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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 3.1/8 | 2.6/7 | 2.5/6 | 2.4/6 | 1.5/4 | 0.5/1 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 2.5/7 | 1.6/5 | 2.6/7 | 1.4/4 | 1.7/5 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.446 | 10.720 | 6.502 | 12.137 | 3.758 | 1.138 |
Against CBS and CW repeats, NBC topped the Tuesday night ratings lead by Biggest Loser's 3.7 adults 18-49 rating. Charlie Brown fans rejoice as Great Pumpkin beats So You Think You Can Dance.
With CBS repeats and the strength of It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, ABC has its best Tuesday in a while. Could a regular Peanuts series be far behind? Sadly, as it has much of the season, Dancing with the Stars again got the rock, down 15% in the 18-49 demo from last week to a 2.9 rating. Against a Good Wife repeat the forgotten finally won its hour, up 5% to a still pitiful 2.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demo.
While NBC did win the night, and Biggest Loser was the top rated show in the 18-49 demo, the show was still down 5% from last week. The Jay Leno Show performed (flat vs. last week) as NBC publicly expected, tieing a CBS repeat, unlike Monday when it got crushed.
Fox's So You Think You Can Dance was flat in the 18-49 demo vs. its last Tuesdays airing. It shares few potential viewers with the NCIS duo, and failed to benefit from their repeats.
CBS and CW were entirely in repeats for the night.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 | NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.2 | 9 | 9.023 |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 3.0 | 9 | 15.613 | |
| ABC | It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (special) | 2.9 | 8 | 9.327 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.4 | 7 | 6.524 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 0.7 | 2 | 1.554 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.5 | 9 | 9.555 |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 3.3 | 9 | 16.531 | |
| ABC | It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (special) | 2.6 | 7 | 8.487 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.6 | 7 | 7.144 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 1.307 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | The Biggest Loser | 3.7 | 9 | 9.703 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 2.8 | 7 | 14.108 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.5 | 6 | 6.410 | |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles (repeat) | 2.3 | 6 | 11.646 | |
| CW | Melrose Place (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.898 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | The Biggest Loser | 4.3 | 11 | 10.613 |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 3.0 | 7 | 15.280 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.4 | 6 | 5.930 | |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles (repeat) | 2.1 | 5 | 10.511 | |
| CW | Melrose Place (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.791 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | the forgotten | 2.1 | 6 | 9.147 |
| CBS | The Good Wife (repeat) | 1.9 | 5 | 9.674 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.9 | 5 | 6.299 | |
| 10:30 | ABC | the forgotten | 1.9 | 5 | 7.972 |
| CBS | The Good Wife (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 8.850 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.7 | 5 | 5.479 |
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That’s one gross headline pic. Almost needs to have this site shut down for offensive pics!!! haha
I don’t watch TV on Tuesday nights. There’s literally nothing on that I like. Literally. Not one show.
@ Bobby Brady
THat’s how I am too. It’s all garbage.
Still, I’m glad NBC managed a win one night of the week. It’ll keep the haters at bay.
Biggest Loser gives NBC something to crow about. Also, Leno matched “The Good Wife” in the demo if not in total numbers.
Wow, 16 million views for a repeat of NCIS is a lot, but it seems like the demo didn’t hold as strong. It is very strange to see The Forgotten as winning the 10pm slot with CBS in repeats. Dancing With the Stars really seems to be skewing much older this year.
Well, on network TV there is nothing, true. But Sons of Anarchy is on on Tuesdays!
Thats pretty good repeat preformance for 90210, there repeat is the average ona new episode for Melrose!! what a boring week for TV all reruns unless its reality…
@Chuck Tranberg
matched a REPEAT of the good wife
there is a difference, big one!
DVR all the great Sunday shows .. and watch them Tuesday, man.
Mad Men, Curb, Californication, Bored To Death.
Also, record ‘Crash’ on Starz, and watch that on Tuesdays.
This week has the World Series, so all shows will be recorded by me. So ‘Top Chef’ will have to be recorded. Padma will have to wait.
Ali–yes, I know there is a difference, but that is what NBC has been saying that they feel that eventually it is in rerun season that Leno will make his biggest impact. Still too early to tell.
Not much happening here….
Very boring TV night with the repeats.
How can NBC’s total viewers average be that low???
Leave it to leno to loose well over half of his demo lead in. How can NBC be ok with that? Bothing else was even on. NBC needs to cut Leno out of tuesday night and try to launch a show there in the spring.
Oh darn! I missed the Great Pumpkin again! So how does it end?
What is the appeal of watching morbidly obese people lose weight? I dunno.
I have no interest in any of the shows on Tuesday either. Boo
Jim–good eye. I can’t see how NBC total viewers could be only 5.446 million either when not one time period listed had them below that–not even Leno.
Bad Robot–I know you were kidding, but “Great Pumpkin” is on again tonight pre-empting “Hank” which is not a good sign for that show. I wonder how “Pumpkin” will do tonight when it was just on last night?
The repeat of the Good Wife did as well as Leno. NBC – just keep shaking your head -lol
As Jim said, how can NBC be averaging 5.446 after two hours of 10 million… is that an error?
Do some markets have PPM now full time?
Can anyone help me out here?
the opening night NBA game got a 20.0 in Cleveland..that is next to impossible for a regular season game.
19 of 24 local NHL teams are up in ratings…1/3rd are up 50 percent…3 are up 100 percent.
How can that be?
NFL ratings are up as well.
in Canada…the PPM system is causing hockey ratings to be through the roof as well as CFL ratings.
so which markets in the USA have them now in prime time?