Comments on: Updated:Tuesday Ratings: American Idol Crushes Dancing In Reality Clash

By: ABCFanaticSpeaks

ABCFanaticSpeaks — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:28:18 +0000

Woahh!! Grey’s Anatomy did not have lower than 13 viewers but Dancing with the Stars did! That’s insane it was even beat by a CBS Show!

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:47:09 +0000

Reaper inched up a tad in the finals.

Reaper
- 1.963 million viewers
- 1.2/2 HH
- 0.9/3 A18-49
- 0.9/3 A18-34

By: R

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:22:53 +0000

Reaper aired at 10:30 central time here in illinois because of a basketball game, so I missed it. I guess a lot of people did!

By: Sam first of the name

Sam first of the name — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:18:53 +0000

Wow, this was a reality show battle today… AI easily winned it… I don’t think we will see DWTS going against it sooner or later… Biggest losser just got totally destroyed…

Poor reaper, if the ratings don’t go up soon, we won’t get another season.

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By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:37:17 +0000

Poor Reaper! I too think St. Patrick’s Day had an effect(not just on Reaper, but for everyone).

By: Chris the TV sage

Chris the TV sage — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:36:22 +0000

“Strictly” wins because of only one reason: Bruce Forsyth. Legend- nay, God.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:14:27 +0000

Thanks for clearing that up Julia.

On another note how is it NBC haven’t released a ‘we beat Dancing with the Stars’ press release yet? Seriously they were a whole point ahead at 9:30 and you’d think given how things are going for them they’d be shouting this from the rooftops.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:12:32 +0000

I’m thinking St. Patrick’s day partying must have had some significance to the ratings. The dip for Idol is bad enough, but 12 mil for DWTS(even a results show)???

By: steven

steven — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:05:40 +0000

HAHA that makes me laugh so hard. DWTS sux. A I blew them beyond weak. haha MEGAN was amazing last night on A I

By: the128boy

the128boy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:04:08 +0000

Cool, hisotically the results show was nowhere near this much lower than the competition, in either total numbers or percentage. This was drastic.

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:01:30 +0000

Alex, a few years ago, ABC specifically moved DWTS to Monday-Tuesday so they could avoid Idol. It may just be my imagination, but FOX is doing far more 2 hour shows than most years, which is why DWTS went head to head last night. I don’t remember FOX’s schedule off hand, but hopefully they won’t have to do this again this season.

By: the128boy

the128boy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:01:17 +0000

I have been reading that some folks think Without A Trace is on the bubble. I just don’t see it. First of all, it’s index shows it’s pretty healthy, second, it is a tried and true success with many seasons under it’s belt, and third, it held up better than anything else last night on cbs, and fourth, I doubt many cbs shows could do better in this specific slot because it is the rare one that actually has a successful COMPETING procedural (in the form of SVU). And when leno comes in this fall, WaT won’t have to compete with it. It would appear as if NCIS and The Mentalist were hutr by the Reality Th3wdown, but WaT seemed to be down just a tad… I’m guessing due to slight lead-in loss from The Mentalist.

By: cool

cool — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:59:18 +0000

You can’t really compare the DWTS perfomance with the DWTS Results..

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:50:34 +0000

Alex, thanks for clearing up the whole Strictly vs X Factor. I do wonder whether ABC should consider airing Dancing with the Stars once a year rather than twice a year. It works well for American Idol and it did wonders for The Bachelor. It’s unlikely to happen but it would be worth a shot and it save Len and Bruno from travelling back and forth to the US and UK when Dancing and Strictly are on at the same time.

By: the128boy

the128boy — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:43:36 +0000

Whoa, the Dancing Recap at 1.7 doesn’t surprise me, they didn’t get much better when they replaced Opportunity Knocks in the fall with a weekly recap… but a 2.7 for the Results Show? Last night it got 5.3. That is down 50% in one day. Even though the results show normally drops from the competition one, this is drastic. Kudos to the Biggest Loser for schooling DWTS in every half hour, even the elimination one at 9:30.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:41:50 +0000

Jon, Paul and Elliot all three of you are right in different ways when it comes to the Strictly vs. X-Factor ratings war.

Just looking at the most recent series of both shows The X-Factor did achieve bigger ratings totals than Strictly for the majority of their respective run. The X-Factor also scored higher peak audience numbers than Strictly when they were on the same night together. However when the two were actually on air at the same time Strictly usually had more people watching it than The X-Factor, it is however worth noting that, that’s because they usually clash during the final 10-15 minutes and the audience will skip the opening minutes of The X-Factor rather than miss the final Strictly performance, which is why certain acts rarely (if ever) get given the task of performing first during The X-Factor – the producers are worried people will miss it and they’ll be eliminated.

On the subject of these numbers are ABC likely to rethink where they air the Dancing… results show if it continues to get destroyed by Idol? It seems like they’d want to avoid too many stories of ‘American Idol destroys Dancing With The Stars’ being written. Although to be honest if I’m ABC I’m probably more worried about the fact that NBC can claim victory over Dancing With The Stars at this point.

By: Fin

Fin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:31:28 +0000

Tuesday’s line-up is so incredibly boring. LOL DWTS got its ass kicked by American Idol: yeah it stood strong but compared to Monday: ouch.

By: johnthemon

johnthemon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:31:16 +0000

wow…dwts did awful last night in the demos. Biggest Loser seems like it has a very strong audience, standing up against both of them.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:30:35 +0000

I bet a lot of the audience was recording “NCIS” and “The Mentalist” since AI and DWTS would contain viewers from both shows.

By: Aquat1c F1sh

Aquat1c F1sh — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:30:05 +0000

Ouch, Dancing got killed. Is it going to be going up against American Idol again any time soon?

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:27:47 +0000

Jack, AI’s down from last week, but it still averaged over 20 million for each hour, and for the whole show. It was only below 20 for the first 30 min.

By: R.G.

R.G. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:25:23 +0000

I think people were hanging out at their version of “CHEERS” last night- numbers went up on AI as the night went on…I think some people are “planning” more when to spend their cash and last night was one of them…

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:21:46 +0000

I’m surprised that AI got less than 20 million viewers, this has to be the first time for at least a few years.

By: R.G.

R.G. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:20:58 +0000

Bil….LOL….!!

By: R.G.

R.G. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:20:30 +0000

A.I. is so BIG they need their stage and the “Dance floor” to perform…

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:17:57 +0000

R.G. I am surprised it took you so long to comment, I almost added a sub-head “R.G. Has His Day”

By: elliott

elliott — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:17:15 +0000

jon the x factor constantly beats strictly come dancing it was on d papers as well so I dnt know where u gt day from

By: Paul PT

Paul PT — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:16:46 +0000

wrong the x factor wins over strictly come dancing…

dancing w~ith the stars had a bad lead-in, then this was the first results show… so is natural be the thirsd option last night.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:16:14 +0000

Not surprised about Dancing with the Stars. It’s an hour of boring, useless crap. If you want to find out who got eliminated, you don’t need to watch anything but the last 3 minutes.

By: R.G.

R.G. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:14:18 +0000

YES! Smackdown on Circus with the Pretend…I mean…um…DWTS…
“Clash” of The Competition Shows…and AI prevails! Nice going —and I have to say Solid talent on AI this year…

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:12:51 +0000

It’s interesting that Idol beats DWTS because in the UK, Strictly Come Dancing (the UK and original version) beats The X Factor when they clash so both ITV and BBC1 try and avoid schedulng them against each other but both these shows air on a Saturday so start times tend not to be on the hour or half hour.

By: Schmoker

Schmoker — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:07:23 +0000

Seems as if there is just so much reality audience to go around. I’m not one of those who questions why reality shows are everywhere (THEY MAKE MONEY-DOH!!!!), but it sure is nice to see that there is at least some finite top end to this craze. It would have been depresessing to see both shows get 20 million and big demos at the same time.

Still, between the Big Two and NBC that is 45 million viewers and 15 million in the demo during the Reality Block. Not sure whether to be impressed as hell or completely nauseated. A little of both.

Be interesting to see DVR this week. I’m sure DVR usuage on DWTPT will be through the roof.

Be nice if Reaper could hang around (it’s funny), but I seriously wonder why CW doesn’t just start airing telenovas. I mean, they’d make a fortune compared to paying triple or more for half the ratings, as they are now, and finishing behing UNI every night.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:05:52 +0000

Bill,

I thought you had planned on pulling out that boiled bat recipe just for the occasion

Jon,

Osbournes has a chance only because it’s not on NBC.

By: idizzle

idizzle — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:04:54 +0000

Woah, three reality giants apparently can take NCIS down hard. Still good for it for holding onto second place, but someone stop them putting this stuff all on one night.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:03:51 +0000

Bill, The Rosie Variety Show was a ratings disaster so I can imagine The Osbourne will be equally as bad if not worse. The ratings will be interesting to be see though. Will it be the first show that is below 10m with an Idol lead in?

Off-topic but how does The NCAA Basketball usually rate for CBS? I ask as I am not from the US so I’m not familar with the ratings for sports.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:02:46 +0000

The thing that seems odd about Osbourne’s reloaded is that FOX plans to schedule it apparently only intermittently as opposed to having a regular slot, and yet they are giving it a slot after Idol. Perhaps it’s really just a way for FOX to do a huge panel and decide whether it’s a bad idea.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:59:06 +0000

Jon, I rarely comment on the specific content of a show and its prospects, but that new Osbourne’s show just seems like a bad idea.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:57:59 +0000

It looked like the three way clash dented everyone with DWTS being hit the worse, it will be interesting if there is an increase for the three shows from now on.

The Osbourne: Reloaded debuts in two weeks and I have a feeling that even with an Idol lead in, it will fall flat.

By: Jennf

Jennf — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:48:34 +0000

It seemed like everyone was down even AI…NCIS and The Mentalist have not been on for weeks now so maybe some did not know it was a new episode…and with it being st. patricks day I know I was out last night and wasnt able to watch anything…