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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.7/15 | 1.6/5 | 0.9/3 | 0.8/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 13.90 | 5.01 | 3.44 | 3.22 |
Last Saturday the Big East threatened to make the Final Four an intra-conference spectacle, but now they're on the sidelines. CBS still scored the biggest numbers Saturday night with the NCAA Tournament Semi-Finals even if Connecticut and Villanova couldn't.
And either Marc Berman duplicated his numbers, or ABC and NBC had a freakish repeat demo/viewer dead heat at 10pm. As is sometimes the case, Berman weekend numbers suffered an accuracy deficit. I have fixed them with data from our other sources.
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Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | NCAA Basketball (8-11p) | 4.7/15 | 13.90 |
| FOX | Cops x2 (repeat) | 1.4/5 | 4.51 | |
| ABC | Yours Mine & Ours (movie) | 0.9/3 | 3.60 | |
| NBC | ER (finale repeat) (8-10p) | 0.8/3 | 2.51 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | America's Most Wanted | 1.7/6 | 5.31 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Cupid (pilot repeat) | 0.9/3 | 3.10 |
| NBC | Law & Order (repeat) | 1.0/3 | 4.58 |
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Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
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Ouch, ABC and NBC. Fox’s Saturday still gets decent ratings after 20 years.
Fox Saturday night may very well be the best spent $/demo ratings in broadcast television.
Cupid’s numbers do seem high. I’m thinking typo.
Mike, always possible, but the typo isn’t mine, at least today.
That tie at 10pm is very weird.
it’s not weird, it’s just wrong, but we won’t see the right data until tomorrow. I don’t know why, but Mr. Berman is more of a slacker on weekends and the Saturday night (and sometimes, though more rarely, the Friday night) reports are error prone.
We prefer to be error prone consistently throughout the week
GO BIG TEN…The BIG TEN has been bashed all year because they actually play”DEFENSE”. The big yEAST is a joke…3 #1 seads and they couldnt even get one of them to the Championship… I will be glad when the MICH ST rolls over another #1 sead monday night…
i’m guessing those 10pm numbers are correct for Cupid, not for L&O. Law and Order always manages to drum up a little business in that 10pm hour on Saturdays regardless of it’s lead-in.
Live+7 Predictions:
NCAA Basketball (4.9/18-49 demo rating); 14.12 million viewers
Cops (8:30) (1.6) 4.90
Yours Mine & Ours (1.0) 4.11
ER (1.1) 3.40
America’s Most Wanted (1.8) 5.70
Cupid 1.2 5.47
Law & Order 1.2 5.19
Question 1: How much influence did ABC have over Cupid’s pilot? The entire thing screamed ABC. After all, this is the same guy who created and nutured Veronica Mars.
Question 2: Why can’t FOX crush the competition on Saturdays (viewers AND demo)?
Question 3: How many times will NBC air the series finale of ER? I predict 7 times.
Question 4: Will any network air TV pilots which failed to become series on Saturdays?
Pilots I’d like to watch: My Best Friend’s Girl, 1321 Clover (Roseanne meets The Office), Atlanta, Ex Men, The Rich Inner Life of Penelope Cloud, Capital Law (modern day L.A. Law), The Meant To Be’s (ghost Whisperer meets Medium)
Just ran the 10pm numbers based and assuming that the network averages for the night are correct, and Law & Order was indeed 1.0 demo with 4.58 million viewers, while the correct numbers for Castle should be roughly ~0.9 demo and ~3.12 million viewers overall. The eight people that actually care about saturday ratings can now rest easy.
Basketball did awesome as it should. It goes to show u that anything appealing with get an audience. FOX will never change its schedule;COPS & AMW continues to do alright. Although both are down from past years.
ABC’s movie Yours Mine & Ours was down from last week’s movie. But no bad considering ABC didn’t even promoted it during the week. Its like they dont want to even try. They would have gotten more viewers. cupid did well & actually grew from its lead-in. I was expecting a little more viewers for a repeat of the ER finale. Oh well. Law & Order always gets an uptick in viewers no matter what the lead-in is. Bravo!!
a, Answer 1. i can’t answer, since i havn’t seen Castle. Answer 2: FOX did crush ABC and NBC in viewer and demo. CBS had basketball which it usually doesnt, so thats not really a fair comparison in last night numbers. Answer 3: I doubt that based on last night’s numbers NBC will run ER’s finale 5 more times. I’m guessing maybe one more time. Answer 4: No. Not unless they want to alienate even MORE viewers on Saturdays. Pilots that don’t get picked up are a lost cause. Why would networks spend money to air shows they have already passed on, when reruns of procedurals do much much better? Even the saturday movies have appeal since people often recognize them from their previous box office runs. I would guess defunct pilots would draw roughly CW-Sunday-like numbers. Besides, what it the upside? What could be the possible reward for taking such a risk?
a, regarding question 1, the pilot was nearly word for word the same as the original Cupid Rob Thomas created 10 years ago. The only difference was the actors, which certainly made it the much poorer show.
Denver, why would ABC spend money to advertise for the movie since it is just plugging a hole in their schedule that they have basically given up on? And no, Castle didn’t do well. The numbers above are wrong, it actually dropped from it’s lead-in by around half a million viewers.
*blah* keep typing Castle instead of Cupid.
Yeah a network airing an old pilot for a series they didn’t pick up seems unlikely and I’d say the major reason for that is it runs the small risk of being – hey look at this great show we didn’t pick up, aren’t we great! It would however be interesting to see how older shows repeated on Saturday nights. Syndication Saturday that’s a winner!
And wow its depressing that a repeat of Cops on Saturday did better than an original episode of Dollhouse on Friday. That’s not good at all.
Alex, that is indeed another point against the delusional case for a Dollhouse renewal. It’s also not the first time Cops has outdelivered the previous night’s Dollhouse, unless I’m mistaken.
“How many times will NBC air the series finale of ER? I predict 7 times.”
I think they will show it one more time this summer.
They certainly won’t show it more than the three times they are allowed to air it for free.
the128, both half hours of COPS were repeats and I think usually only one is, but it’s definitely not the first time COPS has had the better 18-49 rating than Dollhouse. I think that’s probably the rule rather than the exception.