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| Total Viewers (million) | 25.239 | 12.588 | 9.889 | 4.369 | 3.899 | 1.609 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 9.3/24 | 2.6/7 | 3.7/10 | 1.5/4 | 1.6/4 | 0.6/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 7.5/22 | 1.6/5 | 2.9/9 | 1.2/3 | 1.8/5 | 0.7/2 |
Even though it's "February" sweeps, the competition seems bent on avoiding direct battle with American Idol. With the only meaningful competition from Biggest Loser, Idol and Fox had better demo ratings than all its English broadcast competition combined. NBC feasted on the demo leftovers for a second place finish, while ABC was beaten in the demos by Univision. CBS repeats, as is typical, were able to put the older viewers in the seats.
Dominating the night, American Idol was up 0.3 ratings points in the 18-49 demo and just a fraction in 18-34 from last Tuesday. I wrote that Reaper could be back if it held onto its premiere ratings, and considering that Daylight Savings Time kicked in since last week (which can depress early show ratings), it didn't do too badly, losing just a tick in its 18-49 rating and holding steady in its 18-34 rating. Future weeks will determine whether it stays or goes at the end of the season. Biggest Loser was also up a few ticks in the demos from last week as well.
With no new scripted competition, and with seemingly the last drop of blood wrung from the Bachelor stone, NBC's Law And Order: SVU was an easy demo winner at 10.
You can see past Tuesday overnight TV ratings reports here. Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers Live+SD (000) | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share |
| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol | 23.625 | 8.6 | 24 | 7.0 | 22 |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 13.332 | 2.7 | 7 | 1.7 | 6 | |
| NBC | Biggest Loser: Couples | 8.501 | 3.4 | 9 | 2.6 | 8 | |
| ABC | Homeland Security USA | 5.147 | 1.4 | 4 | 0.9 | 3 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Ángel | 4.485 | 1.8 | 5 | 2.0 | 6 | |
| CW | Reaper | 2.173 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.9 | 3 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | American Idol | 26.853 | 10.1 | 25 | 8.0 | 23 |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 14.246 | 2.8 | 7 | 1.8 | 5 | |
| NBC | Biggest Loser: Couples | 10.129 | 4.2 | 10 | 3.2 | 9 | |
| UNI | Mañana Es para Siempre | 4.200 | 1.8 | 4 | 2.0 | 6 | |
| ABC | Scrubs (repeat) | 2.944 | 1.1 | 3 | 1.0 | 3 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 1.046 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.5 | 2 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Scrubs (repeat) | 2.765 | 1.1 | 3 | 1.2 | 3 |
| 10:00 | NBC | Law & Order: SVU | 11.039 | 3.7 | 10 | 3.0 | 9 |
| CBS | Without a Trace (repeat) | 10.186 | 2.1 | 6 | 1.3 | 4 | |
| ABC | Primetime: What Would You Do? | 5.104 | 1.9 | 5 | 1.4 | 4 | |
| UNI | Aqui y Ahora | 3.011 | 1.2 | 3 | 1.3 | 4 |
- Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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Bill, I think it’s more aptly described as “February” sweeps.
Good point! I adjusted the quotes and fixed the weird formatting that happened initially.
I think the scheduling of NCIS is more concerned with when to air the backdoor spin off pilot episodes than avoiding Idol or winning sweeps.
And The Mentalist might go along, because with less original episodes in the season than NCIS anyway, why waste new stuff on a repeat night.
Thats two weeks now of Mentalist repeats..when are new eps being shown?
Good Reaper rating considering the time delay
Wow, ABC really sucks on this night.
Reaper losed only 200 000 viewers and 0.8 in the demos, not bad.
AI is having ratings than DWTS
i really hope Idol continues to be nr 1 the whole season since I honestly believe they deserve it, its the best and most entertaining show out there imo. DWTS is quite ridicolous
Well things will be a little different next week with the return of NCIS and The Mentalist…At least they will make it respectable against Idol…
Both AI and DWTS are ridiculous. Nothing good has come out of AI in the last couple of years. Nothing good comes out of DWTS either. I miss good scrpited shows with great actors and good performances.
“…and with seemingly the last drop of blood wrung from the Bachelor stone, NBC’s Law and Order: SVU was an easy demo winner at 10.”
I don’t understand what The Bachelor has to do with Law & Order: SVU’s ratings. Am I missing something?
When was the last time abc aired new eps of scrubs? They have been in repeats forever.
JS, last Tuesday, ABC ran “Part 2″ of the After the Rose Bachelor special (wringing the last bit of blood out of the stone) at 10pm and it did quite well. No more Bachelor this week left a wide open field for SVU.
@hmm
Are you kidding? Idol is continuously hammered as the worst non-scripted show. Its appeal is strictly to moms and fangirls. Not many straight guys have interest in it. Of course this is just an guess, but I think DWTS attracts more men than Idol does.
Carl, You would guess wrong. DWTS skews more female.
Of course Idol attracts more of both sexes, and the largest gender group we have numbers for is 18-49 (not all men, or all women), but the one night of comparison of Idol from Tuesday and DWTS from Monday is likely typical.
DWTS:
W18-49: 8.3 rating
M18-49: 3.5 rating
Women/Men ratio: 2.37
Idol:
W18-49: 11.4 rating
M18-49: 7.0 rating
Women/Men ratio: 1.63
Bill do you have half hour breakdowns fo r Reaper?
Ant, Reaper was nearly flat.
2.188, 0.8/2, 0.8/3
2.157, 0.8/2, 0.9/3
uffffffffff when does american idol ends?
bill where did u get those rating?? what’s the name of the site??
Jenna, Monday thru Friday we don’t get them from any site. So far as I know the full overnight reporting (demos outside 18-49, etc) are not posted on any site and we’re the only site that regularly posts the 18-34 overnight info. On the weekends, we use Marc Berman’s Programming Insider forum. The link is in our links list on the right —————>
Wow Reaper actually went up in the demos last half hour. Not too bad
Do you guys know what demo Reaper is particularly strong in? I keep seeing that it does well with young guys like myself, but it would appear to skew older, so I’m just wondering which one it is.
In any event it held up well(especially in the 18-34 demo), hopefully with mostly everything being new next week on the CW, it’ll show increases.