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Originally posted by TV-aholic:


Please refer to exmalibu's ratings post for Thursday, May 1 for final 18-49 demographic ratings.

Remember: Your earnings for a show is worth double your wager, if you guessed the 18-49 demo exactly for that

respective show.

Final Standings for Thursday, May 1, 2008

Earnings  Name               Profit    Invest    Saved
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M$ 24.80  CaseyM           +M$ 4.80  M$ 17.70  M$ 2.30
   24.00  TV-aholic        +   4.00     20.00     0.00
   23.50  WBBWE            +   3.50     17.00     3.00
   22.40  Zedman2          +   2.40     20.00     0.00
   21.90  Obveeus          +   1.90     19.50     0.50
   20.10  yankeesrj12      +   0.10     19.00     1.00
   19.20  himymfan22       -   0.80     19.80     0.20
   19.20  exmalibu         -   0.80     18.00     2.00
   19.10  Douglas          -   0.90     19.90     0.10
   18.60  Marc Berman      -   1.40     19.70     0.30
   18.50  tvfan300         -   1.50     20.00     0.00
   18.20  vlis             -   1.80     19.00     1.00
   17.80  patrick555       -   2.20     19.20     0.80

Overall Standings to Thursday, May 4, 2008

Total                         Apr24-                                                          May08-  May15-
Earnings  Name                Apr30   May01   May02   May03   May04   May05   May06   May07   May14   May21
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M$175.50  WBBWE             M$142.50 M$23.50
  167.30  Zedman2             141.90   22.40
  164.50  himymfan22          131.80   19.20
  161.50  Douglas             133.10   19.10
  158.30  vlis                129.50   18.20
  154.40  Obveeus             128.60   21.90
  153.60  CaseyM              119.60   24.80
  144.40  patrick555          126.60   17.80
  141.00  yankeesrj12         117.60   20.10
  141.00  TV-aholic           113.50   24.00
  131.70  tvfan300            107.30   18.50
  120.70  Marc Berman         101.50   18.60
  113.20  exmalibu             89.50   19.20
   46.30  dumont               43.80    0.00
   43.80  spotupj              43.80    0.00
   24.10  Penguin              24.10    0.00
   23.70  DJSteve1022          23.70    0.00
   17.70  tvratingsjunkie      17.70    0.00
    7.50  MCMLXXIX              7.50    ---  

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Originally posted by Zedman2:
TV-aholic, my results don't appear in the posting you made in the Friday Sweeps Game Thread. Are they included in the above?

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Originally posted by Justin:
I thought Two and a Half Men had an outstanding episode tonight. Thoughts?

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-Lindsay Lohan Joins Cast on ABC’s Ugly Betty:
Young tabloid Queen Lindsay Lohan is heading to the small screen as the former classmate of Betty on ABC’s Ugly Betty. She will make her debut on the May 22 season-finale, and will return next fall for at least five additional episodes.

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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
Folks...we are having ongoing problems with the new website. I can't get The PI posted. So, here it is for Tuesday, May 6 in the event it is not emailed to you.

THE PROGRAMMING INSIDER
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings:
ABC Wins; CBS or Fox Poised for Victory Among Adults 18-49

Ratings Box:
What’s Hot/What’s Not

On the Air Tonight:
Prime-Time Programming Options

TV Tidbits:
Notes of Interest

TV Trivia Time:
Listen to Bulldog
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Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings:
ABC Wins; CBS or Fox Poised for Victory Among Adults 18-49

Monday 5/05/08

HH
Rtg/Shr
ABC 8.6/13
CBS 7.4/12
Fox 7.4/11
NBC 5.6/ 9
CW 1.8/ 3

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-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Monday, May 7, 2007)
Fox: +21, NBC: - 7, ABC and CBS: -16 each, CW: -22

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Note: The fast affiliate 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, May 5, 2008.

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
Dancing With the Stars (ABC), Two and a Half Men (CBS), House (Fox), CSI: Miami (CBS)

-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats):
Okay…let’s wait until the fast affiliate results are posted at PIFeedback.com before I officially label any of the turkeys.

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-Ratings Breakdown:
ABC dominated this second Monday of the May 2008 sweeps, beating second-place CBS and Fox by 16 percent. But CBS or Fox will likely dominate among adults 18-49 once the fast affiliate results are posted at PIFeedback.com. Fourth overall was NBC, followed by the CW.

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars was the top-rated show in the overnights for the evening, with an 11.8 rating/19 share from 8-9:30 p.m. While I would like to see Christian de la Fuente and Cheryl Burke depart tonight (word of advice: never approach Cheryl at a party), sadly it is time for bubbly Marissa Jaret Winokur to bid adieu. As for the idea of Marissa hosting her own daytime talk show in fall 2009: good idea, Sony Pictures Television!

Dancing With the Stars led into sitcom Samantha Who? (#2: 7.2/11 at 9:30 p.m.), followed by The Women Tell All edition of tired The Bachelor: London Calling at a last-place 4.4/ 7 at 10 p.m. Retention for Samantha Who? out of the last half-hour of Dancing With the Stars (12.5/19 at 9 p.m.) was just 58 percent. Speaking of Samantha Who?, here is a prediction: Christina Applegate will win the Emmy next fall for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She is reminiscent of Mary Tyler Moore, isn’t she?

CBS had a typical Monday with its combination of The Big Bang Theory (#3: 4.7/ 8), How I Met Your Mother (#4: 5.0/ 8), Two and a Half Men (#3: 8.3/12), Rules of Engagement (#4: 6.3/ 9) and CSI: Miami (#1: 10.2/17). Year-to-year, the overnight slippage for CSI: Miami was 18 percent (10.2/17 vs. 12.4/20). As for Two and a Half Men crossing over with CSI, that was pretty bizarre, wasn’t it?

Fox was on the map courtesy of underrated Bones (#2: 5.8/ 9) and bona fide hit House (#2: 9.1/14) from 8-10 p.m. And next was NBC with another two-hour edition of Deal or No Deal (5.2/ 8 from 8-10 p.m.), which was telecast from the Philippines, and Medium (#2: 6.4/10), which is returning in 2008-09 in midseason. But the CW continues to lag with its revised Monday combination of Gossip Girl (#5: 1.7/ 3) and One Tree Hill (#5: 1.9/ 3). Relax, though, I will reserve judgment until I see the demographics.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data
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Ratings Box:
What’s Hot/What’s Not

-TNT Scores with Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs:
Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs on TNT averaged an improved 2.1 household rating, with 2.97 million viewers, building year-to-year by 10 percent in both categories and as much as 25 percent among men 18-34. Comparably, this was the highest rated Round 1 Playoffs coverage since 1994.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data
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On the Air Tonight:
Prime-Time Programming Options

Tuesday 5/06/08
Night 13 of the May 2008 Sweeps

ABC:
8:00 p.m. Dancing With the Stars: Judge’s All-Time Favorite Dances
9:00 p.m. Dancing With the Stars
10:00 p.m. Women’s Murder Club

CBS:
8:00 p.m. NCIS
9:00 p.m. Shark
10:00 p.m. CSI: Miami (R)

NBC:
8:00 p.m. Most Outrageous Moments
8:30 p.m. Best of Saturday Night Live R (Best of Molly Shannon)
10:00 p.m. Law & Order: SVU

Fox:
8:00 p.m. American Idol
9:00 p.m. Hell’s Kitchen

CW:
8:00 p.m. Beauty and the Geek 5
9:00 p.m. Reaper

MNTV
8:00 p.m. Street Patrol (R)
8:30 p.m. Street Patrol (R)
9:00 p.m. Jail (R)
9:30 p.m. Jail (R)

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TV Tidbits:
Notes of Interest

-Ghost Whisperer Heads to Sci Fi Channel:
Sci Fi Channel has secured the off-network cable rights to CBS drama Ghost Whisperer for a fall 2009 launch. Sci Fi will also have access to other classic CBS series, including Star Trek: The Next Generation (which will premiere on Monday June 2, 2008), Charmed, Early Edition, Highlander, Friday the Thirteenth: The Series and Mork & Mindy. “Na-Nu! Na-Nu!”

-The CW and Warner Bros. Team Up in Daytime:
The CW is partnering with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution to create a daily 3-5 p.m. ET programming block. Judge Jeanine Pirro, a one hour court show presided over by the Fox News Channel contributor and former Westchester County District Attorney and Country Judge will air at 3 p.m. ET, followed by repeats of sitcoms The Wayans Bros. and The Jamie Foxx Show from 4-5 p.m. ET. The two-hour programming block begins on Sept. 22, 2008.

-Lindsay Lohan Joins Cast on ABC’s Ugly Betty:
Young tabloid Queen Lindsay Lohan is heading to the small screen as the former classmate of Betty on ABC’s Ugly Betty. She will make her debut on the May 22 season-finale, and will return next fall for at least five additional episodes.

-NBC Yanks Repeats of Monk and Psych:
NBC has pulled the low-rated encore telecasts of Monk and Psych in the Sunday 8-10 p.m. block and will replace them on May11 with four consecutive repeats of The Office.

-Mike O’Malley Joins Cast of NBC’s My Own Worst Enemy:
Former Yes, Dear star Mike O’Malley will switch from comedy to drama in a co-starring role on NBC’s upcoming My Own Worst Enemy, which tells the story of a middle-class efficiency expert (Christian Slater) who lives a double life. O’Malley will play a friend and co-worker of Slater.

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TV Trivia Time:
Listen to Bulldog

Remember Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe on Frasier? What was the name of the show he hosted at Frasier’s radio station?

a) At Bat with Bulldog
b) Game Night
c) Gonzo Sports Show
d) The Pulse
e) Seattle Fog Sports Show

The answer to the yesterday’s question…

Which one of the following TV characters did not have a knack for making apple pie?

a) Margaret Anderson
b) June Cleaver
c) Maude Findlay
d) Ginger-Nell Hollyhock
e) Phyllis Lindstrom

Is: e) Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After kooky Phyllis (Cloris Leachman) realized hubby Lars was having an affair with “Happy Homemaker” Sue Ann Nivens, she tried to turn domestic and baked an apparently awful apple pie. To the masses who answered Ginger-Nell Hollyhock, that was the character played by Rue McClanahan on short-lived ABC sitcom Apple Pie. Fooled you!

All together now…

Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day, and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well it's you girl, and you should know it
With each glance and every little movement you show it

Love is all around, no need to waste it
You can have a town, why don't you take it
You're gonna make it after all
You're gonna make it after all

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David Ballarotto, Gerry Bixenspan (2x), Maureen Goldman, Bob Ingersoll, David Jackino

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Originally posted by Hawk-eye:

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Originally posted by dumont:
If ABC finishes Week 3 of the May Sweep within a few decimals of FOX in A18-49, this final four day schock and awe could be the Alphabet's decisive edge in giving ABC its first May Sweep victory of the 21st Century (the closest ABC came before was its second place 5.4 to NBC's 5.5 in the heady Millionaire days of May 2000).

If Mr. McPherson can pull off a May Sweep victory against FOX, watch for him to be carried into the affiliate get-together atop the shoulders of ABC affiliates when they meet later this summer.

Thanks as always for keeping us informed on the running sweeps number dumont. With that said, I just don't see how the numbers work out for an ABC sweeps win. AI is down, but it still is dominate in the demo. DWTS' demo numbers aren't going to make up ground on AI (which often doubles the demo numbers for DWTS). Lost, Greys’ and DH are better competition, no doubt. But even those shows don't figure to approach the 10. demo that AI will almost certainly get for its finale. As expected, when their "heavy hitters" are in first run ABC is pretty strong, but it would truly take "fuzzy math" to think they will beat FOX in sweeps.

Also, while the numbers are close between ABC and FOX, one should remember that there have been two Thursdays and two Sundays (both strong ABC nights)in sweeps so far, while ther has only been one Tuesday and Wednesday combination for FOX. In other words, let's see how close they are after Wednesday.

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
NBC works 'Office' repeats into Sunday
from variety.com

NBC is yanking repurposed episodes of USA Network skeins "Monk" and "Psych" off the air immediately.
For now, Peacock will replace the Sunday night two-hour block with four back-to-back repeats of "The Office."

Net's experiment with "Monk" and "Psych" segs didn't resonate with viewers; shows placed fourth in the adults 18-49 demo again this Sunday, prompting the schedule shift.

Sunday's other network repurpose attempt, CBS' recut editions of Showtime's "Dexter," ended its 12-week experiment this past week, as planned.

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Originally posted by dumont:
- thus, in the final week, ABC could go out on a strong note (and not like a "lamb"), with numbers as follows:
* Thu - 5.0 - new Betty / Greys / Lost
* Fri - 3.0 - new 2 hour AFHV finale / 20/20
* Sat - 2.5 - "Hitch" 3 hour broadcast preem
* Sun - 5.0 - 2 hour EMHE finale / 2 hour DH finale
* Mon - 4.2 - DWTS / 2 hour Bachelorette preem
* Tue - 5.5 - DWTS 2 hour finale / Greys finale pt 1
* Wed - 6.0 - Lost 2 hour finale / Greys finale pt 2
WK 4 AVG = 5.0

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Originally posted by mushu_jj:

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