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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 2.6/7 | 2.4/7 | 2.3/7 | 2.1/6 | 1.1/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.9/6 | 1.4/4 | 2.9/10 | 1.5/5 | 1.3/4 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.978 | 10.881 | 5.138 | 6.196 | 2.743 |
Conan O'Brien's appearance boosted 60 Minutes fast affiliate ratings 0.6 ratings points (which vs. last week's anemic ratings is a 38% increase) to a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating.
ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was even with its last original episode (4/11) with a 2.4 adults 18-49 rating. Continuing to climb back a bit from recent series low ratings, Desperate Housewives was up 12% vs. last week to a 3.7 rating, and Brothers & Sisters was up 4% to a 2.5 rating.
After Conan's 60 Minutes appearance, the rest of the CBS line up was down. Amazing Race fell 6% vs. last week to a 3.0 rating. A special new Cold Case at 9pm drew just a 2.0 rating, and a regular 10pm timeslot Cold Case did little better, drawing a 2.2 rating down 4% from its last original on 4/11.
Fox was all over the map on Sunday. The Simpsons was even with last week's 2.7 adults 18-49 rating. The Cleveland Show was down 4% (vs. 4/11) to a 2.6 rating, and a special 1 hour Family Guy was up 3% (vs. 4/11) to a 3.5 rating.
At 8pm, NBC's Minute To Win It was up 6% from last week to a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating, while Celebrity Apprentice fell 16% vs last week to a 2.6 rating.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 7:00 | CBS | 60 Minutes | 2.0 | 7 | 12.520 |
| ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos | 1.6 | 6 | 6.239 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.0 | 4 | 4.826 | |
| FOX | Til Death | 0.7 | 2 | 1.948 | |
| 7:30 | CBS | 60 Minutes | 2.5 | 8 | 14.149 |
| ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos | 1.8 | 6 | 7.040 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 1.3 | 4 | 5.508 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons (repeat) | 1.0 | 3 | 2.426 | |
| 8:00 | CBS | The Amazing Race | 2.9 | 9 | 10.732 |
| FOX | The Simpsons | 2.7 | 8 | 6.057 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 2.1 | 6 | 7.631 | |
| NBC | Minute To Win It | 1.7 | 5 | 5.378 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | The Amazing Race | 3.0 | 9 | 10.246 |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 2.7 | 8 | 9.625 | |
| FOX | The Cleveland Show | 2.6 | 7 | 5.739 | |
| NBC | Minute To Win It | 2.0 | 6 | 5.910 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Desperate Housewives | 3.7 | 10 | 11.966 |
| FOX | Family Guy | 3.7 | 10 | 7.688 | |
| NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 2.5 | 7 | 6.972 | |
| CBS | Cold Case | 2.0 | 5 | 9.423 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Desperate Housewives | 3.7 | 10 | 12.067 |
| FOX | Family Guy | 3.3 | 9 | 6.969 | |
| NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 2.5 | 6 | 6.637 | |
| CBS | Cold Case | 2.1 | 5 | 9.830 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 2.7 | 7 | 9.083 |
| NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 2.6 | 7 | 6.783 | |
| CBS | Cold Case | 2.2 | 6 | 9.935 | |
| 10:30 | NBC | Celebrity Apprentice | 2.9 | 8 | 7.555 |
| CBS | Cold Case | 2.3 | 6 | 10.210 | |
| ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 2.3 | 6 | 8.171 |
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Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
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Nice bump for Housewives
Desperate Housewives is going up!!!
Pretty big drop for Brothers & Sisters in the second hour.
Minute to Win It got a 2.0 at 8:30.
wow. i guess there's always some audience for game shows.
Definitely not a big win for Conan but the video was online before the show even aired on the West Coast so I guess you have to draw your own conclusions.
In other news, all those (hypothetical?) people who still had hope of Cold Case getting a renewal can probably stop now.
Glad that Desperate Housewives was up
hooray for DH and B&S going up some
that's a pretty hefty half-hour drop for B&S though, but i guess i'm kind of not that surprised considering it was a pretty uneventful episode for the most part.. next week looks great though
Whoever guessed a bump of 0.9 for Conan's segment (which aired just after 7:30) was absolutely on the mark.
Hard to believe that Sunday nights is one of the most boring nights on TV. None of these shows–except The Simpsons–really appeal to me.
Getting past the %, Conan increased the show's ratings by 0.6 points. That's a little.
Thanks.
I'm rather surprised with The Amazing Race numbers although it continues to beat FOX animation. This was the penultimate episode. Unscripted competition usually trends upward near the end. Maybe everybody was focusing on the NY car bomber!
Doesn't look like Minute to Win It has a home on Sunday nights on NBC. People tire quickly of cheaply done unscripted when there are alternatives.
It should also be noted that Conan's interview was at the end of the show….so it was more around the 2.5 than the 2.0.
Family Guy dropped off quite a bit in the 2nd half hour since it was just a clip show of musical moments.
Ok, there are some mistakes about DH. First of all DH increase from 3.2 to 3.7 and ? bet that's not only 9%. Plus, i might be wrong but i thought DH didn't hit lows least week
You're right. Although I always compare preliminary ratings from last week to the preliminary ratings in these posts. DH's preliminary rating last week was a 3.3, and 3.7/3.3 is 12%. Will fix that.
I didn't write DH saw series lows last week, I wrote “recent series lows”. They were two weeks ago.
I would say for the price, NBC is probably ecstatic about Minute to Win It. But they have it scheduled for summer, anyway, so I wouldn't worry too much about it taking up any space on the schedule they will announce in two weeks.
I can't believe Cold Case is now back to back, like that'll save the show, because IT WON'T.
I agree with you Julia, but sometimes cheap devalues everything going after it. NBC hasn't seemed to learn the lesson yet! By the fall Minute to Win It will be damaged goods, in my opinion.
I remember Deal or No Deal, a show whose appeal totally eluded me. Opening suitcases! But it managed to last awhile. How much damage did it do to the NBC brand which put NBC where it is today?
Maybe Minute to Win It is cheap enough and novel enough to make it back on in the fall.
I hope they do! Cold Case had soft ratings by the start of its 7th season but it warmed up by the finale which means that CC is a valuable show on a Sunday on that timeslot (we know how dreadful its ratings were when it was next to Three Rivers). It recovered, it is cool, it is fantastic. Save it, CBS!
Can you positively attribute the ratings bump of “60 Minutes” second half hour to Conan? The two other one-hour shows “America's Funniest” and “Dateline” also had higher numbers in the 7:30 to 8:00 time slot.
Maybe it's just a simple matter of more overall viewers at 7:30 than at 7:00?
That's the season finale of Cold Case isn't it?