Big Brother was adjusted down three tenths, Wipeout was adjusted down five tenths and Rookie Blue was adjusted down four tenths among adults 18-49 versus the preliminary Thursday broadcast ratings. All three shows were pre-empted by pre-season football in numerous markets. Also find the final numbers for night thirteen of the XXX Summer Olympics below.
Final broadcast primetime ratings for Thursday, August 9, 2012:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 rating/Sh | Viewers (Millions) |
| 8:00 | NBC | XXX Olympics (8-11:11PM) | 7.0/20 | 22.86 |
| CBS | The Big Bang Theory - R | 1.4/4 | 5.31 | |
| ABC | Wipeout -R | 1.1/3 | 3.49 | |
| FOX | Rasing Hope -R | 0.8/3 | 1.82 | |
| CW | The Vampire Diaries - R | 0.3/1 | 0.79 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Two and a Half Men - R | 1.2/3 | 4.44 |
| FOX | Rasing Hope -R | 0.7/2 | 1.57 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Big Brother | 1.8/5 | 5.03 |
| ABC | Wipeout | 1.2/3 | 3.38 | |
| FOX | Glee - R | 0.5/1 | 1.50 | |
| CW | The L.A. Complex - R | 0.2/0 | 0.50 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | Rookie Blue | 1.1/3 | 3.80 |
| CBS | Person Of Interest - R | 0.7/2 | 3.60 |
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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2012 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Wow. Ratings crashed.
@Colin
That’s what happens when the shows are preempted all over the place for football.
Night six? Wouldn’t this be night 13?
Golly Big Brother, that was a steep drop for a big elimination night
Preliminary numbers were way off, oh well
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These were more the numbers that should have been expected given that the NFL started last night ,, Broncos blowing out the Bears 31 – 3 for example,
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Still liking those numbers for Big Brother , it still makes it the 2nd most watched show since the Olympics began regardless of the day or time !
Olympic fatigue and “Are we ready for some football?”
I’m hoping one of these suckers open Pandora Box and Queen Janelle returns!
I’m with you Michael…Big Brother is going to be so boring without Janelle.
@MC ,
I think it was a mistake that Big Brother removed the Coach effect, in my opinion it would have been nice to see how this twist played out for the entire season.
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That said , its Big Brother and doing really great in the ratings given the circumstance.
Janelle isn’t coming back. She’s gone home. She’s not in sequester. They have too many people at this point in the season, they can’t bring anyone back, they have to have at least two double evictions just to get caught up.
Why The LA Complex do better when it’s a repeat?
@Lucas, 0.2/0 isn’t much better… Lol.
when football preempts you, you ratings drop….its not the shows fault..
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@aj…it’s cuz the show wasn’t on several stations…janelle going home had nothing to do with it…those are actually really good numbers for bb considering the olympics and the stations showing football instead of big brother…
Big Brother wasn’t on yesterday for me. It was pre-empted by football.
YAY! keep falling, big brother! bad season…….
Again, LA Complex repeat yesterday did better than the original on Tuesday…
Wow….
omg cant wait for it
september the 30th once upon a time /revengae Family guy |& american dad