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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 2.9/8 | 2.9/8 | 2.2/6 | 2.1/6 | 1.5/4 | 1.0/3 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 3.0/9 | 1.9/6 | 1.8/5 | 1.7/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.2/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.01 | 11.12 | 6.34 | 7.24 | 3.89 | 2.09 |
Note all comparisons below are against last week's preliminary (not final) numbers.
FOX and CBS tied with adults 18-49, FOX won with adults 18-34 by a wide margin and CBS won with overall viewers by a wide margin. All comedies were off from last week both on ABC and CBS, with Modern Family down a few ticks. You might have thought Hank could fall no further than last week's 1.6 rating with adults 18-49, but last night Hank managed a 1.5.
Criminal Minds was the night's most-watched show both with adults 18-49 and overall. So You Think You Can Dance was down a couple of ticks from last week's 2.8 to a 2.6 and Glee went from a 3.3 to a 3.2.
NBC's Mercy was stable with a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating and Bill Gorman favorite Law & Order: SVU went up a couple of ticks from last week's 2.7 to a 2.9 - a season high.
Eastwick beat Leno this week, but take no comfort in that Eastwick fans. Eastwick didn't go up, Leno went down. And a scripted hour long drama pulling a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating isn't going to stick around at ABC.
America's Next Top Model was up week to week by 13% in women 18-34 (2.6/8), 21% in adults 18-34 (1.7/6) and 4% in viewers (3.13mil) and ranked second in the hour in women 18-34 and adults 18-34, behind only Fox.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Wednesday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.9/4 in 18-49 in local people meters, encore) defeated CBS's LATE SHOW (0.8/4, encore) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters. Conan also topped LATE SHOW in adults 18-34 (0.6/3 vs. 0.3/2).
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters, encore) tied CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.5/3, encore). Jimmy beat Ferguson in 18-34 (0.4/2 vs. 0.2/2).
Full Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.6/8 | 6.77 |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine | 2.1/6 | 7.00 | |
| NBC | Mercy | 2.0/6 | 7.28 | |
| ABC | Hank | 1.5/5 | 5.84 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model | 1.4/4 | 3.13 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried | 2.2/6 | 7.12 |
| ABC | The Middle | 2.0/6 | 6.42 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds | 3.6/9 | 13.73 |
| ABC | Modern Family | 3.3/9 | 8.57 | |
| FOX | Glee | 3.2/8 | 7.24 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU | 2.9/7 | 9.27 | |
| CW | Melrose Place (R) | 0.5/1 | 1.04 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Cougar Town | 3.0/8 | 7.36 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY | 3.0/8 | 12.56 |
| ABC | Eastwick | 1.7/5 | 4.93 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.5/4 | 5.18 |
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Too bad Modern Family but still a good demo number and it’s still #2 behind Criminal Minds so not really bad. But SVU is catching up, looks like its 10pm viewers is slowly going back.
The Middle’s numbers is bad. Cougar Town is OK. Christine and Gary are stable with their numbers
Here’s some Canadian ratings from TUESDAY in case anyone is interested:
So You Think You Can Dance Canada – 1,252,000
Being Erica – 587,000.
NCIS – 2,121,000
NCIS: Los Angeles – 1,873,000,
Law & Order: SVU – 1,424,000
The Good Wife – 1,408,000
Dancing with the Stars results show – 882,000
Biggest Loser – 686,000
Mercy hit a 2 again. It might just last the season. maybe.
It’s clear L&O SVU’s audience is finding it again. Wednesday is increasingly acceptable for NBC.
Too bad Glee is down again. I like that show a lot. Modern Family will bounce back, I think.
Nice to see Law & Order SVU above 9 M viewers.
The Middle is doing pretty well considering its lead-in.
At least “The Middle” stay above 2.0.
Next Week the middle will be a strong lead in and i hope the series will increase 18 -49 rating
Anon, just curious were there any shows NOT from the US that perform higher? Or does NCIS own Canada, too?
There was a question the other day which goes first? Trauma or Mercy. Mercy will survive longer, imo. Once again it is pretty stable coming in second in its time slot in overall viewers and with a 2.0 18-49 demo which is only a notch lower than “Christine” with a 2.0.
That was very good news on SVU as viewers rediscover it in its new time slot. 9.27 million viewers at a 2.9 demo is pretty good for an NBC show these days.
Leno is did beat Eastwick in overall viewers but not by the demo. Still he got his 1.5 rating which is what they promised advertisers.
Overall, I think NBC is doing fair on Wednesday nights. It’s possible that SVU can keep growing. I think that Mercy is doing well enough to keep it until the end of the season, at the latest.
People need to start watching Eastwick, the show is sooo good.
wow antm almost beat hank!!!im so glad that eastwick beat leno but its not that it went up vs last week!actually leno just go down!!
is 2.9 good fro svu??
Hopefully Modern Family stays within the 3.3-3.6 range through sweeps, at least.
SVU is almost looking respectable again! I wonder if it can climb over 3.0?
It seems that The Middle stayed at the 2.0 from last week despite Hank dropping a bit. I wonder what the show could do with a stronger lead in. The animated specials ABC is going to air will probably help, but I think it would be interesting to see what a repeat of Modern Family would do there.
ABC is done on wednesdays they threw out the towel it’s obviously they still let Hank with those numbers, bad for the other shows that are affected for that but no way
How I wish The Middle would perform better though. I hope it will get a boost with Pumpkin special.
Hank is really well dead so as Eastwick but at least they beat Leno for what is worth.
Glee’s numbers are stable.
I hope the ABC sitcoms numbers will rise in the finals
But Leno got more viewers than Eastwick so Leno beat Eastwick!
If ABC ordered a full season of the Middle with a 2.0, NBC is probably at least considering keeping Mercy for the season.
Modern Family is great, but my family is really starting to enjoy The Middle. The actress who plays the daughter is just wonderful. Too bad the numbers aren’t better.
“The animated specials ABC is going to air will probably help, but I think it would be interesting to see what a repeat of Modern Family would do there.”
I don’t know what it is about ABC, but their shows tend to repeat badly.
@George11, this season it is good for SVU. Last season it managed midrange 3′s, but it started off this season with like a 2.5. So it’s growing, but it lost a lot of viewers when they changed its time-slot.
OMG
CSI:NY won by a HUGE margin over those two weaklings.
and would you look at those numbers for the CBS comedy block – they are #2 in the hour, that must please CBS a little
sure they could do so much much much better with basically anything, but why bother with WED 8 when the whole SUN lineup is a chaos…
I could see SVU climbing to 3.0 over time, it is really doing well now after a bad start.
Oh Hank barely beat ANTM? Really bad. Poor Kelsey, I love Frasier so sad seeing him flop like this.
CSI NY although the runaway winner of the timeslot is down sharply from last season