TV Ratings (Thursday & Friday 20/21st November)

[Jax]

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 13.90 million, ABC: 10.67, NBC: 7.70, Fox: 4.46, CW: 4.40

-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 3.9 rating/10 share, ABC: 3.7/10, NBC: 3.3/9, Fox: 1.9/5, CW: 1.8/5

CBS

Survivor: Gabon - 12.62 million & 4.0/11

CSI - 18.43 million & 4.9/12

Eleventh Hour (Series Low) - 10.67 million & 2.8/8

ABC

Ugly Betty (Season Low) - 8.29 million & 2.5/7

Grey’s Anatomy (Season High Demo) - 15.74 million & 6.1/15

Life on Mars (Series Low) - 7.97 million & 2.5/7

NBC

My Name is Earl - 6.75 million & 2.6/7

Kath & Kim - 5.47 million & 2.3/6

The Office - 8.40 million & 4.3/10

30 Rock (Season Low) - 7.29 million & 3.5/8

ER - 9.15 million & 3.5/8

FOX

Kitchen Nightmares - 4.70 million & 2.0/5

Kitchen Nightmares (Repeat) - 4.21 milion & 1.8/5

CW

(Numbers Ruined By NFL, however finals should have Smallville around 4 million with Supernatural still scoring season high for 3rd week running)

Smallville - 4.77 million & 1.9/5

Supernatural (Season High) - 4.03 million & 1.6/4

 

[wamdue]

FOX needs to give up on Kitchen Nightmares

 

[Geck]

Great demo numbers for The Office, even if overall numbers are a bit lower than usual. Seems no one's watching TV this week...

 

[bigdaddy]

FOX needs to give up on Kitchen Nightmares

It's cheap.

 

[stj]

Bumping, in hopes of figures for Friday the 21st.

 

[wamdue]

FOX needs to give up on Kitchen Nightmares

It's cheap.

really? isnt Ramsay being paid ALOT for this?

 

[Jax]

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 11.40 million, ABC: 6.03, Fox: 5.36, NBC: 4.18, CW: 1.36

-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 2.5 rating/8 share, ABC: 2.0/6, Fox: 1.5/5, NBC: 1.1/3, CW: 0.6/2

CBS

Ghost Whisperer - 11.36 million & 2.7/9

The Mentalist (Repeat) - 11.62 million & 2.4/7

Numb3rs - 11.23 million & 2.5/8

ABC

Wife Swap - 4.78 million & 1.7/5

Supernanny - 5.06 million & 1.7/5

20/20 - 8.24 million & 2.5/7

FOX

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? - 6.04 million & 1.3/4

Don’t Forget the Lyrics - 5.75 million & 1.6/5

NBC

Deal or No Deal - 5.72 million & 1.2/4

Crusoe (Series Low) - 3.50 million & 0.9/3

Lipstick Jungle (Series Low) - 3.33 million & 1.1/3

CW

Everybody Hates Chris - 1.77 million & 0.7/2

The Game - 1.62 million & 0.8/2

Next Top Model (Repeat) - 1.07 million & 0.5/2

 

[Jax]

THURSDAY

Winners...

Survivor: Gabon, CSI, Eleventh Hour and Grey’s Anatomy

Honorable Mention...

The Office and ER

Decent...

Ugly Betty, 30 Rock, Smallville and Supernatural

Showing Signs of Some Life...

My Name Is Earl

Losers...

Life on Mars, Kath n Kim and Kitchen Nightmares

FRIDAY

Winners...

Ghost Whisperer, The Mentalist (R) and Numb3rs

Worth A Mention...

20/20

Losers...

Everything Else

 

[wamdue]

The Mentalist is maybe the one true new hit of the season, 11 million for a repeat impressive

 

[Temis the Vorta]

That demo for Eleventh Hour is still pretty low. It's surviving off the CSI lead-in. A mere 56% retention for the demo of a hit show is a poor predictor of survival. Shows with strong lead-ins are saddled with higher expectations and get cancelled when they fail to meet those expectations. I wouldn't call that one a winner at all, or even be too sanguine about hopes for a second season.

Life on Mars will be the 10pm lead-out for Lost starting in Jan. That should sink it for good. I don't see the Lost audience giving a flip about LoM unless they already happen to be watching it. Even if the numbers go up, they won't match expectations.

As for our big hit The Mentalist, the last regular run demo was a 3.5/9, compared with the recent demo of the "rapidly losing steam" Heroes at 3.6/8. Funny ain't it? If Heroes were a new show this season with the same ratings it's getting now, it would be a big hit!

 

[wamdue]

^ if Kath & Kim, is being kept by NBC, then you know NBC is in trouble. Pretty much anything is a hit for them right now, hell they cant even complete axe Lipstick Jungle, which is hanging around NBC like a zombie.

 

[Jax]

The Mentalist is maybe the one true new hit of the season, 11 million for a repeat impressive

NCIS repeats from the other 2 weeks did the same thing so I guess CBS will keep doing that till Flashpoint returns. If I was CBS I would re-air Eleventh Hour instead because it needs more viewers but for now it gets the winners list however remains like that then I won't be so kind for long and neither will CBS.

 

[wamdue]

^ it was the most watched show on CBS that night.

I agree 11th Hour needs the rerun more, help it attract some new viewers.

 

[bigdaddy]

FOX needs to give up on Kitchen Nightmares

It's cheap.

really? isnt Ramsay being paid ALOT for this?

Still don't need to pay a team of writers and actors, just one actor and most likely a few writers. So in turn he's not making a million an episode, not even close, and he's the only "actor" on the show so it is cheap to make still.

 

[wamdue]

^ very true, im just surprised they go with the repeat episode, since it plunges the whole night to something similar to the CW

 

[nx1701g]

FOX needs to give up on Kitchen Nightmares

It's cheap.

really? isnt Ramsay being paid ALOT for this?

I think that is their only real expense.

 

[stj]

The perception that Heroes is fading, whereas The Mentalist is a big hit is only "funny" if it is assumed the the 18-49 demo is by far key factor. If on the other hand, total numbers still count for a lot, Heroes is in fact fading and The Mentalist is a bigger hit. If winning the 18-49 demographic were so important, wouldn't NBC have renewed ER instead of finishing it off with one last season? When Threshold kept playing tag for number one spot in the 18-49 demographic (I don't think it ever came third,) I decided that programming to win the 18-49 demographic is like playing to come in second.

Life on Mars retention rate, in numbers and the 18-49 demographic, are even worse than Eleventh Hour's, so Private Practice is getting the superior time slot come January. Whatever NBC puts in play next fall will probably make them wish they had ER back. CBS clearly is not satisfied with Eleventh Hour's performance---they have not yet ordered a full season, so far as I know, even though Eleventh Hour is winning the slot in total viewers pretty consistently and placing second in 18-49 demo pretty consistently too. My guess is they're waiting to see how Eleventh Hour does against Private Practice.

 

[bigdaddy]

Once again... ER spinoff...

I bet anyone we will see than come next year, maybe May for the fall line-up announcement.

 

[Cicero]

Once again... ER spinoff...

I bet anyone we will see than come next year, maybe May for the fall line-up announcement.

Why not just another season of ER?

(For my part, I doubt I'd watch a spinoff, but am onboard for however long ER is allowed to run. Chicago and the sense of passing time at a place of normal life are two things I like about the series, and which I'd be loathe to give up.)

 

[Top41]

I think last season NBC was in better shape and figured they didn't need ER. Now it's one of their stronger performers.

As for Heroes vs. The Mentalist, if The Mentalist was only pulling in 7.86 million viewers a week with the same demo, no one would consider it a hit.