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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 3.4/9 | 2.8/8 | 2.1/6 | 1.7/5 | 1.3/4 | 1.0/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.9/9 | 1.9/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.2/4 | 1.3/4 | 1.4/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 10.11 | 9.32 | 7.51 | 5.98 | 3.26 | 1.92 |
Daylight Saving Time strikes! Against weaker than normal competition, both House and Chuck dropped 17 percent in adults 18-49 versus last week. House to a 4.0 rating and Chuck sunk to a 1.9, which was at least a tie for its lowest ever rating for an original episode.
With CBS in repeats other than a new episode of Rules of Engagement, and ABC running a 20/20 special on The Bachelor and a repeat of Castle, it might have been a night for FOX and NBC to feast but it was not to be. Strong performance with its reruns helped CBS to finish in second place for the night. NBC was again last of the four major broadcast networks.
24 was down from last week too, but only one-tenth of an adults 18-49 ratings point.
Even in reruns CBS's 9pm comedy block performed. And don't feel bad Jay Leno, you couldn't beat repeats of CSI: Miami at 10pm, but neither could a new episode of Law & Order, which lost to the repeat and tied with a repeat of Castle.
But while things were bad for NBC and FOX at 8pm, things looked up for Life Unexpected which delivered its best numbers since it's second week on January 25 ( women 18-34 (1.8/6), adults 18-34 (1.3/4), women 18-49 (1.4/4) and total viewers (2.11mil).
Update: lots of discussion in the comments today about whether/why Daylight Saving Time matters. Regardless of your point of view, or the causes, Bill notes, viewing among adults 18-49 was definitely down in the 8pm hour:
Here are some numbers to feed the Daylight Savings Time meme:
Last night (3/15)
Adults 18-49 watching TV at 8pm: 33.6%
at 9pm: 37%Last Monday (3/8)
18-49 at 8pm: 37.1%
at 9pm: 39.1%Did overall 18-49 viewing go down at 8pm from last Monday to this Monday? Yes, by ~11%. Was it all Daylight Savings Time? Who knows.
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Sh | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | House | 4.0/12 | 11.20 |
| ABC | 20/20 Inside The Bachelor | 2.0/6 | 7.54 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (R) | 2.0/6 | 6.15 | |
| NBC | Chuck | 1.9/6 | 5.78 | |
| CW | Life Unexpected | 1.0/3 | 2.11 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Rules of Engagement | 2.7/8 | 7.76 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men (R) | 3.8/10 | 12.51 |
| FOX | 24 | 2.7/7 | 9.03 | |
| ABC | 20/20 Inside The Bachelor | 2.5/7 | 8.42 | |
| NBC | Trauma | 1.5/4 | 5.25 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl | 1.0/3 | 1.72 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | The Big Bang Theory (R) | 3.8/10 | 11.54 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 2.3/7 | 8.97 |
| NBC | Law & Order | 1.8/5 | 6.90 | |
| ABC | Castle (R) | 1.8/5 | 6.57 |
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Life Unexpected went up again. Yay!!!
CRAP!!!!!!!! I hate ratings…. because Chuck rocked last night.
OUCH! for Chuck. That's just not pretty.
I think possibly Law & Order would do better with a better lead-in. Yes, Chuck was very good last night, but Trauma is terrible and brings nothing to Law & Order.
very happy life unexpected went up!! CW renew it already!! geeeze
Dull night of shows on the big boys. SHO had the 2 pt finale of 'Secrets/Call Girl'. Now, that was good.
Did Gossip Girl go down in demo or remain the same?
Who do I contact to request a Nielsen box????
just kidding.
Sorry for the dupe. I'm having problems with the new posting format.
Ouch for Chuck, that's bad, really bad.
As for 24 i thought it would have rebounded by now, but it's not. I think if the meeting regarding this shows future haven't happened yet it will tonight
As for CW Gossip Girl is really failing now
I am so bummed about Chuck dropping.
24 still at 2.7 18-49 and back up to over 9 million viewers. Sweet. Come on, Fox. Just renew it.
Is it normal for shows to drop after the time change? I know ratings normal go down in the spring.
2 1/2 men and TBBT still get close to a 4.0 with rerun's?
And I really don't see with spring here how 24's numbers will rebound at all.
Poor Chuck. That was an amazing episode last night. Thankfully it wasn't just Chuck that went down because of DST, House did too. Which doesn't cause for as much concern.
you and me both chuckfan.
Fin you need to verify your disqus e-mail. See instructions under the comment box. And no L&O wasn't down again, it just wasn't up as much as NBC might have hoped against repeats.
People missed a great episode of Chuck last night. Messed a bit with some of the show's facts, but a great ep nonetheless. This happened last year when daylight savings time switched over. They went from 6.6M viewers to 5.8M the following week. (not sure about the ratings) So, at least for the overall numbers, they did much worse last year, in terms of a drop anyway.
Against softer competition, 24 still drops? Yeesh.
L&O can't hit 2.0 even with both other shows in repeats? Yeesh again.
And DST rears its ugly head again. Makes no sense that it should affect things to that degree, but it did…
oh man! why did this happen! Chuck has been so awesome these past few weeks, it should be going up, not down!
I am hoping that since House went down drastically too, that this was just a daylight savings time glitch. This should not be happening!
Rob, do you really believe that DST caused Chuck's drop?