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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 5.5/15 | 2.9/8 | 2.6/7 | 1.6/4 | 1.1/3 | |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 4.1/13 | 1.7/5 | 2.4/8 | 1.0/3 | 1.3/4 | |
| Total Viewers (million) | 16.25 | 11.36 | 6.18 | 6.12 | 2.46 |
American Idol of course led Wednesday night with an 8.3/20 adults 18-49 rating/share. Lie To Me improved to a 2.7/8 with adults 18-49, its best outing in five weeks.
LOST improved slightly, back to a 4.0/10, but The Unusuals dipped to a 1.6/4. Scrubs series finale drew a 2.1/6.
NBC ran its all Law & Order lineup, which was mostly repeats except for the new Law & Order at 10pm that drew a 2.3/6 up against CBS' CSI: NY which pulled a 3.3/9.
Previous Wednesday overnight reports are available for comparison.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | Lie To Me | 2.7/8 | 2.0/4 | 8.68 |
| ABC | Scrubs | 2.1/6 | 2.2/8 | 5.07 | |
| CBS | The New Adventures of Old Christine | 1.9/6 | 1.1/4 | 6.45 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model | 1.7/5 | 1.9/6 | 3.82 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: CI (R) | 1.3/4 | .9/3 | 5.71 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried | 2.0/6 | 1.1/4 | 6.66 |
| 9:00 | FOX | American Idol | 8.3/20 | 6.1/17 | 23.57 |
| ABC | Lost | 4.0/10 | 3.7/11 | 8.70 | |
| CBS | Criminal Minds | 3.3/8 | 2.0/6 | 14.13 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (R) | 1.1/3 | .9/2 | 4.52 | |
| CW | 90210 (R) | .5/1 | .7/2 | 1.09 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI:NY | 3.3/9 | 2.1/6 | 13.40 |
| NBC | Law & Order | 2.3/6 | 1.2/4 | 8.14 | |
| ABC | The Unusuals | 1.6/4 | 1.2/4 | 4.63 |
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Shows are sorted by Adults 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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ABC has had bad luck lately at 10:00 PM. they’ll probably do a lot better next year against Leno.
1st – Lost rocks!
Uh oh! Gary Unmarried had 6.66 million viewers. Could he be …. SATAN ????
Bad Robot, the actual number was 6.664. Don’t now it the .004 changes anything.
lost got 4.1 in the finals last week, i guess it will get 4.1 or even a 4.2 this week.
assuming of course that these arent the final ratings. im not sure anymore, damn delays..
LOL Bad Robot I noticed the same thing and was about to make a comment! LOL Creeeepy…
Scrubs series finale??? I thought they are planning season nine.
LOST fandom has been distilled down to its core audience. Still had a pretty good Demo vs. Murkin Idol though. This season reminded me alot of Season 3 and too much time spend on the Hydra Island. Hopefully they will pick up the pace in the final season and leave the awful 70s behind for good. Going back to the 70s is rarely a good idea – disco, leisure suits, Nixon, Ford, Carter, stagflation…. those were dreary days – even as a kid I could sense that.
Once LOST ends JJ should transfer a couple of cast members over to FRINGE.
Farewell Scrubs. We think.
Scrubs got back 2 5million, what was the half hour breakdowns as it was an episode that lasted 43mins, which would be the equilivlent of two episodes…
PS i wish the old fans would have tuned in for the finale, it was just awesome, one of the best ever on tv and I mean that!!!
Also can someone maybe Robert Seidman tell me a reason as to why scrubs was so successful in seasons 1-3, particularly season 2 averaging near 16m viewers?
Whats so different that it lost that amount of its fan base?
Bye Scrubs!
Lie to Me is back at 8M and has 2.7 in 18-49 its good!
Lost should be back at 10M viewers can’t believe how American Idol is killing the show without its devoted fans like me Lost will be lost.
WED 10PM timeslot of ABC is not good because of its lead-in, Lost is not a good lead-in
R Kid, Scrubs used to air on Thursday, I think in the post-Friends timeslot. That explains the inflated ratings.
A .5 rating for the 90210 rerun? Even for a rerun on the CW, that’s pretty bad.
Also can someone maybe Robert Seidman tell me a reason as to why scrubs was so successful in seasons 1-3, particularly season 2 averaging near 16m viewers?
Because it was sandwiched in between Friends and Will&Grace.
wow Scrubs has 16 million viewers!
They should have ended with that
Hmmm @ jesus_stick. That’s a good point. Because of the delays and format I saw the data in though, I think the above numbers might be the finals.
also it looks like Nielsen caught up sooner than anticipated. I didn’t think the results for Thursday night would be available until this afternoon, but the fast affiliate data is already out for Thursday. Bill is working on it and it should be up in the not too distant future…
Bad Robot ! says:
“LOST fandom has been distilled down to its core audience.”
Oh, I dunno. I still watch, but without a great deal of enthusiasm. Am I part of this distillate? Speaking to my mother (who is well beyond the 18-49 demo) last night, I was surprised and amused to find that she really digs the show but likens it to a regular daytime soap, meaning that the “plot” is such a repetitive blizzard of @#$% that it really doesn’t matter if an episode is missed here or there–she’s just in it for the characters. Part of the “distilled” “core audience”?
Both Criminal Minds and CSI:NY seem up this week while Christine and Gary were down. I think NY will get a boost from being behind CSI next week.
Lie to Me chances of getting renewed just got higher but I wonder whether it will remain in that slot.