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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 4.0/11 | 3.3/9 | 3.2/9 | 2.9/8 | 1.6/4 | 0.9/3 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 2.6/8 | 3.0/9 | 2.1/6 | 2.3/7 | 1.7/5 | 1.3/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 17.35 | 6.81 | 13.30 | 7.24 | 3.97 | 1.81 |
It's an NCIS world, we just live in it. CBS' NCIS, NCIS:Los Angeles combo came out strong Tuesday night with premiere ratings up to all time highs for NCIS, and a strong debut for NCIS: LA. The debut ratings for The Good Wife were good, but ABC's the forgotten premiere ratings barely beat Leno.
Against premiere competition, Fox and Hell's Kitchen managed to win the night in adults 18-34 and finish second in adults 18-49. Hell's Kitchen at 8p (3.2/9) and 9p (3.4/9) combined to match its prior average this summer (3.3 rating) among Adults 18-49 and grew +3% among Adults 18-34 (3.0 vs. 2.9).
CBS’ drama premieres each grew from last year’s time period openers, and the network had its largest premiere week Tuesday audience since 1993. NCIS (4.6/13) was above its 08/09 premiere (3.6/10) and the series debut of NCIS: LA (4.3/11) was up from the Mentalist’s first episode (3.5/9). At 10p, new series The Good Wife (3.1/9) opened higher than last year’s Without a Trace premiere (2.8/7).
ABC’s Dancing with the Stars (3.5/9) delivered its lowest rated Fall Tuesday premiere ever, dropping -15% from its night one performance on Monday (4.1/10) and -26% from its Fall 2008 Tuesday premiere on the same night last year (4.7/12). At 10p, new drama the forgotten posted a 2.5/7, down -29% from its DWTS lead-in, but above last season’s time period premieres of Eli Stone (2.2/6 on 10/14/08) and Cupid (2.3/6 on 3/31/09).
For NBC, 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. It only lost to the premiere of the forgotten by 0.1 18-49 ratings point, Jay may have found his first night where he won't end up finishing third!
The CW 90210 held up, it was flat in adults 18-34 from last week (1.5 rating), and down just a tick (0.1) in women 18-34, and adults 18-49. Melrose Place continued to sink, down 20% in women 18-34 (1.4 vs. 1.75), and 15% in adults 18-49 (0.8 vs 0.95), but effectively flat in adults 18-34 (1.1 vs. 1.15).
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 | CBS | NCIS (premiere) | 4.4 | 13 | 19,327 |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 3.2 | 9 | 6,611 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 2.9 | 9 | 13,526 | |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | 2.7 | 8 | 6,765 | |
| CW | 90210 | 1.0 | 3 | 2,165 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | NCIS (premiere) | 4.8 | 13 | 20,669 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.4 | 9 | 14,749 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 3.2 | 9 | 6,692 | |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.0 | 8 | 7,111 | |
| CW | 90210 | 1.2 | 3 | 2,172 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles (series premiere) | 4.4 | 11 | 18,923 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.8 | 10 | 16,160 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 3.4 | 9 | 6,915 | |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.2 | 8 | 7,633 | |
| CW | Melrose Place | 0.8 | 2 | 1,505 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles (series premiere) | 4.3 | 11 | 17,721 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.9 | 10 | 16,285 | |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.5 | 9 | 8,416 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 3.5 | 9 | 7,002 | |
| CW | Melrose Place | 0.8 | 2 | 1,397 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Good Wife (series premiere) | 3.2 | 9 | 14,134 |
| ABC | the forgotten (series premiere) | 2.7 | 7 | 10,144 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 2.6 | 7 | 7,197 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | The Good Wife (series premiere) | 3.0 | 9 | 13,306 |
| ABC | the forgotten (series premiere) | 2.4 | 7 | 8,907 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 2.3 | 6 | 6,334 |
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I was one of those 19Million+ viewers. Both episodes of NCIS were excellent.
“NCIS” is a monster that grows each season. It’s a tremendous, well-written program with some of the best characters on TV. And it’s often hilariously funny. My favorite character is the Goth lab nerd Abbs! The critics are usually lukewarm, but nobody listens to critics these days. “NCIS” kicks total ass!!
W 18-34 for CW?
I’ve got to say it, even though I’ve said it a thousand times before. Why is Dawn still employed??? I really don’t get this. Her decisions are absolute FAILURES…
Is “the forgotten” supposed to be all lower case?
20 million for NCIS and 18 million for NCIS LA is huge but NCIS LA is probably going down to 16-17m but NCIS has a chance to go 20+ with dancing and HElls kitchen gone in a few weeks
0.8 in the demo for Melrose Place? PATHETIC!
I loved NCIS:Los Angeles. Hope it gets a full season pickup, the decrease in ratings during the second half hour has me a little worried.
So: great #’s for NCIS – just below Big Bang, almost as great for NCIS 2, good ratings for all 3 of the reality bonanzas, relatively good for Good Wife (which got an avg. of B from critics vs. C+ for NCIS 2), ouch for Jay Leno almost tying the debut of that forgotten show.
Very, very boring schedule, though.
Wow, those are some horrible numbers for Melrose Place. That makes me happy.
more details from CBS:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/23/cbs-has-its-largest-premiere-week-tuesday-audience-since-1993-best-demos-since-2004/
Good Wife’s numbers are only okay. While it was one of the best reviewed shows of the Fall, it probably skews heavily older and womanly. CBS borderline renew/cancel for the rest of the year, ahoy!
Forgotten’s numbers are weak. Will probably air all 13, but that’s it. At least one Monday airing sometime in November.
Leno numbers are surprising. I don’t think it has anything to do with lead-in, and I’m not sure it has much to do with competition. I really do wonder if it isn’t simple 10-11pm DVR viewing: people had Monday shows stockpiled yesterday, and didn’t today. I guess we will be able to tell if Mon. Leno numbers are consistently weaker than Tue/Wed numbers. (Thur. numbers will be difficult to draw any conclusions from, given the stronger competition at 10pm that night.)
When does Fox get around to starting their ill-conceived Fall Dance season? Commenting about their ratings is pointless atm.
CW: Err, what were the 18-34s? Not that I expect much.
(Wrong thread before, durnit.)
Hrm, if looking at retention, actually, Good Wife isn’t that much stronger than Forgotten.
For 1st half hour vs. end of previous show, down 1.1 vs. 1.2.
For 2nd half hour vs. end of previous show, 1.3 vs. 1.5.
NCIS is incredible. Good job CBS! Interesting, too is how “The Biggest Loser” went up each half hour. Leno did a good job of retaining what was on before it and it’s 2.6 18-49 rating is (for that show) pretty impressive.
i agree holly what is up with all the lower case, apparently abc could even pony up to upgrade the t and f to their rightful size.
J, good thing we here at TVBTN know that retention is completely unimportant.
I don’t know if you can say ouch to Jay Leno tying with the forgotten. It seems like the other way around. Plus, Leno’s demo is way above the 1.5 18-49, even with tough competition.
You know what the funny thing is? Fox actually made it to the second position with hell’s kitchen… Against all that competition. That’s impressive…
They should have left Hell’s kitchen on thursday, it’s doing better than Fringe… Now Fringe is just gonna get completely destroyed by the biggest competition ever, and they’ll cancel a good show when they could have kept it…
YEAH! Go NCIS!!!
Dont’ forget that the forgotten also has 1 or 2 minutes of Dancing figured into that first 1/2 hour. That could drop it a tenth or two in the finals. No guarantees on that, but it happens pretty regularly for the 10 pm shows on ABC.