Nielsen Top Twenty Shows Among 18-49 year olds for the week ending March 29, 2009:
| Shows | R=Repeat S=Special P=Premiere | Net | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Viewers (000) | |
| 1 | AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY | FOX | 9.3 | 12,225 | |
| 2 | AMER IDL THU RSLT SP-3/26(S) | S | FOX | 7.7 | 10,125 |
| 3 | GREY'S ANATOMY-THU 9PM | ABC | 5.6 | 7,417 | |
| 4 | DANCING WITH THE STARS | ABC | 5.0 | 6,616 | |
| 5 | HELL'S KITCHEN | FOX | 4.5 | 5,985 | |
| 6 | OFFICE | NBC | 4.5 | 5,876 | |
| 7 | Family Guy | FOX | 4.2 | 5,548 | |
| 8 | Biggest Loser 7 | NBC | 4.1 | 5,470 | |
| 9 | CBS NCAA BSKBL CHMP FR 2(S) | S | CBS | 4.1 | 5,469 |
| 10 | LOST | ABC | 4.1 | 5,426 | |
| 11 | CSI: MIAMI | CBS | 4.0 | 5,277 | |
| 12 | NCIS | CBS | 4.0 | 5,273 | |
| 13 | Mentalist, THE | CBS | 3.9 | 5,116 | |
| 14 | DANCING W/STARS RESULTS | P | ABC | 3.9 | 5,113 |
| 15 | CBS NCAA BSKBL CHMP TH 2(S) | S | CBS | 3.8 | 5,077 |
| 16 | Amazing Race 14 | CBS | 3.7 | 4,880 | |
| 17 | CBS NCAA BSKBL CHMP SA-2(S) | S | CBS | 3.6 | 4,813 |
| 18 | Private Practice | ABC | 3.6 | 4,812 | |
| 19 | TWO AND A HALF MEN | R | CBS | 3.6 | 4,730 |
| 20 | EXTREME MAKEOVER:HM ED-8P | ABC | 3.6 | 4,689 |
Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
All numbers are Live + SD (live, plus same day DVR viewing)
the office at #5, simple amazing
^^^goes to show what simply maintaining your numbers from a previous season can do. That and a few shows were missing this week.
Uh oh, ‘Lost’ is getting owned.
There’s No CBS show exccept for the basketball in the Top10 lol!
Does anyone have the numbers for the other Fox cartoons?
Dennis, you can find them here.
Thanks, Julia!
Lost is sooooo fucking awesome!
the office at #5, simple amazing
HAHA
It’s now 6th. :-p
Is it any wonder that comedy and sitcoms have lost their edge and rankings? The reality is this:
The same writers that wrote the last sitcom flop are the ones usually hired to write the next one, and the net one and so on… It’s an amazingly tight circle in Hollywood, and it seems talent doesn’t matter as much as connections (or relatives). Once you’re in, you usually stay in – irrespective of talent.
I speak from experience. I think the industry needs to explore “undiscovered comedic talent” and give out some breaks. There are amazingly talented comedy writers out there, yet few can ever get the “proverbial break”. Especially if they don’t live in L.A.
A perfect example is a great TV Pilot that won at the Cinema City International Film Festival in L.A. in February, which I was fortunate enough to get a copy of and read. It was called, INN BERMUDA, and it was perhaps the freshest comedy I’ve read in years… not another cop show… not another 4 friends in an apartment and not another dysfunctional family show. This was, in my opinion, a “first-of-its-kind” situational comedy. Even the characters were especially over the top.
I looked it (INN BERMUDA) up on MovieBytes.com, and it seems to have won many contests, so I am not alone in my opinion of this series. Yet, this will probably go unnoticed and just collect dust somewhere if the writer isn’t heavily connected in Hollywood.
Too bad. Not only does Hollywood miss out on what might have been the next “Water-Cooler” show (where everyone talks about it around the water cooler at work) but those of us who love comedy shows will never get to see it produced.
The fact that the industry is so tightly wound and a closed-knit circle is detrimental to itself.