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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 3.6/10 | 3.1/8 | 2.8/8 | 2.0/5 | 1.4/4 | 1.0/3 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 2.3/7 | 2.3/7 | 2.7/8 | 1.3/4 | 1.7/5 | 1.3/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 16.452 | 8.111 | 6.378 | 8.343 | 3.726 | 1.874 |
CBS won again on Tuesday night in the adults 18-49 demo ratings, but their numbers are slipping back towards the competition's.
CBS was still the 18-49 winner on Tuesday night, but its margin of victory is narrowing as its ratings fell across the board while NBC's held steady, and Fox's ticked up a tenth vs. last Tuesday. Fox jumped ahead of CBS in the adults 18-34 demo for the night, as the network further entrenched itself as an 18-34 power this fall.
At 8pm, NCIS fell 13% in the 18-49 demo from last week to a 4,2 rating. Hell's Kitchen was up 3% vs. last week in the 18-49 demo (3.2 rating vs. 3.1). Biggest Loser and Shark Tank were all effectively flat in the 18-49 ratings vs. last week in the hour. 90210 was up a tenth of a ratings point in adults 18-49, and stable in the CW target women 18-34 (2.4 rating).
At 9pm, NCIS:LA slipped to a 3.6 18-49 rating for the hour, putting it behind Biggest Loser's 9pm hour which averaged a 3.9 18-49 rating. So You Think You Can Dance was up 4% in the 18-49 demo from last week (2.5 vs. 2.4 18-49 rating). Dancing with the Stars continues to suffer, falling to a 2.5 18-49 demo rating, its lowest ever for a regularly scheduled episode. Like 90210, Melrose Place was up a tenth in the 18-49 demo to a 0.9 rating, and stable with women 18-34 (1.5 rating).
At 10pm, The Good Wife was down 9% in the 18-49 demo from last week to a 2.9 rating, but since NCIS:LA fell further, the retentionistas will celebrate because its "retention" improved. Huh? The Jay Leno Show slipped to a 2.1 demo rating, its lowest on a Tuesday, but that was still enough to beat the forgotten, which was effectively flat vs. last Tuesday with a 2.0 18-49 rating.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 | CBS | NCIS | 4.0 | 12 | 19.165 |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.2 | 9 | 8.374 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 3.0 | 9 | 6.907 | |
| ABC | Shark Tank | 1.4 | 4 | 5.266 | |
| CW | 90210 | 1.2 | 3 | 2.218 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | NCIS | 4.3 | 12 | 20.528 |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 3.5 | 9 | 7.599 | |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.4 | 9 | 8.745 | |
| ABC | Shark Tank | 1.6 | 4 | 5.576 | |
| CW | 90210 | 1.2 | 3 | 2.162 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.8 | 10 | 9.377 |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles | 3.7 | 10 | 16.566 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance? | 2.5 | 7 | 5.563 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 2.4 | 6 | 11.502 | |
| CW | Melrose Place | 0.9 | 2 | 1.606 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | The Biggest Loser | 4.1 | 10 | 9.773 |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles | 3.6 | 9 | 15.702 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 2.6 | 7 | 12.096 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance? | 2.4 | 6 | 5.441 | |
| CW | Melrose Place | 0.8 | 2 | 1.512 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Good Wife | 3.0 | 8 | 13.738 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 2.2 | 6 | 6.529 | |
| ABC | the forgotten | 2.1 | 6 | 8.328 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | The Good Wife | 2.8 | 8 | 13.015 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 2.0 | 6 | 5.867 | |
| ABC | the forgotten | 1.8 | 5 | 7.288 |
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Late night results direct from NBC:
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 (1.1/5) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters. Conan topped LATE SHOW in adults 18-34 (0.8/4 vs. 0.5/2).
At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.6/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) tied CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.6/4). Jimmy out-delivered Ferguson in 18-34 (0.5/4 vs. 0.2/2).
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Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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Can we delete any comment that claims to be first? Please?
i suppose that 7.87 million viewers on the cw is actually 1.87???
DWTS is so weak right now.
Dawn must be happy that Melrose Place’s ratings did not drop any further.
Kudos to The Good Wife pretty consistent with their 13 million viewers, I hope it will rise in the demo and viewers next week.
*Hopes there are no more puns about The Forgotten being forgotten this season*
Congratulations to NBC on “The Biggest Loser”, it obviously isn’t for the Peacock network.
NCIS: Los Angeles cooled but its still a keeper.
hmm, the forgotten’s numbers make Castle’s look better, but guess we have to wait to see how Eastwick does
but on a happy note, Glee tonight!!
The ratings slipped a bit, look at those numbers for CBS that is still super solid, and Biggest Loser barely beat them in the demo, but NCIS: Los Angeles had almost double the viewers. I am sure we will see some lower numbers these next few weeks due to playoffs. The Minnesota Twins game went into 12 innings and into prime time last night.
I will admit that I have yet to watch The Good Wife as of yet, but The Forgotten seems to be both well written along with having adequate to good actors. I’m not certain why this show isn’t receiving better ratings. Flash Forward is a little better, but the Forgotten is a really good series. I have a bad feeling it will be cancelled before a full season, much like ABC did last year with Life on Mars. At least then ABC allowed the writers to mostly tie up the story. My fear with the Forgotten is that it will just disappear and loyal viewers will never know the fate of his missing daughter.
Couple of surprises from last night as I see it:
- NCIS:LA is not the mega hit everyone thought it would be loosing to Biggest Looser. BL is really a power house growing week over week, hour after hour. Think BL has a shot at beating NCIS in demo at some point?
- A weak Shark Tank impacting DWTS and probably forgotten
- CW tying 18-34 with ABC has to be some sort of victory for poor CW, right? Maybe it says more about ABC than it does about CW.
- Leno beating forgotten two weeks running and proving he can beat new shows, wait until reruns
- Low numbers for SYTYCD, but still taking hits off DWTS. Maybe people are getting tired of so many dancing related shows.
Wow Go NBC biggest loser performed quite well…
Berman just called The Jay Leno Show “a definite failure.” That is why I love Robert and Bill.
Was there slightly more DWTS overrun than usual in The Forgotten? Dropped 1 mil in the half hour, vs. only 500k last week. Or did viewers indeed see all the promotion and gave it a shot – and still found it wanting.
(Still waiting on that Monday Forgotten airing. ABC needs to get moving if they want that scheduled before Sweeps.)
Your claims that Biggest Loser starts slow are indeed born out! For all out carping that NBC should turn this into two one hours on different nights, imagine how their ratings would look if they had.
Curious to find out where NCIS:LA settles. Consensus is the show doesn’t have the spark as the mothership, and needs to develop some hook. I bet there’s some tonal changes made come January.
MP repeat has no real effect on MP’s viewers. Is anyone surprised?
I don’t even watch or care about NCIS: LA, but it’s still clinging to around the numbers NCIS and The Mentalist put up last year, plus it comes from the line of JAG and NCIS, both growers not showers. CBS has got to be ok with this even though it might have irrationally hoped for more for The Good Wive’s sake.
Not to mention how the other three would shit their pants in delight had their new shows started out with the ratings LA has fallen to now.
Marc Berman has been saying that Leno would be a failure since Day one. Obviously Leno hasn’t been high in the overall ratings but it’s getting the demo, on average, that NBC says they are happy with.
CBS certainly took a dip last night. Did baseball have that much of an effect? The night is still solid though and I don’t think CBS is worried.
It’s nice that NBC has at least one non-sports night they can celebrate. Biggest Loser is the one bright light in their line up this year.
FOX stayed fairly steady from last week. Hell’s Kitchen is up a tick and Dance is down a tick.
ABC….Tuesday is for ABC what Sunday is for CBS.
Yeah, Berman’s obsession with retention would have him seeing Leno’s 53% retention as an abject failure.
I see Leno (with its pathetic budget) topping a freaking Bruckheimer production and wonder aloud at how Berman can willfully ignore reality to such a degree.
Bye bye Melrose Place.
“Bye bye Melrose Place.”
Err, it’s not going anywhere for at least five months, you do realize that, right?
DWTS is getting rapped, SYTYCD as the same numbers… wonder how AI will do…