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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.4/14 | 2.1/6 | 2.0/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 3.2/11 | 1.6/5 | 1.4/5 | 1.0/3 | 1.3/4 | 1.0/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 14.07 | 5.77 | 7.27 | 6.57 | 3.29 | 2.12 |
Yes, it's April Fools day, but no, a repeat of The New Adventures of Old Christine still didn't beat American Idol. Neither did any other show on last night.
With Idol on, and averaging a 6.5 ratings with adults 18-49 and and 19.96 million viewers, of course Fox won another Wednesday. That was down 10% or so with adults 18-49 from last week, however, look for Idol's numbers to go up in the finals due to over three minutes of overrun past 10pm.
Earlier in the night Human Target posted a 2.3 rating with adults 18-49, up versus last week. But last week it was against a new episode of Survivor: Heroes and Villains rather than Repeats of The New Adventures of Old Christine and Accidentally on Purpose.
At 8:30pm The Middle scored a 1.9 with adults 18-49, down nearly 25% from last week's 2.5 rating. I guess It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown wasn't a good lead-in for it. On the other had, Modern Family was up a tick to a 3.8 rating with adults 18-49 versus last week's 3.7.
CBS was totally in repeat mode last night, and NBC was repeats for two of it's three hours. But a repeat of Minute to Win It significantly outperformed last week's episode of Mercy. Look for more 'death of scripted content" comments! Oh joy.
At 10pm a new episode of Law & Order: SVU led NBC to victory with a 2.9 rating for adults 18-49 and nearly 10 million viewers.
Update: here's some info on the CW shows via the CW:
THE CW
- Top Model ranked first in its time period in W18-34 (2.4/9) and A18-34 (1.5/6, tie) and was second in W18-49 (2.2/7). Women 18-49 were up +0.2 versus last week while all other demo breaks were flat. The total audience (3.2mil) was up +200K versus last week.
- FLY GIRLS was up +0.2 versus last week in W18-34 (1.0/3) and up a tenth in A18-34 (0.6/2). Retention out of ANTM was still below 45%.
- HIGH SOCIETY was up +0.2 versus last week in A18-34 (0.5/1) and W18-34 (0.7/2).
Late night:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Wednesday night:
- "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (3.6/9 in metered-market households) out-delivered CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" (2.5/6) and ABC's "Nightline (2.7/6) and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (1.3/4) in Nielsen's 56 metered markets.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” (1.3/6) ranked #1 among the major networks in the time period over "Late Show" (0.7/3), "Nightline" (1.0/4) and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (0.5/3).
Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Sh | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | FOX | Human Target | 2.3/8 | 8.18 |
| NBC | Minute to Win It (R) | 1.8/6 | 6.29 | |
| ABC | It's The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (R) | 1.4/5 | 4.95 | |
| CW | America's Next Top Model | 1.4/5 | 3.22 | |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine (R) | 1.3/5 | 4.92 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | The Middle | 1.9/6 | 6.21 |
| CBS | Accidentally on Purpose (R) | 1.4/4 | 4.36 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | American Idol | 6.5/18 | 19.96 |
| ABC | Modern Family | 3.8/11 | 9.34 | |
| CBS | Criminal Minds (R) | 1.8/5 | 7.86 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (R) | 1.4/4 | 5.57 | |
| CW | Fly Girls | 0.5/1 | 1.17 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Cougar Town | 2.6/7 | 5.99 |
| CW | High Society | 0.3/1 | 0.86 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | 2.9/8 | 9.96 |
| CBS | CSI: NY (R) | 1.7/5 | 7.23 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 1.4/4 | 4.06 |
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testing…sorry for the Disqus problems…
poor betty…i shed a tear
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They are great numbers for a repeat of Minute to Win It. I guess there is a good chance NBC will air new episodes of that show at on weekdays next season.
6.29 million viewers too… NBC need shows that attract large audiences. A lot of their shows seem to be hovering around the 4-5 million mark. The more people watching, the more buzz a show can generate and that will inevitably translate to better 18-49. Hopefully.
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Has anyone else been experiencing caching problems with tvbythenumbers.com over the last few days? Unless I force refresh the page, I don't see any new posts. Might be my computer, but I'm not having the problem at any other site so I thought I'd ask.
If you didn't know the context of that picture, it so looks like it could have come from some action show or something. Mitchell looks so serious!
AoP repeat does 1.4 on a Wednesday? What a non-surprise. I see no reason to expect new episodes to do better than low 2s like everything else in the slot. CBS seems like they are finally catching on to the Mentalist/CSI swap a year too late; maybe they'll catch on to the futility of the Wednesday block this year as well.
And HT can almost hit mid 2s… when everything else is sub 2.0. Why is Fox trying to keep this around?
My previous comments are gone
Anyway, again I feel bad for The Middle dropping to 1.9 and I thought the Charlie Brown special would do well
Modern Family at 3.8, woot! I hope it goes up in the finals
Glad to see Cougar Town not dropping below 2.5, a 2.6 against Idol results show is not that bad. Still a big drop from Modern Family but I think ABC is okay with Cougar Town's ratings against Idol.
DWTS Mondays could give Idol Wednesdays a challenge for the 2nd place for the total viewers average this season, interesting.
Ugly Betty is ending quietly like how Alias did few years ago, quite sad although I stopped watching that show around season 2.
What is up with the comments not appearing?????? huh
well now it's completely clear (if it wasn't already) that Mercy is done.
yeah, sorry. sadly when Disqus goes out, any comments entered into the old system aren't migrated back in. : (
The post ANTM slot has become some sort of death slot, Stylista, Beautiful Life then these two half hour reality shows.
Maybe they should place Gossip Girl there next season or I dunno extend ANTM to two hours ala The Biggest Loser or place a rerun of ANTM (since CW always has it!) at ANTM and start ANTM at 9pm?
Both Fly Girls and High Society have awful ratings.
Cougar Town at 2.6 isn't very good either for ABC – especially following Modern Family's 3.8 demo rating. But it's better than ABC's The Middle coming in at 1.9. Ugly Betty at 1.4 is really a bad rating for ABC. I'm still surprised that they moved it from Friday to Wednesdays with it's bad ratings.
Seems like the only show that performed well last night was Modern Family. (OK, maybe SVU).
Disappointing numbers for The Middle. I have hopes that someday they'll either 1) provide it with a consistent lead in or 2) move it to the 9:30 hour in back of Cougar Town. The 8:30 hour is a tough place to be for a sitcom with no lead support. ABC needs a 4th comedy to fill out the 8-10 block on Wed.
The way it is, someone is going to get hurt. (i.e. The Middle out by its lonesome at 8:30 or Cougar Town being moved somewhere else if Middle goes to 9:30
Minute to Win It beat the last Mercy – what hasn't beat Mercy lately? My 'ears' pricked up for Human Target until I realized what it was up against. I think I read (on this site from a commenter) that the stories are supposed to 'pick up' soon and be less generic so I'll stick with it a little longer, see if it takes an unexpected twist. I think that would help a lot.
or 2) move it to the 9:30 hour in back of Cougar Town
Sorry, s/b “in back of Modern Family”
This will teach me to not take advantage of the edit capability
I highly doubt that The Middle will be moved to 9:30. It's family friendly and it belongs in the 8PM hour. ABC will probably move it to 8PM and use it to launch a new comedy at 8:30 next season.
wow, CW really can't catch a break can they?
Minute to Win It can't be renewed with a 1.8!!!
That would be OK too. (i.e. The Middle to 8;00). The point is that it is languishing out there at 8:30 with no support.
ABC needs to move The Middle to 9:30 and launch two new comedies at 8PM next season. (The ideal thing to do would be to move Modern Family to 8 since both it and TM are family shows but that's not gonna happen because of MF's ratings.) Courtney Cox and Matthew Perry should go to Tuesday and RC, judging by its promo is really really crappy.
I hate to say it but I don't see Christine getting renewed at this point – Gary is doing better and by the looks of it, AoP will too. It's reached syndication and it's not an in-home production… I still hope it'll get renewed, but the chances are as of now ~20%.
The best candidate got voted off AI last night and Simon the tyrant is probably waiting until the top 3 to use the save… Pity.
Despite the awful ratings, I think CW would not pull out Fly Girls anytime soon, I haven't seen the show but I read reviews that the show is a like a 30 minute commercial for the airlines the girls featured are working for. Maybe that product placement is profitable for the CW