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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 3.4/10 | 3.3/10 | 2.8/8 | 1.7/5 | 1.6/5 | 0.4/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 3.5/12 | 2.7/9 | 2.1/7 | 2.0/7 | 0.9/3 | 0.5/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.573 | 10.416 | 8.020 | 4.159 | 9.012 | 0.792 |
NBC's America's Got Talent opened strong last night, with adults 18-49 ratings up 13% from last summer's premiere, but the combo of Hell's Kitchen and Glee put Fox atop Tuesday's ratings averages.
The season premiere of Fox's Hell's Kitchen was up 4% vs. last seasons premiere (7/21/09) to a 2.9 adults 18-49 rating. Glee's 3.8 adults 18-49 rating was down 21% vs. last week when it followed American Idol, but up 15% from its fall 2009 average when it didn't. It was Glee's best adults 18-49 rating for a show not following American Idol. Together they allowed Fox to just edge NBC for the adults 18-49 ratings crown on Tuesday.
On NBC, America's Got Talent's 3.6 adults 18-49 rating was up 13% from last summer's premiere (6/23/09). Losing It With Jillian's premiere rating of 2.7 was a good start.
The premiere (or as ABC would call it, sneak preview) of Wipeout was down 9% from last summer's debut with a still quite respectable 3.0 adults 18-49 rating. 20/20 followed at 10pm with a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating.
via NBC press note:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Tuesday night:
- In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: an encore "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.9/7; a rebroadcast of CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.5/6; ABC's "Nightline," 3.3/8; and an encore "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.4/4.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 1.1/5; "Late Show," 0.7/3; "Nightline," 1.3/5; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.6/3.
- At 12:35 a.m., an encore "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.3/5 in metered-market households) tied a rebroadcast of CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.3/4). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.6/4 in 18-49) topped "Late Late Show" (0.4/3).
- At 1:35 a.m., a rebroadcast of "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.9/4 in metered-market households and a 0.4/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00 | NBC | America's Got Talent (premiere) | 2.8 | 9 | 10.362 |
| ABC | Wipeout (sneak preview) | 2.7 | 9 | 7.696 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 2.7 | 9 | 5.742 | |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 10.269 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.939 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | America's Got Talent (premiere) | 3.4 | 11 | 12.005 |
| ABC | Wipeout (sneak preview) | 3.1 | 10 | 8.518 | |
| FOX | Hell's Kitchen | 3.1 | 10 | 6.569 | |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 1.8 | 6 | 11.148 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.671 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | America's Got Talent (premiere) | 4.0 | 12 | 13.234 |
| FOX | Glee | 3.6 | 10 | 8.536 | |
| ABC | Wipeout (sneak preview) | 3.1 | 9 | 8.438 | |
| CBS | NCIS:LA (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 9.291 | |
| CW | Life Unexpected (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.717 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | America's Got Talent (premiere) | 4.2 | 11 | 13.565 |
| FOX | Glee | 4.1 | 11 | 9.445 | |
| ABC | Wipeout (sneak preview) | 3.2 | 9 | 8.572 | |
| CBS | NCIS:LA (repeat) | 1.8 | 5 | 9.244 | |
| CW | Life Unexpected (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.843 | |
| 10:00 | NBC | Losing It With Jillian (premiere) | 2.8 | 8 | 7.122 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 2.6 | 7 | 8.038 | |
| CBS | The Good Wife (repeat) | 1.3 | 4 | 7.120 | |
| 10:30 | NBC | Losing It With Jillian (premiere) | 2.5 | 7 | 6.209 |
| ABC | 20/20 | 2.1 | 6 | 6.859 | |
| CBS | The Good Wife (repeat) | 1.4 | 4 | 6.999 |
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NBC won every half hour. How is FOX on top?
Jack, you must be new to this site….nothing is ever what it seems!
Wow everything did well last night though Losing It With Jillian didnt do as well as I expected. Still won the hour. Even CW repeats didnt do so terrible!
Fox didn't have a 10PM hour to drag down its average. Losing It With Jillian reduced the overall score for NBC, since its 2.6 or 2.7 average pulled down America's Got Talent's 3.6.
Hope that helps!
Is the concept of a nightly average difficult to understand?
Can we talk about the real story here, though? Wipeout drew a 3.0 over four episodes?!?!?!
This seems like a much stronger than average summer weekday. What summer time period is the least-watched overall? Right around July 4th?
They must be averaging the total evening divided by the half-hours (NBC summed up and divided by 6 x 30min break downs & Fox divided by 4 x 30min). Still that seems like hinky math and logic when all the other stations are programming for 3 hours versus Fox for just 2. I'm waiting for the fall up-front when Fox decides to step up and do 3 hours of programming…it seems really unfair that they can skew their numbers by having a lower denominator, but I'm sure the ad buyers are looking at the 30min data so it's probably irrelevant. Lot's of reality last night and a tight race across the board.
Surprised that Glee is holding up so well without the Idol lead-in…they should do fine in the fall.
The average for 2 hours not for the whole night since FOX would receive a zero in the 3 hour average. NBC wins the night.
I really dont understand why ABC is waiting 3 more weeks for another episode of Wipeout. Thats just more dumb scheduling.
I had a feeling that Glee would go under AGT in the 18-49 demo. Wipeout held up surprisingly well given the heavy competition. Hell's Kitchen was a little lower than usual but still okay for a summer show.
Bill, do you know how Glee did in the women 18-34 demo?
Whatever u say.
Interesting that Glee rose by almost a million viewers over the hour. I wonder if some viewers forgot it was on either thinking the season was over, that it was Monday, or because Idol wasn't on. Glad to see it did fine on its own anyhow.
Glee started one minute early at 8:59 so some of the Hell's Kitchen demo at 8:30 might be pre-Glee tune in. Maybe some of the Glee fans were watching AGT instead and forgot Glee was on until 9:30.
Well, someone should go back to school…
Jack, feel free to calculate whatever average you'd like, feel free to claim whichever winner you'd like, feel free to maintain the earth is flat, if you'd like
Nielsen doesn't keep score like that, so neither does anyone who keeps track of Nielsen ratings.
Three letters: NBA
So, Glee want from 4.8 last week to 3.8 this week. Considering it's summer season and Glee is pulling a whole point higher than it did in fall and winter (if I recall correctly, the first 13 episodes averaged at 2.8), this is most certainly a success. Glee is definitely going to be Fox's No.2 scripted series after House (unless Lonestar turns out to be a surprise success).
And although Jillian managed to drag NBC's average down for the night, her show's ratings are doing just fine for NBC… About as good as Parenthood, I'd say. And in the off-season.
Oh forgot about that, Thanks.