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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.0/7 | 1.6/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.8/3 | 0.8/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.32 | 7.07 | 4.95 | 2.15 | 1.83 |
The best episode (in my not so humble opinion) of Dollhouse to ever air on FOX....ended on something of a down note with less than a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating. Dollhouse averaged 2.147 million viewers and a .8 rating.
Medium was the night's top show with adults 18-49 with a 2.2 ratings, edging out Ghost Whisperer's 2.1 ratings. But both were up versus last week when they aired against game one of the ALCS.
Numb3rs pulled a 1.8 and CBS took the night.
Ugly Betty dropped 14% from last week and averaged a 1.2 rating with adults 18-49 and , and Smallville matched last week's season high 1.1.
Here are the ABC PR bullets for the night:
- Despite moving back an hour earlier this year into the 8 o’clock hour, ABC’s Supernanny drew 12% more viewers than its year-ago Friday season premiere at 9pm coming out of Wife Swap (4.7 million vs. 4.2 million on 10/3/08). Supernanny topped its Fox competition in the time period (Brothers/’Til Death) by 2.5 million viewers (4.7 million vs. 2.2 million) and by 57% in Adults 18-49 (1.1/4 vs. 0.7/3).
- Showing solid retention of its week-earlier season opener (88% in Viewers/86% in AD18-49), ABC’s Ugly Betty built on its Adult 18-49 lead-in to defeat Fox’s established drama Dollhouse in the 9 o’clock hour by 50% (1.2/4 vs. 0.8/3).
- Building on its Adult 18-49 lead-in by 33%, ABC News’ 20/20 took second at 10pm, defeating NBC’s Jay Leno in the hour by 13% in the key young adult sales demo (1.6/5 vs. 1.4/5).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | Brothers | 0.8/3 | 2.35 |
| CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 2.1/7 | 8.46 | |
| NBC | Law & Order | 1.5/5 | 7.17 | |
| ABC | Supernanny | 1.1/4 | 4.70 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.1/4 | 2.52 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | Till Death | 0.7/2 | 1.97 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Medium | 2.2/7 | 8.43 |
| NBC | Dateline | 1.8/6 | 7.91 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 1.2/4 | 4.55 | |
| FOX | Dollhouse | 0.8/3 | 2.15 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (R) | 0.5/2 | 1.13 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Numb3rs | 1.8/6 | 8.05 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 1.6/5 | 5.60 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.4/5 | 6.15 |
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What more can we say? The fans love the show, the critics are starting to love the show, and yet no one else cares.
Poor Ugly Betty, 1.2?
Good for Smallville
Bye, Bye DollHouse!!!!
Bye, Bye, Ugly Betty!!!!
CBS wins again!
What about L&O’s numbers?
CBS has won every Friday
law & order
A18-49:1.5
VIEWERS:7.2
thats not good news for ugly betty !!
and it was so good episode!!
smallville works well for cw fridays!1.1 its good for them!!but w18-34 not that good!how the game performed on w18-34 last year??better than 0.7 or not???
Thank you, George. I think the L&) numbers are consistent with last week’s performance (may have ticked down by one). Still competitive … ever so hopeful for a 21st season!
Whoa….Ugly Betty is dangerously close to approaching DOLLHOUSE levels…eek.
Can’t really blame anyone though – the episode was reallyyyyy boring last night.
Why, oh why, does no one watch Dollhouse live?
*sigh*
I am surprised that Medium was the top show last night. As much as I love the show I found last night’s episode practically unwatchable. I had to skip through 97% of it.
Folks, Ugly Betty is already dead in the sense that this is certainly its final season. It will have enough episodes for ABC to syndicate, and the current ratings results, although woeful, are unlikely to get ABC to remove it from the schedule.
GW 2.1
Medium 2.2
Numbers 1.9
Law & Order 1.5
Dateline 1.8 (THIS is why Southland is not returning)
Leno 1.4
Supernanny 1.1
Ugly Betty 1.2
Brothers 0.8
Till Death 0.7
Dollhouse 0.9
Smallville 1.1
ANTM 0.5
(all courtesy of PiFeedback)
So impatient, Anonymous, but thanks. but the table of data now included above (with viewer info) and Marc had (sadly) the wrong number for Dollhouse.
Robert, Supernanny has its season premiere last night, not Ugly Betty.
Thanks for being awake early on a Saturday.
Ok, I’m with everyone that Dollhouse will most likely be cancelled, there’s no sugar coating it, BUT, something that i haven’t seen anyone discuss here is the December scheduling. Let’s assume, FOX continues it’s pattern of not promoting it. I would hope at least during the House/Bones reruns it will, i’ll be incredibly surprised if there is a single solitary promo during the World Series. Anyways, my point about the December scheduling…
What if, the ratings at 8pm are better than 9pm? And, an even bigger what if, the ratings hold into the 9pm hour. What would that mean, even if it’s a small uptick, say a 1.2 in the 8pm and a 1.0 in the 9pm, especially if it holds like that all December?
Would Fox keep it at 8 when it goes back to single episode airings in January, or will they kill any momentum, no matter how small it may be, by throwing it back to the wolves at 9 and yet another new lead in?
If the 8pm airings play out like above (and they keep it there in January) would FOX say “Even small growth is growth, lets see if it can be built on.”
I think the Table is wrong, Last night wasn’t the season premiere of Ugly Betty.
cbs is soo smart they save medium and now medium is the nights top show
Since people know or at least suspect that Dollhouse is on its way out, why bother watching any more? It’s going to keep losing the regular viewers and won’t be picking up any new ones.