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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.6/10 | 3.2/9 | 2.6/7 | 2.5/7 | 1.6/5 | 1.4/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 3.2/10 | 1.8/5 | 2.6/8 | 2.0/6 | 1.8/5 | 1.4/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 10.199 | 12.454 | 6.200 | 7.899 | 4.077 | 3.106 |
With all new episodes and the Private Practice season finale, ABC won the night with a 3.6 average 18-49 demo rating up 6% from last week. CBS was second with a 3.2 rating. NBC's Parks & Recreation held steady vs. last week, but Southland fell another 14% in the demo.
Ugly Betty returned from a 5 week hiatus about on par with its last new episodes. That's good. Bones and Survivor held steady from last week. Smallville was up about 10% in the 18-49 demo from last week.
For the second week in a row, the big 9pm shows all fell. Grey's Anatomy and CSI both delivered their lowest original telecast ratings ever, and The Office had its lowest original episode rating of this season. 30 Rock had its lowest rating of the season with a new Office lead-in. Hell's Kitchen was down 8% in the demo from last week. Supernatural was up about 13% in the demo vs. last week.
Fox was the only network to show a demo increase (9%) on a year to year basis, ABC, NBC and CBS were all down about 20% in the demo vs. last season for the night, while the CW was even vs. last season.
The big news at 10 was the continuing slide of NBC's Southland, down another 14% in the demo vs. last week. Robert and I were both confident it was going to be renewed. I still think it will be, but I am less confident now. The Private Practice season finale was up about 6% in the demo from last week.
For reference you can check out past Thursday night fast affiliate ratings reports here.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Tocantins | 3.3 | 11 | 1.8 | 6 | 11.175 |
| NBC | My Name is Earl | 2.2 | 7 | 1.7 | 6 | 5.271 | |
| FOX | Bones | 2.0 | 6 | 1.6 | 6 | 8.050 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 1.9 | 6 | 1.8 | 7 | 6.651 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.4 | 4 | 1.4 | 5 | 3.131 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 1.3 | 4 | 1.4 | 5 | 3.470 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Survivor: Tocantins | 3.9 | 11 | 2.1 | 7 | 12.287 |
| FOX | Bones | 2.5 | 7 | 1.9 | 6 | 9.604 | |
| NBC | Parks and Recreation | 2.3 | 7 | 2.3 | 8 | 5.287 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 2.1 | 6 | 1.8 | 6 | 6.977 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.5 | 4 | 1.5 | 5 | 3.380 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | 1.5 | 4 | 1.5 | 5 | 4.077 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 4.9 | 13 | 4.5 | 13 | 13.485 |
| NBC | The Office | 3.7 | 10 | 4.2 | 12 | 7.309 | |
| CBS | CSI | 3.5 | 9 | 2.0 | 6 | 15.098 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 2.7 | 7 | 2.1 | 6 | 6.894 | |
| UNI | Manana Es para Siempre | 1.8 | 5 | 1.9 | 6 | 4.701 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 1.3 | 3 | 1.3 | 4 | 3.037 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 5.2 | 13 | 4.7 | 13 | 14.390 |
| CBS | CSI | 3.7 | 9 | 2.0 | 6 | 15.495 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock | 2.9 | 7 | 3.3 | 10 | 5.966 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 2.9 | 7 | 2.3 | 7 | 7.049 | |
| UNI | Manana Es para Siempre | 2.1 | 5 | 2.2 | 6 | 4.907 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 1.2 | 3 | 1.3 | 4 | 2.874 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Private Practice (finale) | 3.7 | 10 | 3.2 | 10 | 10.282 |
| CBS | Criminal Minds (repeat) | 2.4 | 7 | 1.3 | 4 | 10.634 | |
| NBC | Southland | 2.2 | 6 | 2.0 | 6 | 6.875 | |
| UNI | Mujeres Asesinas | 1.7 | 5 | 1.9 | 6 | 4.094 | |
| 10:30 | ABC | Private Practice (finale) | 3.4 | 10 | 3.0 | 9 | 9.410 |
| CBS | Criminal Minds (repeat) | 2.3 | 7 | 1.2 | 4 | 10.036 | |
| NBC | Southland | 2.0 | 6 | 1.6 | 5 | 6.490 | |
| UNI | Mujeres Asesinas | 1.4 | 4 | 1.5 | 5 | 3.215 |
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Shows are sorted from highest 18-49 rating to lowest in each time slot.
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Definitions:
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Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
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.
For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.
I wonder whats going on.
Wow, what happened to Southland? It did so well the first two weeks. I guess I’ll eat my words about it being shoo-in for renewal.
A 2.1 average in demos for Southland? Not good for Southland but good news for Chuck, right?
Chuck has lost the same amount of viewers since its premiere 2 years ago as Southland has lost since its premiere 3 weeks ago… things are looking better for the Chuckster with every passing day!
How is Ugly Betty getting renewed? It has a lower rating that Castle, which probably won’t come back.
Ouch! Criminal Minds repeat beat Southland! Too Bad. I like that show.
ouch for Southland. Ugly Betty is looking uglier. Parks a rec is holding up fairly well though
Seems to me they should keep both Medium and Chuck and get rid of Southland, the show has done nothing but nose dive and this was against a repeat and 1 new episode. Parks and Rec has also been going down since its first episode.
Southland deserved those ratings. Last night’s episode was horrible. Why did they decide to focus on the detectives and not the beat cops?
Now what’s NBC going to do? If they renew it, and the ratings for the following episodes drop below a 2.0, then they’re in trouble. Can they just announce that they’re witholding judgement on it?
Man, Southland does keep taking hits doesn’t it. Maybe it was too soon to declare it a successful launch for NBC. How many episodes are left of it now? Could it possibly see a little increase next week if this week was the Private Practice finale?
Lol. Jeffster when did you get here? Great avatar.
Southland with a 2.0 against little competition from CBS!?! NBC can’t possibly consider picking this show up. Throw it at 9pm against Fox and CBS and it will only stink it up even more. Southland is canned.
that would make sense Jared if it gets an uptick I won’t be surprised.
damn criminal minds repeat outperformed last week’s Harper’s Island
thought at least the rest of the world gets to air Harper’s on thursday putting US viewers two days behind
Thursdays are just looking worse and worse for everyone involved.
Why the Private Practice season finale was so soon?
Yowsers Southland is dropping like a rock………or a large pebble maybe, must avoid excessive hyperbole.
Too bad for Southland; my boyfriend loves that show – though I have to admit, the 2.1 demo made me smile for the sake of Chuck. Still, though, I’m wondering what difference it will really make – is NBC really waiting until the last possible minute to decide what their upfront announcements will be?
If Southland does this bad against one new episode and one repeat, imagine how bad it would do with some real competition.
Ouch, Southland really took another hit… Another fail in the list of fail of NBC and the televison networks this year…