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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 7.6/19 | 3.5/9 | 3.4/9 | 2.1/5 | 2.0/5 | 1.0/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 6.1/18 | 3.0/9 | 2.1/6 | 1.6/5 | 2.2/6 | 1.2/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 19.93 | 8.94 | 15.48 | 7.98 | 4.61 | 2.21 |
Of course American Idol and Fox ruled the night in both demos. NBC's Biggest Loser and Law & Order: SVU lead it to second, just topping CBS in the 18-49 demo. ABC's Cupid premiered weakly, behind a Dancing with the Stars that was again humbled by Idol. The new Fox Osbournes Reloaded premiere managed a surprising (to me) 4.1 18-49 demo rating.
Fox's audience for the night was pretty close to what it was 2 weeks ago when American Idol last ran on Tuesday. It's Osbournes Reloaded premiere managed a 4.1 adults 18-49 demo rating in the half hour that it was alone. Not bad at all. However, it wasn't shown in almost 11% of the US, so it's not clear how that will change the final ratings.
Both NBC and CBS, moved up in both adult demos from their last standard night two weeks ago. with CBS finishing second in the 18-49 demo at 8pm, and NBC taking over second at 9pm and then first at 10pm.
All bad news for ABC, it finished way behind Univision in adults 18-34, a Better Off Ted repeat was 6th in the demos at 8pm, Dancing with the Stars was again crushed by Idol, and the premiere of Cupid was weak. Here are Cupid's half hours:10pm 2.5/7, 1.9/6, 8.64; 1030pm: 2.1/6, 1.6/5, 6.49. Note that Cupid may have had some Dancing overrun in its first half hour.
For the CW, Reaper was steady from last week, when it had only the President as broadcast competition, and 90210 moving to 9pm, with its first new episode since February 10, returned down 0.1 ratings point in adults 18-49 and 0.25 ratings points down in adults 18-34.
You can see past Tuesday overnight TV ratings reports here.
Full details:
| 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share | Viewers Live+SD (000) | |||
| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol | 8.5 | 23 | 6.8 | 21 | 23.36 |
| CBS | NCIS | 3.4 | 9 | 2.3 | 7 | 16.83 | |
| NBC | Biggest Loser: Couples | 3.1 | 8 | 2.5 | 7 | 7.94 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 2.1 | 5 | 2.3 | 7 | 4.97 | |
| CW | Reaper | 1.0 | 3 | 1.0 | 3 | 2.37 | |
| ABC | Better Off Ted (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 0.7 | 2 | 3.36 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | American Idol (0:26)/Osbournes (0:04) | 9.0 | 22 | 7.1 | 20 | 23.68 |
| NBC | Biggest Loser: Couples | 4.0 | 10 | 3.3 | 9 | 9.56 | |
| CBS | The Mentalist | 3.8 | 9 | 2.6 | 7 | 16.92 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars: Results | 3.0 | 7 | 2.2 | 6 | 13.00 | |
| UNI | Mañana Es Para Siempre | 2.2 | 5 | 2.5 | 7 | 5.01 | |
| CW | 90210 | 1.1 | 3 | 1.4 | 4 | 2.04 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | Osbournes Reloaded (premiere) | 4.1 | 10 | 3.5 | 10 | 9.33 |
| 10:00 | NBC | Law & Order: SVU | 3.5 | 9 | 3.3 | 10 | 9.34 |
| CBS | Without A Trace | 2.9 | 8 | 1.6 | 4 | 12.70 | |
| ABC | Cupid (premiere) | 2.3 | 6 | 1.8 | 5 | 7.56 | |
| UNI | Aqui y Ahora | 1.6 | 4 | 1.8 | 5 | 3.85 |
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Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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Knew Cupid would flop
90210 did better than Reaper, well I think the CW can be releived… but then again its
2.04 million and 1.1 share for “90210…” OUCH!
Wow, Reaper got more viewers than 90210. And the demos are holding at 1.1, not far behind 90210. And it beated ABC in the 8 time slot. This is realy insulting
Again, DWTS got destroyed by AI
1.0, not 1.1
Wow 90210 did better than Reaper but it was a premiere (but was off for weeks), should the CW be happy?
Wait, did Better Off Ted really get a 0.9 in the demo? For an original episode?
90210 was well down, but that’s somewhat expected after a timeslot move. Not clear how the CW really feels about the results. The fact that it did only a bit better than Reaper, with Idol only against half its hour, will cause some interesting discussions at the CW.
Cupid was just plain boring. The show just made me incredibly unengaged. Move on ABC
I guess NBC was wrong, they were #1 in primetime at 10:00.
That can’t be can it? poor ABC if that is an original episode
Holly, those Ted numbers are correct. The half hour 18-49 demo breakdown was a 1.0 at 8 and a 0.9 at 8:30.
lol to better of Ted. Almost NBC level.
hahaha 90210 fail, they promoted the hell out of it for month, no one cares, of course showing commercials for a tv show on cw is not gonna get viewers if no one watches the network to begin with…they need to advertise outside their channel
Wow! That’s…wow.
Reaper was almost the same as 90210 in the 18-49 demo, but got left behind in the 18-34 demo that is so important to the CW.
Uh, that measuring from demo points. I don’t get it! Never will…
What’s the point of telling that show X has defeated show Y by 0.1 demo point ( I don’t even know, how they are measured )if actually show Y won by, I don’t know, 5 000000 more viewers?
Thanks for post, anyway!
Cupid seems dead: 2.5/7, 8.64M first half hour, 2.1, 6.485M second half hour.
Ted was a combo rerun of the first 2 eps.
Wasn’t Better of Ted a repeat of the pilot? Or perhaps my TV Guide was wrong! Still, even for a repeat those numbers are pretty abysmal.
honestly i expected much worse for Cupid