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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.8/6 | 1.3/4 | 1.2/4 | 0.8/2 | 0.8/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.53 | 5.11 | 4.56 | 2.05 | 2.02 |
As is typical for Fridays, CBS won the night both with adults 18-49 and with total viewers.
Dollhouse returned quietly. Though its ratings no longer matter in terms of its future, it returned with about the same amount of adults 18-49 viewers as it had when it departed (which were at a series low) and a few less overall viewers than it had when it went on hiatus. For the two hours it averaged a 0.8/2 rating/share with adults 18-49 and 2.05 million viewers overall.
Ahead of its move to Wednesdays at 10pm next month, Ugly Betty bounced back from its lows last week when it had a 0.9 rating with adults 18-49. Last night it averaged a 1.2/4 with adults 18-49 and 4.23 million viewers.
Ghost Whisperer was the night's top show both in adults 18-49 and total viewers, but it failed to reach a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating, coming in with a 1.9/7 and 8.23 million viewers.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whiperer | 1.9/7 | 8.23 |
| NBC | Muppets Christmas: Letters To Santa (R) | 1.1/4 | 4.27 | |
| ABC | Dreams Come True | 0.9/3 | 3.70 | |
| FOX | Dollhouse | 0.8/3 | 2.17 | |
| CW | Smallville (R) | 0.8/3 | 1.82 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Medium | 1.8/5 | 6.96 |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.5/5 | 6.28 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 1.2/4 | 4.23 | |
| FOX | Dollhouse | 0.8/2 | 1.94 | |
| CW | Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (R) | 0.7/2 | 2.22 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Numb3rs | 1.6/5 | 7.38 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 1.6/5 | 5.73 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.4/4 | 4.78 |
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Dollhouse was beyond amazing last night.
Hmm at those ratings, you guy’s dont think Dollhouse might be in trouble, do you?
Those Episodes were soooo good. If we can bow out with 7 episodes that are good as the last 4 have been im a happy fan that will cherish my two DVD boxsets!
Last week Ugly Betty received 3.39 million viewers, so 4.23 million is good improvement. Hopefully next week more people will tune in to find out who is actually pregnant!!! These ratings aren’t great, but at least it improved somewhat and beat the Disney special.
superglowy,
you are Kyle XY fans serious competition for “the clueless fan award”. It doesn’t matter, it already as been officially been canceled, but will run the 13 episodes of the season.
It is a shame about Dollhouse as the show really is taking off quality wise. Fantastic two episodes last night. Hopefully they can tie everything up by episode 13.
S,
I think someones sircasm detector is broken
Glad that Betty “bounced” back, I knew it would because it was a bad idea of ABC to air a new episode after Thanksgiving.
I hope the move to Wednesday helps the show gain a little bit more in the demos
I’m hopeful anyway.
Do you by any chance have any numbers for Stargate Universe and Monk.
These Dollhouse numbers look much, much better to me than you’re suggesting!
(1) For starters, the-network-whose-name-I-refuse-to-type-out didn’t really advertise the show at all! So a big DUH for this not being the highest rated episode of the season!
(2) According to my mathematical abilities, if you add the ratings for both episodes, Dollhouse actually had about 4 million viewers and a 1.6 in the demo! Yay!! That’s almost as good as Ghost Whisperer and Medium in the demo!
So don’t give up hope, Dollhouse fans! The show may not actually be dead yet! Believe in the power of Joss!
Dollhouse! Dollhouse! Dollhouse! Dollhouse rules! That-network-whose-name-I-refuse-to-type-out drools! Dollhouse!
Where do i find cable ratings. i want to find out about monks last episodes. that was a good shoiw.
Wow, DH below 2 million viewers. Yikes!
@Joss’ Biggest Fain: Yeah, but they paid for two episodes. It’s not one episode, so the demos and viewers can be added up.
John, JBF was being sarcastic.
Yay! Go Ghost Whisperer!!!! ^__^
Okay, “Gossip Girl”, “One Tree Hill” and “90210″ beat “Dollhouse” this week. Yeah, that’s horrible!!!
Wow, Summer Glau’s appearance on Dollhouse sure packed ‘em in. For Ugly Betty.
I need to add boilerplate that says “THERE ARE NO CABLE OVERNIGHT RATINGS”. Actually there are, but they come out much later. At the earliest, preliminary numbers wouldn’t be available until around 3pm ET
Alan, unless USA releases a press release today (I kind of doubt it, but it could happen) you won’t see MONK’s numbers before Monday, and perhaps not until Tuesday. We’ll publish the #s when we see them either way.
JBF, how about doing the same math with the half-hour blocks? Add those together, and Dollhouse gets around a 3.2 with around 8 million viewers, making it the strongest-performing show of the night by a longshot!
A “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” beat a Smallville repeat? “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” actually performed pretty well for the CW.
I had no idea dollhouse was on until i read something online about it!!! Glad i didnt miss out!! last nites episodes were VERY good!!! I really enjoyed them!!! Its sad to see it go but we got 2 seasons!!!