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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 2.1/6 | 1.4/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.2/4 | 0.4/1 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 1.3/5 | 1.4/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 9.23 | 3.77 | 3.49 | 4.07 | 1.00 |
CBS won a night filled with mostly repeats easily with adults 18-49 and total viewers, while NBC won with adults 18-34 (tied with Univision).
A bad morning for folks with Leno-rage. NBC publicly predicted the Leno would fare better when it ran with new episodes against repeats. But last night, a repeat of The Jay Leno Show put a beat down on an original airing of a scripted show. OK, so that show was Eastwick which ABC was merely burning off, but still. And the repeat Leno lost by a wide margin to a repeat of CSI: NY, but still not bad numbers for a rerun.
Parks & Recreation and Community fans who were rooting for The Office mini-marathon of four repeats to do just as badly so you could say, "See, repeats on NBC just don't do as well,"....sorry. Repeats of The Office did noticeably better. In fact, head-to-head vs. the ABC comedy repeats (and a Charlie Brown special) The Office fared better every half hour. But repeats of New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried won the 8p-9p hour.
Full Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Shr | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine (R) | 1.6/5 | 6.04 |
| NBC | The Office (R) | 1.4/4 | 3.75 | |
| ABC | Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (R) | 1.3/4 | 4.79 | |
| FOX | Glee (R) | 1.1/3 | 3.40 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (R) | 0.5/1 | 1.17 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried (R) | 1.5/5 | 5.56 |
| NBC | The Office (R) | 1.4/4 | 3.37 | |
| ABC | The Middle (R) | 1.2/4 | 4.34 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds (R) | 2.4/7 | 11.04 |
| NBC | The Office (R) | 1.6/5 | 3.53 | |
| ABC | Modern Family (R) | 1.3/4 | 3.82 | |
| FOX | Glee (R) | 1.3/4 | 3.59 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.83 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | The Office (R) | 1.3/4 | 4.19 |
| ABC | Cougar Town (R) | 1.1/3 | 3.41 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY (R) | 2.3/7 | 10.85 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show (R) | 1.3/4 | 4.38 | |
| ABC | Eastwick | 1.0/3 | 3.26 |
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Now i see why Eastwick was cancelled. Pretty good reapete numbers for CSI:NY and Criminal Minds. Congrats NBC for your comedy making it over 1.0 for the 1st time this week.
I’m glad to see an Office repeat beat ABC’s overrated ‘Modern Family’. That show is just a 70′s family sitcom, done ‘Office’ style’. Tallk to the camera (doc style) … single camera …. no laugh track .. some nice looking females.
Too bad about the Nielsen for the ‘Eastwick’ finale – last night’s episode was quite bittersweet all round, and even had a new plot tangent introduced with the Friesen father-son demon-team (with the dad played by Mr. Jerry O’Connell).
I do hope that ABC screens the remaining ‘Eastwick’ episodes this summer on Saturday nights.
hello old christine pickup!!
So glad to see The Office marathon do poorly. Hopefully it will help P&R save face for it’s equally bad (well, worse actually) marathon night.
The weird thing was they showed episode 12 of Eastwick and skipped episode 11 so we missed a piece of the story. So the two episodes left to show are 11 and 13. Maybe they’ll be on the DVD? I guess it’s becoming a marketing ploy to sell DVD’s of canceled shows.
But at least the show did seem to have a completion to the first part of the story.
If Leno can just keep being scheduled against episodes of cancelled shows and keep having a lead in of 4 episodes of NBC’s only hit comedy, then he’ll have a chance.
Wow, that repeat number for Leno is better than some of the Monday and Friday premiere ratings the show has gotten.
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“The weird thing was they showed episode 12 of Eastwick and skipped episode 11 so we missed a piece of the story. So the two episodes left to show are 11 and 13. Maybe they’ll be on the DVD? I guess it’s becoming a marketing ploy to sell DVD’s of canceled shows.”
I don’t know about a marketing ploy, but I’d expect Eastwick, like almost every other scripted show on network television, to get a DVD release.
Let’s face it everybody is doing badly this week. The Christmas-New Years is a yawner for network TV.
A repeat of The Middle did better than a repeat of Cougar Town?
@Cucumber Jones,
That’s not poorly enough. I myself expected about these numbers. What will be really telling, is how 30 Rock does tonight.
Criminal Minds did great! GO Modern Family and Cougar Town!
Hate how they skipped an episode of Eastwick, still a great episode overall, wish it had of done better but I didn’t expect it to get any higher.
@Mumbo,
The ploy is not showing a few episodes and then putting them on the DVD to get fans to purchase it. The few fans the show had! They did it with Dollhouse and Point Pleasant. Those are two I can think of off the top of my head recently.
Lizard
On its own terms, that really is freakishly good for OLD CHRISTINE.
That was the final episode of Eastwick. ABC did skip an episode to air the final episode that was produced so no episodes will be aired in the summer. The show is gone unfortunately.
Well of course Eastwick’s number are gonna keep dropping. everyone knows the show is cancelled, not worth watching on the day anymore, I know I wont! Same goes for why Dollhouse ratings cant go past 0.8 now
EASTWICK WAS FABULOUS LAST NIGHT!! WELL WORTH THE LONG WAIT. IS ABC REALLY CANCELLING EASTWICK BECAUSE OF NIELSEN’S OUTDATED RATING METHODS? REALLY? THEY DON’T EVEN COUNT DVR AND ON-LINE VIEWING IN THEIR STATISTICS. THEY ONLY HAVE 10 THOUSAND NIELSEN BOXES IN HOMES TODAY. THIS POPULATION IS TOO SMALL TO SPEAK FOR 300 MILLION PEOPLE. THIS IS MORE THAN UNFAIR.
Good repeat demo for OTH. Maybe the highest for CW this week.
Connie Taylor, try pressing the caps lock button.