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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 6.5/16 | 4.0/10 | 3.5/9 | 2.4/6 | 1.6/4 | 1.1/3 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 6.3/17 | 2.7/7 | 2.4/7 | 2.4/7 | 1.6/4 | 1.6/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 16.50 | 12.01 | 14.83 | 5.90 | 3.90 | 2.28 |
It's like Christmas, only I don't know which presents to open first. Plus, I haven't even gotten all the presents yet.
Dancing with the Stars opened with 17.5 million viewers and a 4.1/10. House opened with a 16.5 million and a whopping 6.5 adults 18-to-49 rating between 8pm and 10pm. Dancing was down from last year, and had its lowest premiere ever, but House was up versus last year's premiere.
Heroes two hour opener began with a 2.7/7 (rating/share) with adults 18-49 between 8pm-10pm. That led into The Jay Leno Show at 10pm with 5.7 million and dipped below a 2.0 demo rating for the first time with a 1.8/5 rating/share with adults 18-49.
The Big Bang Theory bested Two and a Half Men with adults 18-49 (4.6 vs. 4.4) and How I Met Your Mother was still strong (3.5)
ABC's Castle debuted to 9.4 million viewers, but only a 2.3 rating with adults 18-49. It's half hour numbers though reveal what I imagine were a couple of minute overage for DWTS. In the first half hour, Castle had a 2.5/6 with adults 18-49 and from 10:30p-11p that fell to a 2.1/6. In viewers it went from 10.28 million average the first half hour to 8.58 million the second.
Historical Jay Leno comparisons via NBC:
- Versus Jay Leno's 2008-09 average at 11:35 p.m. ET on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” last night’s telecast was up in adults 18-49 (1.8 vs. 1.4), adults 25-54 (2.2 vs. 1.8) and total viewers (5.7 million vs. 5.1 million). Comparisons with NBC’s Monday-through-Friday 10-11 p.m. ET non-sports average over the prior 52 weeks are: in adults 18-49, 1.8 vs. 2.2; in adults 25-54, 2.2 vs. 2.7; and in total viewers, 5.7 million vs. 6.9 million).
The CW liked One Tree Hill at 8pm which was flat week to week in adults 18-34 (1.6/4), women 18-34 (2.4/6), adults 18-49 (1.2/3) and viewers (2.5mil) against its regular competition. Things weren't so nice for Gossip Girl though, who got one last beat-down from House and had 18-34(1.6/4), W18-34(2.4/6) and 18-49 (1.1/1).
Gossip Girl will typically face off against Lie To Me.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | House | 6.2/16 | 15.76 |
| ABC | Dancing With the Stars | 4.0/10 | 17.43 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother | 3.5/9 | 9.22 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.8/7 | 6.27 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.2/3 | 2.48 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Accidentally on Purpose | 3.2/8 | 8.99 |
| 9:00 | FOX | House | 6.9/16 | 17.25 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men | 4.4/10 | 13.59 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 4.2/10 | 17.64 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.7/6 | 5.77 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.1/3 | 2.09 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory | 4.6/10 | 12.83 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami | 4.3/11 | 13.73 |
| ABC | Castle | 2.3/6 | 9.43 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.8/5 | 5.67 |
You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.
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All numbers are Live+SD.
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Great shows doing strongly. Poor shows and reality shows falling dramatically. Just the way I like it.
Heroes final season is here
Wow Heroes definitely flopped last night…and it’s only going to get worse from here.
Leno looks like he’s settling into his “normal” numbers now.
argh. Too bad for Heroes. Hoping DVD sales and hulu views can keep it afloat.
Dancing With the Stars is scripted?
I mean, I know the dances are rehearsed…..
If i am reading those numbers correctly(and i am not sure i am) Heroes will have serious problems getting a ffith season if those numbers hold. Can’t say i care at this point
That’s huge for House, and I can’t believe that TBBT beat 2.5 Men. (Of course, while TBBT was up, 2.5 Men was down, so it’s not as big an accomplishment as it could have been.)
What about Castle? All the reports I read said it did bad, but didn’t provide specifics.
I guess this is is the deathknell for Heroes.
I hope this is Heroes’ final season. I’m still going to watch it, but it needs to end. What was the finale rating of last season? Was it like a 2.9ish? I think that’s what it was if i remember correctly.
AND HOLY CRAP AT HOUSE! That’s its best ratings since season 3 when it was on Tuesdays averaging 7.2 ratings every week!
Good for House! I think we will start to see real numbers now. Glee is in its third week and while everyone wants to talk about all the promotions for the show, I think it should be noted that Glee and SYTYCD had the chance to premier without lots of competition. The downside of that was they didn’t have strong nights around them to promote them. I think this will be a good season for Fox. There was a time when Fox was American Idol and that was it. It is great to see that the network that started with a little cheap block of Sunday night shows, now has a really strong lineup of programming. I think Lie to Me will find its voice. Fringe was keep getting better, and with the solid line up future projects on Fox will have a better chance. With all the bad news out there, some people are working hard to create their own success stories.
Leno with a 1.8 and 5.7 mil even with the Heroes season premiere as a lead-in?? Expect those to drop even more as Heroes unfortunatley continues to slump and other network shows begin. Its possible my prediction of 1.5 and 4.5mil could have been generous.
I like the idea that Two and a half Men & The Big Bang Theory are next to each other. Together they make the Ultimate Combo of Excellent Ratings
WOW! huge numbers for house! I cant see any scripted shows doing better for a premier this season (demo), maybe Greys/DH but other then that…
The1337, Castle now added but 9.3 million and a 2.3 A18-49
Pisher, I don’t know if your comment was directed toward me or not, but DWTS had its weakest premiere by far last night as reported by other sites. I don’t see it in this post, but I assume Robert will mention that in his next update.
Robert, did Gossip Girl have the exact same numbers as OTH or was that a mistake?
complete mistake. I typed 8pm twice!
Will fix. Edit: though the only thing different is the 18-49 numbers
Wow, House is really strong, it the highest rated episode since the season 4. Fox must be really proud! Bones started bigger, House is starting bigger, fringe wasn’t that bad. If house can keep these number up across the season I guess lie to me will get strong numbers to.
By the way, House premiere was amazing, they changed, for once, and that’s really nice, seems it paid off in the end.
Castle seems to do okay, I guess…
And Heroes, well, did someone expected it to do better?
BTW, is 9:30 the reg. slot for TBBT? Anyone?
I wasn’t that surprised by TBBT’s success. It was routinely beating TaaHM this summer.