TV Ratings (Monday 16th November) + Sunday

[Jax]

Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday and also am not sure if I will get Tuesday's numbers up today either (depends if I get back to my PC later today)...

-Total Viewers:
ABC: 15.28 million, CBS: 10.61, Fox: 8.42, NBC: 5.28, CW: 1.74

-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 3.4 rating/9 share, ABC: 3.2/8, Fox: 3.0/8, NBC: 1.6/4, CW: 0.9/2

ABC

Dancing with the Stars (90 mins) - 20.56 million & 4.0/10

The Middle (repeat) - 10.06 million & 2.3/6

Castle - 9.98 million & 2.5/7

CBS

How I Met Your Mother - 8.88 million & 3.5/10

Rules of Engagement - 7.96 million & 2.9/7

Two and a Half Men - 14.15 million & 4.5/11

Mike & Molly - 12.29 million & 3.8/9

Hawaii Five-O - 10.19 million & 2.8/8

FOX

House - 10.81 million & 4.0/11

Lie to Me - 6.03 million & 2.0/5

NBC

Chuck - 5.55 million & 1.8/5

The Event - 5.73 million & 1.7/4

Chase - 4.57 million & 1.2/3

CW

90210 - 1.75 million & 0.9/2

Gossip Girl - 1.72 million & 0.9/2

 

[Jax]

SUNDAY NIGHT

NBC

Sunday Night Football - 19.04 million & 7.3/18

FOX

Football Overrun (30 mins) - 21.95 million & 7.9/22

The OT - 12.82 million & 6.1/16

The Simpsons - 8.97 million & 3.9/10

The Cleveland Show - 6.72 million & 3.1/7

Family Guy - 7.00 million & 3.3/8

American Dad - 5.37 million & 2.6/6

CBS

60 Minutes - 12.10 million & 1.8/5

The Amazing Race - 10.54 million & 2.7/7

Undercover Boss - 10.34 million & 2.7/6

CSI: Miami - 10.44 million & 2.4/6

ABC

America’s Funniest Home Videos -7.21 million & 1.6/5

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - 8.51 million & 2.2/5

Desperate Housewives - 11.78 million & 3.7/9

Brothers & Sisters - 8.69 million & 2.5/7

 

[Borgminister]

Lie to Me beating the Event and Chuck? Hm.

 

[Jetfire]

OMG! Please cancel GG & 90210 NOW!!! Give LUX a 3rd season.

 

[Agent Richard07]

The numbers for The Event aren't good. Hopefully someone will tell the show runners that the show won't get renewed early enough so that they can wrap it up. That way, we'll get a single-season story with a propper ending.

 

[bigdaddy]

Lie to Me went up?! No good!

 

[Jax]

I was looking at ABC's lineup and this Wednesday comedy there putting together needs a more compatible show for 10pm. Brothers & Sister's might the perfect fit next season especially if The Middle becomes Modern Family's partner with Cougar Town joining the Matthew Perry sitcom in the 8-9 slot. Also it gives ABC a chance to find a show to take more advantage of the DH lead in audience not too mention B&S will probably next season so if it fails in the new slot a huge loss.

CBS should move CSI Miami to 9pm with undercover Boss much weaker than last season and lets face it a cheaper non scripted show is the better option for Miami's current 10pm slot. CBS needs to attempt to bite into more of DH's audience and CSI: Miami is a good way of doing it.

Rumors are FOX are looking to end American Dad with several new animated comedies waiting in the wings. I would though give American Dad one more season because creatively its the best of the bunch and would be a more useful way of filling in that pesky 30 min slot next year when X Factor or Idol drops to 30 mins instead of keeping around sitcoms like Running Wilde and Raising Hope.

Castle shown it does not need DWTS as a lead in, dropping only around 500,000 viewers but its demo held well.

Rules of Engagement is just waiting to be axed and My Dad Says should get the monday role. Hawaii Five-O is a few steps from looking over a cliff and the midseason is going to be a nail biter for the remake.

 

[bigdaddy]

Fox needs to keep Raising Hope!

However I agree with you, American Dad is the best out of the sad lineup they have. However why not keep it around? Like you said they need 30 minute shows, The Simpsons will end once the voices stop dropping dead soon, and there was no need for The Cleveland Show, and Fox still hasn't brought back Futurama! Stupid network!

 

[Too Much Fun]

What about Showtime? I'd like to know how the season finale of "Weeds" did. Apparently fans of that show have left it in droves over the last three seasons and a lot of critics have written it off too, but it went out with a hell of a season finale, I still love it, and I know it still had enough viewers to earn a seventh season. I hope the finale did really well, ratings-wise.

 

[Starbreaker]

Weeds
- 0.990 million viewers
- 0.7/1 HH
- 0.5/1 A18-49

The Big C
- 0.957 million viewers
- 0.6/1 HH
- 0.4/1 A18-49

 

[Jack Bauer]

The numbers for The Event aren't good. Hopefully someone will tell the show runners that the show won't get renewed early enough so that they can wrap it up. That way, we'll get a single-season story with a propper ending.

I read last week that the producers already have a plan to wrap the show up this season if need be (and it sure looks like it based on the ratings) so all they need is for NBC to inform them with enough time to complete their plan.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Less than a million viewers?!? And I heard it was renewed because it got six million!

 

[Angel4576]

Obviously due to DWTS, but amusing to see that the rerun of The Middle brought in more than a regular new episode!

Always amazes me that there's negativity towards Castle due to its older-skewing audience, but 10m is impressive by any stretch, especially for a scripted drama NOT on CBS!

 

[bigdaddy]

Less than a million viewers?!? And I heard it was renewed because it got six million!

Umm.... what were you listening to?

Weeds and The Big C / The C Word were both renewed two month ago.

The show has never ever gotten even close to 6 million viewers. I think the highest it's ever gotten was 1.5 million, then plus some for the same day repeat thing.

I don't think Showtime has ever gotten anything close to 6 million viewers in their history of shows.

It was renewed because it's a staple of Showtime, they now have reruns on TV Guide Channel, and the DVDs used to sell a lot of copies.

There are rumours that the 7th season will be the last for the show. Thank god for that. I'm still hoping Nancy dies.

EDIT - The highest rated episode of Weeds was supposed the season 6 premiere with 1.9 million viewing the show and it's repeat.

 

[Too Much Fun]

The press release from Showtime announcing that "Weeds" had been renewed claimed that its premiere got six million viewers. I thought that was huge, until I saw that the highest rated shows on TV seem to get ten million or more. Considering it's not that popular these days, six million didn't seem so far-fetched to me, compared to the double digit millions of hotter shows.

Here's a copy and paste of the press release announcement I saw when the show was renewed:

"Showtime has announced it has picked up new seasons of both WEEDS and THE BIG C to air sometime in 2011.

More than 6.5 million people watched the premiere episode of The Big C across various platforms, making it the network’s highest-rated original series premiere in 8 years. The sixth season premiere of Weeds, which aired just before The Big C, also garnered over 6 million viewers – a record premiere episode for the series.

Showtime President of Entertainment David Nevins said in a statement, “The unprecedented viewership for both The Big C and Weeds proves that audiences love these shows as much as we do. There are definitely more comedic adventures in store for these fascinating, complex women. For six seasons, we’ve happily traveled along with Nancy Botwin and we’re equally as excited to follow Laura Linney and The Big C team as they chart Cathy’s unique journey through such a provocative and personal subject as cancer. We’re thrilled that these two signature shows will be returning to the network in 2011.”

 

[Mr Light]

They must be counting the ratings of every airing of the show plus download/online viewing...

 

[Harvey]

Showtime counts viewers a little different than the networks do, which is how they arrived at the six million number, but I'm not exactly sure how they do it. Since they're subscription based, and not advertiser-supported, they don't look at the numbers the same way a network would.

 

[bigdaddy]

Ahhh...

You are new to the TV ratings world aren't you?

This is what the average person calls a big fat lie. It was watched 6 million times, they claim it was people. Networks do this all the time, a show would get 18 million viewers the first episode, they air the reruns 1-2 more times that week and claim 29 million people watched the premiere. So Showtimes does the same thing, 2 million probably watched the episode at 10:30pm Monday, than another million watched the rerun of it at 11:30pm. It was then shown no less than a dozen other times that week, and is On Demand, so all added together they get the magic number of 6 million.

 

[Too Much Fun]

Ahhh...

You are new to the TV ratings world aren't you?

Indeed.

This is what the average person calls a big fat lie. It was watched 6 million times, they claim it was people. Networks do this all the time, a show would get 18 million viewers the first episode, they air the reruns 1-2 more times that week and claim 29 million people watched the premiere. So Showtimes does the same thing, 2 million probably watched the episode at 10:30pm Monday, than another million watched the rerun of it at 11:30pm. It was then shown no less than a dozen other times that week, and is On Demand, so all added together they get the magic number of 6 million.

That's fascinating. I'm not accusing you of making this up, but where did you get this information? It makes a lot of sense, I'd just never imagined it might work that way.

 

[bigdaddy]

I looked it up one day after I got sick of networks claiming something got 30 million viewers when only 15 million watched the premiere.

I could be slightly off, but I think that's about right. They might now include DVR ratings, I think it's called "Same day plus 7", meaning the total for the episode is everyone who watched the episode when it air(s) and then the DVR people.

It's really screwed up.