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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/6 | 1.8/6 | 1.7/6 | 1.4/5 | 0.8/3 | 0.4/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.4/5 | 1.9/7 | 1.9/7 | 0.9/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.716 | 5.106 | 3.920 | 7.378 | 2.139 | 1.076 |
The 2.0 adults 18-49 rating for the premiere of ABC's Rookie Blue may not seem like much, but by the standards of this summer's new scripted shows, it's a blockbuster. The 1.3 rating for the premiere of documentary Boston Med was more typical of the poor ratings so far for summer premieres.
As usual during this "summer of serious", it was unscripted reality and CBS repeats topping the hours.
Wipeout's 2.6 adults 18-49 rating was down 16% from Tuesday's premiere, but there aren't any Thursday comparables yet.
Without competition from the NBA Finals game 7, Fox's So You Think You Can Dance bounced back 5% to a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating.
Kobe or not, NBC's 100 Questions got no help, slipping a tenth of a point to a 0.6 rating.
Note that the ratings below are for the entire show(s) not half hour segments, like my typical overnight posts.
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millions) |
| 8:00 | ABC | Wipeout | 2.6 | 9 | 7.793 |
| FOX | Glee (repeat) | 1.3 | 5 | 3.862 | |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 6.406 | |
| NBC | Community (repeat) | 0.7 | 3 | 2.283 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 1.131 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | 100 Questions | 0.6 | 2 | 1.827 |
| 9:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.4 | 7 | 6.352 |
| ABC | Rookie Blue (premiere) | 2.0 | 6 | 7.253 | |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.4 | 4 | 6.941 | |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.0 | 3 | 2.402 | |
| CW | Moonlight (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 1.021 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | 30 Rock (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 2.087 |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 8.787 |
| ABC | Boston Med (premiere) | 1.3 | 4 | 5.103 | |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.0 | 3 | 2.248 | |
| 10:30 | NBC | Parks and Recreation (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 1.987 |
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any word on Syfy's Phantom yet?
It seems to me that Univision has been doing somewhat well lately…but that's beside the point.
Good for Rookie Blue!! I did not think the show was going to be good but still gave it a try. But the show was great! i cant wait to see future episodes of the show!
Rookie Blue was terrible, terrible, terrible. Predictable and bland. It should set ratings records…
Univision won the night in 18-34. lol
Univision won the night in 18-34. lol
Boston Med is a documentary series rather than a scripted show right? I didn't actually watch though.
Boston Med was scripted? I only watched the sneak on ABC.com, but it looked to me like the medical version of Cops.
It's not so much that Univision does lots better in the summer than otherwise, but that they stay pretty even with their performance the rest of the year, while the rest of the broadcast competition's ratings fall.
You're right, my mistake, fixed.
Bill – any chance of getting the second half hour numbers ( 9:30 – 10:00 )
for Rookie Blue ? Thanks !
Ratings above are for the entire show(s) (I know that's unusual for my posts, but data arrived out of the typical order for us today).
The Rookie Blue half hour 18-49 split was 2.0/1.9.
which means itll be a 1.9 in finals, because every ABC drama tends to go down in finals
bummed that no one seems interested in Boston Med. That was riveting TV.Really highlights teh doctors and nurses who do such heroic work too.
That generalization may not apply here. Lots of the changes in the finals for ABC shows are due to the fact that they schedule and extra minute or two from the earlier (and usually stronger) show to run over into the hour of the later shows, but last night all the shows were 60 minutes.
Unfortunately, the TV audience in America has little interest in real life heroes.
I hope Rookie Blue continues to get at least decent numbers. Gregory Smith is such a talent from Everwood, and it's great to seem him on t.v. every week.
Thanks Bill … I was expecting more of a drop off but, obviously, not the case !
HAHAHA….Univision is killing NBC and The CW….You should put the shows that are on at that point in your schedule….that way we see what's beating NBC at the slot….although it's not competing against the directly…I would still like to find out though. HAHA.
NBC should give it's Thursday night line-up the night off–they do horrible in reruns.