Cable ratings: NFL,College Football and The Closer Season Finale Top weekly cable charts

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1. Joe

   Posted December 29, 2009 at 6:38 PM

   Wow 7 NCIS’s in the top 25.

2. Dee

   Posted December 29, 2009 at 7:08 PM

   Bye Bye Men of Certain Age. Those numbers are lower than the recently cancelled Raising the Bar

3. RJ

   Posted December 29, 2009 at 9:04 PM

   Men of a Certain Age may have a chance if it holds above the 3 million w/o The Closer as a lead in.

4. Dee

   Posted December 29, 2009 at 11:23 PM

   @RJ, Raising the Bar held over 3 million viewers and it still got cancelled. It had higher ratings than Hawthorne. Dark Blue had around 2 million viewers but got renewed because TNT wants to keep their relationship with Jerry Bruckheimer. Men of Certain Age can easily be replaced by one of TNT’s three television pilots called: Rizzoli(starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander), Delta Blues(starring Jason Lee and Alfre Woodard) or Untitled Noah Wyle/Steven Spielberg alien invasion project(starring of course Noah Wyle and Moon Bloodgood). TNT needs new shows and it cant keep all the old ones. So somethings has to get the axe.

5. Shem

   Posted December 30, 2009 at 7:45 AM

   what was that 24 hours thing about? it seemed to do pretty well.

6. Andrea2

   Posted December 30, 2009 at 8:58 AM

   “what was that 24 hours thing about? it seemed to do pretty well.”

   I think it’s a marothon consisting in 12 consecutive re-runs of the A Christmas Story movie

7. Dave

   Posted December 30, 2009 at 9:51 AM

   “Raising the Bar” couldn’t survive without “The Closer” in front of it, whereas it looks like Men has a shot. If you look at the second half of RTB’s first season when they didn’t have “The Closer” in front, they tanked mightily, pulling somewhere around 1.5-2 million.

   So 3.1 ain’t bad for Men without a real lead-in.

8. Tommy

   Posted December 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM

   Does anyone know how Doctor Who did on 26th on BBC America?

9. William

   Posted December 30, 2009 at 7:00 PM

   How did last Saturday’s new Doctor Who do for ratings?

10. Dee

    Posted December 30, 2009 at 11:15 PM

    @dave, Men of a Certain Age’s ratings are dropping each week. Since the closer’s season is over it will fall harder. I predict the ratings will be somewhere between 2 to 3 million viewers come January. Remember that TNT has yet to pick up its 3 pilots that are vying for a timeslot. TNT cant have 10 shows. Something has to be cancelled.

11. Dave

    Posted December 31, 2009 at 1:47 AM

    @ Dee: TNT had 8 series the past year: The Closer, Saving Grace, Raising the Bar, Dark Blue, Leverage, Hawthorne, Trust Me, Men of a Certain Age,

    Trust Me and Raising the Bar are gone, Saving Grace will be soon, that leaves 5, which means they could pick up all 3 pilots without canceling anything.

12. Robert Seidman

    Posted December 31, 2009 at 3:06 AM

    Dave, I’d look for six total rather than 8:

    http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/04/tnt-exec-six-is-enough/

13. Dave

    Posted December 31, 2009 at 2:50 PM

    Robert, in that article Michael Wright is saying 6 “in the summer.”

    In early January 2009 TNT picked up 3 pilots and laid out a schedule for 8 shows total. Closer, RTB, Leverage, DB, Hawthorne, SG (6 in the summer) and Trust Me & MOCA (2 in the winter).

    I don’t know why they would suddenly limit themselves to 6 only in the summer and no winter (or cut back on nights in the summer in order to preserve winter).

14. Ryan

    Posted January 1, 2010 at 1:59 PM

    USC always turns on TV’s

15. Anthony

    Posted January 8, 2010 at 10:04 AM

    Do you have 18-49 demo ratings for the Chargers-Titans and BC/USC? If so, much appreciated!