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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.0/3 | 0.9/3 | 0.7/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.01 | 6.54 | 4.01 | 2.30 | 1.73 |
Dollhouse rose to a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating and 2.25 million viewers. That's up from last week's .8 (which rose to .9 in the final numbers) by 25%. Now we wait to see what happens on 10/23 since next Friday, 10/16 is the first round of the ALCS (baseball conference championships) on FOX. Ok, perhaps rising from a series low that was very low isn't anything to brag about. But, it's at least better than setting another series low!
CBS's Ghost Whisperer easily one the 8pm hour with a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating vs. Law & Order's 1.5. Ghost Whisperer was the only show on Friday night (at least on broadcast networks) to crack a 2.0.
At 9pm Medium's 1.9 led Dateline's 1.5. For those playing along in the "Guess Medium Ratings and win a DVD" contest, you'll need to wait for the final numbers which we won't see until Monday or Tuesday.
CBS' Numb3rs took the 10pm hour, but things were fairly bunched up for the hour.
CW came in third with adults 18-49 at 8pm with Smallville edging out a FlashForward encore and FOX's comedies.
Here's Dollhouse's half hourly breakdown (A18-49) (A18-34)(P2+)
9p: (1.0/4) (1.0/4) (2.295M)
9:30p (1.0/3) (1.1/4) (2.198M)
Smallville fans, Here’s Smallville’s half hourly breakdown (A18-49) (A18-34)(P2+)
(0.9/3) (1.0/4) (2.309m)
(1.0/3) (1/1/4) (2.291m)
full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 2.1/7 | 8.60 |
| NBC | Law & Order | 1.5/6 | 7.23 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.0/3 | 2.30 | |
| ABC | FlashForward (R) | 0.8/3 | 3.11 | |
| FOX | Brothers | 0.8/3 | 2.35 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | Til Death | 0.8/3 | 2.36 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Medium | 1.9/6 | 8.30 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.5/5 | 7.05 | |
| FOX | Dollhouse | 1.0/3 | 2.25 | |
| ABC | Modern Family (R) | 0.9/3 | 2.95 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (R) | 0.5/2 | 1.16 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | The Middle (R) | 0.9/3 | 2.76 |
| 10:00 | CBS | Numb3rs | 1.6/5 | 7.13 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 1.5/5 | 6.07 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.4/5 | 5.33 |
You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.
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Versus premiere night last year, Smallville outperformed our comedies by +25% in adults 18-49 and +25% in total viewers.
That’s good. It’s still most likely going to get canceled, but it gives a glimmer of false hope.
Or a false glimmer of real hope
did it have to go up against baseball?
Good to hear Dollhouse is improving. I hope the one-week hiatus doesn’t do too much damage.
Still not the numbers I’d like to see, but last night’s episode was SO GOOD. Apparently the played a bit with the show order (grr!) so this was supposed to be the 2nd ep, and last week was meant to be the third, and THAT would have made much more sense.
I know, I’m one of those Joss crazies. But I love the show and am hopeful that the numbers continue to improve…even if just 20-25% a week.
I love the show and hope it doesn’t get canceled. The show is progressing and getting better and better, and last nights episode was the best so far. It’s found it’s groove but FOX just isn’t promoting it and hasn’t hardly promoted it at all this season. How do they expect it to do well when there is no advertising, a bad time slot, and 2 horrible sitcom lead ins? Why FOX would team up an hour lon sci-fi show with 2 lame sitcoms “Brothers” and “‘Til Death” is beyond me.
not that great news but gives us a glimmer of hope we may get to see all 13 episodes they ordered.
til death did a little better this week. But i had no clue that the middle and Modern Family was on last night!!!
Did anyone else see a promo that specifically mentioned Summer Glau’s arrival in three weeks?
She must be a big selling point :3
@jords. i’m glad they switched the episodes if it’s true. this was a much better episode to take a hiatus on. hopefully it was good enough for that positive word of mouth to start spreading. I love dollhouse, but the first two episodes weren’t good enough for me to recommend the show. after last night’s episode i can finally recommend!
wait that’s good demo for smallville right? I am still confused, and they beat FOX, so Dawn must be thrilled
Really slow night last night.
This isn’t any hope at all in my opinion, FOX would have needed a 1.3 or a 1.2 AT THE VERY LEAST to even begin to justify a return on the 23rd. Dollhouse already aired 3 episodes and the ratings were 1.0, 0.9, 1.0. That’s not an upwards trend, it’s consistently terrible.
Better than nothing. I take what I can get. Hope it goes up in the finals.
full data table added
do you guys think it was Eliza hitting the interviews this week that caused the uptick? or the fans?
Any idea how Sanctuary and SGU did on SyFy? I was hoping something would be released sooner than Monday/Tuesday.
Marc Berman’s writeup:
http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/578108642
Note that Dollhouse still got tied by Smallville in the demo and beaten in total viewers- not much of an improvement.
The Dream team of Ghost Whishperer and Medium still proving themselft every friday im so glad that Cbs pick Medium
iTunes/Amazon/DVD/beatibg Fox in demos….I don’t see CW leaving Smallville free just yet