Update: the night's full overnight details are here.
We’ll probably see the fast national ratings in an hour or so, but while we bide our time...
In the preliminary metered market numbers NBC’s winning streak continued with the two hour finale of America’s Got Talent and the third edition of The Jay Leno Show. Leno while still down from the heights of the premiere on Monday night (12.1/19) went up from Tuesday night (8.0/14) to score a 9.2/16 on Wednesday night. At least in terms of total viewers, it’s not surprising that America’s Got Talent provides the better lead-in than The Biggest Loser. We’ll see what the demos look like later.
I’m not sure it’s worth talking about the metered market results for So You Think You Can Dance (3.6/6) and Glee (4.5/7) since those shows are so demo-focused, but the numbers for both shows are remarkably consistent with last week. If the early numbers hold in the fast nationals, those predicting doom for Glee will have to wait.
Those predicting doom for the CW will have to wait too, kind of. Since the CW’s shows are all about the women 18-34 demographics it might not be hugely meaningful that in the early metered market rating America’s Next Top Model is down about a third from last year. Last night’s premiere of The Beautiful Life did not look good in the preliminary numbers with a 1.3/2. A repeat of 90210 in the timeslot last year drew a 1.9 rating, but last year America’s Next Top Model had around a 3.0 preliminary rating and last night it was down to a 2.3.
We’ll post viewer and 18-49 data for all of last night’s shows in our regular overnight report as soon as we see them.
Update: The Beautiful Life premiere: 1.462 million viewers, 1.1/2 HH, 0.7/2 A18-49, 0.8/2 A18-34, 1.1/3 W18-34 (via Travis Yanan)
TBL was actually watchable.
i thought TBL was terrible and definately not so beautiful especially since they have their hottest cast member using male escorts
is 1.3/2 more than the melrose premiere or the same?
Leno has one HUGE thing going for him that a lot of people aren’t talking about. I think there is a huge percentage of the population aged 40-60 that go to bed before midnight and would prefer this type of show earlier than 11:30.
Times have changed.
Good for Jay, so 9.2 should be about 12 million viewers, 4. demo? I’d love to see Talent numbers.
Tar: the preliminary metered market rating for the Melrose premiere on 9/8 was a 1.9/3
Tar, Melrose Place got a 1.9 in the overnights, which was actually better than 90210 did that night, so these numbers don’t mean very much for anything other than to bide our time.
am i the only one who thought melrose was actually quite good? i prefer 90210 but melrose certainly kept me entertained. havent seen TBL yet
And just for further comparison, yesterday’s overnights had Melrose Place at 1.5.
so when theres a show at 9pm that flops, leno’s ratings will follow? The lead in!
MP wasnt terrible it was certainly better than TBL but both of them have really weak acting but MP has much better production values personally i wont be watching either (will give VD another chance since the acting was decent compared to the other 2)
wow at the updated ratings
CW needs to bring back the body politics and the gossip girl spinoff
i thought melrose was better than vampire diaries ill be giving both another go. VD had awful acting and mediocre writing melrose had pretty decent writing and average acting
is there any chance the CW could cancel both TBL & Melrose Place after 13 episodes and replace them with Life Unexpected and repeats of Vampire Diaries (Friday repeats of VD did better than the series premieres of both shows)
Jay’s funny “ghosting” and having robin williams as the guest (instead of bloated michael moore) probably bumped the ratings.
I’m liking the early comedy hour.
Vampire Diaries was a surprise hit for me. I was most excited about Melrose Place, it was watchable. 90210 is 150% better than it was last year, TBL was lame, and the numbers look to reflect that
CW won’t survive this Season..
I hope OTH, Supernatural and Smallville can continue!
tonight will be the first big test of Jay Leno with the comedy block of SNL/thursday, and seasons premieres of “Parks and Recreations” and “The Office” and the premiere of “Community.” I think if Jay builds on “The Office” and “Community” that will say more than anything. Time will tell.
I gave Melrose place another chance for ep 2 and it was horrible. I might watch The beautiful life to just see how bad it is.
The CW will survive the season dawn ostroff on the other hand may not. the networks bosses will want her out so they can change the focus of the net as the women 18-34 is an awful focus.