America's Got Talent edged out the finale of So You Think You Can Dance among 18-49 year olds (3.6 adults 18-49 rating vs. 3.5) and Talent easily won the most viewers in prime-time for the week. Hell's Kitchen, the Sunday Night Football pre-season game and the Wednesday Talent rounded out the top five with adults 18-49.
Every episode of Big Brother was among the top 20 shows with adults 18-49, and CBS had 9 out of the top 20 shows with adults 18-49 and 10 out of the top 20 overall.
We're still dealing with data source problems. Note that the first chart contains age demo RATINGS not VIEWERSHIP, the second chart includes average viewership. Please continue to excuse the terrible formatting. We hope to have everything sorted out by the fall season...
Nielsen Top Twenty Show Ratings for adults 18-49 for the week ending August 9, 2009:
| Rank | Show (P)=Premiere, (R)=Repeat, (S)=Special | Net | Adults 18-49 Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | America's Got Talent-Tuesday | NBC | 3.6 |
| 2. | So You Think You Can Dance-Thursday | FOX | 3.5 |
| 3. | Hell's Kitchen | FOX | 3.2 |
| 4. | NBC NFL Pre-Season 8/9 Bills vs Titans (S) | NBC | 2.9 |
| 4. | America's Got Talent-Wednesday 9PM | NBC | 2.9 |
| 6. | Wipeout | ABC | 2.8 |
| 6. | Two and a Half Men (R) | CBS | 2.8 |
| 6. | So You Think You Can Dance-Wednesday | FOX | 2.8 |
| 9. | The Big Bang Theory(R) | CBS | 2.7 |
| 10. | Big Brother 11-Sunday | CBS | 2.6 |
| 11. | Big Brother 11-Tuesday | CBS | 2.4 |
| 12. | Big Brother 11-Thursday | CBS | 2.3 |
| 13. | Family Guy (R) | FOX | 2.2 |
| 14. | CSI: Miami (R) | CBS | 2.0 |
| 14. | Dateline NBC-Monday | NBC | 2.0 |
| 16. | American Dad (R) | FOX | 1.9 |
| 16. | Rules of Engagement (R) | CBS | 1.9 |
| 18. | Simpsons-Sunday 8:30PM (R) | FOX | 1.8 |
| 18. | NCIS (R) | CBS | 1.8 |
| 18. | More to Love | FOX | 1.8 |
| 18. | America's Got Talent-Tuesday 8PM (R) | NBC | 1.8 |
Each Adults 18-49 rating point equals approximately 1.32 million viewers
Nielsen Top Twenty Shows among all viewers for the week ending August 9, 2009:
| Rank | Show (P)=Premiere, (R)=Repeat, (S)=Special | Net | Persons 2+ (000) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | America's Got Talent-Tuesday | NBC | 12957 |
| 2. | America's Got Talent-Wednesday 9PM | NBC | 10668 |
| 3. | NCIS (R) | NBC | 9889 |
| 4. | So You Think You Can Dance-Thursday | FOX | 9566 |
| 5. | 60 Minutes (R) | CBS | 9496 |
| 6. | Two and a Half Men (R) | CBS | 9460 |
| 7. | The Big Bang Theory (R) | CBS | 8394 |
| 8. | Wipeout | ABC | 8020 |
| 9. | CSI:NY (R) | CBS | 7986 |
| 10. | NBC NFL Pre-Season 8/9 Bills vs Titans (S) | NBC | 7920 |
| 11. | CSI: Miami (R) | CBS | 7915 |
| 12. | So You Think You Can Dance-Wednesday | FOX | 7784 |
| 13. | The Mentalist (R) | CBS | 7670 |
| 14. | Big Brother 11-Sunday | CBS | 7146 |
| 15. | CSI (R) | CBS | 7066 |
| 16. | Dateline NBC-Monday | NBC | 7061 |
| 17. | Millionaire-8/9 (S) | ABC | 7000 |
| 18. | America's Got Talent-Tuesday 8PM (R) | NBC | 6914 |
| 19. | Hell's Kitchen | FOX | 6739 |
| 20. | Big Brother 11-Thursday | CBS | 6437 |
meh
exactly. but a couple of people requested that I post it.
I fixed the formatting a bit.
much better — thank you!
Thanks for posting this….
my favorite post !
BIG BROTHER FTW
#3 NCIS should be CBS not NBC …
Wow Big Bang Theory kicked ass!
yay ncis made a top on both
but when it made 3rd it said nbs and thats incorrect it airs on usa and cbs never has it aired on nbc in honor of this great show and cbs the great network that really needs to be corrected soon