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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 1.4/5 | 1.3/4 | 1.1/4 | 1.0/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.6/6 | 0.8/3 | 0.6/2 | 0.7/3 | 1.1/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 2.931 | 6.303 | 4.854 | 3.730 | 1.875 | 1.151 |
The woeful ratings for NBC's Merlin and Meteor (the latest installment on "Survival Sundays"), showed a tiny bit of life on Sunday, but don't get too excited. Merlin still tallied just a 1.1 rating for adults 18-49, and Meteor only a 1.2, and NBC's average for the night was still well behind Fox's repeats which won the night overall with a 1.4 adult demo rating.
Big Brother continued to slide to a 1.8 demo for adults 18-49. That's down about 10% from last week, but comparison's a tricky because of the golf overrun last Sunday. Valentine's miniscule adults 18-49 demo was unchanged from last week.
In the battle of magazine shows at 8, CBS' tribute to Walter Cronkite, That's The Way It Was, edged NBC's Dateline.
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) | 1.2 | 5 | 0.8 | 4 | 4.463 |
| CBS | That's The Way it Was: Cronkite | 0.9 | 4 | 0.5 | 2 | 6.979 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 0.9 | 4 | 0.5 | 2 | 4.413 | |
| FOX | Til Death (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 3 | 1.474 | |
| CW | Valentine | 0.2 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.467 | |
| 7:30 | ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 1.1 | 5 | 5.520 |
| CBS | That's The Way it Was: Cronkite | 1.1 | 4 | 0.7 | 3 | 7.835 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.0 | 4 | 0.6 | 3 | 5.062 | |
| FOX | American Dad (repeat) | 0.8 | 3 | 0.9 | 4 | 1.771 | |
| CW | Valentine | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.391 | |
| 8:00 | FOX | The Simpsons (repeat) | 1.7 | 6 | 1.7 | 7 | 3.412 |
| CBS | Big Brother 11 | 1.7 | 6 | 1.5 | 6 | 5.625 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 0.9 | 3 | 5.031 | |
| NBC | Merlin | 1.1 | 4 | 0.8 | 3 | 4.132 | |
| CW | The Thomas Crown Affair (movie) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 1.209 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Big Brother 11 | 1.9 | 6 | 1.5 | 6 | 5.526 |
| FOX | King of the Hill (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | 3.003 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (repeat) | 1.4 | 4 | 0.9 | 4 | 5.145 | |
| NBC | Merlin | 1.1 | 4 | 0.7 | 3 | 4.405 | |
| CW | The Thomas Crown Affair (movie) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.405 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | Family Guy (repeat) | 1.9 | 6 | 2.3 | 8 | 3.921 |
| CBS | Cold Case (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 6.108 | |
| NBC | Meteor | 1.0 | 3 | 0.4 | 2 | 4.685 | |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives (repeat) | 0.8 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 2.833 | |
| CW | The Thomas Crown Affair (movie) | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.575 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | The Simpsons (repeat) | 2.0 | 6 | 2.5 | 8 | 4.005 |
| CBS | Cold Case (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 6.514 | |
| NBC | Meteor | 1.1 | 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 4.881 | |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives (repeat) | 0.8 | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 2.632 | |
| CW | The Thomas Crown Affair (movie) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.857 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Meteor | 1.3 | 4 | 0.7 | 2 | 5.402 |
| CBS | Without A Trace (repeat) | 1.2 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 5.878 | |
| ABC | Brothers & Sisters (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 2.044 | |
| 10:30 | NBC | Meteor | 1.5 | 4 | 0.9 | 3 | 5.855 |
| CBS | Without A Trace (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 5.961 | |
| ABC | Brothers & Sisters (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 2.173 |
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Shows are sorted by 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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very good numbers for cw sunday movie!!!!
What does it do to the ratings if you flip back and forth between channels when shows go to commercial?
CP, if you’re a Nielsen family, every minute of your viewing is tracked. For example, if you spend one minute on ABC then switch to NBC for one minute, back and forth for an hour, you’d be counted as half an average viewer on both networks for the hour.
Of course, if you’re not a Nielsen family, your viewing doesn’t matter. Have a nice day.
If you are filling out a ratings book by hand, not much. You choose to put down what you watched and they don’t give you a lot of room to write that down. Changing channels with a metered system might be a bit more exact but not sure if there is an exact amount of time you watch something that makes it register actual watching of a show.
BB may have misjudged. Jesse is a liability. People couldn’t stand him in the previous show so why bring him back? At least Sunday’s show was not so Jesse-centric. So far, however, there seems to be no one likable, or bizarrely interesting, to root for. That is a major problem with this show.
Bill, what are your thoughts on the Nielsen’s as an accurate measurement with todays TV?
Meteor actually got good numbers after 10. I was watching the Cronkite special and TBH it wasn’t that great.
Wonder how many people were watching the new shows on the Ultimate SpongeBob Sponge Bash. Going by cable ratings it should have scooped up a sizable part of the demo.
Catherine, local ratings during the 4 monthly sweeps period still utilize paper diaries, but pretty much all ratings measurement by Nielsen on a national basis (99% of what you see on our site, and elsewhere online) is by automated people meter.
speedroc, is it perfect? Of course not. Are billions of dollars spent by presumably intelligent people relying on Nielsen’s measurements each year. Yes. For more information, see this.
Meteor won 10pm? Wow. That movie was a manual on how to make a jaw droppingly bad coma inducing mess. It was like a 20 car pileup on the interstate, I kept looking back at the wreckage while channel surfing.
First Doc Brown bites the dust last week early in Part 1 then George Costanza bites the big one early in Part 2 as a meteor hits the meteor command. At which point an annoying yackity asian woman takes his place blathering about trajectories and how the roaming woman with the laptop is genius who somehow thinks that ICBMs can be reprogrammed in flight (they cant) and coordinated with Russian and Chinese missiles in matter of seconds; to create some kind of “bubble” which magically makes a mountain sized meteor bounce off into space. Where did they get their physics advice? A 3rd rate comic book? Then the trusty woman with the laptop types randomly on a keyboard producing a bunch of ones and zeroes somehow figures everything out after having tea with some old woman? Yeah right.
The best part was spending most of the 2nd half in the wreckage of a hospital (meteors always tend to pick the largest building in town, sparing open fields) where a woman and her husband (I think that guy was on JERICHO but got really fat and pasty since then) and some miscellaneous guy try to get some kids out of the hospital. Suprise! They all get out just int he nick of time.
Then there was the laughingly stupid part in the bomb shelter where some woman whines about not getting fruit that some deputy says is only for the kids. Then some guy who earlier threatened to shoot the Sheriff offers a bag of fruit to the deputy so the old lady can have some fruit (old people and fruit? So she can fart alot?) The deputy then sheepishly says “I was wrong…” Ugh…
Meanwhile some LA cop is trying to find his daughter and runs into some crazed maniac dragging some woman around so he can kill her family – one who happens to be the sheriff above. The LA cop is the sherrifs son – how convenient. The maniac can also outgun 2 army guys by shooting them in the throat. The maniac is really hard to kill and nearly prevents the laptop woman from saving the world by removing a fuse from a transmitter tower (why he did this or how he knew where the fuses were, is beyond me). Then theres a big fight and the maniac fianlly dies. Then with a few seconds to go the who asteroid bouncing thing happens after the nukes go off. Everybody cheers. Then its over.
People who makes movies like this should be exiles from Hollywood.
Catherine, if we don’t see SpongeBob numbers in a Nickelodeon press release today, we’ll see them tomorrow in our weekly cable show information.
Does anyone know if King of the Hill will get a reprieve?
I thought the Cronkite show was good because it was interesting to see those events I originally watched on CBS News that were part of my childhood and adolescence. The odd thing about it though is that it looked like they had filmed most of it in anticipation of Walter Cronkite’s death. Made it slightly surreal.
e. carson, zero chance that KotH continues on Fox after its currently produced new episodes run out sometime this fall, although I don’t know the exact dates. There was some speculation that it was being shopped elsewhere, but I have seen nothing recently about its fate.
Wonder if FOX is testing Simpsons at 9:30 for a timeslot move in the future. I know its been at 8pm for years, but times have changed…
Simpsons at 9:30? Probaly not. But it has been doing great in that slot…
Looks like the BB franchise has definitely run out of steam…I’m sure it’s cheap, so CBS doesn’t mind TOO much (I think?), but those numbers aren’t great at all — even for a summer Sunday evening.
Anon, BB’s down, but I doubt it’s out. It still did way better than the CBS repeats last night, and better than the overall CBS 18-49 average last week which has been boosted in recent weeks by the addition of BB.
“It was like a 20 car pileup on the interstate, I kept looking back at the wreckage while channel surfing.”
Meteor sounds as one of those movies that are so bad that you can’t stop watching them to check how far they go.
It even grew compared to last week. The great majority didn’t care at all about it, but it seems those who watched continued to do so even 7 days later.
Is the miniseries with James Van Der Beek saving the world from a storm next Sunday on NBC?
i wouldn’t mind a simpsons shift somewhere later in night… prob is i don’t think AD can lead a night. and that new cleveland show looks pretty awful. anyone else have an opinion of cleveland? i think last season of FG was pretty weak (in spite of the emmy nod) mostly due to mcfarland spreading himself too thin. and now cleveland looks lame. but i guess you never know ’till we see it. they should do another simpsons spinoff showcase episode
Valentine was amazing last night i know episode 8 wasnt intended to be a season finale nevermind series but it sure felt like a season finale throught the episode especially the cliffhanger major death at the end loved the show definately one of my top 3 new shows in 2008-2009 sad to see it go