"America's Got Talent" claimed its usual spot as Tuesday's most-watched show, but "Hell's Kitchen" gave FOX an 18-49 victory.
NBC averaged 9.5 million viewers and a 5.9 rating/10 share in households to win Tuesday's overall title. CBS (8.2 million, 5.2/9) was a solid second. FOX took third with 5.9 million viewers and a 3.5/6, finishing a good bit ahead of ABC (3.6 million, 2.4/4). The CW managed only 752,000 viewers and a 0.6/1.
In the adults 18-49 demographic, FOX's 2.6 rating edged NBC's 2.5 for the top spot. CBS finished third at 1.9, followed by ABC, 1.3, and The CW, 0.3.
Ratings for Shaq Vs. are low, but it had an interesting increase at 9:30. 1.9 demo isn't that bad either. Perhaps it could come back as another limited order (although I'd look into making it a half hour show).
AGT seems low. Which is interesting since it should be building each week to the finale.
The Mentalist did well in repeat. It does well whereever they stick it. Compare it with Medium in the same spot - ouch!
CW - okay, that's... pathetic. Barely 500.000 viewers at 9.30? And dropping like a stone every half hour? I mean, I know that they praise these teeny shows for their teeny audience but compare that with SPN's or SV's numbers in repeat. I mean, 1/3 of the year is repeats. Those should count for something too, right?
Looks like a lot of people agreed with me on how worthless the 1st half of Shaq Vs is. But honestly I'm pretty surprised it held up overall. I thought after Roethlisberger/football the appeal of his opponents would go down (outside of maybe Michael Phelps).
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Originally posted by curious: CW - okay, that's... pathetic. Barely 500.000 viewers at 9.30? And dropping like a stone every half hour? I mean, I know that they praise these teeny shows for their teeny audience but compare that with SPN's or SV's numbers in repeat. I mean, 1/3 of the year is repeats. Those should count for something too, right?
The problem with the CW is that they don't really know their audience. I'm the CW's target audience and my favourite show on their network is Supernatural, which Eric Kripke describes as "the goth kid sitting the back row in the CW class". They think all we want is pretty people and fashion (and ok, i'll watch ANTM and GG once in a while) but I like a little more depth in my shows. Look at the teen shows from 10 years ago like My So Called Life, they used to have heart and interesting characters to relate to, and they touched issues that matter. Nobody falls in love with CW's teen shows because they're too shallow. They're just guilty pleasures. The CW hasn't created ONE show people really love, and obviously that affects their ratings.
The problem isn't CW's target audience. The problem is that the CW fails at pleasing their target audience, and they'll never break out their ratings with Melrose Place remakes and TBL type shows. They have too many shows that feel like the same show. I'd suggest variety, every young woman is diferent after all. We'll see if Vampire Diaries is a step in the right direction, I hope so.
Still great numbers for BB despite the not so much drama this week
Jeff is making a good move in putting Russell up now- he might not have another shot later, although he flubbed how he did it and how he reacted to Russell's reaction- but he's in a bit trouble this week because Jordan is the only person who will keep him safe for sure if she wins HOH.
Michelle is now in good shape- I say she shouldn't even try to win HOH this week, so she can play in the HOH next week..she might get nominated if a veto is used, but she won't be evicted- it'll be a 1-1 tie at worst and whoever is HOH breaks the tie in their teams favor. (Nat and Kevin will break up J/J- Jeff is their target, J/J will break up Kevin/Nat- probably Nat is the priority).
And there have been a lot of articles about the good ratings for BB lately- I'd think renewal for 2010 is all but assured by now.
I do think think they should broaden The CW audience to include males as well as females but that's not going to happen until Dawn Ostroff goes and I can't see that happening yet. The current pretty rich people with pretty rich problems only draws a limited audience and I'm not sure if people want that anymore. They do have two different shows with Life UneXpected and The Vampire Diaries though.
anybody else here think that moving the mentalist to thursdays at 10 is a bad idea and it will lose ratings? I would have put it at 8 or at 9 on Thursdays and move csi to 10.
I just don't see it doing the kind of numbers it was getting on Tuesdays at 9
Originally posted by curious: CW - okay, that's... pathetic. Barely 500.000 viewers at 9.30? And dropping like a stone every half hour? I mean, I know that they praise these teeny shows for their teeny audience but compare that with SPN's or SV's numbers in repeat. I mean, 1/3 of the year is repeats. Those should count for something too, right?
The problem with the CW is that they don't really know their audience. I'm the CW's target audience and my favourite show on their network is Supernatural, which Eric Kripke describes as "the goth kid sitting the back row in the CW class". They think all we want is pretty people and fashion (and ok, i'll watch ANTM and GG once in a while) but I like a little more depth in my shows. Look at the teen shows from 10 years ago like My So Called Life, they used to have heart and interesting characters to relate to, and they touched issues that matter. Nobody falls in love with CW's teen shows because they're too shallow. They're just guilty pleasures. The CW hasn't created ONE show people really love, and obviously that affects their ratings.
The problem isn't CW's target audience. The problem is that the CW fails at pleasing their target audience, and they'll never break out their ratings with Melrose Place remakes and TBL type shows. They have too many shows that feel like the same show. I'd suggest variety, every young woman is diferent after all. We'll see if Vampire Diaries is a step in the right direction, I hope so.
Well said, metal.
I hope this weekends 36th edition of 'The Daytime Emmy Awards' draws a big viewership to give The CW's fall promos some exposure. All summer long, they've only had two audiences over two million viewers, and both were Sunday Night Movies (THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE and OVERBOARD).
Instead of going with an encore-heavy sked next week leading up to The CW's early post-Labour Day launch, Miss Ostroff should have skedded some highly promotable A18-34ish movies and specials (perhaps one welcoming Miss Tyra Banks to The CW Daytime) during the week to get some audience critical mass for those fall promos.
My fingers are crossed for The CW that they get a decent launch to their fall programs. They, and ABC, have the best fall skeds this year, and it would be nice to see The CW finally move off of the endangered species list.
This fall represents The CW's fourth push for their 'Free to Be Girlie' strategy of targeting W18-34s, and this fall may be the year that Miss Ostroff finally gets payoff for her strategy.
Originally posted by filmkr27: anybody else here think that moving the mentalist to thursdays at 10 is a bad idea and it will lose ratings? I would have put it at 8 or at 9 on Thursdays and move csi to 10.
I just don't see it doing the kind of numbers it was getting on Tuesdays at 9
I think The Mentalist will be fine in that slot and IMO it will breakout this year, I suspect it will move to 9pm if CSI numbers continue to decline.
