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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.1/11 | 2.7/8 | 2.7/7 | 1.3/4 | 1.2/3 | 0.7/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.8/8 | 3.0/9 | 2.3/7 | 1.5/5 | 0.9/3 | 0.8/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 15.942 | 6.654 | 8.577 | 3.624 | 4.244 | 1.637 |
Against an all-repeat ABC line up, CBS won every hour and dominated the night's adult 18-49 ratings. Both CBS and NBC were buoyed on Thursday by no ABC original competition.
Note: The NBC affiliate carried NFL football in the Cleveland market and the CBS affiliate carried the game in Pittsburgh. Those ratings will be removed from these numbers in the final ratings, so the preliminary numbers for NBC and CBS shows are subject to more than the typical revisions, likely downwards.
CBS' entire line up increased from its last original airings, Survivior: Samoa was up 10%, CSI was up 17% (vs. 11/19), and The Mentalist was up 3%.
NBC also got nice boosts vs. ABC repeats, Community was up 5% vs. last week (ties best rating at 8pm) , Parks & Recreation was up 10% (season high 18-49 rating), The Office was up 7%, 30 Rock was up 17% (season high 18-49 rating), and The Jay Leno Show was up 27% from last Thursday (highest Thursday since September 17). The folks with Leno Rage are likely fuming this morning, as Jay, as expected, crushed a repeat of Private Practice.
Bones was up 7% from last week to a 3.1 adults 18-49 rating which was a season high. Fringe slipped back 0.2 ratings points from last week to a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating, which is still slightly above its season average of 2.2.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Thursday night:
- Conan O'Brien (1.1/5 in 18-49 in local people meters) tied CBS's Late Show (1.1/5) in Nielsen's 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.6/4 in 18-49 in local people meters) tied CBS's Late Late Show (0.6/4).
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millions) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor:Samoa | 4.3 | 12 | 13.803 |
| FOX | Bones | 3.1 | 9 | 10.830 | |
| NBC | Community | 2.3 | 7 | 5.982 | |
| ABC | FlashForward (repeat) | 1.0 | 3 | 3.952 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (repeat) | 0.8 | 2 | 1.854 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | Parks & Recreation | 2.3 | 6 | 5.617 |
| 9:00 | NBC | The Office | 4.4 | 12 | 9.243 |
| CBS | CSI | 4.1 | 11 | 17.106 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 2.3 | 6 | 6.325 | |
| ABC | Grey's Anatomy (repeat) | 1.4 | 4 | 4.869 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.7 | 2 | 1.420 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | 30 Rock | 3.5 | 9 | 7.540 |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Mentalist | 3.8 | 11 | 16.917 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.9 | 5 | 5.771 | |
| ABC | Private Practice (repeat) | 1.2 | 3 | 3.912 |
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First! Waiting on bones’ numbers to see how “up” it is
Emily and her sister together last night was delightful 
Wow for survivor,thats AMAZING!!i <3 that show sooooo much,thats great news!
Wow! A new episode of the Jay Leno show is beating an old episode of Private Practice. Whoever said that the Jay Leno show can be competitive to repeat shows of the other networks may have a point.
Why is NBC up soo much? Does it have to do with ABC being in repeats?
ABC shows repeats horrible. It sucks that its part of the average.
Ahh… it broke 3.0 Hurrah for bones. Every NBC comedy is up as well. Lat week’s numbers: Community- 2.2 P&R- 2.1 Office- 4.1 30 Rock- 3.0
Impressive gain for 30 rock and P&R especially. P&R will definitely beat community if it comes down to one or the other for renewal. What these numbers versus last week’s seem to suggest to me is that nbc shows share more viewers with abc than cbs on thursday. Correct me if I have misread the numbers.
Glad to see Community up a touch. It was a great episode last night.
Really hope Community can move up in ratings. I wasn’t too fond of the show to begin with, but now I love it.
Community and P&R frankly weren’t up much with both ABC and CW in repeats. Even Survivor’s bump wasn’t that much.
Actually, same deal at 9 and 10pm – sure, shows were up, but largely only by .2 or .3, despite their repeat competition dropping from 2 to 4 ratings points.
People have largely settled into their patterns by now. Would be shocked if any new midseason show will do well against established competition.
The show with the biggest bump of the night from their average was 30 Rock? Mildly surprising that the show the GA audience would most switch to… is the show that is most likely to mock both them and their show. Who knew?
Poor Fringe. Struggling even against a repeat of Grey’s Anatomy
Ali, yeah, and against CSI, The Office, and 30 Rock, all shows which have been in that spot for the past 3 seasons and are flagship shows for their respective networks.
…just wanted to see what kind of icon I’d get beside my name!
To all the Nielson families; F!#k you for not watching Fringe. Last nights episode was AMAZING. If Fringe gets cancelled It might have a shot on TNT, it’s DVD sales are very good for Warner
Bones was amazing last night!
Post now substantially updated with all the typical information and analysis. ^
YA for Bones. Great episode and a Season High.
Does anyone know what is replacing Survivor on CBS in Jan?
@The_GodfatherSJP
Yes, I agree but the kind of people who watch “The Office”, “30 Rock” are not the kind of people that you would expect to watch Fringe. CSI and Grey’s Anatomy are more likely to bleed viewers to Fringe. I only mentioned Grey’s Anatomy as it’s the only show that hour that was actually a repeat
Wild thought of the day. What if Fox was to prgramme something @10pm ? I think Fringe would probably get much better ratings.
The last regular night where all 5 networks aired original material was November 13th. http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/13/tv-ratings-thursday-abc-edges-cbs-as-fringe-recovers/33566
Compare against those numbers since last week’s are higher than normal because of CBS repeats and the week before that was thanksgiving and before that was NFL.
office gets a 0.4 increase and 30 rock gets a 0.6 increase. much higher than the increases when CBS aired repeats.
Ali, I beg to differ. I’m 24 and most of my peers fall into the same range, 23-30, the office, 30 rock and csi are Fringe main competition. I don’t watch greys anatomy, and neither do the rest of my male friends, but we all watch the office and 30 rock