| Scoreboard | ABC | CBS | FOX | NBC | UNI |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 2.4/7 | 2.0/6 | 1.9/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.8/6 | 1.1/3 | 2.1/7 | 0.8/2 | 0.8/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 7.635 | 9.290 | 4.087 | 5.778 | 2.602 |
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ABC won the night with adults 18-49 and CBS led with total viewers. America's Funniest Videos was up five-tenths to a 2.0 from last week's 1.5 rating while Once Upon A Time was even with last week's 3.0 adults 18-49 rating. Desperate Housewives was up three tenths to a 2.8 vs. last week's a 2.5 adults 18-49 rating. GCB's finale was even with last week's 1.8 adults 18-49 rating.
On Fox, the 7:30pm Cleveland Show was down a tenth to a 1.4 vs. last week's 1.5 adults 18-49 rating, The Simpsons was down two-tenths to a 2.1 vs. last week's 2.3 and Bob's Burgers was down a tenth to a 1.8 from last week's 1.9 adults 18-49 rating. Family Guy earned a 2.7, down a tenth compared to the a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating it earned last week. American Dad returned this week after a month to earn a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating vs. the 2.0 its last original earned.
CBS's two-hour Amazing Race finale drew a 2.6 compared with last week's season low-matching a 2.2 adults 18-49 rating, and was up in both ratings and viewership from last years' finale. NYC 22 earned a 1.3, up a tenth compared to last week's 1.2 adults 18-49 rating. Earlier in the night, 60 Minutes earned a 1.6, up four tenths from last week's 1.2 adults 18-49 rating.
On NBC, Harry's Law hit a new series low, earning only a 0.7, down two-tenths from last week's 0.9 adults 18-49 rating. From 9-11p Celebrity Apprentice was down a tenth, drawing only a 1.9 compared to last week's a 2.0 adults 18-49 rating.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Sunday, May 6, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 7:00PM | ABC | America's Funniest Home Videos | 2.0 | 7 | 6.621 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes | 1.6 | 5 | 11.441 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons -R | 1.1 | 4 | 2.659 | |
| NBC | Dateline NBC | 0.7 | 2 | 3.261 | |
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| 7:30PM | FOX | The Cleveland Show | 1.4 | 4 | 3.124 |
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| 8:00PM | ABC | Once Upon A Time | 3.0 | 8 | 8.935 |
| CBS | Amazing Race (8-10PM) | 2.6 | 7 | 9.390 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons | 2.1 | 6 | 4.745 | |
| NBC | Harry's Law | 0.7 | 2 | 7.524 | |
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| 8:30PM | FOX | Bob's Burgers | 1.8 | 5 | 3.687 |
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| 9:00PM | ABC | Desperate Housewives | 2.8 | 7 | 9.307 |
| FOX | Family Guy | 2.7 | 7 | 5.548 | |
| NBC | The Celebrity Apprentice (9-11p) | 1.9 | 5 | 6.163 | |
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| 9:30PM | FOX | American Dad | 2.3 | 5 | 4.758 |
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| 10:00PM | ABC | GCB | 1.8 | 5 | 5.674 |
| CBS | NYC 22 | 1.3 | 3 | 6.941 | |
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Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live baseball game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
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. 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.
For more information see Numbers 101 and Numbers 102.
@ONE – WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT MAKES YOU SO SURE? ARE YOU AN EXECUTIVE OF CBS OR SOMETHING? IF CSI MIAMI GETS PICKED UP – WILL YOU PROMISE NOT TO POST HERE ANYMORE?
@One- We’ll see on May 16th.
when will we have Friday final ratings?? I’m so nervous about Nikita and SPN!
Next week…
Survivor Season Finale vs. Desperate Housewives Series Finale
Who wins and by how much?
I say: Survivor (3.8 – 3.6)
Well Survivor usually jumps to 4.0 for the finale, so I’m expecting Survivor to win DH next week. Ofcourse, I hope I’m wrong.
American Dad beat The Simpsons
And to think Fox snubbed AD for a while.
Desperate housewives lead in is really nice . they re after the best sunday show each week and people just change channel
so sad for a show that used to have 20 million viewers to be that low at its last episodes.
i was talking about desperate housewives.
I’ve run simulations. I’ve composed schedules. All of this leads me to believe that every CBS drama that isn’t already renewed is effectively canceled.
NBC has picked up the Ryan Murphy comedy New Normal and the J.J. Abrams-Eric Kripke thriller Revolution to series.
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I was hoping Amazing Race could perk up to a 3.0 for the finale but sadly not. Though, it should adjust up a tenth to a 2.7.
A lot of amazing numbers, with post low for last night, let me guess no CW shows. Seriously guys , I know you love the traffic CW fans bring to the table, but how many fans have walked away from this site because of the fans of CW.
IMOO, great numbers for OUAT, and regarding GCB, again we are talking ABC here. I can’t believe ABC is saying those numbers are okay, when next years pilots could be another OUAT.
OMG HL, NBC fans make be nuts. What show on TV (other than CW and NBC) would TV viewers think HL could be saved.
NYC 22, history.
Yay @AFV!
A 2.0 is certain renewal for a reality, especially at 7 pm
I predict:
Adjusted up:
OUAT
TAR
HL
Adjusted down:
DH
NYC22
Its looking GCB is going to be cancelled and Body of Proof and Scandel renewed.
@ One
On my renew-cancel blog, I did in depth simulations for CBS’s schedule next year. I conclude that, assuming they add another hour of comedy, they can find a place at some point in the year for a partial final season of CSI: Miami.
OK, I concede, GCB is looking pretty bad now. I expected at least a 2.1-2.2 for the finale. And it will probably get adjusted down in the finals, as Once adjusts up (Once runs until 9:01, Housewives until 10:02 so that’s the usual progression). I’m not saying all hope is gone, I’m just saying it’s looking worse than it did 24 hours ago.
Housewives should do low 3s for the finale next week. Dana Delany is back! And hopefully we’ll get to see more former regulars/recurring stars as well. (Also, a question for anyone who’s been paying closer attention than I apparently have: what happened to Orson? Did he kill himself, do we know that for sure?)
OK ratings for The Amazing Race. NYC 22 is a disaster.
And Harry’s Law… there are no words! No words!
@SJ
No, Orson just disappeared. They never really gave his character a proper end. I’ve read that he might appear in 8×22, most probably to give evidence, but it hasn’t been confirmed, so its probably not true.
There will be so many characters who never got a proper send off like Paul :/
Speaking of Desperate Housewives I can see its series finale garnering low 3s for its demo. 3.2 with close to 12 million viewers. I know fans are concerned about the whereabouts of Orson. Also what has happened to Ms. Karen McCluskey. How is she doing? All these issues need to be addressed. And it is to bad that for many of the episodes leading up to the series finale these storylines did not come up. There were some episodes with material that was complete filler. Now everything is going to be crammed in the finale.
I feel CBS knew what to expect with NYC22, yet they did not order more episodes of CSI:Miami. They seem to be content with losing the hour. These demo numbers are horrible. GCB has found its core audience which is less than 6 million viewers. Couple that with a demo under 2.0 and I feel ABC should cancel it. I don’t see growth.
I hope that somehow they will revive DH :/ I really want it to keep going !
@Networkman
Yeah, it was so annoying that they gave the housewives so many filler stories throughout the season. And they killed Mike for nothing!!!!
I believe Karen will appear in the finale which looks amazing from the promo.