via press release:
LIKE A BAT OUTTA … !
THE CW’S “THE Vampire Diaries” SOARS TO SERIES HIGH
Vampire Diaries Scores its Best Adults 18-34 Ratings EVER and
Matches Series High in Women 18-34
VAMPIRE Lands its Best Adults 18-49, Women 18-49 and Total Audience Since Debut
SUPERNATURAL Ties Season High in Adults 18-34 and
Posts Second Largest Audience of the Season
Facing the World Series, The CW Delivers Its Best Thursday in 2 ½ Years
With Adults 18-34
The CW’s Thursday Continues to Build Year-to-Year
October 30, 2009 (Burbank, CA) – The CW’s freshman Smash THE Vampire Diaries shattered its previous record, delivering its best adults 18-34 (2.3/7) EVER, and matching its series high among women 18-34 (3.1/9), according to preliminary live plus same day Nielsen ratings for Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. With these new benchmarks, THE Vampire Diaries also matched The CW’s all-time high in the time period with women 18-34 and registered the network’s best adults 18-34 ratings in the time period since October 2007.
The ever-so-timely Halloween-themed episode of THE Vampire Diaries, titled “Haunted,” also scored its second best performance of the season in adults 18-49 (2.0/5), women 18-49 (2.6/7) and total viewers (4.2mil) ratings ever, behind only its series debut.
Vampire Diaries ranked second in the hour among women 18-34, females 12-34 (3.0/9) and female teens (2.6/9).
At 9:00p.m., The CW’s SUPERNATURAL scared up another strong performance, matching its best ratings of the season in adults 18-34 (1.4/4) and delivering its second largest audience of the season (2.9 million).
Squaring off against the “World Series” on Fox, The CW scored its best Thursday in more than 2 ½ years (best since March 2007) among adults 18-34 (1.9/5). Last night marked The CW’s second best performance of the season in women 18-34 (2.2/6), adults 18-49 (1.7/4) and total viewers (3.5mil).
Versus the same night a year ago, The CW’s Thursday is up 69% in women 18-34, 19% in adults 18-34, 43% in women 18-49, 6% in adults 18-49 and 21% in female teens (1.7/6).
Wished they could have put a scarier Supernatural on. After all it is Halloween week! Still enjoyed it though.
Vampire Diaries is unstoppable if you’re one of the few who haven’t watch I RECOMMEND YOU TO WATCH! IT’S A MUST SEE!
Wow, a 2.0 in 18-49 demo…
For all the crap I’ve given Dawn, I’m actually glad to see that something on The CW is doing well. Good for them.
Like a bat outta… what? Hell? the garbage?
Perhaps they didn’t want to draw the comparison of the CW = hell.
The can’t say ‘hell’? They seem to have no problem with saying ‘bitch’ or ‘OMFG’
Vicky dying was an EPIC SCENE! I love Vicky and will miss her tremendously!
Joselito, DONT SPOIL !!!
I think I’ll pass on the Vampire Diaries. I find True Blood to be a better show.
It’s the only successful show on the network this year, as least scripted show.
I must say I do think Vampire Diaries is head and shoulders over Twilight in quality. Not better than True Blood, though. But if the producers of VD (what an acronym for the show!) could do the things HBO allows, I bet it would be better than TB.
VD better than TB? Ugh…
“Like a bat outta… what? Hell? the garbage?
Perhaps they didn’t want to draw the comparison of the CW = hell.”
Perhaps they didn’t want to be sued by Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman.
As a TB fan, I’ll admit I started watching this to poke fun at it. But it’s surprised me with how good it is. Still nowhere near TB for me, especially since Elena’s not Anna Paquin, but VD will do in a pinch.
I watched a rerun of this show and it’s so bad, cheesy, stupid. But it’s the CW so I wasn’t expecting anything.
Sorry, still can’t watch VAMPIRE DIARIES, I tried the first three episodes and just couldn’t get into it, although I’m a huge fan of TRUE BLOOD.
Plus, of course, my favorite show of all time is SUPERNATURAL, also on the CW and in the death slot against CSI, GREY’S and THE OFFICE. I still wish the CW would try a month of switching VAMPIRE DIARIES and SUPERNATURAL to see how they would fare. Would DIARIES garner the same ratings in that deathly time slot? I doubt it? Would SUPERNATURAL fare better at 8 PM, without the crushing weight of three shows in the top 10? I bet it would!
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If VD is doing so well they should put it on the same timeslot of ‘The Office’, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘CSI’. I think Grey’s might be their enemy if they do that since Grey’s viewership skews female like the CW shows.
Vampire Diaries has some of the best writing, production values,
directing and of course acting. The show is hypnotic and the forshadowing of things to come leaves you trying to predict the outcome. The subject of the undead leaves you wondering if the deceased is really dead, or are they returning in future episodes. Vampire Diaries is a roller coaster ride, and I have my H.S. English class doing projects on some of the episodes. FUN SHOW!!!!!
MP
For t.v. VD is such an edgy, fun show with a great cast. The vampires are eye candy and Elena is such a pretty girl. Every week it just gets better and better. Haven’t watched True Blood, but I can’t imagine that they are any hotter than Stefan and Damon. Glad to see Jasmine Guy back to work. She’s playing a great part. This show is definitely better than Twilight, especially because you get your fix every week. If the VD moved to HBO, then it would probably be even better the TB because they would be allowed to do more.