| Scoreboard | NBC | CBS | FOX | ABC | UNI | CW |
| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 3.3/9 | 2.7/7 | 2.4/7 | 1.8/5 | 1.4/4 | 0.4/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.6/8 | 2.4/8 | 2.4/8 | 1.2/4 | 1.5/5 | 0.5/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 9.199 | 14.350 | 5.491 | 8.354 | 3.579 | 0.999 |
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NBC was the number one network for the night in adults 18-49, but CBS won with total viewers.
CBS NCIS was down a tenth to a new season low with a 3.0 in adults 18-49 vs. last week's 3.1 . NCIS: Los Angeles was flat with last week's 3.0 in adults 18-49. Unforgettable's season finale earned a 2.0, up from last week's series low.
On NBC, the season finale of The Voice earned a 4.3 in adults 18-49, compared to last week's 3.1 and was up 16% overall from last year's finale ( which earned a 3.7 18-49 rating in June 2011). Earlier in the night, Fashion Star earned a new season low with a 1.3, down two-tenths from last week's 1.5 among adults 18-49.
On FOX, Glee earned a 2.6, up a tenth from last week's 2.5 in adults 18-49. New Girl's season finale was up six tenths to a 2.8 vs. last week's 2.2 adults 18-49 rating.
On ABC, Last Man Standing's finale earned a 1.7 among adults 18-49, up two-tenths from last week's 1.5. Cougar Town earned a 1.5, up two tenths from last week's series low 1.3 18-49 rating. The Dancing with the Stars results show was flat with last week's season low 2.3. Private Practice fell considerably to a new series low 1.5 from last week's a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating.
On the CW, 90210 was flat with last week's 0.6 adults 18-49 rating. L.A. Complex also matched last week's 0.3 adults 18-49 rating.
Late-night results are below the primetime data.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Tuesday, May 8, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (million) |
| 8:00PM | CBS | NCIS | 3.0 | 9 | 17.824 |
| FOX | Glee | 2.6 | 8 | 6.494 | |
| ABC | Last Man Standing | 1.7 | 5 | 6.603 | |
| NBC | Fashion Star | 1.3 | 4 | 4.405 | |
| CW | 90210 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.319 | |
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| 8:30PM | ABC | Cougar Town | 1.5 | 4 | 4.722 |
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| 9:00PM | NBC | The Voice: Results (9-11) | 4.3 | 11 | 11.596 |
| CBS | NCIS: Los Angeles | 3.0 | 8 | 14.495 | |
| FOX | New Girl | 2.8 | 7 | 5.533 | |
| ABC | Dancing with the Stars: Results | 2.3 | 6 | 13.312 | |
| CW | The LA Complex | 0.3 | 1 | 0.678 | |
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| 9:30PM | FOX | New Girl -R | 1.6 | 4 | 3.442 |
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| 10:00PM | CBS | Unforgettable | 2.0 | 5 | 10.732 |
| ABC | Private Practice | 1.5 | 4 | 6.087 | |
Via NBC Press Note:
In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 3.0/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.6/6; and ABC's combo of "Nightline," 3.3/8; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.9/6.
- In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” 1.0/5; "Late Show," 0.6/3; "Nightline," 1.0/4; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.5/3.
- At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 1.0/4 in metered-market households and a 0.4/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
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NOTE: All national ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.
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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.
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Dang, NCIS: LA held onto ALL of NCIS?! I don’t recall that ever happening.
Wow PP got hurt more from The Voice finale than I thought. It’s still coming back though.
@ Pete “@Jenny The Voice should go for one cycle only next season. It is a ratings magnet, but there is a danger of over-exploiting it. Look at Fox – The X Factor and American Idol are canceling each other. The Voice’s ratings will fall maybe to low 3s”
You are correct Pete. All these talent shows are just producing oversaturation and they are killing each other’s ratings and viewers. I am predicting Americas Got Talent to start of well because of the curiosity factor with Howard Stern (but only a 4.0 rating) and it will continue to have big drops.
Curious that for all the seasons of a lot of Talent shows, only a few stars have resulted.
“ And the winner of ‘The Voice’ is … Disappointment. Despite consistently strong performances, iTunes domination, (winning all online polls by a large margin) and strong buzz, neither Juliet Simms nor Tony Lucca were crowned the season 2 winner. Instead, the title went to Jermaine Paul”
What is NBC going to do now that The Voice kept dropping in the ratings all year?
Tonight’s finale was Terrible!
Way too drawn out, way too much boring filler and the woman doing the interviews was so bad it was hard to watch.
Plus yesterday show with last year’s final four proves the show does not have contestant’s talent to be stars.
Today’s final four, only Juliet with the talent to be a star and she did not win.
Juliet, Tony and Jesse Campbell where the only 3 with the power to become stars. And Juliet was second, Tony third, and Jesse did not make it to the finals due to Christina, and Christina made sure Tony did not win.
Judges Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, all help all the singers.
Christina Aguilera does not help any of the singers and only hurts the singers. “Christina’s cruel remarks & diva antics have turned everyone against her”
And Christina turned off a lot of viewers with her constant attacks on Tony; it was disgusting and uncalled for.
Also for a show called The Voice, there was a lot of lip syncing in tonight’s final.
I predict The Voice will be The Flop next year.
Great for New Girl!
Where are those Hawaii 5-0 fans that said NCIS: LA would drop big?
Ouch at PP!
@RJ, in the preliminary fast nationals it happened last week too (but I don’t remember it ever happening before that).
Wow, go New Girl! It beat Glee, so I guess it wasn’t because they included a Glee sneak peek in the episode, right?
PP was really hurt by The Voice finale.
New Girl’s ratings are so random, but I’m glad to see it went up for the finale so much considering it was probably my favorite episode of the show thus far. Nice to see Glee, Last Man Standing, and Cougar Town all up some too. This is probably the first Tuesday where no show I watch went down!
Thank goodness LMS rose. Hopefully its adjusted up.
Bad for private practice
Where are all the people that said NCIS:LA would fall this week now?
WTG NCIS:LA!
FLOPS IF THEY HAD MADONNA THEY WOULD HAVE A SERIES HIGH NOT JUSTIN BEAVER LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
I think New Girl was low last time because of finals week in schools
Boom TNG
The voice destroyed PP
NCIS=NCIS LOS
LMS still safe considering the slot
GO new girl!! Great first season
Really think new girl loses viewers whenever they have show a parental warning before it.
90210 half hours? Really wanted it to get a 0.7. Glad its renewed anyway.
Half Hours
18-49
NCIS 2.9/3.2
FS 1.1/1.5
Glee 2.5/2.7
90210 0.6/0.6
DWTS 2.2/2.3
NCISLA 2.9/3.0
TVoice 3.9/4.2/4.2/4.6
LAC 0.3/0.2
PP 1.6/1.4
UF 2.0/1.9
Overall Viewers
NCIS 17.16/18.49
Fashion Star 4.18/4.63
Glee 6.30/6.68
90210 1.36/1.28
DWTS 12.76/13.86
NCISLA 14.48/14.51
TVoice 10.84/11.04/11.04/12.67
LAC 732k/623k
PP 6.72/5.45
UF 11.04/10.42
Crap at PP. Good for NCIS LA.