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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.5.5 | 1.1/4 | 0.9/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.11 | 6.51 | 5.41 | 3.75 | 2.02 |
More or less your typical Friday, with CBS taking the night overall with adults 18-49 and with overall viewers. Ghost Whisperer was the night's highest-rated program with a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating.
Meanwhile Smallville fans will delight that Smallville hit a season high in viewers (2.7 million) and matched its season highs with adults 18-34 (1.2/5) and adults 18-49 (1.2/5). Smallville ranked #1 in the hour in men 18-34 (1.3/6) and men 18-49 (1.3/5-tie) and ranked second in adults 18-34. And for those who just can't stand not knowing, Smallville pulled a 1.0/4 with women 18-34.
Ugly Betty was on par with last week with adults 18-49, though down slightly with viewers.
Meanwhile over on FOX, a Bones rerun once again outperformed the most recent airing of an original Dollhouse at 9pm by 50 percent (1.2 vs. .8).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 2.0/7 | 8.01 |
| NBC | Law & Order | 1.7/6 | 7.50 | |
| ABC | Supernanny | 1.4/5 | 5.03 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.1/4 | 3.50 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.2/4 | 2.70 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Medium | 1.9/6 | 8.16 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.7/5 | 7.32 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 1.3/4 | 4.45 | |
| FOX | Bones (R) | 1.2/4 | 4.00 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (R) | 0.6/2 | 1.35 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 1.9/6 | 6.75 |
| CBS | Numb3rs | 1.8/6 | 8.16 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.2/4 | 4.69 |
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That sucks for Ugly Betty! I’m really sad that it went down again despite an improvement last week. To make matters worse this episode seems to have gotten the lowest ratings of the season!
It sucks, because so many people are talking about the show again, and so many people are writing about it. Yet the ratings are not getting better.
haaha sometimes’s you are really funny…last week it was 2.69…and 2.70 is a seasons high hahaha
Law and Order doing great, i think NBC will order more episodes of te show. Soon it will beat Ghost Whisperer.
I hope Smallville ratings will not drop in finals.
A typical Friday. Law & Order continues to perform well, nipping at the heels of Ghost Whisperer. It’s outperforming pretty much everyone’s expectations.
a new season high is a new season high, even if it’s only by 1,000. We’ll have to see what happens in the finals, but there were no noted pre-emptions last night.
I’m so proud of Smallville!
I can’t wait for Smallville to come in third. I predict it will move ahead of ABC and Fox at one point this season.
Im damn proud of smallville!!
and the show just keeps getting better and better!
I always wonder how the original dramas on cable compare. Last night had both an excellent WHITE COLLAR — the best of the series, im(ns)ho — and a STARGATE:SNOOZEVERSE. On the other hand, MEDIUM was one of the best of the whole series — certainly the best since it moved to CBS — and GHOST WHISPERER’s guest cast was good enough that I disced it and will finally be watching my first episode.
So it would be nice to compare viewership.
Finallyyy- Go Team Smallville!
I personally feel this is the best season of Smallville since season 2. That said,it’s not really Smallville anymore, but Metropolis. Good to see the ratings stay stable.
I wonder if Ugly Betty can improve if it does move to Wednesday…
The Smallville news make me tremendously happy! I’m pulling for 3.0 for Pandora next week. A .3 increase (if the 2.7 sticks) is not at all unrealistic. In fact, I think they can even surpass that.
Why in the hell won’t the CW put something on behind Smallville? They could come in second for the night.
Ugly Betty is not being promoted at all. I think abc needs to cancel it or move it 2 Wednesday
@James: I don’t think they have anything to put behind Smallville.
that’s weird.. now that dollhouse is gone, non one is interested in friday ratings.. only 16 comments? usually the post reached 150-300 comments on friday night. oh dollhouse we all miss you..
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!I know this has nothing to do with the ratings but PLEASE! can some1 tell me what network has bought the reruns of Smallville and Supernatural? Cause Smallville is in season 9 and Supernatural in season 5 dont the network sell the first 4 seasons to rerun on a network? But i cant find them anywhere and i have ask and ask everyone and nobody knows PLEASE SOMEBODY HELP ME!!!!!!!!!
Prup, you need to subscribe to our RSS feed and comb through everything (granted, it’s a lot of stuff) and you wouldn’t have to wonder anymore! Last week WHITE COLLAR averaged 3.848 million and a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating. SGU was 1.626 million and a 0.7.