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American Idol, Dancing With the Stars, NCIS, and The Mentalist lead weekly viewing

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March 31st, 2009

American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, NCIS and The Mentalist led overall viewing for the week ending March 29. NBC placed only one show in the most-watched top twenty list, ER, at number twenty.

The more important (but unheralded) weekly rankings among 18-49 year olds look a bit different. Some of the information is in the chart below, but several shows that don't make the overall top twenty are in the top ten among 18-49 year olds; Hell's Kitchen, The Office, Family Guy, The Biggest Loser and Lost you can view the full 18-49 top twenty show rankings and see for yourself. Please note, if you don't see an 18-49 ranking in the table below it just means the show was not among the top 26 shows with adults 18-49 that we saw the rankings for.

Nielsen Top Twenty Shows by viewers for the week ending March 29, 2009:

Rank	Shows	R=Repeat S=Special P=Premiere	Net	# Viewers (LIVE+SD) (000)	HH rating (LIVE+SD)	HH SHARE (LIVE+SD)	18-49 Rank
1	AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY		FOX	26,025	14.7	23	1
2	AMER IDL THU RSLT SP-3/26(S)	S	FOX	23,102	13.2	21	2
3	DANCING WITH THE STARS		ABC	20,339	12.9	19	4
4	NCIS		CBS	17,832	11.2	17	12
5	Mentalist, THE		CBS	17,620	11.2	18	13
6	DANCING W/STARS RESULTS	P	ABC	16,117	10.3	16	14
7	Grey'S ANATOMY-THU 9PM		ABC	16,101	10.4	16	3
8	60 MINUTES		CBS	14,442	9.0	15	25
9	CRIMINAL MINDS		CBS	14,358	8.8	13	22
10	CSI: MIAMI		CBS	13,674	8.6	14	11
11	CSI: NY		CBS	12,636	8.1	14
12	AMAZING RACE 14		CBS	11,986	7.1	11	16
13	COLD CASE		CBS	11,856	7.4	11
14	TWO AND A HALF MEN	R	CBS	11,146	7.0	10	19
15	CBS NCAA BSKBL CHMP FR 2(S)	S	CBS	10,996	6.9	13	9
16	EXTREME MAKEOVER:HM ED-8P		ABC	10,840	6.6	10	20
17	CBS NCAA BSKBL CHMP SA-2(S)	S	CBS	10,606	6.6	12	17
18	CBS NCAA BSKBL CHMP TH 2(S)	S	CBS	10,375	6.7	12	15
19	24		FOX	10,370	6.1	9	23
20	E.R.		NBC	10,355	6.7	11	21