I guess that blows Dan’s theory that if CBS cancels “Cold Case” then they won’t cancel “Numb3rs”. It looks like CBS will be letting go of at least 2 of their past hits this year, perhaps more … I totally agree, from a business standpoint it was clear that “Numb3rs” was a goner right from the start.

Another bad sign was all day Friday the commercials were for only GW & Medium and no mention of Numbers, just its name appearing onscreen at the end of the spot. When I saw that, I thought to myself that it looks like the decision was already made.

Not to say I told you so – in early October – but I TOLD YOU SO! It looks like the network isn’t willing to pay the stars’ raises due next year. Besides it’s too expensive of show to put out that kind of money and only get a 1.9-1.6 demo – especially since its ratings are already in decline. Sorry to everyone here who kept telling me it wasn’t going to be cancelled this year (Like CBS only cancels one vet a year and this year it’s CC – give me a break!) but, if you look at it objectly, the writing was on the wall. Why would CBS, in its position, keep a dying show with its cost rising every season?

A 1.2 for Jay is just not good enough.

Hey that what happend when Warner Bros. owns both DC Comics and the Hanna-Barbara library. The Twins were orginaly created for the second SuperFriends series. Truly became fixtures in their own right. The most remembered of any of the HB created Superfriends.

Everyone can do Fistbumps these days but who can turn into animals and ice objects and water.

…but Joss’ Biggest Fan must have hacked into your servers to change the scale of viewers in your chart, so that it shows them in units of eleventy millions – in preparation for Dollhouse’s return next month

As for Numb3rs, it looks to me like, if the trends hold, and it improves a bit more in the demo (say, to 2.0), and holds that increase, and gets another 300,000 or so more total viewers, and Medium and Ghost Whisperer don’t similarly improve from last night, Numb3rs will have a fighters’ chance for renewal in 2010…

…as for L&O, it seems like it’s been on from before Gunsmoke’s premiere already

As for Rihanna, I didn’t watch, but is there an inverse relationship between the demo rating and the hemline of a female interviewee?

On Leno, there seems to be no such inverse relationship, but a perverse one, where the demos are going down no matter the hemline of the female guests are

R.G. – Dont you mean 1990-2010. Law & Order has 20 episodes for its 20th season so its likely to survive into 20 10.

I am beyond happy. I just hope it goes pass 3 mil even though it’s on Friday. I bet Dawn is pissed she so wanted to kill Smallville. But SUPERMAN never Dies!!!!!!!!

“The move to Friday’s hurt Supernatural more than it did Smallville in my opinion. SPN was (somewhat) dependent on Smallville for a large portion of its audience and with no SMVL lead-in anymore, it definitely hurt.”

Somewhat dependent for a large portion? This is backward reasoning from an assumed teleology, the same phenomenon that leads to puzzlement over Lie to Me’s failure to be a smash hit by virtue of following House.

NBC’s schedule seems to be settling in a bit. In recent weeks, Heroes is trending up slightly, Community and Parks are trending up slightly, Law and Order is trending up, SVU was trending up until it got shellacked by baseball last Wednesday. Like the numbers still aren’t very good, but they’re at least going up instead of down. It’s like Leno was a shock to the system but now a lot of shows are slowly recovering from the blast.

CBS was like even across the entire night…now I don’t know about Numb3rs’ fate, even with that reduction in the episode order.

But it’s weird…with CBS’ Friday going down and NBC’s going up, CBS actually has some comparable Friday competition at last.

Take Amazing RAce 3 years ago the order was cut from 13 a cycle down to 11. A Stupid decision (I might add as it has been each and every cycle CBS strongest performer in every demo group for the last 4 years), but it has remained at a reduced order ever since.

However, if separate from your DVR you watched Mad Men at 10pm on Sunday and then watched the 11pm airing too, you would count once for each viewing.

Similarly if for some crazy reason you DVR’d the 10pm broadcast of Mad Men and the 11pm broadcast and you played back each one separately, you would count once for each viewing (Nielsen counts the airings separately).

Now Cable includes multiple viewings, so if you watched a cable show wouldn’t you count each time you viewed it? Syndication often does this as well (at least it did when Trek was new and I followed it).

And you would certainly think that (if you rewatched the commercials) then you would be even more important to the advertisers (really hammering home their ads or product placements).