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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.2/7 | 1.9/6 | 1.7/5 | 1.4/4 | 0.8/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.8/6 | 1.2/4 | 1.1/4 | 1.4/5 | 0.8/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.126 | 6.180 | 8.469 | 3.434 | 2.193 | 1.053 |
America's Got Talent was the top rated show of the night and lifted NBC to the overall win with an average 2.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, but the premiere of Great American Road Trip started very slowly with a 1.3 demo rating.
AGT was down sharply from last week's 3.7 rating to its lowest original rating of the summer, but the night overall was down for every network except ABC which was boosted by 20/20 (Jackson-a-palooza?) replacing Better Off Ted, and Primetime: Family Secrets leaping to a 2.6 18-49 demo rating from last week's pitiful 0.9. Were there much better secrets this week? Dateline NBC did much better than an SVU repeat last week, as part of the continuing Jackson-a-palooza, but 48 Hours didn't get the same boost.
Update: All 3 10pm shows were part of the Jackson-a-palooza.
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 | CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 2.0 | 7 | 1.4 | 5 | 10.770 |
| ABC | The Superstars | 1.4 | 5 | 0.9 | 3 | 4.198 | |
| NBC | Great American Road Trip (premiere) | 1.3 | 5 | 1.0 | 4 | 4.657 | |
| FOX | Legally Blonde 2 (movie) | 0.7 | 3 | 0.7 | 3 | 2.043 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.4 | 2 | 1.026 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | America's Got Talent | 3.0 | 9 | 2.5 | 8 | 10.434 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 1.8 | 5 | 1.2 | 4 | 5.743 | |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.8 | 5 | 1.0 | 3 | 9.091 | |
| FOX | Legally Blonde 2 (movie) | 0.8 | 2 | 0.9 | 3 | 2.344 | |
| CW | Hitched or Ditched (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 1.081 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Primetime: Family Secrets | 2.6 | 7 | 1.6 | 5 | 8.599 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 2.3 | 7 | 1.8 | 6 | 6.286 | |
| CBS | 48 Hours | 1.5 | 4 | 0.8 | 2 | 5.548 |
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Hello,
I’m French, and I am a fan of US television and their ratings.
Firstly, congratulatiosn for your excellent website ! Well done !
I have got two questions :
1) why don’t you write in your overnight result the share 2+, why do you write only the share A.18-49 ?
2) and why do you stop the top 20 by broadcast (ABC? CBS, NBC, FOX, CW) ? I know because the holidays and many repeats, but in summer there is many premiere also (WWTBAM in august, Big brother, SYTYCDance, American’s talent, tv series who stop in july or august, …).
Thank for your answer, and congratulations for your website (and sorry for my bad English).
Guilhaume – http://www.fan2tv.com
Has Jackson’s body finally been buried yet? It won’t be until a few days after that happens that the influx of MJ specials ceases I’m predicting.
When will we have numbers for the afternoon coverage of the memorial service?
Didn’t ABC have a similar show to The Great American Road Trip a couple of years ago? It was about teams looking at clues to try to get to different American landmarks, kind of like The Amazing Race. I turned to The Great American Road Trip for a couple minutes and it looked pretty stupid. A bunch of people racing while wearing giant presidents’ heads and one of the most annoying hosts I’ve ever seen.
Instead of the reruns and reality shows, I took a look at the new Sci Fi. . .oops, make that SyFy show “Warehouse 13″. It was Ok to good. Not great, but the pilots are often designed to get you through the introductions. It seems a bit like a similar show they (SyFy) put on several years ago called the Chronicle.
I think Warehouse 13 has some potential. I’ll give it another look next week.
Chief, I am assuming we will see press reports of the numbers from the Memorial sometime today.
“Were there much better secrets this week?” –The Family Secrets episode was focused on the Jackson family’s troubles. So, yes, to answer your question, haha.
“Didn’t ABC have a similar show to The Great American Road Trip a couple of years ago?” –You might be thinking of season 8 of The Amazing Race which was The Amazing Race: Family Edition. It got criticized for being incredibly boring, unfun to watch, and got low ratings. How TGART got greenlighted with the history of TAR8 is a mystery.
48 Hours was a repeat I believe.
Guilhaume,
1) We don’t see the P2+ share in our overnight data. We do see household ratings and share, but don’t list them because they aren’t particularly meaningful to the shows or the networks.
2) A week or so ago we stopped getting the weekly ratings data on every broadcast show, we expect to get it again in September.
48 hours was new and about michael jackson. i figured 20/20 would do better but more people watched that Talent crap.
90210 repeats have been getting over 1 million viewers and all of there other repeats (besides Hitched or Ditched) have been getting lower than 1 million.
Road Trip was pretty funny and had some imaginative challenges. I’m a big Amazing Race fan and wasn’t crazy about season 8 but Road Trip isn’t really a carbon copy of that poor season of AR. It’s more of a competiton based show with great American landmarks as the backdrop. I enjoyed it.
The 20/20 episode was about Michael Jackson. I’d call 20/20 the ‘crap’ and Talent the entertainment.
Road Trip was pretty good (by NBC standards
) I don’t think they’ll pull the plug on it because it’s a reality show, and it’s cheaper to produce.
Speaking of pulling the plug, The Philanthropist tonight. Please kill this show…it’s beyond horrible
were those rollerskaters on AGT any good? They are the symbol for that show here.
gmyers, they are less a symbol for the show than a symbol of my laziness in changing the graphic!
Hi do u guys know a good site to find out the UK ratings?? i just want to know how Torchwood did last night.
@ Sean : http://www.barb.co.uk
I watched the first 30 seconds of Road Trip and turned the channel. Thought it might be interesting because of being on Rte 66 but quickly saw it was just going to be another set-up, scripted, stupid stunts show.
I don’t know why people thought 20/20 would do good people are sick of that Jackson Crap. Im glad talent beat the snot out of them.