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|  #1 Posted on 8.10.07 2055.15 | Instant Rating: 5.12 | Here are the first couple weeks of TV ratings. The first two weeks are semi-final (the DVR numbers haven't come in yet; reports are that 20% of TV users have DVRs now), last week's numbers are the overnight numbers. These are the 18-49 numbers, which are the most important (sorry, DrDirt). New shows in bold.
| Monday | Network | 9/17 | 9/24 | 10/1 | | Dancing With The Stars (Performance) | ABC | | 5.3 | 5.2 | | The Bachelor | ABC | | 3.5 | 3.6 | | How I Met Your Mother | CBS | | 3.3 | 3 | | The Big Bang Theory | CBS | | 3.7 | 3.4 | | Two and a Half Men | CBS | | 4.8 | 4.6 | | Rules of Engagement | CBS | | 4.5 | 3.9 | | CSI: Miami | CBS | | 4.7 | 4.6 | | Everybody Hates Chris | CW | | | 1 | | Aliens In America | CW | | | 0.8 | | Girlfriends | CW | | | 1.2 | | The Game | CW | | | 1.4 | | Prison Break | FOX | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3 | | K-Ville | FOX | 3.4 | 2.3 | 2 | | Chuck | NBC | | 3.6 | 3.1 | | Heroes | NBC | | 7.3 | 5.5 | | Journeyman | NBC | | 3.5 | 3.3 |
| Tuesday | Network | 9/18 | 9/25 | 10/2 | | Cavemen | ABC | | | 3.3 | | Carpoolers | ABC | | | 3.4 | | Dancing With The Stars (Results) | ABC | | 4.1 | 4.3 | | Boston Legal | ABC | | 2.6 | 3.1 | | NCIS | CBS | | 3.2 | 3.6 | | The Unit | CBS | | 2.8 | 3.2 | | Cane | CBS | | 3 | 2.5 | | Beauty and the Geek | CW | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.3 | | Reaper | CW | | 1.5 | 1.3 | | Bones | FOX | | 3.2 | 2.9 | | House | FOX | | 7.8 | 7.1 | | Jail | MyN | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | | The Singing Bee | NBC | | | 2.3 | | The Biggest Loser | NBC | 3.6 | 3 | 3.3 | | Law & Order: SVU | NBC | | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| Wednesday | Network | 9/19 | 9/26 | 10/3 | | Pushing Daisies | ABC | | | 4.3 | | Private Practice | ABC | | 5.1 | 4.5 | | Dirty Sexy Money | ABC | | 3.7 | 3.6 | | Kid Nation | CBS | 3 | 2.9 | 2.4 | | Criminal Minds | CBS | | 3.6 | 3.7 | | CSI: NY | CBS | | 3.7 | 3.9 | | America's Next Top Model | CW | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.2 | | Gossip Girl | CW | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | | Back To You | FOX | 3.2 | 2.8 | 2.4 | | 'Til Death | FOX | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.5 | | Kitchen Nightmares | FOX | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.9 | | Decision House | MyN | 0.4 | 0.4 | N/A | | Meet My Folks | MyN | 0.4 | 0.4 | N/A | | Deal or No Deal | NBC | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | | Bionic Woman | NBC | | 5.7 | 4 | | Life | NBC | | 4.1 | 3 |
| Thursday | Network | 9/20 | 9/27 | 10/4 | | Ugly Betty | ABC | | 3.8 | 3.4 | | Grey's Anatomy | ABC | | 8.8 | 7.4 | | Big Shots | ABC | | 4.6 | 3.7 | | Survivor: China | CBS | 5 | 4.7 | 4.4 | | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | CBS | | 8.2 | 6.3 | | Without A Trace | CBS | | 4.7 | 3.8 | | Smallville | CW | | 2 | 1.8 | | Supernatural | CW | | | 1.2 | | Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? | FOX | 2.4 | 2.1 | 2.3 | | Don't Forget the Lyrics | FOX | 2.9 | 1.8 | 1.8 | | MyNetwork Thursday Night Movie | MyN | 0.4 | 0.4 | N/A | | My Name Is Earl | NBC | | 3.8 | 3.4 | | 30 Rock | NBC | | | 3.4 | | The Office | NBC | | 5.1 | 4.5 | | ER | NBC | | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| Friday | Network | 9/21 | 9/28 | 10/5 | | 20/20 | ABC | 2.1 | 1.7 | 2.4 | | Ghost Whisperer | CBS | | 2.4 | 2.4 | | Moonlight | CBS | | 2.5 | 2.2 | | NUMB3RS | CBS | | 2.6 | 2.7 | | WWE Friday Night Smackdown! | CW | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.3 | | Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? | FOX | 1.4 | 1.4 | 1.6 | Nashville | FOX | 0.9 | | | | MyNetwork Friday Night Movie | MyN | 0.4 | 0.3 | N/A | | Deal or No Deal | NBC | | 1.9 | 2.1 | | Friday Night Lights | NBC | | | 2.2 | | Las Vegas | NBC | | 2.5 | 2.2 |
| Saturday | Network | 9/22 | 9/29 | 10/6 | | Saturday Night Football | ABC | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.3 | | 48 Hours: Mystery | CBS | 1.5 | 1.2 | | | COPS | FOX | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.9 | | America's Most Wanted | FOX | 1.7 | 2 | 2.1 |
| Sunday | Network | 9/23 | 9/30 | 10/7 | | America's Funniest Home Videos | ABC | | | 2.6 | | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | ABC | | 3.8 | 4.1 | | Desperate Housewives | ABC | | 7.5 | 6.6 | | Brothers & Sisters | ABC | | 5 | 4.5 | | 60 Minutes | CBS | 2.2 | 2.9 | 2.1 | | Cold Case | CBS | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.9 | | Shark | CBS | 2.6 | 2.6 | 2.5 | | CW Now | CW | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | | Online Nation | CW | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | | Life is Wild | CW | | | 0.4 | | The OT | FOX | 4.1 | 1.9 | 1.9 | | The Simpsons | FOX | 4.8 | 4.3 | 3.6 | | King of the Hill | FOX | 3.8 | 3.6 | 2.9 | | Family Guy | FOX | 5.6 | 4.3 | 4 | | American Dad | FOX | | 3.1 | 3 | | Football Night in America | NBC | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.7 | | NBC Sunday Night Football | NBC | 7.9 | 6.2 | 6.7 |
My thoughts:
ABC-Private Practice is doing very well. Looks like another successful spinoff for them.
Boston Legal is pretty low, but wikipedia says that it stays around because it draws in affluent viewers (the opposite of WWE programming, basically).
Saturday Night Football seems like it was a bad decision. Hopefully it doesn't cost too much (or they get better matchups).
Cavemen is the worst rated of ABC's new shows, which makes me happy.
Samantha Who? (after Dancing With the Stars) and Women's Murder Club (after 20/20) will both premiere within a week.
CBS-Kid Nation seems like a disaster, given all the publicity it got. When a show this highly promoted does worse than America's Funniest Home Videos, that really seems like a bad sign.
The Big Bang Theory's numbers look pretty good (highest rated new show on CBS). As a viewer, hopefully that means good things. If they have to cancel a sitcom, then How I Met Your Mother seems the logical choice to me. Plus, it's outranked Chuck two weeks in a row? Is anyone else watching this? :-)
Viva Laughlin starts up in two weeks, airing after 60 Minutes.
The CW-Reaper and Gossip Girl seem good enough to hang around.
CW Now, Life is Wild, and Online Nation seem pretty pointless, however.
Does anyone know if Smackdown! is cheap for the CW? Or does the fact that it's a show that has new content nearly 50 weeks out of the year help it?
FOX-You have to think that Fox expected better out of Back To You as well.
Nashville deserved to be canceled.
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader seems to have run out of steam. When the Thursday airing barely outrates COPS, which airs on the wasteland that is Saturdays, the show seems like it's in trouble.
The Search For The Next Great American Band is going to take over AYSTA5G's Friday slot in two weeks.
MyNetwork-the forgotten network. PIFeedback doesn't post their ratings, so I won't get last week's ratings until Friday. Jail, a reality show about criminals journey through the penal system, is obviously the most watched.
NBC-The NFL brings the ratings, as usual. Is it worth $600 million a year for NBC though?
The Office has the highest percentage of viewers in the 18-49 target demographic. The lowest percentage? CBS' Sunday night lineup, with 60 Minutes, Shark, and Cold Case in the bottom 4 (CBS' NCIS is the 4th).
NBC's Friday night lineup looks horrible.
Scrubs doesn't start until October 25th, owing to The Office being a full hour until then.
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| #2 Posted on 8.10.07 2203.21 | Instant Rating: 5.75 | Thanks for this, I always love knowing this type of stuff. Unless there's an issue with the mods, and if Mr. Boffo wants to continue this, I hope this remains as a regular feature.
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| #3 Posted on 8.10.07 2213.48 | Instant Rating: 4.84 | Unless these are 18-49, ratings have really fallen in the 2-3 years since I last paid a lot of attention. I guess between DVRs and every other distraction that makes sense.
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| #4 Posted on 8.10.07 2255.37 | Instant Rating: 5.12 | Originally posted by PeterStork
Unless these are 18-49, ratings have really fallen in the 2-3 years since I last paid a lot of attention. I guess between DVRs and every other distraction that makes sense.
They are 18-49. Here's the Top 10 in household ratings for last week (these numbers are my own calculations from other figures, full results will be available on Friday) and a reminder of how the ranked in the 18-49 demo:
CSI-13.9 rating (#5 18-49)
Dancing With the Stars (Performance)-13.6 rating (#7 18-49)
Grey's Anatomy-12.1 rating (#1 18-49)
Dancing With the Stars (Results)-11.7 rating (#16 18-49)
Desperate Housewives-11.6 rating (#4 18-49)
House-11.5 rating (#2 18-49)
Sunday Night Football-10.9 rating (#3 18-49)
NCIS-10.8 rating (#3 18-49)
CSI: Miami-9.9 rating (#9 18-49)
Without A Trace-9.7 rating (#22 18-49) | It's False
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| #5 Posted on 9.10.07 0006.22 | Instant Rating: 4.64 | I'm happy to see that American Dad is at least doing decent numbers. That show has really gotten into its stride and it'd be a shame if Fox pulled the plug on it, just because it doesn't do the same numbers as Family Guy.
The fact that Cavemen did a better rating than Kevin Smith's Reaper makes the Baby Jesus cry.
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|  #6 Posted on 9.10.07 0037.25 | Instant Rating: 4.09 | Reaper isn't a 'Kevin Smith show.' He just directed the pilot.
The Big Bang Theory's numbers look pretty good (highest rated new show on CBS). As a viewer, hopefully that means good things. If they have to cancel a sitcom, then How I Met Your Mother seems the logical choice to me.
The hell with that. HIMYM is one of the funniest shows on TV. I exaggerate not a whit when I say it's better than the best of the CBS comedy block combined. It is near legen (wait for it) dary status. | Wpob
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| #7 Posted on 9.10.07 1403.10 | Instant Rating: 3.25 | Originally posted by Big Bad
Reaper isn't a 'Kevin Smith show.' He just directed the pilot.
The Big Bang Theory's numbers look pretty good (highest rated new show on CBS). As a viewer, hopefully that means good things. If they have to cancel a sitcom, then How I Met Your Mother seems the logical choice to me.
The hell with that. HIMYM is one of the funniest shows on TV. I exaggerate not a whit when I say it's better than the best of the CBS comedy block combined. It is near legen (wait for it) dary status.
You are so right. HIMYM is the BEST sitcom CBS has going and os only outranked by the NBC block of The Office, 30 Rock and Scrubs (personal choice) and Earl. NPH's character of Barney is fast approaching legen (wait for it...keep waiting...) dary status in my mind. Outside of the cast of characters on The Office and Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock, his character is the best thing on TV, let alone CBS.
There is no reason to cancel this show and if they do, then NBC would be foolish not to pick this up and plug into Thursday next year if/when (?) Scrubs hangs 'em up.
If you are not watching HIMYM, then suit up and turn it on. You will not regret it.
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| #8 Posted on 9.10.07 1803.41 | Instant Rating: 5.12 | Believe me, I know that ratings don't = good shows. But overall, it's the 2nd or 3rd lowest rated show on CBS. So you better hope some more people start to watch it, or its days could be numbered.
Also probably in trouble is "K-Ville", which has lost 37% of its viewers since the premiere, and NBC's "Chuck" (which has lost 30% of its 18-49 viewers) and "Journeyman". | EddieBurkett
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| #9 Posted on 9.10.07 1811.05 | Instant Rating: 6.79 | Originally posted by Mr. Boffo
Believe me, I know that ratings don't = good shows. But overall, it's the 2nd or 3rd lowest rated show on CBS. So you better hope some more people start to watch it, or its days could be numbered.
Also probably in trouble is "K-Ville", which has lost 37% of its viewers since the premiere, and NBC's "Chuck" (which has lost 30% of its 18-49 viewers) and "Journeyman".
Considering Nathan Fillion's Drive and Gina Torres' Standoff got canned, I'm starting to worry that Adam Baldwin may be Chuck's kiss of death...
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| #10 Posted on 9.10.07 1832.58 | Instant Rating: 7.08 | Originally posted by EddieBurkett
Originally posted by Mr. Boffo
Believe me, I know that ratings don't = good shows. But overall, it's the 2nd or 3rd lowest rated show on CBS. So you better hope some more people start to watch it, or its days could be numbered.
Also probably in trouble is "K-Ville", which has lost 37% of its viewers since the premiere, and NBC's "Chuck" (which has lost 30% of its 18-49 viewers) and "Journeyman".
Considering Nathan Fillion's Drive and Gina Torres' Standoff got canned, I'm starting to worry that Adam Baldwin may be Chuck's kiss of death...
And Morena Baccarin guested on How I Met Your Mother! You're freakin' me out, man!
Though, Nathan Fillion's on a pretty cancel-proof show now in Desperate Housewives.
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| #11 Posted on 10.10.07 1027.15 | Instant Rating: 7.30 |
Originally posted by Wpob
If you are not watching HIMYM, then suit up and turn it on. You will not regret it.
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| #12 Posted on 10.10.07 1125.20 | Instant Rating: 5.42 | Call me crazy, but that WAS the pre-spinny WWE belt that they were using, right?
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| #13 Posted on 10.10.07 1333.21 | Instant Rating: 7.08 | Originally posted by hansen9j
Call me crazy, but that WAS the pre-spinny WWE belt that they were using, right?
It was the winged eagle 1988-1998 belt, as seen here.
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| #14 Posted on 11.10.07 1705.42 | Instant Rating: 3.23 | I know I'm in the minority but I'll take HIMYM even over the NBC shows. Marshall and Barney are way more consistent than the Office cast. The Office cast, especially Dwight and Michael, are funny sometimes but then other episodes not so much.
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