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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 3.8/9 | 2.5/6 | 2.4/6 | 1.9/5 | 1.5/4 | 1.1/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 3.5/9 | 1.7/5 | 1.8/5 | 1.8/5 | 1.5/4 | 1.7/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 10.38 | 8.65 | 8.14 | 5.50 | 4.00 | 2.31 |
Please note that the Monday Night Football contest aired on ABC on the Boston and New Hampshire affiliates, and on NBC in New Orleans. Those numbers are included in the numbers below, so expect the finals for ABC and NBC to drop at least a tiny bit. "Having said that..."
On a night of new episodes mixed with repeats and holiday fare (and against a premiere Monday Night Football matchup on cable) House was the night's top show with adults 18-49 with a 4.8 rating.
Holiday classic How The Grinch Stole Christmas scored a 2.9 rating with adults 18-49 while the relatively newish Shrek The Halls averaged a 3.2 with adults 18-49.
As is typical CBS shows performed well in reruns, and a repeat of The Big Bang Theory with a 3.3 rating with adults 18-49 trailed House.
The Jay Leno Show claims one of its advantages is that it should do better against repeats, but last night against repeats of both Castle & CSI: Miami, Leno still came in 3rd with a 1.3 rating with adults 18-49.
Against lighter fare Heroes rebounded off recent lows, but I'm waiting to see what happens once the NFL game is stripped out (New Orleans market). Over on the CW Gossip Girl had a 2.9 rating with women 18-34, winning the 9pm hour in that demographic.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Monday night:
- Conan O'Brien (0.9/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) topped CBS's LATE SHOW (0.8/3 with an encore) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.5/3 in 18-49 in local people meters with an encore) tied CBS's LATE LATE SHOW (0.5/3).
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | House | 4.8/12 | 13.18 |
| ABC | How The Grinch Stole Christmas (R) | 2.9/8 | 9.64 | |
| NBC | Heroes | 2.5/6 | 5.90 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 2.1/5 | 6.25 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.1/3 | 2.37 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | Shrek The Halls (R) | 3.2/8 | 10.01 |
| CBS | Accidentally on Purpose (R) | 1.7/4 | 5.40 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 3.1/8 | 11.34 |
| FOX | Lie To Me | 2.7/6 | 7.58 | |
| ABC | Find My Family | 2.3/5 | 7.85 | |
| NBC | Trauma | 1.8/4 | 5.89 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.1/3 | 2.25 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 3.3/8 | 10.08 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 2.5/6 | 9.41 |
| ABC | Castle (R) | 1.9/5 | 6.75 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.3/3 | 5.30 |
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All numbers are Live+SD.
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Definitions:
*Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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cw was very good in A18-34!!!
Isn’t a 4.8/12 share among A18-49 low for House?
Yay for Heroes!!!
Is that usually on par for how Castle reruns? I don’t watch the show but that seems slightly impressive.
So now Heroes is probably going to be back on the Renew side of the Renew/ Cancel index.
Alexia, no, it can’t be since last week was lower
(edit: sorry for skimming over AMONG, yes, it is among the lowest, just not the lowest)!
Sleeper, sadly, I don’t have good recall on prior performance of Castle reruns.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but …
Do repeats get averaged into the renew/cancel index?
The Grinch classic is about right, while Shrek the Halls will probably drop since football started at like 8:30.
Leno is just pathetic, getting beaten by repeats on ABC and CBS.
a 2.9 for Gossip Girl Women 18-34 is excellent! I would guess thats a season high in that demo.
@Alexia, yes, House ratings this season have ranged from 4.5 to a 6.7, a 4.8 is the second lowest.
Becki, repeats in a show’s normal timeslots are included in each show’s season average, but they are also included in each network’s average as well.
go GG
Ok, thanks Bill, but for clarification
I see that Castle is going to be repeating on Saturdays also in December. So these will not be counted, since they are not its normal timeslot?
Rob, the Gossip Girl W18-34 was tied for 3rd best of the season.
Gossip Girl only did better in W18-34 because The Big Bang Theory was a repeat. BBT does well in that demo, too. Next week GG drops again when BBT comes back with a new show.
Becki, correct, the Saturday airings will not be counted in the Monday averages.
I don’t remember what Castle did on repeats last season. I don’t think it’s done too well on Saturdays though. Unless these drop significantly in the finals it looks like it’s done ok for a repeat.
Becki, correct, Castle repeats on day/times other than Monday 10pm are not included in the averages that Nielsen (or I) calculates.
actually the 4.8 should be considred lowest because the 4.5 happened when House did not air in a regular time slot (that was when the baseball game ran over) You can’t really compare though because when it had higher numbers the denominator was higher too (ie it was a 6/16 not a 6/12) which means more people were watching TV that night and therefore there was a better chance to attract viewers.
I know that’s not a season high for GG because through the first 4 eps the average was 2.93 but I stopped keeping track because GG is so wildly inconsistent in quality this season so I care less.
cool for Heroes, optimistic that it won’t drop in the finals.