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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 7.87 | 7.00 | 5.90 | 4.00 | 1.96 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 1.8/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.8/6 | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 |
20/20 hit a season high with adults 18-49 and had its best 18-34 demo numbers in three years as an ABC News 20/20 featuring an exclusive interview with music superstar Rihanna by Diane Sawyer, revealing publicly for the first time what happened last February with singer and ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. 8.2 million watched and the show had a 2.7/9 rating/share with adults 18-49. It had a 2.3/9 with adults 18-34, 20/20's best since 12/1/06.
FOX reruns continued to outperform the original schedule of Brothers, Til Death and Dollhouse which averaged a .8 adults 18-49 rating in their last outing. Last night FOX averaged a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating between 8pm-10pm so the House and Bones reruns are still doing about 50 percent better.
I'm still waiting for the full details, sorry, but I do know Smallville had 2.76 million viewers and a 1.2/4 rating/share with adults 18-49. Here are some more details via our friends at the CW:
Smallville won the 8-9pm hour among adults 18-34 (1.3/4), men 18-34 (1.5/7) and men 18-49 (1.5/5-tie).
Smallville again climbed to a new season high in adults 18-34 (1.3/5), adults 18-49 (1.2/4), men 18-49 (1.5/5) and total viewers (2.76mil). This also marks our best performance here in these demos in over a year (Sept. 08).
Smallville was up vs last week by 8% in adults 18-34, 7% in men 18-34, 9% in adults 18-49, 15% in men 18-49, and 14% in total viewers.
At 8pm, Ghost Whisperer and Law & Order tied with a 1.8/6 rating share with adults 18-49. At 9pm another Law & Order edged out Medium (1.9 vs. 1.8). Probably a little fist-pumping going on at NBC, but so far, no press release. At 10pm ABC (see above) easily led Numb3rs on CBS (1.8/6).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | NBC | Law & Order | 1.8/6 | 7.99 |
| CBS | Ghost Whiperer | 1.8/6 | 7.93 | |
| ABC | Supernanny | 1.3/4 | 4.75 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.2/4 | 3.91 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.2/4 | 2.76 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | Law & Order | 1.9/6 | 8.41 |
| CBS | Medium | 1.8/6 | 7.58 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 1.3/4 | 4.76 | |
| FOX | Bones (R) | 1.2/4 | 4.09 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (R) | 0.5/2 | 1.15 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 2.7/9 | 8.18 |
| CBS | Numb3rs | 1.8/6 | 8.09 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.2/4 | 4.60 |
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YEAH GO SMALLVILLE!
1.3/5 is A18-34. A18-49 is 1.2/4. (Though they messed up somewhere with the share. First they say 1.3/4 for A18-34 then 1.3/5.)
Wow GW is really weak, Law and Order beat it in total viewers and tied in demo!
20/20 ratings are expected and nice to see a 2.7 on a Friday night, that’s the highest rating this season for this night so far.
Hell yeah! Smallville kicking Ass!
Whoo smallville!
Thanks for posting.
omg smallville hit new season high every week!!!!that impressive!!
Go Smallville! I hope it keeps improving! Pandora is in two weeks and that’s going to be a huge episode!
i watched the 20 20 special with Rihanna and it was very interesting what she had to say and I knew ratings would be high for it.
my gosh, what did Rihanna do to her hair?
Great for Law & Order!
I assume Smallville wasn’t pre-empted this week like last week, so that a very nice rise and the final number will probably be close to that(give or take 0.05m)
So there were two fresh episodes of Law & Order or a 2-hour episode?
Julia’s right, it was a 1.2/4 for adults 18-49 for Smallville, I’ve added a table w/the 18-49 data, but still waiting on viewer #s.
Forg, I didn’t watch but based on TV Guide listings, it was 2 separate episodes.
And nice to see Ugly Betty climbed to 1.3, I know not a good number still but at least it did not drop even further. I hope it wont drop in the finals
The high numbers for the Rhianna interview were expected, but what’s up with L&O? It got a significant boost from the last few weeks.
Forg, Two new L&O.
Fire Dawn, the CW says the report didn’t indicate any pre-emptions as it did last week.
funny how we’re all holding our breath for the ratings…why…this season has been awesome…it’s a lock for a 10th season…period! Tom Welling IS Superman! check out this fan made trailer for Batman and Superman@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSYtHO-jnA
I wonder if NBC is considering switching Dateline and L&O. I’m not sure why it went up at 8 pm, too, but I can see it regularly doing better at 9 pm, without much loss to Dateline at 8.
Why won’t L&O die?