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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.6/8 | 2.0/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.1/3 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.9/7 | 1.2/4 | 1.5/5 | 0.7/2 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 9.479 | 9.722 | 3.713 | 3.476 | 2.887 | 0.907 |
NBC's America's Got Talent is on a roll, at 9pm it surged to a 3.7 rating in the 18-49 demo, and it pushed NBC to a convincing win on Tuesday night. ABC's line up of all new shows put in an even more pitiful showing than last week, falling to just a 1.1 demo rating for the night.
ABC's Superstars started slowly last week, and took things down a notch again last night, falling 17% in the 18-49 demo. Fans of the show can take heart in the fact that I'm sure it's crazy cheap. I'm not sure what fans of Better Off Ted can take heart in. It fell 25% in the 18-49 demo from last week vs. even less new show competition. Completing the slide for ABC, Primetime: Family Secrets was also down 25% in the demo from last week.
The finale of Hitched or Ditched was largely ditched by viewers, falling to just a 0.4 rating in both major age demos.
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 | NBC | America's Got Talent (repeat) | 2.3 | 8 | 1.7 | 7 | 8.200 |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 2.0 | 7 | 1.2 | 5 | 10.658 | |
| ABC | The Superstars | 1.3 | 4 | 0.9 | 3 | 4.217 | |
| FOX | Legally Blonde (movie) | 0.8 | 3 | 0.8 | 3 | 2.567 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.780 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | America's Got Talent | 3.7 | 11 | 2.8 | 9 | 12.912 |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.9 | 6 | 1.2 | 4 | 10.364 | |
| ABC | The Superstars | 1.3 | 4 | 0.8 | 3 | 3.585 | |
| FOX | Legally Blonde (movie) | 1.1 | 3 | 1.1 | 4 | 3.207 | |
| CW | Hitched or Ditched (finale) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.033 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Better Off Ted | 0.6 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.777 |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery (repeat) | 2.0 | 6 | 1.2 | 4 | 8.145 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (repeat) | 1.9 | 6 | 1.3 | 4 | 7.324 | |
| ABC | Primetime: Family Secrets | 0.9 | 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.530 |
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Wow ABC is having a total summer meltdown – this isn’t going to bode particularly well this fall (less opportunity to promote Fall ’09 offerings)
I’m Superstars even managed to stay above a 1 demo…that show is AWFUL!
Wow, Univision beat ABC in total viewers AND the key demo? Haven’t seen this Superstars show, but with numbers like that, ABC can’t be happy with the show.
I watched The Superstars, America’s Got Talent & Law & Order: SVU. I love The Superstars but there are some persons I’m not familiar. That long jump competition was awesome. TO didnt make it! AGT was alright; the chicken catcher & Thea was awesome. Some acts were just plain weird: Witches in Bikinis? Law & Order: SVU was awesome;never saw that episode before.
NCIS & The Mentalist continue to do great in repeats;amazing isn’t it. 48 Hours was new about MJ. I’m guessing that the Primetime specials will bomb this summer;last year they had better ratings. ABC is barely promoting Better Off Ted; I saw only one promo during the last half-hour of Superstars.
Tonight, I’m watching So You Think You Can Dance? & America’s Got Talent. Gonna watch Wipeout Saturday.
AGT is carrying NBC this summer, like AI does much of the year for Fox.
wow im still really upset with ABC. You would think after Better Off Ted did bad last week, they would promote it better to improve ratings but of course they didnt. the only time i saw any promotion was during the superstars which did horrible but i like it! its way better than that NBC garbage im a celebrity.
The headline should have been NBC’s got Talent; ABC’s got Nothing. Much simpler. Anyhow, Where did NBC find 8 million viewers to watch a repeat?? Law & Order: SVU repeat really well. As for CW, I’m thinking 09-10 should be their last season…
48 Hours also was just 48 Hours, no Mystery
Unbelievable. What does America think is funny these days? I watched Better Off Ted and laughed out loud more in 30 minutes than I had during the rest of the week! I hope ABC pairs it with something next season that will entice more people to give it a look.
I said the exact same thing as Shem when I read the headline!
NCIS and Mentalist are such a great pairing. Look at those numbers. CBS is fiddling with that? I don’t know.
Better Off Ted is hilarious! This is an undiscovered gem on TV – everyone should give this one a try – you’ll spend a good part of 30 mins laughing.
Better Off Ted was pretty good yesterday. I think a better lead in and a little promotion would help.
I haven’t seen anything like this, NBC on top, and ABC behind Univision.
ABC has picked up a new series
ABC is “Defying Gravity.”
The network has picked up Fox TV Studios’ 13-episode adventure drama starring Ron Livingston.
The internationally produced series, also set to air on Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and the BBC, hails from familiar ABC auspices: creator/executive producer James Parriott, who served as an exec producer on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Ugly Betty,” and exec producer Michael Edelstein, former exec producer of the network’s “Desperate Housewives.”
“Gravity,” whose cast includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.
The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
“Gravity” is one of three drama series that FtvS produced independently with international partners in the past year, along with “Mental” and “Persons Unknown.” It is the second after “Mental” to land a U.S. distributor and the first to go somewhere other than a Fox-affiliated network.
“Since we originally pitched “Gravity” to the international marketplace as ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ in space, getting the series on the network that has ‘Grey’s’ and makes the most successful sci-fi show on TV in ‘Lost’ is a good fit,” FtvS executive vp David Madden said. He describes the show as “having a sci-fi premise but being told in a female-friendly way.”
At ABC, the deal was championed by senior vp Quinn Taylor, who added acquisitions to his longform duties during the network’s recent executive restructuring.
FtvS is in advanced talks with cable networks for “Persons,” with a sale expected during the next couple of weeks.
Unlike “Persons” and “Mental,” which were existing pilot scripts at FtvS originally developed for other networks, “Gravity” was developed specifically for the company’s international producing model.
“We’re excited about being pioneers in doing television a different way,” said Edelstein, who got the ball rolling on the project more than three years ago when he caught a repeat of the BBC docu-drama “Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets” on Discovery Channel, about an international crew of astronauts on a trip through space.
He acquired the rights to it from British producer Impossible Pictures and approached Parriott, with whom he worked on ABC’s drama “Threat Matrix.”
If “Gravity” goes well on ABC and FtvS’ foreign broadcast partners, the two hope to do more seasons of the show.
“I have the first three seasons blocked out, and I know the ending of the series,” Parriott said.
Headline editors, I have bowed to your requests!
I think ABC should move Better Off Ted to another day. Who would not watch NCIS and the Mentalist back to back?
go nbc go !!!!!!!!!!!!
rob, I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! ended last week. People don’t watch Better Off Ted because it sucks, it has nothing to do with the competition.
@ Master Moron, Better Off Ted did not suck. Have you even tried watching it?
I watched the pilot of Better Off Ted. I thought it kind of sucked. I can understand why no one is watching it if it hasn’t gotten any better since then.
Wow, most of NBC’s regular season shows don’t get the ratings AGT does.