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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 2.6/8 | 2.4/7 | 2.0/6 | 1.7/5 | 0.4/1 | |
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| Total Viewers (million) | 11.03 | 6.84 | 5.49 | 5.25 | 1.34 |
Happy Thanksgiving everybody! And a special thanks to "Travis Yanan" for posting the numbers on the holiday. Show your thanks by following him on Twitter.
Even though CBS won the night, the biggest winner might have been NBC with a two hour The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? which outperformed last week's combo of Mercy and Law & Order: SVU. Everything else was down versus last week. You can skip ahead to the half hourly data and view the carnage for yourself. Last week's results are here.
Some of you might be thinking, "Freaking DUH, it was the night before Thanksgiving! Of Course things were down! Why do they even bother?" It's a reasonable thing to think. But sometimes you have to remember that TV is an advertising business, and despite lower viewing, advertisers are really, really interested in advertising ahead of the "Black Friday" sales. So much so that some Thanksgivings the broadcast nets have even aired new episodes on Thanksgiving night itself, though tonight I think the only original programming on the broadcast networks is Survivor: Samoa (never mind, it's technically new but is a clip show recap) and The Jay Leno Show! Everything else is repeats or specials.
Full Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | NBC | The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? | 2.5/8 | 7.60 |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine | 1.8/6 | 7.01 | |
| ABC | Modern Family (R) | 1.6/5 | 5.54 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 1.5/5 | 4.70 | |
| CW | Movie: Gracie (R) | 0.6/2 | 1.63 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? | 2.8/9 | 7.81 |
| CBS | Gary Unmarried | 1.9/6 | 6.80 | |
| ABC | The Middle | 1.8/6 | 6.00 | |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 1.7/5 | 5.05 | |
| CW | Movie: Gracie (R) | 0.4/1 | 1.19 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds | 3.1/9 | 13.171 |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? | 2.9/9 | 7.88 | |
| FOX | Glee | 2.5/7 | 6.08 | |
| ABC | Modern Family | 2.4/7 | 7.12 | |
| CW | Movie: Gracie (R) | 0.4/1 | 1.25 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Criminal Minds | 3.2/9 | 13.85 |
| NBC | The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? | 2.8/8 | 7.50 | |
| FOX | Glee | 2.5/7 | 6.13 | |
| ABC | Cougar Town | 1.9/6 | 5.53 | |
| CW | Movie: Gracie (R) | 0.4/1 | ||
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY | 2.8/8 | 12.65 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.7/5 | 5.44 | |
| ABC | Eastwick | 1.2/4 | 3.89 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | CSI: NY | 2.9/9 | 12.68 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.5/5 | 4.79 | |
| ABC | Eastwick | 1.0/3 | 3.41 |
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CBS should have aired Criminal Minds another week. The 100th episode was soooo amazing.
Well, of shows that normally air on Wednesday, Criminal Minds held up remarkably well. So I don’t think CBS regrets airing it.
ohhh God!!! Glee hits a season low….. but that’s OK!!!
Day before thaksgiving… everybody out!!!
well….. let’s see next week!!
Criminal Minds was beyond incredible last night.
Good to see CM staying over 3.0.
Is this the first time Glee beats Modern Family in the demo?
Wow, wtf happened?
Has expected, it’s the day the A18-49 go to visit their elders, and are not allowed to touch the remote. Still it is interesting that Cougartown was nearly matched by The Middle in the demo, and beaten by it in total viewers.
ABC and FOX got killed last night. I was totally shocked when I saw these numbers. What I dont understand is how CBS still managed to do ok. CM and CSI were about the same as last week. Only the comedies were down a lot.
ABC and FOX should bounce back next week hopefully, even though ABC is mostly in repeats except The Middle and Eastwick.
CRIMINAL MINDS was indeed a sterling episode, and for the night before Thanksgiving, held up extremely well in the ratings. FYI, Robert, SURVIVOR tonight is a clip show.
CBS managed to do OK because they had the hook of it being CM’s 100th episode. The figures are actually poor for a “special”, hyped episode. As someone said, it would have done a lot better next week.
If it wasn’t before Thanksgiving, I think it could have approached 4.0.
Criminal minds had its best episode ever last night. A truly amazing episode. Glad it did well despite being aired the night before thanksgiving.
OMG!!!! WTF??? That’s insane MF almost hit 6 million viewers Glee almost in 5 Millions, that’s crazy, ABC should’ve put repeats of everything last night and put the last episodes of MF and CT of the year until nezt week
Is this a joke?! I hope everything will bounce back the next time they air a new episode. I hope it was only because of the holidays.
Its a shame too, because that was the funniest episode of MF yet last night.
Reviews for last nights shows:
New Adventures of Old Christine–8.5/10
The Middle–8/10
Modern Family–9.5//10
Cougar Town–9/10
Glee–8/10
Eastwick–6.5/10
Really hope everything bounces back!!
It definitely IS a shame that viewership was so soft yesterday – ABC had a great bunch of new episodes on last night
On the bright side, at least Jay Leno held steady!
That sucks because Modern Family and The Middle (I record only cause of Gary Unmarried and Glee) were really good last night!! Glee wasnt that great last night!!
Thats not too great, but it would surely pick up next week. Its a shame, all the new episodes were very good. Modern Family and Glee was as usual amazing!
I guess you could look at the Wednesday before Thanksgiving as kind of like a Friday. Anything over 2 can be considered pretty good, and anything approaching a 3 or over did fantastic.
Last night should be on repeats. i don’t understand this network strategy!