TV Ratings (Thursday 1st October)

[Jax]

TV Ratings (Thursday & Friday 1st/2nd October)

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 14.17 million, ABC: 12.55, Fox: 7.60, NBC: 5.46, CW: 3.04

-Adults 18-49:
ABC: 4.7 rating/13 share, CBS: 3.8/11, Fox: 2.5/7, NBC: 2.2/6, CW: 1.4/4

CBS

Survivor: Samoa - 11.73 million & 3.7/11

CSI - 15.60 million & 4.0/10

The Mentalist - 15.18 million & 3.7/10

ABC

FlashForward - 10.78 million & 3.7/11

Grey’s Anatomy - 15.36 million & 6.0/15

Private Practice (season debut) - 11.50 million & 4.5/13

FOX

Bones - 9.00 million & 2.6/8

Fringe - 6.21 million & 2.3/6

NBC

SNL Weekend Update Thursday - 5.08 million & 1.8/5

Parks and Recreation - 4.63 million & 1.9/5

The Office - 7.28 million & 3.7/10

Community - 5.84 million & 2.9/7

The Jay Leno Show - 4.96 million & 1.6/4

CW

The Vampire Dairies - 3.52 million & 1.7/5

Supernatural - 2.57 million & 1.2/3

 

[bigdaddy]

Fox needs to move American Idol/Dance to Thursday, have Fringe and Dollhouse togeth on Tuesday and Bones on Wednesday.

 

[Dark Gilligan]

Very respectable numbers for FlashForward, Bones, and Fringe. The rest I don't watch. And damn but NBC is getting spanked.

 

[Borgminister]

A bit of a rebound for Fringe, right? Are those deemed "good" numbers?

 

[Starbreaker]

A bit of a rebound for Fringe, right? Are those deemed "good" numbers?

It's about 2/3rd where the season finale was and is the second lowest ratings the show has seen.

 

[Othello]

It was stupid of Fox to put Fringe on thursday. I gotta say The Vampire Diaries are holding nice and steady for The CW. It's actually not a bad show. Not great but not bad. Has held my interest more than that crappy CBS vampire show ever did.

 

[Dark Gilligan]

A bit of a rebound for Fringe, right? Are those deemed "good" numbers?

"Good" is relative. It beat all but one show on NBC and the entirety the CW. Granted the CW doesn't claim many bragging rights but NBC is still one of the old war horses.

 

[Jax]

Re: TV Ratings (Thursday & Friday 1st/2nd October)

Fox must see they need to move Fringe and now or it will die and why let a promising show just die a bad death. Also to let you know friday ratings will be posted in this thread tommorow.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

For comparison, here's Thursday's broadcast networks' final ratings, per Travis Yanan at pifeedback.com


Posted 02 October 2009 05:44 PM 02 October 2009 04:44 PM Hide Post Thursday broadcast finals

Flashforward
- 10.730 million viewers
- 6.7/11 HH
- 3.7/11 A18-49

Grey's Anatomy (61 minutes)
- 15.689 million viewers
- 9.9/16 HH
- 6.1/16 A18-49

Private Practice (59 minutes)
- 11.580 million viewers
- 7.6/13 HH
- 4.6/13 A18-49 (up over prelims, despite Grey's overrun)

Survivor
- 11.537 million viewers
- 6.9/11 HH
- 3.7/11 A18-49

CSI
- 15.938 million viewers
- 9.9/16 HH
- 4.1/11 A18-49

The Mentalist
- 15.750 million viewers
- 10.1/17 HH
- 3.8/11 A18-49

SNL: Weekend Update Thursday
- 5.018 million viewers
- 3.3/5 HH
- 1.8/5 A18-49

Parks and Recreation
- 4.669 million viewers
- 2.9/5 HH
- 2.0/6 A18-49

The Office (31 minutes)
- 7.406 million viewers
- 4.3/7 HH
- 3.9/10 A18-49

Community
- 5.859 million viewers
- 3.5/5 HH
- 2.9/7 A18-49

The Jay Leno Show (59 minutes)
- 5.028 million viewers
- 3.3/6 HH
- 1.5/4 A18-49

Bones
- 9.427 million viewers
- 5.9/10 HH
- 2.7/8 A18-49

Fringe
- 6.026 million viewers
- 3.6/6 HH
- 2.3/6 A18-49

The Vampire Diaries
- 3.529 million viewers
- 2.3/4 HH
- 1.6/5 A18-49
- 1.8/6 A18-34
- 2.7/8 W18-34

Supernatural
- 2.595 million viewers
- 1.6/3 HH
- 1.2/3 A18-49
- 1.4/4 A18-34
- 1.6/4 W18-34

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Grey's Anatomy, CSI, Private Practice, the Mentalist, Flash Forward, The Office, Bones, Community, Parks and Recreation, Jay Leno, and Supernatural all rose. Gotta love it when the god awful crap Grey's Anatomay performs so well in the demo, eh?

Survivor: Samoa and Fringe lost viewers. Vampire Diaries stayed even. The scariest statistic? At 3.52 million and 2.595 million viewers, with those finals that's the best viewing total of the week in both hours for the CW network. How does it stay afloat in all the red ink?

 

[sidious618]

No, Fringe gained viewers from last week and has a solid demo. It'll be fine.

 

[Jax]

No, Fringe gained viewers from last week and has a solid demo. It'll be fine.

6 million and a 2.3/6 demo for a show with a modest budget and from the ratings it got in season 1 + Bones brings in a large audience = Not rosy at all for Fringe.

Fox would be smart to move it or to remember its up against CSI and Greys but neither is likely.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

No, I meant it dropped from fast nationals to finals. If Fringe were on CW, those ratings would be more than fine. It's on cancel happy Fox. I don't care for the show, but others do. I don't know why Fox is willing to sacrifice it. For Fox, that's not such a solid demo. Thursday at 9 is the death slot. Grey's and The Office suck away all the young "we want that demo" viewers, and CSI takes the rest. The reality show Fox had in the time slot did better.

Fringe should move back to Tuesdays. It did better there.

 

[Jax]

The only show capable on FOX to take on CSI and Greys is HOUSE and IDOL. I do think House would knick a good portion of the demo and total viewers from both shows.

 

[Dorian Thompson]

Too true, but Fox wouldn't be willing to eat into its profits from Idol to put it on Thursdays, methinks. House and Idol do seem to be the network royalty.

Why Grey's has such a hold on network tv just galls me. I've watched it. It is so unbelievably bad. Just soapy crap beyond description. Dr. McDreamy has got to be the most unattractive "sex symbol" on television and Meredith.....ohhhhhh.....don't get me started on whiny Meredith. Meredith is not what the womens liberation movement fought for. She's worse than Ally McBeal. I've complained about the House storylines from time to time, but compared to Grey's Anatomy, it's pure gold.

 

[bigdaddy]

They can move Dancing to Wednesday and the result show on Thursday at 9. Problem solved!

 

[Mr Light]

Leno fell below 5 million, isn't that what they said the cancellation range for it would be? Too bad that Parks is crashing and burning I enjoy that show.

 

[sidious618]

No, Fringe gained viewers from last week and has a solid demo. It'll be fine.

6 million and a 2.3/6 demo for a show with a modest budget and from the ratings it got in season 1 + Bones brings in a large audience = Not rosy at all for Fringe.

Fox would be smart to move it or to remember its up against CSI and Greys but neither is likely.

Nah, I'm not too worried about it. I don't think FOX is going to discard an Abrams show just because of a bad time slot. The show never got HUGE ratings and now it's up against CSI and Grey's Anatomy so it's not a surprise. The ratings sites I visit say it's not doing all that bad all things considered.

Trust me, if I was worried I'd be emailing FOX nonstop.

 

[Jax]

Winners...

Survivor: Samoa, CSI, The Mentalist, FlashForward, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice

Honorable Mention...

Bones and The Office

Decent...

The Vampire Diares

Losers...

Fringe, SNL Update, Parks and Recreation, Community, The Jay Leno Show and Supernatural

 

[sidious618]

I heard that other networks are telling their stars not to appear on Jay Leno's show. Anyone else heard that?