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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.7/10 | 3.5/9 | 2.4/7 | 2.4/7 | 2.1/6 | 1.6/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 3.5/10 | 2.2/7 | 2.7/8 | 2.5/7 | 1.7/5 | 1.9/5 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 10.426 | 14.404 | 5.617 | 5.650 | 6.707 | 3.460 |
ABC edged CBS for the overall adults 18-49 ratings on Thursday night, but FlashForward continued to slip in the ratings. After a two week layoff, Fringe dropped sharply to a 1.7 rating.
The extraordinarily good results for Univision on the night were all the 2009 Latin Grammy Awards, which aired during their entire primetime from 8-11pm.
Although it won the night, all ABC shows slid a bit in the ratings. FlashForward was down 4% to a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating. If that number holds up in the final ratings that would be the show's lowest rating ever. Grey's Anatomy pounded the competition again at 9pm, but was down 4% from last week as well to a 5.0 rating. Private Practice inched out The Mentalist at 10pm, but was down 3% to a 3.5 rating.
CBS was mostly status quo from last week, Survivor: Samoa and CSI were both even, while The Mentalist was down 6% to a 3.4 rating.
Some actual good news for NBC at 8pm, as both Community (2.3 rating, its best results at 8pm) and Parks & Recreation (2.2 rating, its season high) were up 10% from last week. The seesaw went the other way at 9pm as The Office was down 7% to a 3.9 rating, and 30 Rock was down 6% to a 2.9 rating. The Jay Leno Show was up 7% to a 1.6 rating.
Perhaps Fox was in a bit of a World Series hangover (or as several commenters have suggested scheduling confusion), but after a 2 week baseball hiatus it slumped on the night with Bones down a tenth of a rating point to a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating, and Fringe plummeting 0.5 points to a 1.7 rating.
For the CW, Vampire Diaries was flat vs. last week in adults 18-49 ratings, and Supernatural slipped to a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating, down from a 1.3 rating last week.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Thursday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.9/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) tied CBS's Late Show (0.9/4) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) tied CBS's Late Late Show (0.5/3).
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millions) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Samoa | 3.5 | 10 | 12.270 |
| ABC | FlashForward | 2.5 | 7 | 8.574 | |
| FOX | Bones | 2.4 | 7 | 8.027 | |
| NBC | Community | 2.3 | 6 | 5.641 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries | 2.0 | 6 | 4.260 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Survivor: Samoa | 3.9 | 10 | 13.143 |
| FOX | Bones | 2.6 | 7 | 8.899 | |
| ABC | FlashForward | 2.6 | 7 | 8.372 | |
| NBC | Parks & Recreation | 2.2 | 6 | 4.935 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries | 2.0 | 5 | 4.166 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 4.8 | 12 | 13.344 |
| NBC | The Office | 3.9 | 10 | 7.941 | |
| CBS | CSI | 3.4 | 9 | 15.062 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 1.7 | 4 | 5.140 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 1.2 | 3 | 2.759 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 5.1 | 13 | 13.899 |
| CBS | CSI | 3.4 | 9 | 15.210 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock | 2.9 | 7 | 5.940 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 1.7 | 4 | 4.763 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 1.2 | 3 | 2.654 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Private Practice | 3.6 | 10 | 9.594 |
| CBS | The Mentalist | 3.5 | 9 | 15.513 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.7 | 5 | 4.765 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | The Mentalist | 3.3 | 10 | 15.222 |
| ABC | Private Practice | 3.3 | 10 | 8.770 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.6 | 5 | 4.679 |
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Good for The CW, They finally have a hit. I can’t wait for it to beat Parks and recreation.
1.7 5 million for Fringe. Those look like Terminators numbers from Monday’s of last year. Is this a season low. Its to bad, the show is BETTER than last year.
Yea, Fringe isn’t looking too good at the moment. Wow! Those are NBC numbers.
That’s what ABC deserves for getting into the David S. Goyer business.
I mean, eww.
Almost everyone is down, too bad for FlashForward, Bones is already catching up.
Community climbed to 2.3, nice to see that!
Vampire Diaries with 2.0 is impressive for The CW
1.7 for Fringe is shocking, that’s a big drop!
@notty22…apparently, the new rule is that shows get better as their ratings decline.
Ouch for Fringe, it’s time for Fox Move out there and get back to tuesday.
Congratulations for Vampire Diearies is now a hit for CW!
If Fringe doesn’t improve significantly next week, they’ll have no choice but to move it. Even in a very difficult time spot, those numbers are unacceptable.
Nice to see community up. The best new comedy this year.
How did Grey’s Anatomy and The Office do with 18-34?
Ouch @ Flashforward. Double Ouch for Fringe! good job Vampire Diaries. Grey and Private practice good!
Crap, those are bad numbers for my two favorite shows, Fringe and FF. That’s a shame about FF because last nights episode was the best yet and they finally got things rolling. I wonder how many people didn’t know Fringe was back but I guess that’s no excuse.
Great news for Community! It’s going up and last night was another strong episode. I have a feeling it’s on the verge of taking off.
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In the Charlotte area Time Warner Cable did not update their programming guides for Fox on Thursday so it still showed “World Series Game 7” instead of Bones/Fringe on the program guide. I’m sure this lead to confusion and a LOT of angry DVR viewers who missed the recordings sans the program guide update. Luckily I browsed my scheduled recordings earlier in the night and realized the error so I was able to manually record Fringe. I guess this impacts live viewers who didn’t see either show on their guide either and may have assumed Fox was airing something else or repeats.
Visiting a few sites where people post on Fringe leads me to believe this wasn’t an isolated incident with TWC Carolinas (maybe other TWC users can confirm). Seems like a lot of folks didn’t know Fringe was coming back this week (sure they promo the heck out of it during the WS but if you don’t watch baseball you’ll never see the promos). Probably going to make the DVR ratings look awful as well since a bad program guide means no recording.
I don’t care what people say, the fact that the people did not know that Fringe will be back this week (due to Baseball) is one of the reasons why the ratings is low this week. Hopefully it will pick up next week.
Not surprised that Fastforward continued slipping. Just surprised it took so long.
So no World Series this week, and just about everything drops. Huh.
I dont think that the Bones or the Fringe numbers matter much this week. Many people didn’t know that it would actually be on yesterday. Game 7 of the worl series was scheduled so there was no promotion on Fox saying that they would be back this week. I look for both to go up next week.
CW beat FOX in adults 18-34. Impressive!
Community and P&R both climbed this week. I’ve really gotten to like P&R. The Office, as usual, was strong with the 18-49 demo, but I didn’t much like the episode. 30 Rock was again very funny last night, but it slipped I think. I think it may need The Office as a lead in.
Also Good news for Community and univision. Too bad for 30 rock and Office they are down