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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/6 | 1.9/6 | 1.4/5 | 1.0/3 | 0.7/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.02 | 6.86 | 6.64 | 3.50 | 1.72 |
Ghost Whisperer was Friday's best of the night averaging a 2.0 rating among adults 18-49 and 8.43 million viewers. Shrek The Third pulled better numbers than ABC's typical Friday night lineup and the reruns on FOX were down to a 1.0 adults 18-49 rating -- still 25% better than Dollhouse's last original episode, but just last week Bones had a 1.2 rating with adults 18-49 at 9pm and last night it was down to a 1.0.
Smallville was down slightly from last week but still beat the rerun of House at 8pm.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 2.0/7 | 8.43 |
| ABC | Shrek the Third | 1.7/6 | 5.84 | |
| NBC | Law & Order | 1.5/5 | 7.52 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.1/4 | 2.45 | |
| FOX | House (R) | 1.0/4 | 3.34 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Shrek the Third | 2.2/7 | 6.83 |
| CBS | Medium | 1.9/6 | 7.80 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.5/5 | 7.64 | |
| FOX | Bones (R) | 1.0/3 | 3.66 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model (R) | 0.4/1 | 0.99 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 1.8/6 | 7.92 |
| CBS | Numb3rs | 1.7/5 | 7.84 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.3/4 | 4.75 |
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Bad things in store for Ghost Whisperer?
Isn’t it sad that it takes a movie for ABC to tie in demos?
Prediction: ABC to put movie night on Fridays come midseason.
Yay for Ghost Whisperer! Although I expected much more from this episode, but anyway…
Awww Smallville!
Pretty certain SV will receive a huge boost in DVR ratings, because the decrease in Live+SD viewers has to be because of New Moon, no other explanation. That, and the fact the shows on a two-month hiatus, meaning fans may take their time to catch up.
I personally don’t think it’s worth worrying about, SV will get the 250k viewers it “lost” last night from the DVR and repeats.
Last night’s Ghost Whisperer was THE BEST episode of the entire series! I really hope it sticks around
This seems as good a place as any to brag about the awesome numbers Joss was responsible for last night! That “New Moon” thingamajig was Joss’s doing, you see, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer certainly led to this “Twilight” thingy becoming big! See, Joss CAN do awesome numbers on Friday nights! He is a modest, modest, modest man, though, which is why he’s not out there right now doing interviews about how he led to this awesome, awesome box office performance!
Dollhouse forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever! Death to “Twilight”! Team Joss all the way!
For Thursday ratings there was talk of overall TV viewing being down vs. last week. I wonder if that was the case on Friday also.
Even though Numb3rs may not be what it used to, I think CBS needs to find something better than Flashpoint to fill the 10pm slot.
I messed up my recording for Smallville and so far ive seen 4/5 parts of the episode and from what I saw it was bad.
Place this on the bingo card of excuses. 70% of the Smallville episode was inaudible in NY, at least on my TV. I checked back in with Top Model to see if it did the same. It only happened once.
Anyways, great news for all shows.
Why would CBC get rid of the highest rated show on Friday nights in Ghost Whisperer? Plus its already in syndication.
chuck
- move betty to wednesdays
- put a friday movie
ABC could decide to make Friday a movie night at least for the rest of the season after it airs the remaining episodes of Dollhouse.
damn…
shreck stole law and orders audience…
move betty to wednesdays!Betty hold on!!!!!!!
Medium keeps proving every week last friday has more ratings but still very good for a friday CBS keep doing great job with Ghost Whisperer and Medium you made my night !!!
I do not want to open a loooong discussion .
But without Dollhouse FOX did worse than any friday , or am I wrong ?
I’m not too concerned about the Smallville numbers because it’s fairly obvious that the slight drop is due to the new Twilight movie. Overall this seasons ratings average is way beyond expectations considering it’s ‘death slot’. Would have been nice to get higher numbers but you can’t have everything and 9 episodes in and so far so good! Lets keep it going when Smallville returns in January!
Well, at least the Bones and House repeats didn’t completely humiliate Dollhouse, in that Dollhouse has, actually, had one or two episodes with a 1.0 this season.
Who am I kidding? This sucks. At least we already know it’s canceled.