TV Ratings (Tuesday 3rd March)

[Jax]

-Total Viewers:
Fox: 24.21 million, CBS: 12.30, NBC: 8.31, ABC: 6.63, CW: 1.75

-Adults 18-49:
FOX: 8.9 rating/23 share, NBC: 3.2/8, CBS: 2.5/6, ABC: 2.3/6, CW: 0.7/2

FOX

American Idol (2 hour) - 24.20 million & 9.1/23

CBS

NCIS (repeat) - 13.69 million & 2.6/7

The Mentalist (repeat) - 12.76 million & 2.7/7

Without a Trace (repeat) - 10.49 million & 2.3/6

NBC

Biggest Loser: Couples (2 hour) - 8.96 million & 3.6/9

Law & Order: SVU (repeat) - 7.02 million & 2.4/6

ABC

Homeland Security USA - 5.67 million & 1.6/4

Scrubs (repeat) - 3.39 million & 1.2/3

Scrubs (repeat) - 3.35 million & 1.3/3

Bachelor: After the Final Rose part 2 - 10.85 million & 4.1/11

CW

Reaper (season debut) - 2.35 million & 0.9/2

90210 (repeat) - 1.15 million & 0.5/1

[wamdue]

Bachelor: After the Final Rose part 2

seriously?

CBS repeated well, and Reaper is off to a nice start

[bigdaddy]

Yeah the internet seems to think Reaper did poorly, I thought it did quite well.

However The CW instead of showing 90210 repeats EVERY night they should have been showing season 1 episodes of Reaper to get people in the mood.

[wamdue]

seems like a good idea to me

[Temis the Vorta]

Reaper has a loyal audience. In this day and age, when shows crash & burn if off the air for an extended period of time, that's nothing to sneeze at. Here's where the show left off:

Date ----------------Viewers in Millions ----------18-49 demo
April 27, 2008 -----------2.250 --------------------1.0
May 4, 2008 ------------ 2.580---------------------1.1
May 11, 2008------------2.510---------------------1.0
May 18, 2008------------2.080---------------------0.9
May 25 2008-------------2.530--------------------- 1.1

Not much fall off despite being off the air for nine months. Also, the show reruns strongly.

[Dorian Thompson]

When the final ratings came out, Reaper earned a 0.8 in the 18-34 demo. That's the demo the CW wants. No one 35 or over need apply. Those numbers won't please the CW suits.

[Temis the Vorta]

So what was the 18-34 demo in April-May last year? Whatever it was then, it was good enough to get the show another season.

The 18-49 demo hasn't budged much, did the 18-34 change?

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The CW suits are idiotic...if they could just fallow what people want instead of what they think will bring them money(and doesn't) The CW wouldn't be a joke.

Imagine if Angel, Enterprise and Tarzan(Which was a damn fine show) was on The CW.

[edit] Only show I currently watch or care about on The CW; Smallville, One Tree Hill, Supernatural & Reaper...Sometimes ANTM(Some of the wannabees are hot) [edit]
JF

[Dorian Thompson]

So what was the 18-34 demo in April-May last year?

It hovered around a 1.1 or 1.2. Travis Yanan over at pifeedback always kindly provides the 18-34 demo with the final ratings every day. Going under a 1.0 won't please the teen girly trash programming suits at CW. Even the 18-49 was under a 1.0 last night. It was 0.9. I'm not surprised seeing as it went against Idol, but the CW suits are pretty clueless.

[bigdaddy]

As Boston Legal said in one of the finale episodes "Older people don't buy things? Older people buys EVERYTHING!"

[wamdue]

isnt it older people who mostly support shopping channels?

[bigdaddy]

wamdue wrote:

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isnt it older people who mostly support shopping channels?

My grandma alone keeps QVC and UPS alive.

[Witterquick]

Jetfire wrote:

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[edit] Only show I currently watch or care about on The CW; Smallville, One Tree Hill, Supernatural & Reaper...Sometimes ANTM(Some of the wannabees are hot) [edit]
JF

You seem to be a big fan of CW.

[sidious618]

Witterquick wrote:

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You seem to be a big fan of CW.

That was my thought, too.

[wamdue]

bigger fan than me, if I had the CW all I would watch is, Smallville, Supernatural & Everybody Hates Chris