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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.0/6 | 2.0/6 | 1.6/6 | 1.2/5 | 0.7/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.98 | 7.73 | 5.67 | 3.33 | 1.64 |
The two hour Farrah's Story on NBC fared better than any other program last night with adults 18-49. The season finale of Numb3rs was the second most watched program with the 18-49 crowd with a 2.1 rating. The Prison Break finale scored a 1.2/5 with adults 18-49 and 3.33 million viewers overall.
CBS and NBC tied for the night with adults 18-49, with CBS earning the most viewers overall.
You can compare with previous Friday overnight reports.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 2.0/8 | 8.93 |
| ABC | America's Funniest Home Videons 8p-10p | 1.6/6 | 5.64 | |
| NBC | Dateline (8p-9p) | 1.3/5 | 5.30 | |
| FOX | Prison Break (8p-10p) | 1.2/5 | 3.33 | |
| CW | The Game (8p-9p) | 0.9/4 | 1.86 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | Farah's Story 9p-11p | 2.4/8 | 8.94 |
| CBS | Flashpoint | 1.8/6 | 8.42 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (R) | 0.6/2 | 1.41 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Numb3rs | 2.1/7 | 9.60 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 1.6/5 | 5.72 |
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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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come on 3.33 million is all prison break can get for a series finale now thats depressing it was awesome
8.93 million viewers for Ghost Whisperer, my my my. It was the worst season in writing ever, highest we got was 11.67 million in February. Wonder if last nights ratings will wake up the crew to open season 5 with real jim and it was all a dream.
Did Prison Break’s series finale do better than Dollhouse’s season finale? If it did, then perhaps Fox ought to renew it? :sarcasm:
At least Prison Break finished out its run with an end to the storyline.
I have a gut feeling that Dollhouse fans will be whimpering and whining before next season ends. I just can’t envision Dollhouse attracting enough of an audience without having a serious overhaul in the premise of the show. I don’t think that will make many current Dollhouse devotees too happy.
NBC aired DATELINE at 8pm.
From these numbers, looks like the 20th century is still alive and well in many people’s minds.
I am surprised that Prison Brake got the numbers it did. A big part of the finale had been leaked on line prior to the show’s airing and the reaction was far from positive, to say the least. The rest was so-so, although Ghost Whisper’s finale was, in my opinion, the weakest of them all.
Because some things are more important than ratings (believe it or not), I wish Ms. Fawcett a speedy recovery. It’s hard to imagine another Charlie’s Angel being sick.
On to the actual ratings commentary, terrible numbers for the PB finale but I can’t say I’m surprised since the ending leaked out in advance and probably disgusted the original audiences too much to get them to tune in.
GH was really low.
@Moose : Prison Break’s Series finale numbers are terrible. Unlike Dollhouse, the show used to have 10 M viewers. I was expecting at least 4.5 million to tune just to see the end.
Ghost Whisperer didn’t win the night, it wasn’t even second – when was the last time that happened?
PRISON BREAK IS RENEWED!!!! BELIVE ME! SEASON FIVE WILL HAVE 25 EPISODES!
There must have been zero promotion for Prison Break‘s series finale. Surely, some people would have tuned in if they knew that the show was ending. I have not watched is since the season premiere and the only reason that I did not was because I would rather download it and watch it in superior quality without commercials.
I wonder why Ghost Whisperer was down. It would have made sense if it was against increased competition like Farrah’s Story, but it faced the usual opponents.
Fake Nick C, that’s really silly. You don’t have the avatar.
Hahaha @ fake!Nick C.
@Madness
3.33 for Series finale is on par for FOX fridays, TSCC reeled in a 3.0 for its Finale and DH was 2.89 I think.
@Simon, thanks. Here, they aired NY Mets vs. SF Giants on NBC, so I wasn’t sure. Berman had it listed as 2 Howie Do It repeats, and it did seem to be high for that. I’ve changed 8pm to Dateline.
Anyone knows why there’s no news about TSSC ? Like rumors of cancellation or something. Are Fox still negociating ? I mean Thomas Dekker seems honnest yesterday when he said (on Youtube) that no decision have been made yet.
@Lanie — Dollhouse was only 2.7 million for its finale in the final numbers.
Marissa, it’s dead at FOX anyway.
Robert, I like the new setup here, I hope it’s working better too.
Thanks Nick C. It’s just that after Dollhouse and Better of Ted renewals, my little heart started hoping again for a 3rd season of TSCC.
In addition to 10 million viewers, Prison Break used to have a 4 demo rating.
NICK C
NOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT FOR DOLLHOUSE!!WHAT THE CHANCE OF BODY POLITIC ON CW???