-Yesterday’s Winners: Bones (Fox), American Idol (Fox), CSI: NY (CBS), Lost (ABC)
-Honorable Mention: America’s Next Top Model (CW), Criminal Minds (CBS)
-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats): According to Jim (ABC), Notes From the Underbelly (ABC), Jericho (CBS), Crossing Jordan (NBC), One Tree Hill (CW)
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-Ratings Breakdown: Fox, as expected, ruled the Wednesday roost on the strength of…all together now…American Idol. CBS held the distant No. 2 spot, followed by ABC, NBC and The CW. Fox sleeper hit Bones opened the evening first in the 8 p.m. hour, with 10.02 million viewers and a 3.2 rating/10 share among adults 18-49 (and growth at 8:30 p.m. of 2.43 million viewers and 33 percent among adults 18-49). That’s what you would call pre-tune-in for American Idol.
In season, or series-finale news, CBS’ Jericho concluded with 7.77 million viewers (#2) and a very disappointing 2.1/ 7 among adults 18-49 (#4t). As a benchmark, Jericho debuted with 11.66 million viewers and a 3.4/10 among adults 18-49 on Sept. 20, 2006, based on the final nationals. With a loss of an extensive 3.89 million viewers and 38 percent among adults 18-49 from beginning to end, chances are last night was the last you will ever see of Jericho. Also in the time period were struggling ABC sitcoms According to Jim (Viewers: #3, 6.32 million; A18-49: #2, 2.3/ 8) and Notes From the Underbelly (Viewers: #3, 5.78 million; A18-49: #3, 2.3/ 7), America’s Next Top Model on The CW (Viewers: #5, 4.94 million; A18-49: #2, 2.4/ 8), and NBC’s improvisational Thank God You’re Here (Viewers: #4, 5.26 million; A18-49: #4t, 2.1/ 7 -- a series-low in both categories).
American Idol ruled the 9 p.m. hour with a hefty 27.43 million viewers and a 10.5/27 among adults 18-49. Comparably, that beat the competition combined in both total viewers and adults 18-49. Take a look:
Wednesday 9-10 p.m. American Idol (Fox) Viewers: 27.43 million (#1), A18-49: 10.5/27 (#1)
Crossing Jordan (NBC) Viewers: 5.39 million (#3), A18-49: 1.5/ 4 (#4t)
According to Jim R (ABC) – 9:00 p.m. Viewers: 4.60 million (#4), A18-49: 1.9/ 3 (#3)
George Lopez R (ABC) – 9:30 p.m. Viewers: 4.46 million (#4), A18-49: 1.9/ 5 (#3)
One Tree Hill (CW) Viewers: 2.95 million (#5), A18-49: 1.5/ 4 (#4t)
Leadership, as usual, was split at 10 p.m. CBS’ CSI: NY was first in total viewers (12.69 million) and second among adults 18-49 (3.6/10); ABC’s Lost was second in total viewers (11.89 million) and first in the demo (4.9/13). Third in the hour was NBC’s Medium, with 7.79 million viewers and a 2.6/ 7 among adults 18-49. But what saves the already renewed Medium from being labeled a loser was growth out of Crossing Jordan of 2.40 million viewers and 73 percent in the demo.
Originally posted by pisher: I think a lot of us here have seen an improvement in Lost episodes over the past several weeks.
But can anyone honestly say there's been any improvement in the ratings?
Once you lose people, it's hard to get them back.
This season should have been 16 episodes too. They didn't have a full season's worth of story. Held back too much early on.
Anyway, I'm done complaining about Lost for now. Kudos on a good recovery, and an acceptable three year plan for finishing the show in style.
It is hard, especially for a serialized show like Lost.
Lost is fighting an uphill battle in the ratings right now and I think it's commendable that it's been stable in viewers pretty much since it came back when almost every other series have been shedding like crazy. Lost's own ratings in S1 and S2 also decreased substantially at this time of this year, so season 3 isn't doing too badly overall, especially considering it's near 14 million with timeshifting factored in.
You can blame this due to the fact that people are slowly creating their own schedule. With DVR's,Tivo's, IPOD's and online streaming, you have millions of viewers who don't watch live TV shows anymore. They will watch these shows at their own discretion. Some also point out that due to day light savings time moving early this year, the ratings for March/April were down across the board for all shows.
So, remember with a show like Lost, you will never really get the real ratings picture. You have millions of tech savvy viewers that will watch this show online, via Ipods, DVR's and Tivo's. This is a huge problem for advertisers and network executives...
I think if people are really into a show, they still will go to the trouble of watching it 'live'.
Problem is, there's a lot of people out there only kinda HALF into the shows they watch.
Part of the problem is that there's just so much television out there--so much ENTERTAINMENT out there--that it's kinda deadening. All these choices. It's Tofflerian, is what it is. We're in shock.
Appointment television is quickly becoming a thing of the past. Well, so what? Like we can't find other things to make appointments to do?
In season, or series-finale news, CBS’ Jericho concluded with 7.77 million viewers (#2) and a very disappointing 2.1/ 7 among adults 18-49 (#4t).
It seems like most of the season finale episodes this year are actually dropping in the ratings a bit, even from the last couple of episodes.
Is it the weather? Is it Nielsen counting college kids (many of whom are doing finals in may rather than TV cramming)? Is it viewers using DVR timeshifts to save their 'favorite' programs for later viewing?
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