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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.3/10 | 2.8/8 | 2.4/7 | 2.2/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.5/4 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.9/6 | 2.5/8 | 2.0/7 | 2.3/7 | 1.8/6 | 1.6/5 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 13.608 | 8.341 | 7.537 | 4.702 | 3.746 | 3.141 |
Survivor: Heroes v. Villians was again the top rated show on Thursday night and lead CBS to another ratings win. While Flashforward tied, and Marriage Ref hit a new series low rating.
While CBS was down on the night vs. last week, it still managed to come out on top of the ratings. Survivor's 3.9 adults 18-49 rating was down 5% from last week. CSI's 2.9 rating was down 6% from last week, and The Mentalist's 3.1 rating was down 6% from last week.
ABC boosted only by the season finale of Private Practice was up, but not enough to catch CBS. Flashforward stayed down at a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating, tied for its series low. Grey's Anatomy's 3.8 rating was even with last week. Private Practice's finale was up 14% from last week to a 3.2 rating. While that was 11% below its 2009 finale (4/30/09), that decline is not bad for a typical broadcast primetime show.
NBC was down overall as well vs. last week. Community fell 5% to a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating. Parks & Recreation was the only show up for NBC, rising 5% to a 2.0 rating. The Office was down 3% to a 3.4 rating, and 30 Rock fell 4% to a 2.5 rating. The Marriage Ref's 1.6 adults rating was a series low, and 27% below last week's ratings.
Fox was up overall on the night, with Bones up 4% to a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating, and Fringe up 5% to a 2.3 rating.
It was "season finale" Thursday on the CW, and Vampire Diaries adults 18-49 rating was up a tenth to a 1.7 rating, again shaming Flashforward. It's 2.6 rating for the CW target women 18-34 was the same as last week. Supernatural held at a 1.4 rating for women 18-34, the same as last week.
via NBC press note:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Thursday night:
- In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.8/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 3.1/8; and ABC's "Nightline," 3.4/8; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.6/5.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 1.0/4; "Late Show," 0.8/4; "Nightline," 1.4/5; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.7/4.
- At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.3/5 in metered-market households) trailed CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.6/5). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49) tied "Late Late Show" (0.5/3).
- At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.8/3 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millions) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Heroes v. Villians | 3.7 | 12 | 12.485 |
| FOX | Bones | 2.4 | 8 | 8.682 | |
| NBC | Community | 1.9 | 6 | 4.391 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (finale) | 1.6 | 6 | 3.431 | |
| ABC | FlashForward | 1.3 | 4 | 5.056 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Survivor: Heroes v. Villians | 4.1 | 12 | 13.451 |
| FOX | Bones | 2.7 | 8 | 9.426 | |
| NBC | Parks & Recreation | 2.0 | 6 | 4.257 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (finale) | 1.7 | 5 | 3.537 | |
| ABC | FlashForward | 1.2 | 4 | 4.624 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 3.7 | 10 | 10.500 |
| NBC | The Office | 3.4 | 10 | 6.575 | |
| CBS | CSI | 2.8 | 8 | 12.780 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 2.4 | 7 | 6.180 | |
| CW | Supernatural (finale) | 1.3 | 4 | 2.810 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Grey's Anatomy | 3.9 | 11 | 11.304 |
| CBS | CSI | 3.1 | 8 | 13.771 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock | 2.5 | 7 | 4.996 | |
| FOX | Fringe | 2.2 | 6 | 5.860 | |
| CW | Supernatural (finale) | 1.3 | 4 | 2.784 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Mentalist | 3.2 | 9 | 14.910 |
| ABC | Private Practice (finale) | 3.1 | 9 | 9.070 | |
| NBC | The Marriage Ref | 1.7 | 5 | 4.080 | |
| 10:30 | ABC | Private Practice (finale) | 3.3 | 10 | 9.493 |
| CBS | The Mentalist | 3.1 | 9 | 14.252 | |
| NBC | The Marriage Ref | 1.5 | 5 | 3.911 |
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Did they swap the times of Community and Parks and Recreation? Normally Community is on at 8pm.
OMG PRIVATE PRACTICE HIT 3.2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Community and Parks and Recreation were at their regular times.
As much as I like Fringe, last night's episode started out so promisingly only to fizzle out by the end; I'm not surprised people tuned out in the 2nd half.
Wohooo for Private Practice!!! The finale was AWESOME!! a nice conclusion to a rather brilliant season in my opinon.
1.3 for the Supernatural Finale. Hope it ticks up in the finals unless it was preempted.
csi ugly, ugly ugly. last night episode was very good, but the rating are just awfull.
Grey’s Anatomy will be dead next season, the ratings are dropping fast and every person that I know that who watch the show doesn't watch it anymore
“Grey’s Anatomy will be dead next season, the ratings are dropping fast and every person that I know that who watch the show doesn't watch it anymore”
Yep, I had to stop watching this season as well. I just don't have any more interest in it.
LOL, I guess you don't know any of the 10 million+ who still easily watch it every week.
I am no ratings expert but I'm not sure how a 3.1 in 18-49 and 13 million is awful. most shows would kill for those ratings.
NBC Execs: “Uhhh…is it too late to change our minds on that Marriage Ref thingy?”
grey's will continue for AT LEAST 2 more seasons. LOST just edges it out to be ABCs highest-scripted drama at the moment. plus the cast, including the main character, is signed on for at least 8 seasons.
and for what it's worth: someone asked shonda rhimes on her twitter if the show would continue for 8 seasons and she said “at least.”
My typo on the Parks/Community timeslot swap, fixed.
Survivor photo is not a spoiler of last night's episode, but if you expect to not see spoilers from a week ago, I cannot help you.
Well, grey's Anatomy is still #1 in the demos so it must be doing something right.
Or to summarize, Marriage Ref's ratings are entirely based on the quality of the guest list – and I have no clue how a show that terrible will get anyone to come for season 2. NBC better be planning on using it as winter filler.
Semi-bizarre that Fringe dropped after The Office was over. Guess people watched the awesome intro and then switched elsewhere when it slowed to a crawl.
I agree – GA is a poor shadow of itself.
And next year it won't have FF as a lead-in (jk).
The writers for GA and PP are afflicted with some disease that requires all the principle characters to engage in overly dramatic performances bordering on hysteria. Are people seriously not bugged by this? I had to give up both precisely for this reason.
Just a personal view, nothing significant
For me, last night may have been the tipping point with regard to CSI. It wasn't that the episode was bad or even marginally different from what it has been in the past 2 seasons. It was once my favorite show, but I have to admit that I'm losing interest in it. The cast changes are probably the primary reason.
I just lost interest 2/3 of the way through and switched over to 30 Rock.
To me, the loss of Grissom (to some lesser degree) and Warrick were major, but the focus on Langston at the expense of the other characters is really hurting the show. Laurence Fishburne – fine actor though he may be – simply does not work in this role
Although a defender of the show, I feel that they need to take a necessary step and get it out of prime 9:00 Thursday slot. Sadly, it no longer belongs there.
The only thing that would justify maintaining it at its present time would be the return of Grissom. Short of that, they need to de-emphasize the focuse on Langston. They've got good characters they hardly use. Hodges, Wendy, Greg, and Doc Robbins to name a few.
As mentioned other times, move it next season (to another night, or swap with Mentalist) and then send it off to Friday to live out its days.
According to deadline.com/ nikki finke
THE FUTURE OF “HEROES”:
6:20 PM UPDATE: Now I hear NBC will decide on 3 possible futures for Heroes, perhaps as soon as tomorrow. The most unlikely is a 13-episode order for midseason. (Creator Tim Kring is hoping for this scenario, of course.) A real possibility is that NBC cancels it altogether. But I'm told odds are best that NBC announces “some kind of climactic finale” for Heroes lasting 2- or even 4-episodes (back to back, over one- or two-nights) to air in midseason.