I watched one Episode just to see what it was about and came away with the impression that it would appeal to the same sorts of people who watch Desperate Housewives or Ugly Betty, back before UB’s quality fell off a cliff.

Perhaps the “right” people aren’t checking it out, though whatever the case may be, I obviously misjudged it’s appeal.

I very much agree with you on Cougar Town. Absolutely horrible, but it seems to appeal to a lot of people.

ModFam is best new show and has great word-of-mouth which is helping increase its ratings. Middle seems a muddle.

Good for Glee and its 18-34 women – a demo Fox is trying to cultivate to increase ad sales. Even “negative” news about the show being bumped by NBC’s Macy parade is good news for FOX.

- 13.917 million viewers
- 8.5/13 HH
- 3.8/10 A18-49

CM did win in viewers and demo!

and hank will be canceled probably early january? hmmm…. 1.6 share? goodbye

and eastwick went from buzz to bust! sucks for abc!

and so you think you can dance is obviously better off during the summer time

im gonna wait how modern family, criminal minds, cougar town, glee (???) , and law and order svu perform against american idol this spring

Brazil loves Glee already!!

I need a second season!!

# At 8 p.m. ET, “Mercy” averaged a 1.9/6 in adults 18-49 and 7.4 million viewers overall. Week-to-week, “Mercy” is up 6% in 18-49 rating (with a 1.9 rating vs. a 1.8). From its first half-hour to its second, “Mercy” increased its 18-49 rating by 5 percent (to a 2.0 from a 1.9).

# In the time period, “Mercy” is #1 among the major networks in total viewers, #2 in women 18-49 and women 18-34 and tied for #2 in adults 18-34.

# “Mercy” is up 19 percent versus NBC’s 1.6 average in this slot for the traditional 2008-09 season. In total viewers, “Mercy” is up 28 percent versus NBC’s 5.737 million in the hour during the traditional ’08-09 season.

# At 9 p.m. ET, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” averaged a 2.6/7 in adults 18-49 and 8.8 million viewers overall, matching its season-high rating in 18-49 and setting a new season high in total viewers. From its first half-hour to its second, “SVU” increased its adult 18-49 rating by 21% (to a 2.9 from a 2.4) and its overall viewership by 14% or 1.2 million persons (9.4 million vs. 8.2 million). “SVU” is #2 in the hour in total viewers.

# “Law & Order: SVU” is up 53 percent versus NBC’s 1.7 average in this slot for the traditional 2008-09 season. In total viewers, “SVU” is up 50% versus NBC’s 5.854 million average in the hour during the traditional ’08-09 season.

# Last night’s “Law & Order: SVU” matched NBC’s top 18-49 rating in the time period during the traditional primetime season since October 8, 2008. In total viewers, this is NBC’s biggest audience in the slot during the traditional season since October 29, 2008.

# From 10-11 p.m. ET, “The Jay Leno Show” averaged a 1.8 rating, 5 share in adults 18-49; a 2.2/6 in adults 25-54 and 6.2 million viewers overall.

# Versus the prior Wednesday, “The Jay Leno Show” is up 6% in adult 18-49 rating (1.8 vs. 1.7), up 10% in adults 25-54 (2.2 vs. 2.0) and up 8% in total viewers (6.2 million vs. 5.7 million).

# “The Jay Leno Show” ranked #2 among the major networks in the time period in adults 18-49, #2 in adults 25-54 (the key demographic for late local news) and #2 in total viewers. “The Jay Leno Show” was also #2 in all key adult-male demos — men 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54. Last night’s time-period competition included CBS’s “CSI: NY” and ABC’s “Eastwick.”

# Versus Jay Leno’s 2008-09 average at 11:35 p.m. ET on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” last night’s telecast was up in adults 18-49 (1.8 vs. 1.4), adults 25-54 (2.2 vs. 1.8) and total viewers (6.2 million vs. 5.1 million). Comparisons with NBC’s Monday-through-Friday 10-11 p.m. ET non-sports averages over the 52 weeks prior to Jay’s debut are: in adults 18-49, 1.8 vs. 2.2; in adults 25-54, 2.2 vs. 2.7; and in total viewers, 6.2 million vs. 6.9 million).

I think that would work, at least judging from my Co-Resident, who was a fan of Charmed, admitted liking “Eastwick” in spite of herself, and is waiting for “Betty” to come back. Though it’d back onto “Dollhouse”, so would go onto the DVR.

But I do think that “The Middle” is going to suffer for the comedic sins of “Hank”, since ABC will want to clear out an hour block. Can’t take it off and bring it back mid-season and hope to have people still interested, unless they kill “Hank” quickly and re-run “The Middle” midseason from the start.

> Why is Krista Miller, who played a warm0hearted gal on Drew Carey, now typecast as a bitch?

Since both “Scrubs” and “Cougar Town” were created by Christa Miller’s husband Bill Lawrence, I’m guessing she’s okay with it.

Modern Family/Glee still top new original shows. Although actually with the two big non-original new shows down the two may be on top overall eventually. 3.8 Cleveland, 3.6 Modern Family, 3.5 NCIS2, 3.3 Glee.

For 9 o’clock hours this season, of the 5 main days, only Monday isn’t competitive; for 8 o’clock, S-Tu are.

Last night, while for the 10 pm time slot there were 1.22 million more viewers than the previous week, “Eastwick” lost about 200,000 viewers from the previous week. “CSI:NY” grew about a million viewers and “Leno” grew 400,000 viewers.

With the inexpensive “Leno” having 21% more viewers than the expensive “Eastwick”, I have a feeling I’ll be deleting this show from my season shifting external hard drive.

I don’t know why so many people keeping moaning about Cougartown not being as good as it was before. I think it’s gotten funnier each week since the premiere, and I really look forward to it. I especially think it should do huge numbers in the women 18-49 category!

Oh…and….Booooo for Modern Family – another one on the list that must go away!

I think it’s gotten funnier each week and I hope it gets renewed for a full season but I don’t know what 7.9 million and a 3.2 really signifies.

Otherwise, not much is surprising. Though I did think it would take more episodes before CT’s shtick grew old and MF overtook it.

And again, The Middle will be fine after Dancing. It probably won’t be back in 10/11, but it will be fine this year.

Cougar Town on the other hand, is an OK show.

The Middle sucks! I went to ABC to watch the 2 first episodes and i just couldn’t finish the second one. I can’t believe Neil Flynn left Scrubs for this crap. and Hank, no comments, the ratings speak for itself.

ABC’s “faith in the show” probably extends to whenever they have a probable replacement, which I assume they don’t.

Jon- I agree about the 8P comedy block on CBS. They’ve tried it for years, and it doesn’t work. with CSI & CM’s numbers, the audience is there, just not biting the 8P CBS.