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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 1.5/5 | 1.1/3 | 1.1/3 | 0.8/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.89 | 4.37 | 4.05 | 2.89 |
Nothing much to see here. You can count on the Dallas Cowboys thwarting of the New Orleans Saints' quest for perfection on a special edition of the NFL Network's (and locally in Dallas and New Orleans) Thursday Night Football being last night's most-watched program. But those numbers won't be available until later and we probably won't see them until tomorrow.
I give you these numbers instead, and it's hardly much of a consolation prize....
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | FOX | Cops (two repeats) | 1.4/5 | 4.69 |
| ABC | Movie: The Santa Clause (R) 8p-10p | 1.2/4 | 4.66 | |
| CBS | Movie: Elf (R) 8p-10p | 1.1/4 | 3.70 | |
| NBC | Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (R) | 0.6/2 | 2.30 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | America's Most Wanted | 1.6/5 | 5.09 |
| NBC | WWE Tribute to the Troops | 0.8/3 | 2.39 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 1.3/3 | 4.76 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (R) | 1.1/4 | 3.99 | |
| ABC | Castle (R) | 1.0/3 | 3.79 |
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Definitions:
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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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Saturday is a sarcophagus for television.
Yawn…
We need a golden girl type show on saturday
Rip Brittany murphy
why doesnt ABC air those two episode of eastwick here ?
“why doesnt ABC air those two episode of eastwick here ?”
Because they probably still couldn’t match Santa Clause’s 1.2
thats just pathetic…
Anyone want to guess how Santa Clause 3 and the Desperate repeat will do on Sunday, after the Favre Factor (both Packers/Steelers overrun on FOX and Vikings/Panthers on NBC) get through with them?
My guess: 1.0 demo for SC3, maybe a 0.9 demo for DH…
…and, if Three Rivers had actually been scheduled, it would get probably get a 0.4 demo
Ouch, Muppets Christmas bombed. Guess we probably won’t be seeing that holiday special ever again? Santa Clause beating Elf is kind of sad, Elf has been a modern-day classic in my mind since its release.
Tribute to the Troops had no right doing that well. Three matches, all of them ending quickly, two of them nearly devoid of any entertainment. It was essentially a dark show with patriotic montages in between the matches.
It’s a self-perpetuating downward spiral: Viewers don’t watch because there is nothing on. Nets air nothing because viewers don’t watch.
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CBS should cancel Christine (as much as I love this show…it should move to ABC and be paired up with the Middle) move Accidentally on Purpose to be paired with Garry Unmarried and then move Rules of Engagement to the 8:30 spot on Mondays. I think the overall male tone of the night will flow nicely.
I’m with Tar – I would have liked to see the two missing ‘Eastwick’ episodes aired last night (in order) on Saturdays so that I’d be up to speed on character/plot developments before the series finale airs next week.
I’m still hoping that ABC will air the two remaining ‘Eastwick’ episodes (and the five unaired ‘Hank’s) this coming summer on Saturday nights. ABC was most magnanimous last summer in airing out the full series of ‘Cupid’, ‘Eli Stone’, ‘Pushing Daisies’ and ‘Dirty Sexy Money’ over the summer, and I’m sure they earned the gratitude of the many fans of these series in doing so.