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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 2.8/8 | 2.8/8 | 2.3/6 | 2.0/6 | 1.3/4 | 1.0/3 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 2.9/9 | 1.7/5 | 1.9/6 | 1.7/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.2/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.74 | 10.89 | 6.72 | 7.06 | 3.51 | 2.18 |
FOX and CBS tied with adults 18-49 for the night, with FOX having a commanding lead with adults 18-34 viewers on the strength of the So You Think You Can Dance and Glee lineup. Both shows had identical 18-49 ratings as last week (though I believe Glee edged up a tick last week in the final numbers).
CBS led in total viewers for the night by a wide margin and its 8pm comedy lineup of The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried bested the ABC lineup of Hank and The Middle. Hank sunk to a 1.6/5 a 27% drop from last week when it premiered with a 2.2 rating. The drop for The Middle was not as steep at only 16% to a 2.1 where Gary Unmarried edged it out with a 2.2.
CBS Criminal Minds was the night's most-watched show (13.49 million) and had the best adults 18-49 rating of the night with a 3.5, down only a tick from last night. But all was not rosy for CBS as CSI: NY's 2.9 adults 18-49 rating at 10pm matched a series-low for a new episode.
NBC's Mercy dropped below a 2.0 rating to a 1.8, but Law & Order: SVU with a 2.6 was up a tick from last week.
The ABC comedies from 9-10p also slipped noticeably from last week, Modern Family from a 3.7 to a 3.2, and Cougar Town from a 3.6 to a 3.1. Eastwick dropped from last week's 2.4 adults 18-49 rating to last night's 1.8.
Castle fans best hope currently seems to be rooting against the forgotten and Eastwick and will be sure to note the poor performance of those other ABC 10pm shows that can't even creep over a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating like Castle can!
The Major League Baseball divisional series playoff games began last night on TBS with two separate game (Twins/Yankees and Cardinals/Dodgers) airing during portions of primetime.
In the Late Night Wars, Conan & Letterman tied with adults 18-49 (1.0 rating) in Nielsen's 24 local market with people meters, and Conan won with adults 18-34 (0.8 vs. 0.5)
Full Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.5/7 | 6.18 |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine | 2.0/6 | 7.27 | |
| NBC | Mercy | 1.8/5 | 7.29 | |
| ABC | Hank | 1.6/5 | 6.72 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model | 1.5/5 | 3.29 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | The Middle | 2.1/6 | 6.78 |
| CBS | Gary Unmarried | 2.2/6 | 7.17 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds | 3.5/9 | 13.49 |
| ABC | Modern Family | 3.2/9 | 8.46 | |
| FOX | Glee | 3.2/8 | 7.30 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU | 2.6/7 | 8.14 | |
| CW | Melrose Place (R) | 0.5/1 | 1.08 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Cougar Town | 3.1/8 | 7.80 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY | 2.9/8 | 11.96 |
| ABC | Eastwick | 1.8/5 | 5.28 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.7/5 | 5.74 |
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As between Castle and Eastwick, I’m still saying see ya, Eastwick.
Here’s some Canadian ratings for TUESDAY if anyone’s interested:
CBC’s Being Erica – 461,000
NCIS: Los Angeles – 1,768,000
So You Think You Can Dance Canada – 1,213,000
The Biggest Loser – 827,000
NCIS – 2,620,000
The Good Wife – 1,395,000
Law & Order SVU – 1,498,000
Hell’s Kitchen – 860,000
Jay Leno Show – 360,000
And here’s some late night ratings (but ONLY for Toronto; although the overall ranking is relatively the same nationally)…Conan’s ratings are also WAYYYYY down from the Leno era:
Late Show with David Letterman – 80,000
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 30,000
The Colbert Report – 25,000
The Hour (Canada Only) – 21,000
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon – 17,000
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – 13,000
Jimmy Kimmel Live – 10,000
This week has been low #’s for the shows so far.
OK, now who are you more worried about, Eastwick or the Forgotten?
poor eastwick!!!
they gave it the worst slot!!!
melrose place encore did better than last week!!!
ABC it’s time (THE FORGOTTEN, EASTWICK, HANK) not any more
Hank screwed everything for ABC on wednesday
Oh BTW, big drops for ABC at 9pm vs. last week (ML down .5 in the demo, same with Cougar).
Sad to see “The Middle” also down .5, but the episode was fantastic! And the growth in the demo out of Hank is encouraging…
Jay held up pretty good too, almost beating ABC with their new programming.
It sucks to see Modern Family drop once again… That show is brilliant…
Hank and Eastwick are gone… I wonder how long will ABC put up with Hank’s low ratings, cause they obviously can’t have three comedies on…
Wow, Eastwick did a lot worse than I predicted it would the other day. I had it dropping down to 6 million viewers with an overly-optimistic 2.1 demo, but now it looks like cancellation city for that show already. See, Robert, I told you that Castle’s numbers isn’t something to worry about compared to Eastwick’s.
Clearly at 8pm, but at 9pm the numbers got stronger, but then it got weak yet again at 10pm.
I forgot,
Chalk this up to another victory for Leno. Slightly more viewer than Eastwick and narrowing the demo gap. I think that NBC should consider swapping SVU and Mercy.
Not a totally bad night for NBC. “Mercy” isn’t going anywhere anytime soon as long as it came in first in total viewers and isn’t substantially worse than the other networks among 18-49 year old viewers (and did beat Hank).
Is L&O up from last week?
Leno beat “Eastwick” in total viewers and almost tied it among 18-49. He was above the 1.5 that NBC wants and almost at 1.8 that NBC calls a “homerun” but still down from last night.
A friend informs me that ABC’s Hank and The Middle were pre-empted in favor of a Mayor election debate in Houston which is like the 5th biggest city in the country. So that might skew things a notch.
SVU the only show up for the night. It could be baseball, but my gut says the viewers are still going back to cable after sampling the new network shows.
OC didn’t get much of the Hank audience back. CBS really needs to come up with 4 Monday shows that don’t require RoE intervention before they expand to Wed. (Especially since Men and Mother may not be around for more than two more years.)
As far as ABC goes – the Wed Lost block (kicking at least some comedies to other nights) seems more likely every week, doesn’t it?
No surprise, Eastwick is dead. Try it out on Monday once if you like, but it is dead nonetheless.
Wow. Leno almost beat out Eastwick in both demo and total viewers. Ouch.
Castle for its low numbers has never had a problem beating Leno at least. Not sure if The Forgotten and Eastwick sinking this low keeps Castle alive but its chances are surely going up.
Oops, I had total viewers swapped for Leno and Eastwick.
Marc A writes that Leno was 29% up from “Lipstick Jungle” from a year ago, but that was just the metered markets.
So Good Bye for Hank, Mercy and Eastwick.
Ok for The Middle
Good for Modern Family and Cougar Town
Still ouch for Old Christine and Gary.
Tom, I think you mean Men(3 years).