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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.8/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.4/4 | 1.1/4 | 0.8/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.34 | 5.72 | 6.35 | 2.72 | 2.00 |
CBS won the night, winning each hour on a slow Friday night where no show could manage even a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating.
A very melancholy happy trails to Dollhouse. Unsurprisingly, it bowed out quietly in its series finale at 8pm in last place, trailing Smallville. I think it will be somewhere between a long, long time and never before the Friday night reports are as anticipated as they were during the Dollhouse era . Our thanks to the Whedon-verse.
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Shr | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Ghost Whisperer | 1.9/6 | 8.34 |
| NBC | Law & Order (R) | 1.3/4 | 6.76 | |
| ABC | Supernnany | 1.3/4 | 4.72 | |
| CW | Smallville | 1.1/4 | 2.52 | |
| FOX | Dollhouse (Series Finale) | 0.8/3 | 2.16 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Medium | 1.8/6 | 7.98 |
| ABC | Shark Tank | 1.5/5 | 4.38 | |
| NBC | Dateline | 1.4/4 | 7.35 | |
| FOX | Kitchen Nightmares (Premiere) | 1.4/4 | 3.28 | |
| CW | Smallville (R) | 0.6/2 | 1.48 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | Numb3rs | 1.8/5 | 8.70 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 1.7/5 | 8.07 | |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show | 1.4/4 | 4.95 |
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Ratings data via Marc Berman's PI forums.
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WOW SMALLVILLE DID EXCELLENTLY! Just wait till next week.. I HOPE SMALLVILLE GETS AT LEAST 2ND OR 3RD PLACE!
Smallville Absolute Justice!
good for kitchen nightmares
DOLLHOUSE was epic!!!i loved it!
Off the top of my head, and in no particular order, Dollhouse has had to deal with:
Avatar! Baseball preempting it! Basketball airing on CBS! Battlestar Galactica! Being too smart for the average (or even slightly above average!) viewer! Brothers! (That’s Brothers, the TV show, though if your brothers aren’t watching the show, they are ALSO part of the problem!) Crappy critical reception til episode 6 caused the lame to walk and the blind to see! Decreasing the budget in season 2! DVDs! DVRs! Flashpoint! Forcing Joss to take notes from the network as if he was just like everyone else! Friday night death slot! Friday the 13th (the cursed day)! Friday the 13th (the movie)! General network incompetence! Getting pulled from November sweeps! Haiti telethon! Hannah Montana, the movie! Having to air on FOX! Hulu! Illegal downloads! Including too many commercials in season 2! iTunes! Lack of ads! Lack of summer reruns! Medium! Me not being one of the Nielsen households despite my best efforts to be chosen! Movies in general opening on Fridays instead of Saturdays like I proposed to the MPAA! Network interference! Nielsen ratings being made up of numbers that are likely as imaginary as unicorns! Not airing Epitaph One! Not airing the original pilot! Not allowing time for bathroom breaks for the incontinent among us in season 1! Not being able to include full-frontal nudity! Not counting all the people talking about it on Twitter as individual viewers! Not counting all the voices in my head as individual viewers! Other networks refusing to take up my suggestion that they air nothing opposite Dollhouse! People being tired on Friday nights! People going out on Friday nights! Police stopping me from forcing people to watch Dollhouse at gunpoint! Poop Break! I mean, Prison Break! Slutty ads that didn’t begin to unwrap the awesome intellectualness at the heart of the show! Smallville season 9 on the powerhouse network that is the CW! Terminator: the Blah Blah Chronicles! That dork Tony Shalhoub! Til Death! Watchmen! You, if you were one of the people who didn’t watch Dollhouse!
Has any TV show ever had to face such an onslaught of forces working against it?! I think not! Nay, has anything in the history of the universe ever had to put up such a fight against the forces of darkness as Dollhouse has in the past 351 days?! I think not! One day, people will look back on this cancellation as one of the worst atrocities in world history! And by “one day”, I’m thinking next week at the latest!
Of course, when I refer to “cancellation” I mean its current, apparent cancellation, as I’m in no way suggesting that I have given up on the show’s return! Maybe the show will get a last minute pickup from FOX, ala Jericho, as they respond to the many bloody doll heads I’ve sent to the network! Maybe the show will return in a film, like the totally awesome Firefly becoming the even more awesome Serenity! Maybe the show will return in syndication and go on to become the world’s most watched TV show, like Baywatch! Maybe the multiple Emmy nominations the show is sure to score next summer will bring about the show’s well-deserved return! Maybe the show will be picked up by the CW, just as a dozen shows from ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX once went to UPN or the WB! Maybe, years from now, the show will be reimagined, only with a Korean-Canadian woman playing Topher, like with Battlestar Galactica! Maybe this whole cancelation rigmorole is just a huge practical joke, with the truth to be revealed in time for April Fool’s Day! Maybe a lovably eccentric billionaire will decide to fund the third season himself! Maybe, on my upcoming trip to Ireland, I’ll catch a leprechaun and he’ll grant me my wish to have more Dollhouse! Maybe my plan to kidnap Joss, Eliza, and the rest of the Dollhouse cast and force them to put on a third season of Dollhouse for me will come to fruition! There are so MANY possibilities, but what matters is that I have HOPE! And there is nothing greater than hope — except for Joss, naturally!
Dollhouse forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever! Yay Joss! Yay! Yay!
Let me get this straigh 2.52 million people watched “Disciple” and 1.04 million prefered to stick a fork in an eye than Watch Legion-I kiss Lana’s ass? (1.48 million) wow people IS smart
Poll for anyone and everyone who reads this:
Have you heard of the event Smallville:Absolute Justice?
Say:
- Yes I have hard of Smallville Absolute Justice and I will be watching it.
- Yes I have heard of Smallville Absolute Justice but I will not be watching it.
- No I have not heard of it.
I expected 1.0 for Dollhouse…it seems I expected too much…
Awesome numbers for Law & Order rerun!
Wow Smallville held up nicely for a show that has been off the air for 9 weeks. Dollhouse’s series finale numbers are disappointing though
I’m sure Smallville fans will keep you busy with the upcoming two part special about the Justice League. With pam Grier playing amanda waller it should be interesting. Personally I wish they had gotten CCH Pounder though.
Why did anyone watch Legion?!? I couldn’t turn my TV off fast enough.
DOLLHOUSE was epic. Epic fail. Easily the worst series finale episode ever.
Smallville performed a lot lower than its last new episode didn’t it?
Wow, Smallville beat the Dollhouse!
Joss’s Biggest Fan – You are crazy! Robert/Bill didn’t write such a long post EVER!
Shark Tank is doing decent ratings for ABC Friday, I hope they give it another season
I meant to sat the series finale of Dollhouse
“Smallville performed a lot lower than its last new episode didn’t it?”
No Sir!
! Pandora, on November 29th, or somewhere around there brought in 2.42 million viewers. Disciple went up!
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Poll for anyone and everyone who reads this:
Have you heard of the event Smallville:Absolute Justice?
Say:
- Yes I have hard of Smallville Absolute Justice and I will be watching it.
- Yes I have heard of Smallville Absolute Justice but I will not be watching it.
- No I have not heard of it.
Dollhouse was great. How could it be bad? Unless you didnt watch Epitaph One.
Hey, any ideas will there be any DVR ratings coming up? those reports seem to be gone
@SiR no Last night’s Smallville performed better than the last New episode on November
SiR, no, not a lot lower. Not lower at all. Almost identical, 1.1/2.45 million viewers. So same 18-49 rating, and higher (which is the opposite of lower) viewers last night. Not bad considering the last original episode was more than 2 months ago.