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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.7/8 | 2.1/6 | 1.5/4 | 1.5/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.6/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.1/7 | 1.2/4 | 1.5/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.7/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.650 | 9.917 | 3.765 | 4.553 | 3.843 | 1.667 |
The finale of Law & Order:SVU topped the night with a 3.5 demo rating and (and I believe the following has never been written on our site except during the Olympics) lead NBC to victory for the fourth night in a row.
NBC's I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here fell 19% from its premiere on Monday to a 2.2 18-49 demo rating (comparing just the 8pm hour it was down 7%). Question is, how much further does it have to fall? The Inside the Obama White House special drew a 2.6 demo rating.
Fox's Mental fell 24% in the 18-49 demo from its premiere last week. CW's Hitched or Ditched was up 0.2 ratings points (28%) in the adults 18-34 demo vs. last week. It also did a 1.1 rating for women 18-34, for a cheap summer reality show, the CW is likely happy.
You can see TV ratings from past Tuesday overnight reports here.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 8:00 | NBC | I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! | 2.2 | 7 | 1.8 | 7 | 5.498 |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 2.1 | 7 | 1.0 | 4 | 11.135 | |
| FOX | House (repeat) | 1.4 | 5 | 1.1 | 4 | 4.070 | |
| ABC | According to Jim | 1.2 | 4 | 0.8 | 3 | 4.101 | |
| CW | Hitched or Ditched (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.590 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | Inside the Obama White House | 2.6 | 7 | 1.9 | 6 | 9.116 |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 2.4 | 7 | 1.3 | 4 | 10.829 | |
| FOX | Mental | 1.6 | 4 | 1.3 | 4 | 5.036 | |
| ABC | ABC News Special: Earth 2100 | 1.2 | 3 | 0.8 | 2 | 3.874 | |
| CW | Hitched or Ditched | 0.7 | 2 | 0.9 | 3 | 1.745 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Law & Order: SVU (finale) | 3.5 | 9 | 2.6 | 8 | 11.336 |
| CBS | 48 Hours Mystery (repeat) | 2.0 | 5 | 1.2 | 3 | 7.789 | |
| ABC | ABC News Special: Earth 2100 | 1.2 | 3 | 1.0 | 3 | 3.555 |
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Funny how NBC can only win the night (much less four in a row) when everyone else is in repeats or they have special programming. Gasp! Imagine that!
“The finale of Law & Order:SVU topped the night with a 3.5 demo rating and lead NBC to victory (and I believe this has never been written on our site except during the Olympics.”
Remember the super bowl ?
That Law and Order SVU finale was one of the worst L&O shows I’ve ever seen. Ridiculously scripted, horribly acted….the denouement was like something out of a bad daytime soap opera. Oy. I think that might’ve put the final nail in my SVU-viewing-days coffin.
rob, you mean the Super Bowl that was 4 nights long?
Just one little suggestion: will it be fairer to compare the rating of the same hour (of “I’m A Celebrity…), 8-9 vs. 8-9, instead of 8-9 vs. 8-10? If you look the same hour comparison, the drop is not bad.
You wrote the first sentence wrong! This is how it should be :
The finale of Law & Order:SVU topped the night with a 3.5 demo rating and lead NBC to victory for the fourth night in a row.(and I believe this has never been written on our site except during the Olympics).
English teachers, the first line has been clarified.
I watched inside the Obama White House last night and thought it was great. Anyone who missed it should really watch it online because it was great programming.
wow. mental got whipped.
Think NBC could pull this all summer?
Raphael, fair enough, I compared the average from Monday, but I will add the hour comparison as well for a bit more info.
djm, pull what all summer, nightly wins? No chance.
NBC’s string of 4 nightly wins contains 2 NHL Stanley Cup Final games and season finales that were held over into summer to boost Conan ratings. None of that is continuing through the summer (except for 2 potential NHL games next week).
Bill , do you think this result form NBC confirm the idea from BS to have new contents and not only repeats also in the summer? Do you think these ratings justify the airing of “expensive” scripted shows also in the “low season” ?
Viewership for the broadcasters continues to shrivel. Just a little over 30 million (considering Mynet and Ion and Univision and whatnot). The cable nets are cleaning up as millions of viewers look elsewhere.
Okay, a few viewers are heading for the beach or the park. But most are just rummaging through all those other networks that, once upon a time, the broadcasters never had to worry about.
I’m a Celebrity is certainly doing well enough so far. Even the dip last night was good enough for first in the hour against the well-repeating NCIS.
As stated above, it truely is a matter of how far it still has to drop. Good thing it’s only a short season. If it can maintain anything above a 1.6, it will probably be considered a success for a summer NBC show.
UH, I think it’s too complicated to draw conclusions based on the limited data so far. Remember that nightly “wins” themselves are just PR boasting. What really matters is how much money you take to the bank from the line up you put on the air.
Does the fact that NBC scored a 2.7 demo rating last night with their new shows mean they were more profitable than CBS at a 2.1 with all repeats? Impossible for me to answer that question.
This summer will be forever known as the summer where it all changed for NBC and they roared back to the front of the pack for years to come.
Chief, you have me wondering. Troll or intoxicated?
no spirited grammarian debate on lead vs. led in the headline. Disappointing.
I heard Spencer and his creepy flesh colored beard wants to back on IACGMOOH after he and Heidi “Fleiss” quit.
In must be the Conan steam, heating things back up on NBC.
Otherwise — it’s all still crap.