Comments on: The Closer, WWE RAW and Royal Pains lead cable, True Blood makes top 20

By: GrandmaWantsAnswers

GrandmaWantsAnswers — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:36:08 +0000

My grandma was wondering how the Kendra show is doing. Are the ratings still as good? Denise Richards benefiting from the ratings still? Sorry Grandma doesn’t have twitter. Please have mercy for her… you never hear about these show’s ratings after the first episode when everyone is bragging about the ratings. thanks

By: Lynne

Lynne — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:37:04 +0000

True Blood, hottest show in tv right now.

By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:12:36 +0000

Tre, The only way you are going to see ratings for ALL TV shows (or even all prime time TV shows) is to pay for it. Nielsen is a business. They do research and interested companies (networks, advertisers, etc.) pay to see the results. They allow some of the information to be published on sites like this, but they do put limits on what can and cannot be made public.

By: Number Cruncher

Number Cruncher — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:11:37 +0000

Doing an internet search is not exactly the most helpful way to find some of the shows a lot of people are looking for. At best a search will turn up one or two episodes from the current season, it will show ratings from a previous season, or the numbers will be put in ways that most people do not understand (specifically demo or household numbers instead of total viewers).
I can understand the plight of a lot of people coming here to request their favorite shows. I’ve been closely following ratings for about 10 months now and this is the ony site I know of where it seems like the moderators are the most accessible and accomodating. I go to at least 6 sites (including this one) every week to try to look for the ratings of the shows I follow and still this one is the most reliable.
The folks here try to do their best given that they still have to follow all of these rules about what to release and what not to release.

By: RayJay101

RayJay101 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:23:28 +0000

Well, you have to look around more. This page clearly only shows the top 20′s, so google it and I’m sure you can find the show you’re looking for. I’m kind of annoyed with all of these requests because the show you want is obviously not in the top 20 if it’s not shown in the list.

Try to look around the internet yourself.

By: Tre

Tre — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:44:36 +0000

Where can i see all tv show ratings? I mean ALL Show?

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:25:23 +0000

Robert did MTV send you the Duel II reunion numbers?

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:22:26 +0000

I think it’s interesting that Raising the Bar loses more than 1/2 the audience of lead-in The Closer. I remember the same was true last season. Guess Steven Bocchco has a lot of pull at TNT. But you’d think TNT would rather build on the success of The Closer.

By: OpeningDayGuy09

OpeningDayGuy09 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:16:09 +0000

I agree iCarly shouldn’t be scheduled that way. This is the first new episode in a month and that’s not good to not show up in the TOP 20. iCarly fans were very confused these past couple of weeks since they scrapped the June 6 episode then promote the boxing movie and not air it. There’s a lot of confusion. They need a steady schedule for iCarly not all over the place.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:49:05 +0000

USA TNT and HBO are the networks Im watchiong this summer, those networks have the good shows.

By: huddy80

huddy80 — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:53:15 +0000

Scarecrow, I am with you! My favorite channels this summer are cable channels! They have everything and with USA’s hit dramas like In Plain Sight and Criminal Intent and their new one, Royal Pains, which is amazing, I will be sad to see summer end when we have to go back to watching the stuff that the broadcast networks are offering up.

By: ScarecrowMrsKing

ScarecrowMrsKing — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:47:03 +0000

My TV is on USA more than 50% of the time. My favorites are Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, Psych, Monk, NCIS, L&O CI, House, and now Royal Pains. I also watch The Closer, True Blood, Saving Grace, Nurse Jackie, and The Deadliest Catch. I love having a summer season. Nice having something to look forward to after a day in the sun.

By: DJ Mike

DJ Mike — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:41:46 +0000

Looks like Sundays @ 9p have become very competitive. True Blood (my favorite), L&O:CI, and Lonesome Dove were all in the top 20…

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:19:22 +0000

I never saw the 1998 version of Parent Trap since such movies don’t interest me.

However, I DO remember watching the original 1961 movie with Hayley Mills and Maureen O’Hara. Hayley didn’t interest me at my tender age of 12 – I thought she looked like a boy – but Maureen with her flame-red hair and creamy complexion – and built like a brick outhouse – at age 42 at the time – was my first huge crush. I watched every O’Hara movie I could find after that. LOL! In fact, I saw her again in “Only the Lonely” in 1991, at age 71, and she STILL looked good!

As for watching a movie multiple times, on TV or in the theater, I usually do that. You frequently pick up stuff you missed the first time around, if the movie has any “legs”. I’ll see a movie in theater six or seven times if I really like it. It depends, though. Some movies, like the latest Star Trek, I’ll see only once, maybe twice if I have the money.

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:01:48 +0000

The Parent Trap always gets great ratings. IT still does. I don’t know how anyone can watch a movie so many times… lol. Tanner I think you can request those Real Housewives of NJ numbers through Twitter… speaking of that, Robert are you taking requests through Twitter still?

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:58:51 +0000

Whoa what happened to “iCarly” this week?!?!?!?! I think Nick is making a big mistake by airing new episodes whenever they feel like it. Sure they want a ton of new episodes to go through a quarter of next year, but I think fans are getting restless with the two – three week breaks per episode.

By: Hot Pocket

Hot Pocket — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:10:56 +0000

USA is a real beast. All of their original series are hitting well and RP was a surprise last week building off of their hit Burn Notice. In Plain Sight and CI should be able to get back to the 5 million viewer range now that the NBA Finals are over.

Raw has been growing every week ever since Memorial Day. This is Raw’s best chance to get huge audiences until MNF starts back up. Raw with Trump might be high every week as it got a huge 6 million viewers in that 10pm hour last night.

Army Wives is still doing well for Lifetime. Lifetime needs to make a lead-out for it.

By: Richard Steven Hack

Richard Steven Hack — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:10:22 +0000

Jon: “Apparently Leverage is going to have seven episodes in the summer and right in the winter.”

Aarggggh! I want my Leverage ALL AT ONCE!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:59:42 +0000

Raising in the Bar wasn’t in the top 20 by viewers, (3.568M viewers so basically lost more than 1/2 of the Closer lead-in) but it was #16 by household rating

By: steve

steve — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:35:39 +0000

Good to see In Plain Sight back in the top 20 seems like its heading for renewal. Robert Seidman any idea what Raising The Bar did

By: Stev

Stev — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:13:52 +0000

YAY true Blood did amazing!!!

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:58:53 +0000

Daniel, our agreement with Nielsen was to limit lists to the top 20. Lately they have been talking to us about compliance a little bit.

By: daniel

daniel — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:49:57 +0000

how come you guys don’t put all the other shows on like you used to

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:23:36 +0000

You wont post this till next week, but Jon and Kate Plus 8 dropped to 2.9 million viewers last night.

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:35:41 +0000

Um…having trouble with your comment posting system…let me try this again…

Hey…I’ve noticed how GSNs ratings have gone up recently. Can you tell me how Deal or No Deal reruns are doing at 7 PM? Plus, with all the horrible reviews for Big Saturday Night, how well did it do in the ratings?

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:33:17 +0000

By: Alex S.

Alex S. — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:32:52 +0000

Anybody see that Yahoo! article the other day that was trying to use “Jon & Kate’s” 5+ million viewership rating number as a reason why America was “turning on the couple?”

Obviously whomever wrote the article doesn’t understand how Cable TV ratings work because the numbers that show is pulling in is HUGE and I’m sure TLC is nothing but exstatic with the show’s newfound mainstream “fame.”

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:59:00 +0000

Apparently Leverage is going to have seven episodes in the summer and right in the winter. It’s not unusual to split the season as it spreads the wealth and avoids competition from the broadcast network although In Plain Sight and L&O:CI are airing episodes without interruption.

Will be interesting if Leverage gets a True Blood style boost given its loyal fanbase and the first show to successfully air without a lead in from The Closer.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:26:10 +0000

Shem, I was just having fun I don’t think there is really anything to make of the numbers though (which were in the 600K-800K range) because people don’t watch Hallmark as much as a lot of the other channels.

By: Shem

Shem — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:19:57 +0000

i meant the SHOW was very popular! what a typo.

By: Shem

Shem — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:17:30 +0000

Okay okay dont get all emtional… I remember the should was very popular back in the day.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:16:16 +0000

Jon, OK, now I need one hand to count them all. My recollection is that Monk did routinely average over 5m. I am not sure if all of the split season decisions were due to the WGA strike. Apparently Burn Notice is going to take a similar tack this summer, and not air all the eps and hold some over for the regular season. P.S. Hammer got hammered

By: Andrea2

Andrea2 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:55:04 +0000

The restored version of old classic Lonesone Dove outscored some new series.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:53:23 +0000

Didn’t The Closer and Saving Grace split their seasons due to the fact they premiered later because of the Writer’s Strike. Saving Grace dipped below 3m due to the lack of Closer lead in so it will be interesting how it does with HawthoRNe.

BTW, doesn’t Monk get 5m regularly?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:50:32 +0000

What about any of the over 13,000 airings of shows that hold some interest to someone? What about CSI Miami on A&E, what about Family Matters on Nick at Night? Yankees Red Sox on ESPN, The Nanny? Roseanne? Dog The Bounty Hunter? Cake Boss. BONES reruns??!!? How about the HGTV $250,000 challenge? What about Corey in the House? Operation Repo? Cardinals/Indians? Handy Manny? Hoodwinked? Rebroadcasts of The Closer? All 60 Spongebobs?

Home Improvement? What Not To Where? George Lopez? Kim Possible? And on and on (and on and on and on) it goes.

What about That’s So Raven?!

By: Shem

Shem — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:44:21 +0000

What about Touched By an Angel? I see Hallmark Channel is airing the show 5 nights a week @ 8pm.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:39:23 +0000

some cable nets have been splitting their seasons up into mini seasons with some of their shows. That happened with both Burn Notice and The Closer who had mini seasons with episodes airing during the “regular” broadcast tv season. You could scroll back through all the cable archives or pull up the episode lists on Wikipedia to get an exact accounting of when they aired and how many episodes it was.

By: j

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:39:22 +0000

Oh, Burn Notice’s last season was half-and-half summer-and-not. Now the more interesting question would be, what cable shows regularly draw a 2.0 rating in 18-49? But 18-49 cable #’s are scarce. I do remember reading that Burn Notice was #1 in the demo last…year or maybe last season.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:36:41 +0000

real housewives of nj? or runs house numbers from last night?

By: j

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:30:56 +0000

Oh I just read your comment Robert. Thanks. Wait, Burn Notice is regular-season? Huh.

By: j

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:30:11 +0000

Well, I meant shows that don’t air new episodes in the summer (esp since the majority of Closer is still summer eps). I’m not doubting that summer cable shows could do well in the regular TV season, I’m wondering if cable has a steady hit in the regular TV season.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:27:25 +0000

@J, non-sports shows that can regular pull 5 million can be (I think) counted on one hand. In addition to The Closer, there are only 3 other shows I think can regularly do it with NEW episodes:

iCarly, SpongeBob and Burn Notice.

By: nickrewind9

nickrewind9 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:23:21 +0000

QUOTE:

j says:

Hmm, do any non-summer non-sports cable programs regularly get 5 million?

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Yeah, when The Closer was running new episodes back in February, it got 5-7 million weekly.

By: Tanner

Tanner — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:18:42 +0000

Real Housewives of NJ numbers??

By: nickrewind9

nickrewind9 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:15:28 +0000

Nick is not in the top 20 at all this week. When was the last time that happened?

(I know Penguins is #21, because it was #20 until Robert updated the post to include True Blood)

By: j

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:12:49 +0000

Hmm, do any non-summer non-sports cable programs regularly get 5 million?

I didn’t know True Blood was so big. Though I’m guessing critics would say it’s for reasons different from Sopranos’ bigness, since while Metacritic reviews are “generally favorable,” no critic cited loves it.

Yay Jon + Kate sub-5 mil.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:54:37 +0000

Thats one of the reasons why I hate watching WWE on TV. So maybe I’ll tune in this time, rather than watching the matches on youtube.

By: CP

CP — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:06:53 +0000

I’ll be interested to see RAW next week with no commercials. I assume the numbers won’t change much.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:53:58 +0000

Winston, we published them last week:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/06/09/showtimes-nurse-jackie-pulls-in-135-million-viewers-and-is-picked-up-for-season-two/20426

By: ihate2fly

ihate2fly — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:53:46 +0000

Also just want to note the race was over well earlier than the scheduled time due to very few cautions. The race was scheduled to run til 5pm but was over around 4:25, post-race was to run 5-5:30pm. Fans who like to tune in to catch the end of the race missed out this past weekend.