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| Total Viewers (million) | 10.12 | 5.79 | 4.75 | 3.77 | 1.30 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.2/7 | 1.7/6 | 1.4/5 | 1.4/5 | 0.5/1 |
Led by Ghost Whisperer, Friday's most-watched show, CBS continued its Friday night domination. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse continue their downward slide Flashpoint does seem to be taking a 10%-15% hit among 18-49s. Whether that is due to Dollhouse or something else is hard to say.
Friday Night Lights which also appears doomed unless it again plays gold digger to DirecTV's sugar daddy in the fall. We have no idea of DirecTV's state of mind when it comes to handing NBC a blank check. But Friday Night Lights and Dollhouse are locked in a fairly competitive battle in the 9pm hour.
Ghost Whisperer's 11.57 million average and 2.8/9 (rating share) among adults 18-49 was far and away the most-watched show of the evening. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had less than a 3rd of the viewers GW had, and worse slid to a 1.2/4 among 18-49s, that was down from last week's 3.84 million and 1.3/5.
Dollhouse didn't dip by much. It was down to 4.13 million and a 1.6/5 with 18-49s versus last week's 4.22 million and 1.7/5.
Tahmoh Penikett had a diverse Friday night. He went from being shot in the abdomen in Dollhouse to getting it on with [edit: spoiler deleted, sorry about that, BSG fans who hadn't gotten around to the DVR yet] in Battlestar Galactica.
I'm sure Summer Glau fans will moan about her lack of air time in last night's TSCC. It was like they threw in a scene of her walking around in her bra just to make up for it. But, too little, too late I suppose. TSCC even lost to Howie Do It (including a repeat episode!) That's gotta sting a little.
Here's last Friday's overnight report.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 11.57 | 2.8/9 |
| ABC | Wife Swap | 4.63 | 1.5/5 | |
| NBC | Howie Do It | 4.56 | 1.3/5 | |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 3.42 | 1.2/4 | |
| CW | Everybody Hates Chris (R) | 1.55 | 0.5/2 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | Howie Do It (R) | 4.04 | 1.3/4 |
| CW | The Game (R) | 1.25 | 0.5/1 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Flashpoint | 9.17 | 1.9/6 |
| ABC | Supernanny | 5.55 | 1.8/6 | |
| NBC | Friday Night Lights | 4.22 | 1.5/5 | |
| FOX | Dollhouse | 4.13 | 1.6/5 | |
| CW | Everybody Hates Chris (R) | 1.07 | 0.4/1 | |
| 9:30 | CW | The Game (R) | 1.33 | 0.5/2 |
| 10:00 | CBS | Numb3rs | 9.61 | 2.1/7 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 7.10 | 2.0/6 | |
| NBC | Dateline | 5.79 | 1.6/5 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
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.
For more information see Numbers 101.
poor tscc and dollhouse. both down from last week.
I would switch Numbers and Flashpoint and see what happens.. Flashpoint is losing almost a full point in the demo and Supernanny was only .1 behind.
Wonder what Nick C has to say about that Demo numbers ?
LOST, Nick predicted those demo numbers. There was a lot of what if blah blah blah. Actual performance is in line with his predictions but not the blah blah blah.
Ouch, TSCC losing to a repeat of Howie Do It? That does sting… a lot. That 1.2 demo is very ugly.
Everyone knows that what matters is C3 and Dollhouse is going to DOUBLE its ratings in C3 when those numbers come out!! Really! All that matters is that Dollhouse gets at least 2.0 in the demo!! Wait, you mean it didn’t get 2.0 in the demo?!! Well a 1.7 in the demo is great!! Wait, it dropped even below that??!! Well, whatever it got is, coincidentally, right where it needs to be!! Really! There is nothing wrong with losing out to Flashpoint, ‘cause who cares about that show?!! And who’s watching Supernanny except for icky people like old women?!! Really! Plus when those C3 numbers come in, Dollhouse will do better than them all, and that’s all because of the awesome, awesome show that’s full of Jossy goodness, and not because there’s few commercials!! Really!
This show is the next X-Files!! Really! Over the summer, the bazillions of people who haven’t heard about the show are going to hear all about it as places like Comic-Con, and this will be the Next Big Thing next season!! Do you all remember when NBC did that self-congratulatory commercial about how Comic-Con loved Heroes at the start of the second season?!! It’s gonna be exactly like that, only even more awesome, ‘cause this has Joss!! Really! And people are gonna watch the show in reruns, ‘cause obviously people are dying to watch Dollhouse reruns in summer on Friday nights!! Many things have changed about TV in the 15 years since The X-Files came out, but people are more willing than ever to watch FOX reruns in the summer now!! Really!
This is the best job a scripted show has done on FOX Friday night at 9 in a few years!! Really! (Well, for a new episode, anyway; reruns of House have sometimes done better!! Like February 29, 2008, when House scored a 2.1 in the demo!! Or March 7, when a House repeat had a 2.3!! ) But the show is doing better than Canterbury’s Law was last spring, and who can ask for more??!! That’s such a huge hurdle to overcome!! FOX should run a promo that advertises that: “Dollhouse is higher rated than The Return of Jezebel James and Canterbury’s Law!! Woo Hoo!!” Can’t you just see that on a billboard?!! Really! FOX is going to give the show time to grow, and you can’t do that in three months!! No, they’re going to order another season of the show!! Really!
This show is the best thing ever!!!!!
speaking of blah blah blah
So, I am curious. Does Neilson take a snapshoot of viewers say at 9:04 and 9:35 to get their numbers or do they look at the whole time period?
Well, the preview for next week indicates TSCC will be better than it has been the last couple weeks. Hopefully, more people will watch.
Joss’s Biggest Fan, I’ve found that really successful forum trolling requires at least some level of reality. 0/10.
LOL @ Joss biggest Fan
Well FNL is still maintaing above 4 million almost every week. So i’m hoping directv finances another season of this show. Long live FNL . Too bad for TSCC. But lately i’m noticing that this show is getting more and more depressing.
@Dovepage my understanding is that technically they look at every minute. the level of reporting typically is at the half hour level of detail (which unfortunately I didn’t see for last night) intervals, but 15 minute data also exists though we don’t receive it.
TSCC
Well, Dollhouse is getting better, I think Joss could really put up a interesting show if he had the time. And TSCC, well it is really not getting better. The lasts episodes are really juste boring me…
Still sad the numbers aren’t getting better
“Friday Night Lights” was awesome Last night
Terminator’s ratings don’t surprise me really. Starting the back nine with these slow episodes was wrong, wrong, wrong.
As I wrote somewhere else already: The show will pick up now, next week’s preview looks extremely intense, but no one is left who will be watching it.
And I can’t even blame Fox on this one. Fox warned Josh not to do this, and this is a point where he should’ve listened.
Why some people get such a perverse pleasure out of seeing Dollhouse (or any show) fail is beyond me.
Does anyone finds Eliza Dushku’s acting Below par ?
Ghost Whisperer had a little boost last night was that the episode where Hilary Duff guest stared in?