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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.5/5 | 1.1/3 | 1.1/3 | 1.0/3 | 0.6/2 | 0.2/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.6/5 | 0.8/3 | 0.7/2 | 0.6/2 | 0.6/2 | 0.2/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 3.005 | 4.300 | 4.372 | 6.706 | 1.595 | 0.790 |
On its second Sunday, NBC's Merlin nearly perfected its vanishing act, managing only an anemic 1.0 rating for the adults 18-49 demo. ABC's Impact mini-series didn't do much better, but the good news for ABC is that it's over. Fox animated repeats needed only a 1.5 demo rating to rule the night.
ABC flip-flopped America's Funniest Home Videos and Just For Laughs vs. last week, and both saw their ratings improve. 60 Minutes was up a tick in 18-49 demo from last week.
Note: Fast Nationals for FOX from 8-10p are approximate. FOX added a tribute to Michael Jackson at the beginning of The Simpsons resulting in irregular running times: The Simpsons aired until 8:34p, King of the Hill was 8:34-9:04p, Family Guy ran 9:04-9:34p and American Dad aired 9:34-10:03p.
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) |
| 7:00 | ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos (repeat) | 1.1 | 4 | 1.0 | 4 | 4.543 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes | 1.1 | 4 | 0.6 | 2 | 8.549 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.0 | 4 | 0.6 | 2 | 5.013 | |
| FOX | King of the Hill (repeat) | 0.8 | 3 | 0.8 | 3 | 1.895 | |
| CW | Valentine | 0.2 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.592 | |
| 7:30 | FOX | American Dad (repeat) | 1.1 | 4 | 1.1 | 4 | 2.284 |
| ABC | Just for Laughs | 1.0 | 4 | 0.9 | 4 | 4.247 | |
| 8:00 | FOX | The Simpsons (repeat) | 1.6 | 5 | 1.7 | 6 | 3.289 |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeat) | 1.0 | 3 | 0.9 | 3 | 3.947 | |
| NBC | Merlin | 1.0 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 4.294 | |
| CBS | Million Dollar Password (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 6.456 | |
| CW | Larger Than Life (movie) | 0.2 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.838 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | King of the Hill (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 1.7 | 5 | 3.117 |
| 9:00 | FOX | Family Guy (repeat) | 2.0 | 6 | 2.3 | 7 | 4.066 |
| NBC | Merlin | 1.1 | 3 | 0.8 | 2 | 4.252 | |
| CBS | Cold Case (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 6.354 | |
| ABC | Impact (mini-series, 2 of 2) | 1.0 | 3 | 0.7 | 2 | 4.199 | |
| CW | Larger Than Life (movie) | 0.2 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.940 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | American Dad (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 3.377 |
| 10:00 | NBC | Law & Order: SVU (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.9 | 3 | 3.932 |
| ABC | Impact (mini-series, 2 of 2) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 4.660 | |
| CBS | Without A Trace (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 5.465 |
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Shows are sorted by 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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Definitions:
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Just for Laughs got pretty good retention out of AFV. I know it’s a bit early to predict, but I bet ABC will pull a Better off Ted and renew Just for Laughs for a 4th season solely because of retention. I’m assuming NBC will keep on burning off episodes of Merlin until the season is finished since the ratings are so-so.
Your forgot to say that Merlin DID BETTER! of course it can’t have perfect ratings after first horrible episode..
Steve, how do you figure Merlin did better? Last Night it averaged a 1.05 adults 18-49 rating, on 6/21 it averaged a 1.35.
Or did you mean better in some sort of magical way?
I can’t see how ABC doesn’t renew JFL. It’s ratings are terrible, but there are already hundreds of episodes produced (in Canada) and ABC must get them for an extremely low price because there’s little production involved. It’s a decent timeslot filler, for the summer.
The 8:30 KOTH, Family Guy, and American Dad all started a little late since FOX aired ‘Do the Bartman’ before ‘The Simpsons’ began. So numbers may adjust a little.
Also, Valentine was brand-new.
Wow…My prediction for Merlin was right. It looked horrible, and it’s doing horrible.
But than again, it’s NBC. Even a great show will fail on NBC….right KINGS?
Don, I have added the Fox scheduling caveat. Interesting about Valentine. Although we have the notice on the site of its return, both of our data sources had it flagged as a repeat.
Valentine got Jericho-like ratings. No wonder it was axed. CW is running out the clock on Sundays with stuff nobody wants to watch. I watched 5 minutes of the beginning of it – talk about dumb – a gun that makes people fall in lust? Ugh. Who thought of that? They should be shot —- out of circus cannon into the Pacific Ocean. C in CW stands for Crap.
Whats up next week on CW? In Harms Way???
If its knights, magic and sword fights you want I think Legend of the Seeker is better than Merlin. I watched one episode of Merlin and that was enough for me.
In my area, I didn’t bother with any of the repeats and generally weak summer entrys. I watched a Agatha Christie mystery (Hercule Poirot) on PBS Masterpiece Theatre. At this time of year especially, some of you who want a change from all the repeats and all the “throw against the wall and see what sticks” network drivel might try some of the PBS English mysteries. One warning: They require some thought and concentration to follow.
Merlin is some kind of lame Harry Potter rip off.
I watched one episode of that Just for Laughs show last year and it was terrible. It’s a hidden camera show where they play pranks on people, but they mute out the people’s reactions, so what’s the point? I hear the reason they mute the people’s reactions out are because many of them speak French and ABC apparently thinks its audience is too dumb to read subtitles.
Bill, could you post a link to this day from a year ago. I’d really like to see the numbers. Thx!
Andrea, I’m a big believer in the “teach a man to fish” school of thought. If you go to our Archive page above (link in the blue nav bar) one of the things you will then see is the list of monthly archives. You can click on June 2008 and enjoy all the ratings posts from that month!
Between this Impact and the 2 NBC upcoming miniseries, what’s up with networks suddenly wanting to offer disaster movies during the summer? I guess they must be cheap.
Miniseries is a dying format in US television (even on cable they’re difficult to find) and it won’t be saved by a couple of hurricanes, storms and meteorites hitting the Earth in between summer re-runs.
You know, it was a simple request; I felt like a got a bit of ‘tude. I’ve always done the slow search, I didn’t know about the Archives list. I found the info, but now I’m in no mood to discuss ratings. Thanks, Bill!
Andrea, sorry if you felt some ‘tude, but the process by which I would have hunted for that overnight report would have been nearly identical to the one you’d have used with the process I explained. Self service > my service!
So sad. A *rerun* of Password was #2 overall last night (and miles ahead of its competition in its time slot) but it just can’t perform as well in 18-49 so it’s probably getting axed.