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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.7/13 | 3.8/11 | 2.5/7 | 2.2/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.4/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 4.4/14 | 2.2/7 | 2.0/6 | 2.3/7 | 1.7/5 | 1.6/5 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 12.55 | 14.17 | 7.60 | 5.46 | 4.08 | 3.04 |
ABC's Grey's Anatomy, now clearly the network's flagship, stayed strong with a 6.0 adults 18-49 demo rating, well above the 9pm competition, and lead ABC to the win for the night. Private Practice debuted well, up from last year's premiere, with a 4.5 demo rating. FlashForward dipped to a 3.7 demo rating, but still tied Survivor: Samoa for the hour.
At 8pm, FlashForward was down 10% in the demo from last week's premiere (3.7 vs. 4.1), a nice trend for the second outing. Survivor: Samoa was steady and tied FF for the hours demo win. Bones slipped a tenth from last week's 2.7 demo rating. Vampire Diaries held steady with a 1.7 18-49 demo, slipped slightly in overall adults 18-34 (1.65 rating vs. 1.75, but was up a tenth of a ratings point with CW's target women 18-34 demo (2.65 vs. 2.55 ratings) and was second in that demo for the hour behind only ABC.
Both SNL: Weekend Update (1.8 vs. 1.7) and Parks & Recreation (1.9 vs. 1.8) picked up a tenth of a demo ratings point, performing just a bit less pitifully than last Thursday.
Grey's Anatomy's 6.0 18-49 demo rating at 9pm was down just 9% from its premiere numbers (6.0 vs. 6.6). After the decline of Desperate Housewives, Grey's is head and shoulders ABC's strongest show now. The Office slipped at tenth from last week's 3.8 to a 3.7 demo ratings, but Community managed to increase its demo rating 7% (2.9 vs. 2.7) from last week. Its real test will come next week on October 15 when it moves to 8pm. Fringe held steady from last week's 2.3 18-49 demo rating. Supernatural held steady with a 1.2 18-49 demo rating, it was up a tenth in adults 18-34 (1.3 rating vs. 1.2 last week), and flat with women 18-34 (1.5 rating).
At 10pm, the Private Practice premiere was was up 36% in the demo from last year's season premiere (4.5 vs. 3.3 demo rating), and well ahead of CBS' The Mentalist which scored a 3.7 rating which was up 12% from last week's 3.4 demo rating. The Jay Leno Show slipped a tenth from last week to a 1.6 demo rating, tieing its lowest demo rating mark, set earlier.
My take: Looks like ABC is set to stay slightly ahead of CBS overall for the night going forward, with almost all of its margin at 9pm. I would expect the Private Practice / Mentalist numbers to tighten in coming weeks. NBC is crippled on the night, with the Office weakening, and the 8pm hour a dead zone. Fox is never going to win the night, but they couldn't have expected to. They're up nicely from last year, which had to be their only reasonable objective. The CW's Vampire Diaries has settled into the only bright spot of the season for them and is staying strong.
Directly from NBC:
In Late-Night Local People Meters Thursday night:
- Conan O'Brien (1.0/5 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS's LATE SHOW (1.2/6) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters. Conan prevailed in adults 18-34 (0.7/4 vs. 0.6/3).
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) trailed CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.6/4). Jimmy prevailed in 18-34 (0.4/3 vs. 0.3/2).
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millions) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Samoa | 3.7 | 11 | 11.73 |
| ABC | FlashForward | 3.7 | 11 | 10.78 | |
| FOX | Bones | 2.6 | 8 | 9.00 | |
| NBC | SNL: Weekend Update | 1.8 | 5 | 5.08 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries | 1.7 | 5 | 3.52 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | Parks & Recreation | 1.9 | 5 | 4.63 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 6.0 | 15 | 15.36 |
| CBS | CSI | 4.0 | 10 | 15.60 | |
| NBC | The Office | 3.7 | 10 | 7.28 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 2.3 | 6 | 6.21 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 1.2 | 3 | 2.57 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | Community | 2.9 | 7 | 5.84 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Private Practice (season premiere) | 4.5 | 13 | 11.50 |
| CBS | The Mentalist | 3.7 | 10 | 15.18 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.6 | 4 | 4.96 |
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It’s funny how SMALLVILLE is almost reaching SUPERNATURAL’s viewers when THE CW moved SMALLVILLE to friday to keep people watching the shows on Thursday. I guess Dawn doesn’t know what she’s doing. Move SMALLVILLE to Wednesday and see the viewers on that. I’d say it would get around 4.98 – 5.39
If FlashForward stays above 9 million with good demos, ABC will keep it. If it dropped to 8 million, I think it might get dropped.
At least The Mentalist won in total viewers (and didn’t lose very much of those viewers from CSI).
In replying to the last post on the early ratings thread, I did appear to forget Fringe’s totals from last week. For some reason I thought they had more viewers but I guess they held. The questions is, if they stay like this the whole season, maybe grow a little, is it enough to make Fox happy to renew it?
Also, what does NBC do if moving Community hurts it? Do they give it more time to flesh out? Every episode has been better than the last so far.
Here’s some Canadian numbers from WEDNESDAY if anyone’s interested:
Dragon’s Den (Canada’s version of Shark Tank – with 2 of the 4 same “sharks”) – 1.32 million
Bones 1,975,000
Glee 1,361,000
Melrose Place faded to 412,000.
Hank (203,000)
The Middle (200,000)
Modern Family (558,000)
Cougar Town (638,000)
Eastwick (436,000)
Jay Leno Show (455,000)
America’s Next Top Model 1,307,000
Criminal Minds 2,597,000
CSI: NY 2,770,000
Getting sadder and sadder about Parks, which, after last night’s episode, I’ve now completely embraced. The only hope now is that Community somehow brings nearly all of its audience to 8:00 and even then I wouldn’t have much faith that it could survive.
On another note, ABC’s got to be pretty happy this week. Modern Family, Cougar Town, and FlashForward all held up really well and look like keepers.
Demos determine its future, VA, not total viewers.
I’m afraid as the novelity of FF wears off the viewers will fall off quite a bit. If it turns into a bizarre, ‘Lost’ type of show then it doesn’t have a chance.
It’s amazing that The Vampire Diaries was *this* close to tying or even beating NBC’s comedy at 8pm. I guess it still has a chance to do that in the final numbers.
On a related note, I’m worried for Community next week when it shifts to 8pm. While it didn’t really drop this week when compared to last, I’m very worried that its success won’t be there when it’s not sitting behind The Office.
Why people is afraid that FF becomes like Lost? last time I checked, Lost was having great ratings even for a sci-fi and cult show.
“Its real test will come on October 15 when it moves to 8pm. ”
This is incorrect. Community moves to 8pm this upcoming Thursday.
Chief, me too. It’ll likely drop because not everyone will know about the time change and it doesn’t have The Office as a lead-in. Hopefully NBC takes this into consideration and gives it a chance.
As for FlashForward, I think as long as the show doesn’t get as complicated as Lost it can hold a solid audience. It certainly isn’t that complicated right now and there’s plenty of drama with the characters to keep that sort of audience attentive. Plus it did a good job of answering some questions while presenting new ones.
The Mentalist is up from 3.4 to 3.7 in the demo so not really a bad performance despite being beaten by Private Practice in the demo. CBS and ABC will be neck to neck again this season this time it will not be just Greys vs. CSI, as FlashForward is giving Survivor some good competition and for at least the demo, Private Practice and Mentalist will be competitive as well.
Kudos to Bones, good performance as well
3.52 million viewers for Vampire Diaries is amazing for CW. I wonder when will they announce the full season pick up.
Flash Foward is doing gang busters for a new Thursday show. I hope it stays las night was great.Sorry about Parks and SNL
Still rooting for the underdog here. I’m sorry but last nights episode of Supernatural was some good writing. I think the title turns people off, but it really has a well written story. Why they put these good shows with other heavy competition, THURSDAY.
FlashForward held up well vs. last weeks debut. If it can maintain a mid-high 3 then ABC is going to be very happy and might just have something they can slot into the Lost slot next season, assuming it doesn’t pull a Heroes and completely fall apart during its second season. Bones is Bones and will forever bounce between a mid 2 and a low 3. Fox seem to be happy with that so who am I to second guess them?
The real story at 8 is NBC vs. The CW. It says something about the disaster that is the first hour of the comedy block that just one tenth and two tenth separate NBC and CW at 8. God help Parks if Vampire Dairies goes up in the finals or it falls in the finals. NBC has got to be preying that Community holds its high 2 next week at 8 and some of those viewers stick around for Parks. Unfortunately I’m not holding my breath.
I’m personally very impressed with how little drop there was for both CSI and Grey’s this week. And its probably not a good sign for The Office that despite Grey’s and CSI falling (albeit it only by a tenth for CSI) it still fell this week. I wonder if Parks is going to end up carrying the can for the fall in The Office numbers as well? Good news for Fox though, Fringe seems to have bottomed out at a 2.3. At least I think that might be good news for Fox its hard to tell.
At 10 The Mentalist was up after last weeks Grey’s hampered opener and I imagine it might be up again next week when Private Practice returns to ‘normal’ levels. Its also worth noting that my Mentalist will beat CSI prediction is edging ever closer to reality faster than I thought it would.
I do like Grey’s Anatomy but hate that fact that its taking over Desperate Housewives. I hate the stupid football and can’t wait for it to be over so Desperate Housewives can take its crown back as the Queens of 18-49 demo!
Well, Fringe is up a little, I guess the numbers aren’t that bad considering Bone as 2.6, only .3 more. Good for Flash Forward, I’ll keep watching, but they really need to come up with something. Because for now I’m watching in expectation from something that’s going to hook me.
Good for VD they’re keeping the network alive. SN is low, but it’s still better than any other CW show.
Wow for Grey, I think its beating House Monday demos. Good for ABC This is there strong night.
HAHA. Supernatural gets 2.57 million viewers same as the Smallville Season 9 Premiere Final Numbers, 2.57 and Smallville is on Friday. If Smallville on Thursday, it should easily beat Vampire Diaries.
hmm… grey lost from 22 million viewers to 15 millions viewers since season 1. That’s too bad
but stil grey got huge number at the ratings 