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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 2.3/7 | 2.0/6 | 1.8/5 | 1.6/5 | 1.4/4 | 0.3/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.1/7 | 1.3/4 | 1.7/5 | 1.3/4 | 1.7/5 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.915 | 7.618 | 4.750 | 5.308 | 3.587 | 0.728 |
ABC's Bachelorette adults 18-49 rating increased 4% on Monday, as the summer premieres of Lie To Me, The Good Guys, and Persons Unknown failed to crack a 2.0 rating in their premiere.
Against the premieres of most of their original competition for summer Monday's, ABC's Bachelorette was up 4% to a 2.6 adults 18-49 rating, while True Beauty was down 5% to a 1.9 rating. On the night, ABC held even vs. last week.
Lie To Me's 1.8 adults 18-49 rating had to have been disappointing to Fox. It's not clear what Fox might have been expecting from The Good Guys. It's 1.4 adults 18-49 rating was down a tenth from it's May 19 "sneak peek". Will the show already have the "loser" label by the time fall arrives?
Last Comic Standing's 2.0 rating was down 17% from its premiere 2 summers ago (5/22/08), but at the risk of violating my own Gunsmoke Rule, that seems about what NBC could have expected. On the other hand, for a scripted show, Persons Unknown's premiere 1.3 adults 18-49 rating was pitiful.
via NBC press note:
In Late-Night Metered Markets Monday night:
- "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (3.1/8 in metered-market households) out-delivered CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" (2.7/7) and ABC's combination of "Nightline (3.0/7) and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (1.4/4 with an encore) in Nielsen's 56 metered markets.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 1.0/4; "Late Show," 0.9/4; "Nightline," 1.1/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.6/3 with an encore.
- At 12:35 a.m., "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.3/4 in metered-market households) trailed CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.4/5). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/3 in 18-49) topped "Late Late Show" (0.4/3).
- 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 (million) |
| 8:00 | ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.2 | 8 | 7.308 |
| FOX | Lie To Me (summer premiere) | 1.8 | 6 | 5.752 | |
| NBC | Last Comic Standing (premiere) | 1.8 | 6 | 4.963 | |
| CBS | How I Met Your Mother (repeat) | 1.6 | 6 | 5.379 | |
| CW | One Tree Hil (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.921 | |
| 8:30 | ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.4 | 8 | 7.637 |
| FOX | Lie To Me (summer premiere) | 1.9 | 6 | 6.207 | |
| NBC | Last Comic Standing (premiere) | 1.9 | 6 | 4.765 | |
| CBS | Rules of Engagement (repeat) | 1.6 | 5 | 5.539 | |
| CW | One Tree Hil (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.834 | |
| 9:00 | ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.7 | 8 | 8.048 |
| CBS | Two and a Half Men (repeat) | 2.6 | 8 | 9.658 | |
| NBC | Last Comic Standing (premiere) | 2.1 | 6 | 5.094 | |
| FOX | The Good Guys (summer premiere) | 1.4 | 4 | 4.620 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.581 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | The Bachelorette | 2.9 | 8 | 8.561 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory (repeat) | 2.7 | 7 | 9.055 | |
| NBC | Last Comic Standing (premiere) | 2.1 | 6 | 5.101 | |
| FOX | The Good Guys (summer premiere) | 1.4 | 4 | 4.652 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.577 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (repeat) | 1.9 | 5 | 8.118 |
| ABC | True Beauty | 1.9 | 5 | 5.231 | |
| NBC | Persons Unknown (premiere) | 1.4 | 4 | 4.308 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | CSI: Miami (repeat) | 1.9 | 6 | 7.960 |
| ABC | True Beauty | 1.8 | 5 | 4.708 | |
| NBC | Persons Unknown (premiere) | 1.3 | 4 | 4.266 |
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Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
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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