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| Total Viewers (million) | 17.80 | 11.54 | 7.54 | 5.93 | 4.65 | .816 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 6.6/17 | 3.0/8 | 3.1/8 | 1.7/4 | 1.8/5 | 0.3/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 5.7/16 | 1.7/5 | 2.7/8 | 1.4/4 | 2.0/6 | 0.4/1 |
Life fans (including myself), and Life on Mars fans, (including myself) sorry, but enjoy the shows while you still can! It may be worse for Life, because fans of Law & Order may be prone to blaming a lousy lead in. Of course Life could blame its lousy lead-in (though they should probably blame CSI: NY), and while I'm not a fan of Knight Rider, its fans too should enjoy it while it lasts!
American Idol won the night of course, but LOST zoomed back up over a 5.0 rating among adults 18-49. A few weeks from now, it will face off against American Idol, and that will drop (last week, against an expanded Idol, Lost pulled a 4.4 in the overnights), but for fans of LOST, it won't matter any.
LOST bested Lie To Me across the board, though it was a narrow margin in total viewers, but that's before the minute or so of Idol gets removed in the final numbers. I'd guess considering the hour, which also includes Criminal Minds, the second most watched program outside of Idol, that FOX is pretty happy with the results.
I'm sure there will be much drama for the next several months for fans of The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried. While based on numbers alone, the shows are doomed, there are some nuances that make it harder to predict certain doom. So, we'll go with probably certain doom in the case of Gary Unmarried, and probably should be doomed, but don't be surprised if it isn't Old Christine...
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol | 24.39 | 8.9/24 | 7.5/22 |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine | 7.32 | 2.0/6 | 1.3/4 | |
| ABC | LOST (R) | 5.57 | 1.9/5 | 1.6/5 | |
| NBC | Knight Rider | 5.49 | 1.5/4 | 1.3/4 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 4.58 | 1.7/5 | 2.0/6 | |
| CW | Privileged (R) | 0.86 | 0.3/1 | 0.4/1 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried | 7.26 | 2.1/5 | 1.2/3 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds | 14.96 | 3.7/9 | 2.1/6 |
| ABC | LOST | 11.27 | 5.1/13 | 4.9/13 | |
| FOX | Lie To Me | 11.22 | 4.2/10 | 3.8/10 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | 5.85 | 2.4/6 | 2.8/7 | |
| NBC | Life | 5.16 | 1.5/4 | 1.3/3 | |
| CW | 90210 (R) | 0.77 | 0.3/1 | 0.4/1 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY | 12.35 | 3.1/8 | 1.7/5 |
| NBC | Law & Order | 7.15 | 2.1/6 | 1.5/4 | |
| ABC | Life on Mars | 5.78 | 2.1/6 | 1.7/5 | |
| UNI | Don Francisco Presenta | 3.50 | 1.3/3 | 1.4/4 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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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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wow im so happy for lost
When’s the renew / cancel index going to be updated? its been a while
WTF Lost!!! I’m so happy!
At least Lie to me finished second in the demo. But Fringe is doing better than lie to me. Seems pretty far from the HUGE it it was suppose to be. Still getting better numers than 24 though.
Good for lost, got up nearlly 2 millions i think.
Woohoo! Go LOST go!
Last night’s episode was fantastic! It’s been awhile since we’ve had a good Jack episode, and it sort of felt like something out of an earlier season for me. Amazingly enough, next week’s episode will probably surpass this one, but still it was great! Very surprising to see the numbers bumped up that much as well.
man I thought life on mars yesterday was great. I compare good shows to good musicians. Why is it brad knowles or bob marley die…but nickleback keeps chugging away. I guess for the same reasons american idol and survivor are in their 238943891 season and shows like life on mars last a season.
Vader: agreed. THe episode was simply epic, and Jack’s character is better than ever. He’s absolutely one of my favorites now.
aa, it will probably wait until next week’s data, so my guess is Tuesday. Bill is on vacation for a few more days and there really isn’t very much change from week to week. I’m guessing he won’t post versions that will be replaced 2 days later, but he might surprise me.
Well, it was nice to watch Knight Rider this season. But I have to finally agree with you Robert. Unless there is some miracle, it isn’t going to be renewed.
Criminal Minds numbers are back to this season average. Nice increase from last week about 2.5millions viewers and 0.7 in the demo. That’s pretty good.
That looks like a season high for LOST! Next week is reportedly a stand-out episode and a likely submission for Terry O’Quinn’s Emmy reel.
That LTM did not carry over..interesting!
GREAT FOR LOST!
LAST NIGHT EPISODE WAS INCREDIBLE, I LOVED IT
Thanks for the Univision numbers!
im interested in the half hour numbers for lost and LTM. I guess LTM lost a good chunk of viewers from the first to the second half.
Why are people jumping up and down for Lost when it’s obvious its numbers went up due to AI not being two hours? Next week the numbers will be down again.
Interesting that Marc Berman has Lie To Me on his “losers” list…
Most posters on here probably think “Life” is a reality show and have never seen an episode of it. Me thinks it will have a cult status once it’s canceled…Oh well.
“Flight John” 316 was one of the best episodes in quite awhile. The pilot coming out of the cockpit (was supposed to be the original Flight 815 pilot) saying “We arent going to Guam, are we?” was priceless.
Next week we get to see Locke’s “Shawshank Redemption” moment. From the clip it looked just like the room in the movie where the guy hanged himself.
As for American Idol – I dont see how anyone who follows LOST would dumb down their brains and watch Murkin I-dull. Im sure there will be some, but geesh. After this episode? Id say they need to see their shrink if they do.
FOX fucked up with taking back the time slot switch only two days before it was supposed to happen. Not that I think it hurt Lie to Me this week, because obviously more people would have tuned in, if they were exspecting AI, but shit or get off the pot FOX. This AI at 8, AI at 9, two hour AI, special Thursday AI nonsense every goddamn year. AI works whereever you put it, so use it and stop jerking everything else on the schedule around for it.
Glad Criminal Minds bounced back, but next week it’s against Idol again. Unless FOX manages to, dunno, rethink the two hour AI on late Tuesday.
LOST: 1st half hr = 11.368M, 5.1/13, 4.8/13
LOST 2nd half hr =11.167M, 5.1/12, 4.8/13
LTM: 1st half hr = 12.355M, 4.6/11, 4.2/11
LTM: 2nd half hr= 10.076M,3.7/9, 3.3/9
Yes Andrea we are all “Mind Numb Limbaugh robots”