THIS WEEK IN TV Overview: The CW is reairing the first ten episodes of The Vampire Diaries this week. So that's the entirety of their primetime lineup from Monday to Friday. CBS is all new except for Friday night, and Fox is mostly new. Meanwhile, ABC is mostly reruns (I'll note exceptions). And NBC has basically decided to air specials all week. They've got The Sing-Off on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then the finale next Monday. Then on Thursday they air Saturday Night Live: A Very Gilly Christmas. Ugh.
Monday-ABC starts with Jennifer Hudson: I'll Be Home For Christmas, followed by a new Find My Family. On Fox, Lie To Me is new. Tuesday-ABC starts with A Charlie Brown Christmas followed by new episodes of Scrubs and Better Off Ted. Fox has So You Think You Can Dance along with a special Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live. If you'd like to participate in that live cookalong, visit http://www.fox.com/cookalong/_media/downloads/Cookalong_Shop_Equip.pdf to see the things you're going to need. Wednesday-ABC airs Disney's Prep & Landing again (seeing how the premiere did, I'm not surprised), followed by reruns followed by a new Eastwick. Fox has a new So You Think You Can Dance. Thursday-I've already mentioned the relevant information in the overview. Friday-ABC has a new Supernanny and a new 20/20. I said CBS was reruns, but they start the night out with the specials Frosty the Snowman (The W at Amazon) followed by Frosty Returns. Frosty Returns only seems available on The Original Christmas Classics, which has the first Frosty, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, and other stuff I've never heard of. Fox has two new episodes of Dollhouse. Saturday-Movie Night: The Santa Clause 2 on ABC. Elf on CBS. Normal lineup on Fox. NBC has A Muppets Christmas: Letters To Santaagain followed by the annual WWE Tribute To The Troops. Sunday-ABC airs The Santa Clause 3. I forgot that existed. (Tim Allen AND Martin Short? Amazing!) CBS has a new 60 Minutes followed by the Survivor season finale followed by the Survivor reunion show. The Fox cartoons are reruns. And of course NBC has Sunday Night Football.
TV RATINGS
Show
Network
Date
HH
18-49
Viewers
Sunday Night Football
NBC
Sun
11.0
7.0
18.94
The Big Bang Theory
CBS
Mon
8.6
5.7
14.72
Two And A Half Men
CBS
Mon
9.0
5.1
15.16
The Office
NBC
Thu
5.2
4.4
9.24
The Biggest Loser
NBC
Tue
8.1
4.3
11.75
Survivor
CBS
Thu
8.0
4.3
13.80
CSI
CBS
Thu
10.4
4.1
17.11
Prep & Landing
ABC
Tue
5.9
4.1
12.14
The Mentalist
CBS
Thu
10.6
3.8
16.92
Criminal Minds
CBS
Wed
8.9
3.8
14.31
CSI: Miami
CBS
Mon
8.2
3.8
12.94
Modern Family
ABC
Wed
5.5
3.8
9.62
Family Guy
FOX
Sun
4.4
3.8
7.68
A Charlie Brown Christmas
ABC
Tue
5.8
3.7
11.30
Football Night In America
NBC
Sun
5.2
3.6
10.41
Glee
FOX
Wed
4.8
3.6
8.10
How I Met Your Mother
CBS
Mon
5.6
3.5
9.14
30 Rock
NBC
Thu
4.5
3.5
7.54
CSI: New York
CBS
Wed
8.4
3.2
12.99
The Simpsons
FOX
Sun
3.9
3.2
7.11
60 Minutes
CBS
Sun
8.7
3.1
14.59
Barbara Walters' Ten Most Fascinating People of 2009
ABC
Wed
7.1
3.1
10.46
Bones
FOX
Thu
6.7
3.1
10.83
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
ABC
Sun
6.0
3.1
10.23
American Dad
FOX
Sun
3.6
3.1
6.19
The Cleveland Show
FOX
Sun
3.7
3.0
6.52
The Jay Leno Show (Tue)
NBC
Tue
5.4
2.9
8.40
Accidentally On Purpose
CBS
Mon
5.0
2.9
8.29
Christmas At The White House: An Oprah Primetime Special
Top 11 Cable Shows. This week, it goes to 11 because I have to mention Dexter. That is an amazing performance because premium cable channels have even less viewership than regular cable channels do. In fact, this was the most watched show in the history of Showtime.
The Heisman Trophy Presentation was the highest rated Heisman Trophy Presentation ever (going all the way back to one year ago!) They say it even outdrew the ratings for Day 1 of the NFL Draft, which is normally the highest rated ESPN programming that isn't an actual game.
It was the series premiere of Men Of A Certain Age, and might as well have been the season premieres of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and The Closer, though neither one technically counts.
Originally posted by Mr. BoffoTop 11 Cable Shows. This week, it goes to 11 because I have to mention Dexter. That is an amazing performance because premium cable channels have even less viewership than regular cable channels do. In fact, this was the most watched show in the history of Showtime.
Not to mention Showtime has something like half the subscriber base of HBO.
True, I found this article from 2007 that said Showtime's subscriber base was 14 million households. That household rating down there amounts to 1.5 million households. So 10% of all households that have Showtime were watching Dexter, which is the equivalent of a 10.0 rating on a network.