly, I hope you understand.

No more requests, sorry.

By: serialnik

serialnik — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:05:04 +0000

Robert, the 1×04 episode was on december 23, 2008.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:57:24 +0000

Thanks for the info Robert. It should be interesting to see how Clone Wars fares in reruns on TNT.

By: josie

josie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:55:49 +0000

Not that I’m complaining, I love the show, but DAMAGES must be being produced for free to keep going with these numbers. Or GM (Cadilliac) likes the few eyes that are watching it.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:50:06 +0000

please food detectives and Solitary 3.0…thanks

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:40:09 +0000

Stephanie, we post a lot of live+7 numbers for broadcast shows, but there is sadly nothing like that for cable shows. Shows like Burn Notice and Battlestar Galactica get good DVR bumps on cable w/live+7. but those shows also have a higher first airing than Damages and it’s easier for Damages to have a high % of DVR since its numbers are relatively low (similar to 90210 on the broadcast side).

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:08:33 +0000

Robert, I’m just curious — is there a website that shows the difference between Live / Live+SD / Live+7 numbers? Is Damages the only show with that type of increase?
USA Network re-runs its programs so often I’m wondering if there’s any significant impact on their ratings…

By: bob

bob — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:49:17 +0000

What’s up with Sonny With A Chance? It got so little viewers, was there something else in its timeslot or something?

By: Tedd

Tedd — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:46:31 +0000

FNL numbers on FX are really surprising. The show is cheap to produce. Maybe FX will consider buying it from NBC.

By: James

James — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:43:03 +0000

Please, Big Love and United States of Tara ?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:19:48 +0000

Kyle XY is up! now doing better than Lincoln Heights and Greek yet it’s cancelled, it makes me sad:(

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:17:13 +0000

Jon, haha. somewhat in the irony dept., FNL actually airs (syndicated) on FX. Two airings last week, one 871K, one 854K.

By: TomSD

TomSD — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:17:06 +0000

Acording to Scifi “Battlestar” has about 2.5 million viewers with Live+7 numbers, around the same as season 1 numbers.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:14:50 +0000

sorry for leaving off Kyle XY. 1.366 million (that’s Monday 2/9 at 9pm — won’t see 2/16 until next Tuesday).

By: paul

paul — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:04:12 +0000

Robert could you please tell me how Kyle XY did?

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:02:11 +0000

it’s official

“Damages” is FX’s “Friday Night Lights”

“Battlestar Galactica” has lost a lot of Mojo since Season 1 (not sure how much, but I know it’s steadily been losing steam). I guess people just don’t care anymore.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:55:29 +0000

@Jim, I posted the better performing episode, but the gap between the two wasn’t big. Serialnik, post the date of the episode for 1×4 and I’ll see if I can dig it up later.

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:55:02 +0000

^When did it air?

By: serialnik

serialnik — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:52:09 +0000

Does anyone have numbers for 1×04 episode of Leverage?

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:32:28 +0000

Looks like the first half-hour of Clone Wars did well. I know Cartoon Network aired two back-to-back new episodes on Friday night. Hopefully the second episode did well enough.