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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 6.4/16 | 3.3/9 | 2.7/7 | 2.2/6 | 1.7/5 | 1.0/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 4.8/14 | 2.8/8 | 1.7/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.9/5 | 1.4/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 17.49 | 8.21 | 12.88 | 8.61 | 4.39 | 2.09 |
As expected, American Idol driven Fox dominated the night, its 8.2 rating for adults 18-49 more than doubling that of the nearest competition (though NCIS was a repeat last night). With CBS airing two out of three hours with repeats, NBC took second place for the night.
It doesn't appear that anything new happened last night to change the renew/cancel prospects for any of the shows that were on, so here are a few disclaimers:
1.) because of the data source I am using, some of the demo numbers might be off by a tenth of a point. I will correct as I get new data There were indeed a few shows off by 1/10th, but with additional data, I've corrected them (as of 9:10am PT).
2.) because American Idol had a four minutes of overrun (and a couple of those minutes were unplanned again) I'm sure that some DVRs recording both American Idol and Fringe got screwed up.
3.) for the reasons above, numbers for Fringe will go down in the finals (and Idol's likely up)
4.) for similar reasons, due to Dancing with the Stars result show overrun, Cupid's numbers (which weren't good, despite retention) will go down in the final numbers.
Update: second half hour info for both Fringe and Cupid:
Here are Fringe's numbers for the 9:30p-10p half hour (all Fringe):
3.9/9 (18-49), 2.9/8 (18-34), 9.763mm (viewers)
And here are Cupid's numbers for 10:30p-11p (all Cupid)
1.5/4 (18-49), 1.2/3 (18-34), 5.408mm (viewers)
You can see past Tuesday overnight TV ratings reports here.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol | 8.2/23 | 6.2/19 | 23.48 |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser: Couples | 3.3/9 | 2.7/8 | 8.20 | |
| CBS | NCIS (Repeat) | 2.5/7 | 1.6/5 | 13.37 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Ángel | 1.7/5 | 2.0/6 | 4.48 | |
| ABC | According to Jim | 1.2/4 | 0.8/3 | 4.70 | |
| CW | Reaper | 0.9/2 | 0.9/3 | 2.05 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | According to Jim | 1.2/3 | 0.8/2 | 4.25 |
| 9:00 | FOX | Fringe | 4.5/11 | 3.3/9 | 11.50 |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser: Couples | 4.2/10 | 3.4/9 | 9.95 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars Results | 3.4/8 | 2.5/7 | 14.76 | |
| CBS | The Mentalist (Repeat) | 2.4/6 | 1.5/4 | 12.10 | |
| UNI | Mañana Es Para Siempre | 2.0/5 | 2.3/6 | 4.99 | |
| CW | 90210 | 1.2/3 | 1.8/5 | 2.13 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Without a Trace | 3.0/8 | 2.0/6 | 13.17 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (Repeat) | 2.4/6 | 2.3/6 | 6.50 | |
| ABC | Cupid | 1.8/5 | 1.4/4 | 6.60 | |
| UNI | Aquí y Ahora | 1.5/4 | 1.5/4 | 3.711 |
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Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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OMG!
This is WAT’s best delivery in adults 18-49 for a while, and it had no lead-in whatsoever.
Wasn’t Law & Order SVU a repeat last night?
Kyle, indeed. Fixed.
Law & Order: SVU – REPEAT!
DTWS Results weak thought it would go up because of TM repeat. Interesting. WAT probably got off fence with last night’s number. Lead-in was repeat and this probably shows what it can do against Leno (since SVU was repeat).
Gotta love NCIS for having a repeat against Biggest Loser and AI rating higher than most highly promoted scripted first run episodes in the 8pm hour any other day of the week. I heart my little show that could.
Also what’s with WAT? Is it me or has it hardly ever rated this high out of new episodes of NCIS and TM? Weird.
Ouch at Cupid. A 1.5 in the demo with the DWTS overrun. Why ABC thought remaking a failed show would be a good idea, I’ll never know. Although the original Cupid was much better than this version.
Looking at Fringe’s numbers, it’s hilarious to look at that Yahoo article about shows that are supposedly in danger of cancellation and seeing Fringe near the top of the list.
Wow, Fringe is still beating DWTS and biggest looser. ABC according to Jim is being beaten by 90210, what a shame…
fringe only did good because of American Idol.
Chief, lol, that must be why some fans are crying each episode that they don’t want to see the show canceled… god those people can be incredibly stupid sometimes….
Chief, when I read that article I was wondering about Fringe as well. Makes no sense to me at all.
Yeah, the WAT ratings are… rare. This is the best ratings it has had. Why would that be? Was that like an special episode?
Note to Nina Tassler, Nancy Tellem and Leslie Moonves. Renew “Without a Trace.” Now.
I’m not sure Yahoo is deliberately trying to whip Fringe fans into a froth, but that’s just dopey. There’s no way Fringe doesn’t return, and there seems to be no way that Cupid will.
I’ve updated the post with the second half hour info for Fringe and Cupid since it represents only viewing for the shows without any overrun.
It’s WaT’s second best demo of the Season. Significantly, both were on nights there was either no L&O:SVU or it was a repeat.
As Bill has said the two programmes eat into each other’s figures.
Save Chuck!!! (just kidding
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Yeah, I don’t know why Fringe would be considered on the bubble, either. Those are good numbers, and they are even better than last week’s final half hour (the part that Idol didn’t overrun)
CBS has a fairly potent Tuesday lineup, but it’s also an older-skewing lineup. If CBS is still on a youth movement, Without a Trace might end up being a victim of that, whether deserved or not. Personally, I think CBS is just kidding themselves trying to go young. Monday nights are the only night of the week I see them doing well with the younger crowd. (outside of Survivor, of course)
For some odd reason certain critics hate Fringe and want it gone.
Key demo in the mid 4′s and 11-12 million viewers is more than enough to keep it going. Heck, Heroes with 6.5 million and a demo around 3 is still getting another season – and with the move to Canada for shooting, the costs for Fringe have to be lower than Heroes – with its huge cast. So talk about Fringe being cancelled is ridiculous – unless it tanks to Heroes-like levels. Fringes numbers are similar to 24 as well.
Bad Robot, you are comparing a FOX show with an NBC show. It doesn’t work like that. Fringe is safe not because it’s doing better than Heroes, but because it’s doing better than most shows on FOX.
Actually Fringe’s numbers are better than “24″ (past Monday) and thats getting another season at least.
Marc Berman even jumps on the bandwagon noting that while Fringe “looks good on a paper” its retention out of Idol isnt great. Huh? ANYTHING following Idol would be hard pressed to get good retention out of the Idol juggernaut. Plus its #1 in 18-49 in its time slot.