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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 3.0/10 | 1.6/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.1/3 | 1.0/3 | 0.6/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.9/11 | 1.8/6 | 0.8/3 | 0.9/3 | 0.7/3 | 0.7/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.168 | 3.925 | 7.540 | 2.713 | 3.802 | 1.625 |
The premiere of Fox's So You Think You Can Dance skipped easily above the mostly repeat competition on the first night of broadcast primetime summer, while the series finale of Flash Forward tied its series low adults 18-49 rating.
The 3.0 adults 18-49 rating for the premiere of So You Think You Can Dance was up 11% from its Fall 2009 premiere, but down 12% from its summer cycle premiere ratings last May.
The series finale of ABC's Flash Forward fell 19% vs. last week to a 1.3 adults 18-49 rating tieing a series low. Apparently few were interested in the special Hollywood Salutes Matt Damon, it drew but a 0.8 rating.
NBC's 100 Questions, originally announced as part of its 2009-10 mid-season replacements, premiered with just a 0.8 adults 18-49 rating. Even with the Lenopocalypse, NBC decided not to put the show in its regular season lineup instead ordering more episodes of ratings losers like Trauma and Mercy, perhaps now we know why.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millions) |
| 8:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance (premiere) | 2.7 | 10 | 7.493 |
| ABC | FlashForward (series finale) | 1.4 | 5 | 5.075 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (repeat) | 1.1 | 4 | 4.022 | |
| NBC | Community (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 2.980 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (repeat) | 0.8 | 3 | 1.828 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance (premiere) | 2.9 | 10 | 8.082 |
| ABC | FlashForward (series finale) | 1.3 | 4 | 4.842 | |
| CBS | Rules of Engagement (repeat) | 1.3 | 4 | 4.628 | |
| NBC | 100 Questions (premiere) | 0.8 | 3 | 2.524 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (repeat) | 0.8 | 2 | 1.770 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance (premiere) | 3.1 | 10 | 8.430 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 7.746 | |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.3 | 4 | 2.987 | |
| ABC | Hollywood Salutes Matt Damon (special) | 0.8 | 3 | 3.304 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 1.458 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance (premiere) | 3.3 | 10 | 8.667 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.8 | 5 | 8.948 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 2.827 | |
| ABC | Hollywood Salutes Matt Damon (special) | 0.8 | 2 | 3.388 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.5 | 1 | 1.444 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.9 | 6 | 10.079 |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 2.634 | |
| ABC | Grey's Anatomy (repeat) | 0.8 | 2 | 2.997 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.8 | 6 | 9.816 |
| NBC | Parks & Rec (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 2.326 | |
| ABC | Grey's Anatomy (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 3.206 |
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Only a 0.8 for 100 Questions? I was expecting the next Big Bang too.
I think at 10:30, NBC showed Parks & Recreation.
Yikes at 100 Questions! I guess theres no question as to why NBC is burning this off in the summer.
0.8 for 100 Questions? It's almost like NBC execs suspected something when they scheduled it in Summer….
Otherwise, are any other nets airing new programming on Thursdays this Summer? Otherwise, there is no point in looking at these numbers until late September…
100 Questions is probably NBC's lowest-rated premiere ever.
I was expecting the next M*A*S*H.
I had no idea
ABC is premiering Rookie Blue on Thursday June 24.
Was there really was a show on last night called “Hollywood Salutes Matt Damon”? For what reasons was “Hollywood” saluting Matt Damon?
Looks like the move back to summer did SYTYCD well. I wonder if Fox was worried about viewer fatigue after the low ratings of the fall run?
It didn't move “back” to the summer. Fox always intended to keep the summer runs. FOX spun the overnight numbers against the fall 2009 premiere of SYTYCD, and it wasn't up much (11%) but I'd guess they used that comparison because it was down versus last summer's premiere
Fox moved it back to summer because of “producer fatigue”, they didn't want to do it twice a year. Otherwise, I expect they'd have had SYTYCD on for one more summer & fall.
” NBC 30 Rock (repeat) 1.1 3 2.326″
I am 100% sure (I watched) that the 10:30pm ET NBC showing was “Parks & Recreation” and not “30 Rock”
There will be different programming on Thursdays this summer than what aired last night, but only Fox chose to premiere before Memorial Day.
It's quite clear to me that the low numbers for 100 Questions is a result of poor scheduling. Obviously 100 Questions has a lot of overlap with So You Think You Can Dance, Flash Forward, Rules of Engagement, Vampire Diaries and everything on cable at 8:30pm.
There is no other way to explain the poor ratings.
ouch for questions i thought it would be awful but i actually loved it
The Futon Critic confirms that it was Parks and Rec at 10:30.
the report we got had it right, too — probably some copy/paste issue, but I fixed it.
That Matt Damon salute was from an organization I don't recall hearing about before- and it was the 24th such award. lol
“FlashForward” was disappointing. To leave it like that, knowing full well that there was a strong chance that it would not get picked up- foolish.
After watching Flashforward's 2 final episodes, I can only say that it deserved the cancellation and the horrible ratings. That finale was so sloppily written, with no regards whatsoever to believability or logic or common sense, it completely drained all the characters of all their humanity and left them with nothing but stupidity, marching witlessly towards a future that nobody cares about. Good riddance.
As Robert noted, SYTYCD was down (12%) from its summer premiere ratings last season, although that was nearly a week earlier in May because of the holiday timing. I have added the comparison to the post.