Full Tuesday ratings are now posted.
Two things to note:
The Biggest Loser was down about 20% in its adults 18-49 rating from its competition-light premiere last week (3.1 vs. 3.85).
The Jay Leno Show's 18-49 rating of 2.4 was down from last Tuesday's of 3.3, but up from Monday's (9/21) 1.8 rating. That result against heavily promoted premieres has got to worry the competition and cheer NBC.
Direct from NBC:
Tuesday Results:
- From 8-10 p.m. ET, “The Biggest Loser” averaged a 3.1 rating, 8 share in adults 18-49 and 7.5 million viewers overall.
- Versus “The Biggest Loser’s” results on the same night last year, last night's telecast was up 3% in 18-49 (3.1 vs. 3.0) and up 2% in total viewers (7.5 million vs. 7.4 million).
- From its first half-hour to its fourth, "The Biggest Loser" increased its 18-49 rating by 30 percent (to a 3.5 from a 2.7) and its overall viewership by 24 percent or nearly 1.7 million persons (to 8.4 million from 6.8 million).
- From 10-11 p.m. ET, “The Jay Leno Show” averaged a 2.4 rating, 7 share in adults 18-49; a 2.8/7 in adults 25-54 and 6.8 million viewers overall.
- “The Jay Leno Show” ranked #3 among the major networks in the time period in adults 18-49, #3 in adults 25-54 (the key demographic for late local news) and #3 in total viewers. Last night’s time-period competition included CBS’s series premiere of “The Good Wife” and ABC’s series debut of “The Forgotten.”
- "The Jay Leno Show" was #1 among the major networks in the time period among adults 18-34.
- 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 (2.4 vs. 1.4), adults 25-54 (2.8 vs. 1.8) and total viewers (6.8 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, 2.4 vs. 2.2; in adults 25-54, 2.8 vs. 2.7; and in total viewers, 6.8 million vs. 6.9 million).
In Late-Night Local People Meters Tuesday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.9/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS's LATE SHOW (1.2/5, with guest former President Bill Clinton) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters. Conan out-rated LATE SHOW in adults 18-34 (0.8/4 vs. 0.7/3).
At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.7/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) topped CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.6/4). Jimmy also defeated Ferguson in 18-34 (0.6/4 vs. 0.4/3).
Here is the early info directly from ABC:
- Dancing with the Stars: Facing stiff competition during its telecast from 8-10pm (CBS = NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles/NBC = 2-hour Biggest Loser /Fox = 2-hour Hell’s Kitchen), the second night of ABC’s 3-night Dancing with the Stars premiere event took second place to CBS’ NCIS block in Total Viewers (15.2 million) and Adults 18-49 (3.5/9). In fact from 8-10pm, DWTS outdrew its combined unscripted competition on NBC and Fox, surpassing Biggest Loser by 7.7 million viewers (7.5 million) and Hell’s Kitchen by 8.4 million viewers (6.8 million).
- In Viewers and Adults 18-49, Dancing generated ABC’s biggest overall audience with regular programming in the 2-hour time period in nearly 2 years and its top Adult 18-49 number in 10 months – since 11/27/07 and 11/25/08, respectively.
- The Forgotten: ABC’s series debut of The Forgotten earned second place in the 10pm hour among Total Viewers (9.5 million) and Adults 18-49 (2.5/7), finishing 2.7 million viewers ahead of NBC’s Jay Leno (6.8 million and 2.4/7).
- The Forgotten produced the Net’s highest Adult 18-49 rating with a regular original series telecast in the hour since January 2006 – since 1/24/06. It was the Net’s biggest overall audience in the hour with a scripted series since April 2008 – since 4/22/08.
That’s a pretty nice bounce from last night for Jay.
If Leno got a 2.4, im scared about how good the Good Wife and The Forgotten did.
Oh i just read the press release and it came in 3rd!!!! SO that means The Forgotten and The Good Wife did better!!
NCIS: 19.98M 4.6 A18-49, NCIS: LA 18.3M, 4.3. The Good Wife: 13.7M, 3.1, The Forgotten: 9.5M, 2.5 (better than Castle!)
I’m very interested to see how well new shows “The Forgotten” and “The Good Wife” did last night. I picked both shows to have early exits this fall, but almost all of the reviews I’ve seen for “The Good Wife” have been quite positive and the 10pm Tues. time slot is very much up for grabs this year.
Leno is raking it in
all hail NCIS!
WOW! For NCIS, those numbers are huge for that show.
NCIS goes head to head with Jay Leno right?
so Jay still got a 2.4 demo against a show with 20 million viewers?
If that is the case…NBC has to be wetting themselves
Numbers from Travis Yanan’s twitter:
http://twitter.com/travisyanan
NCIS: 2k short of 20 million [WOW!] 4.6 demo
NCIS LA: 18.02 million 4.3 demo
Good Wife: 13.72 million 3.1 demo
The Forgotten: 9.53 million 2.5 demo [Not bad for a low buzzed show]
Melrose Place: 1.45 million 0.8 18-49, 1.4 W18-34
Jay is heavily dependent from the lead in. It suits well out of The Biggest Loser as shown last week so it’s no wonder it went up today. But it doesn’t mesh well with Heroes’ audience which is no surprise as Heroes is definitely younger skewing than TJLS.
Ha! Ask and you shall receive. Thanks for the numbers, Robert. “The Forgotten” may have done better than Castle, but it was a premiere. Now we wait and see how many people stick around after sampling the show.
@Chris,
No, Leno went up against Good Wife and Forgotten, NCIS airs at 8 (against Biggest Loser, Dancing, and …whatever was on Fox)
^ sorry for the double post!
Great ratings for NCIS although House still did better on the demo.
Very please with The Good Wife’s numbers, although a it had huge drop from NCIS LA. Hope it stays consistent. And wow for Forgotten, not really bad for a show which I though was D.O.A, maybe DWTS helped it a lot
OMG were going to have to hear about jay leno everyday
Hells Kitchen from 8p-10p on FOX last night…
Ryan, yes, except in the Saturday and Sunday night reports
I wonder how 90210 and Melrose place did, i didnt catch them cuz i watched DWTS and i downloaded the CW
Robert, you said The Forgotten beat Castle from yesterday but when Castle premiered in March, didnt it premiere to a 3.2 11 million viewers?
Couple of things:
1) Is Castle’s premiere similar to its numbers last season? If that’s the case, I imagine it’s still a bubble show, but if it was okay to renew it last year with those numbers, wouldn’t it be okay to get a renewal this year if the numbers don’t drop? Yes, I know, it depends upon the network, and they may renew it thinking it’ll improve, etc.
2) Leno at a 2.4 against NCIS has to make NBC very happy. If I remember right, that’s also an improvement on their standard 18-49 ratings from last year. They’ve got 1 show replacing 5 and they’re getting equal or better ratings. Huge money maker.