Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings: ABC Wins; NBC’s My Own Worst Week Drops Considerably in Week Two
Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not
On the Air Tonight: Prime-Time Programming Options
TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest
TV Trivia Time: It’s Osmond Week! _______________________________________________________________________
Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings: ABC Wins; Considerable Erosion for My Own Worst Enemy on NBC
Monday 10/20/08
HH Rtg/Shr ABC 9.3/14 CBS 7.4/11 NBC 4.4/ 7 Fox 3.5/ 5 CW 2.3/ 3
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-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Monday, October 22, 2007): CW: +10, CBS: -10, ABC: -11, NBC: -17, Fox: -19
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Note: The fast national results for Monday will be posted at PIFeedback.com by 12 p.m. ET. Go to the website, click on Ratings Box (the first category), then Last Night’s Results, and Monday, October 20, 2008.
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-Yesterday’s Winners: Dancing With the Stars (ABC), Two and a Half Men (CBS), CSI: Miami (CBS)
-Honorable Mention: The Big Bang Theory (CBS), How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
-Young Female Magnets: Gossip Girl (CW), One Tree Hill (CW)
-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats): Chuck (NBC), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Fox), Worst Week (CBS), Prison Break (Fox), My Own Worst Enemy (NBC)
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-Ratings Breakdown: ABC danced its way to another Monday overnight victory, beating second-place CBS by an average of 26 percent. In the distant No. 3 spot was NBC, followed by Fox and the CW. Of the five networks, only one -- the CW -- was up over the comparable year-ago evening.
A 90-minute edition of Dancing With the Stars took center stage, of course, with a 12.3 rating/19 share from 8-9:30 p.m. Here is the half-hour break-down:
Dancing With the Stars (ABC) 8:00 p.m. 11.4/18 (#1) 8:30 p.m. 12.6/19 (#1) 9:00 p.m. 12.9/19 (#1)
That led into Samantha Who? with a dominant 7.5/11 at 9:30 p.m., followed by the final season of Boston Legal at a second-place 5.8/ 9 at 10 p.m. Although it is hard to knock a time period victory, retention for Samantha Who? out of the last half-hour of Dancing With the Stars was just 58 percent. Considering ABC only has one scripted sitcom on its entire schedule at present, that is just not good enough.
CBS’ Monday weak-link remains the recently introduced Worst Week, with a second-place 6.0/ 9 in the overnights at 9:30 p.m. Comparably, that was 12 percent below year-ago occupant Rules of Engagement (6.8/10 on Oct. 22, 2007), with retention of just 68 percent out of lead-in Two and a Half Men (#2, 8.8/13). Earlier in the evening on CBS were sitcoms The Big Bang Theory (#2: 5.8/ 9) and How I Met Your Mother (#2: 5.9/ 9), which continue to build from one year earlier (up five percent, on average, in the overnights) and are likely to flex some muscle among adults 18-49 once the fast affiliate results are posted on PIFeedback. CSI: Miami moved into the 10 p.m. winner’s circle, with a 9.1/15 in the overnights. But versus it’s year-ago performance (11.1/18 on Oct. 22, 2007), that was a decrease of 18 percent.
Over at fading NBC, the news remains bleak. Sophomore Chuck opened the evening third in the 8 p.m. hour, with a 4.2/ 6. Year-to-year, that was down by nine percent. Lead-out Heroes perked up to a 5.2/ 8 (also third in the 9 p.m. hour), but compared to one year earlier (7.1/11 on Oct. 22, 2007) it was down by 27 percent. The strength of Heroes, of course, falls within the young adult demos, but if the overnights are down by this much, the demos will not benefit. Week two of drama My Own Worst Enemy closed the evening with a last-place 3.8/ 6 at 10 p.m. -- 27 percent below it’s week-ago debut (5.2/ 8 on Oct. 13) and 14 percent below failed year-ago occupant Journeyman (4.4/ 7 on Oct. 22, 2007). Needless to say, the troubles continue on NBC in prime-time.
Fox has also taken a noticeable hit on Monday with is combination of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (#4: 3.4/ 5), which the network may want to consider renewing for the full season, and Prison Break (#4: 3.8/ 5), which is likely to end this season. The two dramas, on average, were down by 19 percent in the overnights from year-ago occupants Prison Break and K-Ville.
The CW capped off the evening with the healthy combination of Gossip Girl (#5: 2.4/ 4) and One Tree Hill (#5: 2.3/ 3), which continue to build from the year-ago sitcom rotation. Look for another potential Monday of young female dominance on the CW.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data ____________________________________________________________________________
Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not
-Record Game Seven of the ALCS on TBS: The seventh, and final, game of the American League Championship Series between Boston and Tampa Bay averaged a stellar 7.9 household and 13.36 million viewers on TBS Sunday. Comparably, that was the most-watched Major League Baseball game in all of television in 2008, and the most-watched baseball game in the history of cable, moving past the ESPN Cubs versus Cardinals classic in 1998.
-Disney Channel Dominates Friday: Based on the final nationals for Friday, Oct. 17, Disney Channel finished first overall in total day among kids 6-11 (594,000) and tweens 9-14 (561,000), and most-watched among all cable networks in prime-time with 3.3 million viewers. Six of the top 10 rated telecasts of the day in kids 6-11 (including The Suite Life on Deck and Phineas and Ferb) aired on Disney Channel.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data ________________________________________________________________________________
On the Air Tonight: Prime-Time Programming Options
Tuesday 10/21/08
ABC: 8:00 p.m. Dancing With the Stars Recap (R) 9:00 p.m. Dancing With the Stars 10:00 p.m. Eli Stone
CBS: 8:00 p.m. NCIS 9:00 p.m. The Mentalist 10:00 p.m. Without a Trace
NBC: 8:00 p.m. The Biggest Loser: Families (two hours) 10:00 p.m. Law & Order: SVU
Fox: 8:00 p.m. House 9:00 p.m. Fringe
CW: 8:00 p.m. 90210 (R) 9:00 p.m. Privileged
MNTV 8:00 p.m. Street Patrol 8:30 p.m. Street Patrol (R) 9:00 p.m. Jail 9:30 p.m. Jail (R)
ION 8:00 p.m. Boston Legal (R) 9:00 p.m. NCIS (R) 10:00 p.m. ER (R)
-More Knight Rider: NBC has picked-up the Wednesday revival of Knight Rider for the remainder of the season, with a back-end order of nine additional episodes. Already renewed for the full season of the freshman mix is CBS’ The Mentalist, Fox’s Fringe and 90210 on the CW.
-Additional Clearances for Family Court with Judge Penny: Program Partners, home of the upcoming fall 2009 talk show hosted by Marie Osmond, has announced several new clearances and time period upgrades for recently introduced court strip, Family Court with Judge Penny. New clearances include Minneapolis/KSTC, Miami/WBFS, Nashville/WNAB, Salt Lake City/KCSG, San Antonio/KCWX and Louisville/WBKI. In addition, Family Court with Judge Penny will have a second afternoon airing in Milwaukee/WMLW and Ft. Myers/WFTX, and a secondary airing in Birmingham/WIAT.
-The CW Adds Valentine Encores: The CW’s Media Rights Capital produced Sunday line-up will now feature repeat telecasts of minimally seen drama Valentine in early fringe at 6 p.m. ET. The Valentine encores (which will be originals to most, of course) will lead out of the non-scripted 4Real and into the also non-scripted In Harm’s Way.
-Are You Kidding Me?: Just when you thought you have heard it all, CBS has ordered a pilot from Mark Burnett for a reality/competition featuring terminally ill people. Titled Live Like You Are Dying, and created by Survivor host Jeff Probst, a different dying participant will be given a chance to live out his or her fantasy in each episode. All I can say to Jeff Probst is…keep you day job, please!
When ABC variety hour Donny and Marie premiered on Jan. 16, 1976 it faced sitcoms Sanford and Son and Chico and the Man on NBC, and it improved the time period performance significantly. What short-lived drama did it replace?
a) Alias Smith & Jones b) Get Christie Love c) Kodiak d) Mobile One e) Toma
The answer to yesterday’s question…
The always busy Marie Osmond co-starred in an ABC sitcom in 1995-96 called Maybe This Time. Who played her mother?
a) Cloris Leachman b) Michele Lee c) Doris Roberts d) Marion Ross e) Betty White
Is: e) Betty White. The wonderful Betty White (Mr. TV’s all-time favorite!) played Shirley, the worldly Mama to Marie Osmond’s Julia. Former Growing Pains pre-teen Ashley Johnson played Marie’s daughter.
-Current kudos goes to: Mark-Allen, Mark Amato, Mikki Beno, Barbara Berman, Gerry Bixenspan, Lisa Brause, Larry Collins, Jim Colucci, Harold Cooper, Mark Cosenza, Audrey Davis, Josh Emmett, John Ferlazzo, Leslie Franzen, Jerry Gibbons, Maureen Goldman, Carolyn Hommel, Bob Ingersoll, David Jackino, Anne Leahy, Rick Locke, Michael Murphy, Jim O’Heir, Aaron Paquette, Greg Phelan, Francine Purcell, Gordon Purcell, Stacy Roberts, Lisa Tatum-Roehrig, Deanna Rosolen, Joe Rubi, David Ruckman, Neal Sabin, Greg Salerno, Ron Salmon, Robert Sells, Michelle Stanton, Ronnie Tallant, St
T:SCC's rating dropped this week after the renewal notice. So much for that helping out ratings. Something has to be going on behind the scenes and some deal struck with WB. It's ratings aren't renewal worthy at all. I'll have to look back but it looks like a season low.
NBC is just having all sorts of problems on Monday. All three shows came in way too low. Having Heroes as a lead in is not a prize and I can't think of any show new show that will do better in that timeslot. Law and Order is already filling in for Lipstick Jungle. They are advancing Medium but if it goes there, they have a hole they have to fill for Sundays.
Sad to see those MOWE numbers. It's a decent show. Glad to see SCC getting horrible numbers again. Sadly it brings down PB which FOX is really treating badly in favor of SCC
-Are You Kidding Me?: Just when you thought you have heard it all, CBS has ordered a pilot from Mark Burnett for a reality/competition featuring terminally ill people. Titled Live Like You Are Dying, and created by Survivor host Jeff Probst, a different dying participant will be given a chance to live out his or her fantasy in each episode. All I can say to Jeff Probst is…keep you day job, please!
Isn't this basically a take off of the movie "The Bucket List" with Jack Nicholson?
I'm really surprised at how poorly all the 10pm shows did considering the ESPN Monday night football blowout probably didn't hold the normal number of fans into the 3rd/4th quarter. My Own Worst Enemy is a bust. How many leadouts has heroes killed now? NBC needs to wise up and just slot Medium into that spot now as it will draw its own fans.
Originally posted by WlcmLAPD: T:SCC's rating dropped this week after the renewal notice. So much for that helping out ratings. Something has to be going on behind the scenes and some deal struck with WB.
The interruption for baseball last week definitely didn't help the show. You might be right about Terminator getting renewal as a way to promote the film next summer. It is also possible that the FOX execs really do like what they are seeing from the scripts. Last night was another good episode and not something that would have been expensive (compared to the network TV average) to produce.
Originally posted by vlis: thnks...seems a shame to be running repeats this early as the show will lose any momentum it had going
I agree. If CW is going to start the season early, they need to be prepared to order additional episodes so that they don't fall into too many repeats while other shows are in first run. Gossip Girl has already ordered an additional 2 episodes and 90210 needs to do the same. Also, the 90210 repeat will hurt Privileged since it is a first run episode tonight, trying to follow a repeat of 90210 that has already had an encore airing. At least that encore airing of 90210 will stop for now as Stylista makes its debut this week on CW 9pm EST Wednesday (complete with an ABC style timeslot runover lead-in from America's Next Top Model).
