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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.8/9 | 2.2/7 | 1.8/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.4/4 | 0.5/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.9/10 | 1.7/6 | 1.5/5 | 0.8/3 | 1.4/5 | 0.5/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.498 | 7.400 | 5.534 | 6.449 | 3.462 | 1.061 |
So You Think You Can Dance? lead Fox to a win averaging a 2.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demo for the night, but ABC's Wipeout and NBC's America's Got Talent provided tough competition in both of its hours. The premiere numbers for NBC's The Philanthropist were fair.
So You Think You Can Dance? and Wipeout tied for the 8pm hour in the 18-49 demo. That's an improvement of 0.3 demo ratings points for Wipeout from last Wednesday. The finale of I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! was able to generate only a 1.5 demo as viewers had long ago gotten out of there.
In the first head to head battle of summer unscripted heavyweights, America's Got Talent edged So You Think You Can Dance? at 9pm in the 18-49 demo, while Dance won in the 18-34 demo. Against the heightened competition, I Survived A Japanese Gameshow proved to be the weakling, falling over 25% in the 18-49 demo from last week to its lowest rating ever.
The premiere of NBC's The Philanthropist at 10pm won the hour and averaged a reasonable (considering circumstances) 2.0 in the adults 18-49 demo. However its half hourly demo ratings were potentially troublesome 2.1 and 1.8. Next week's results will be telling. ABC's Primetime: Questions for the President managed but a 1.2 demo rating.
You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance? | 2.7 | 9 | 2.7 | 10 | 7.297 |
| ABC | Wipeout | 2.7 | 9 | 2.2 | 8 | 7.715 | |
| NBC | I'm A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (finale) | 1.5 | 5 | 1.2 | 4 | 4.402 | |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine (repeat) | 1.1 | 4 | 0.7 | 3 | 4.761 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.149 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.7 | 2 | 4.373 |
| 9:00 | NBC | America's Got Talent | 3.1 | 9 | 2.5 | 8 | 10.385 |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance? | 2.9 | 9 | 3.0 | 10 | 7.700 | |
| ABC | I Survived A Japanese Game Show | 1.6 | 5 | 1.4 | 4 | 4.183 | |
| CBS | Criminal Minds (repeat) | 1.6 | 5 | 0.8 | 3 | 7.388 | |
| CW | Hitched or Ditched (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.973 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | The Philanthropist (premeire) | 2.0 | 6 | 1.4 | 5 | 7.414 |
| CBS | CSI: NY (repeat) | 1.8 | 5 | 1.0 | 3 | 7.393 | |
| ABC | Primetime: Questions for the President | 1.2 | 3 | 0.8 | 3 | 4.703 |
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Shows are sorted by Adults 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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Decent beginning for The Philanthropist. It was the only new, original scripted programming I’ve enjoyed so far this summer from any of the broadcast networks. I’m sure it too will drop below that 2.0 next week, but I’m also sure we’ll see ads declaring it the new breakout hit of the summer!!!
I know its summer, but the numbers for both SYTYCD and AGT indicate reality shows have not lost their momentum. And if anyone can spin ABC’s Obama special as a victory over the Philanthropist, you should be in the White House press corps or working for CNN, or ABC for that matter.
I would love to see AGT be picked up in the fall and compete directly against SYTYCD. Philanthropist was surprisingly good and eventhough it may never get picked up, I can see it having a very loyal following. But I am surprised that ABC’s special about the president did so poorly – over kill I guess.
Lol @ ABC’s health care propaganda epic fail.
The Philanthropist was great last night! America’s got talent did well…
So, Barak Hussein Obama is not as popular as the New Adventures of Old Christine, and less than half as popular as America’s Got Talent.
How fitting.
Sorry to hear I Survived A Japanese Gameshow is crashing. I love that show.
But then, I want to see ABC (All Barak Channel) burn and die. They deserve no less for turning (even more) into a mouthpiece for Obama.
Real journalism is dead.
To HogWash: In response to your comment about the ABC special on the President, Obama is on TV way too often, and the ratings are finally starting to show that people have had enough.
Folks, lets keep politics out of these comments or I will either begin deleting overtly political comments or close the comment thread entirely, and I don’t want to do either.
The CW seems to be doing well with all its re-runs. Except for Hitched or Ditched because that show sucks!
Looks like someone is an Obama fan that doesn’t like people criticizing his president. Why does the star of the “Philanthropist” get last billing in the commercials by the way?
CP, probably because he’s the least famous. I know who Jesse L. Martin and Neve Cambell are, but I’ve never heard of the star’s name before.
Anyway, I thought The Philanthropist was good, and I’m glad to see it get good ratings. My only complaint was that the main character said he made love with that black woman but they didn’t show it. NBC isn’t going to get out of last place if they skip sex scenes like that.
Why’d NBC wait until summer to premiere the Philanthropist, anyway? It was certainly better than all the crap they premiered in the fall.
CP — Actually, they delete all political comments period. Refreshing actually. (and I agree with Steve from WI).
CP – shut up!
Iran is trying hard to “delete” all political comments too.
Rob, and others, if folks want to make political comments they have plenty of other places to make them. This site is about TV numbers.
guys pls stop with all the poltocal comments cause were supposed to be commenting on the show. Any way my schedule was at 8 iacgmpoh at 9 agt anne at 10 philantrppist was actually very good.
guys pls stop with all the poltocal comments cause were supposed to be commenting on the show. Any way my schedule was at 8 iacgmpoh at 9 agt anne at 10 philantrppist was actually very good.
Congrats to NBC for a good night
ROTFL! cant you people just admit that nbc has a hit on their hands? I dont remember chuck rarely getting those kinds of ratings……
Was the Bing product placement on “The Philanthropist” the most in your face product placement in the history of product placements?