Prime-Time Ratings:
Wednesday 6/11/08

The following results are based on the fast affiliate ratings (Live Plus Same Day data)

-Total Viewers:
Fox: 8.79 million, CBS: 7.86, NBC: 7.50, ABC: 4.18, CW: 1.60

-Adults 18-49:
Fox: 3.4 rating/11 share, NBC: 2.2/ 7, CBS: 1.7/ 5, ABC: 1.4/ 4, CW: 0.6/ 2

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
So You Think You Can Dance (Fox), Deal or No Deal (NBC), Criminal Minds R (CBS), CSI: NY R (CBS)

-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats):
Men in Trees (ABC)

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-Repeat Alert:
46 percent of the overall schedule was encore telecasts.

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-Ratings Breakdown:
Fox led the Wednesday troops, with a first-place finish in both total viewers and adults 18-49 care of a two-hour edition of summer favorite So You Think You Can Dance at 8.79 million viewers and a 3.4 rating/11 share from 8-10 p.m. CBS and NBC tied for the No. 2 and 3 spots (CBS was second in total viewers; NBC second among adults 18-49), followed by ABC and the CW.

In series-premiere news, a 90-minute edition of NBC’s Celebrity Circus opened at a respectable 6.52 million viewers and a 2.3/ 6 among adults 18-49. Take a look at the half-hour breakdown:

Celebrity Circus (NBC)
9:30 p.m. Viewers: 6.97 million (#3), A18-49: 2.3/ 6 (#2)
10:00 p.m. Viewers: 6.51 million (#2), A18-49: 2.3/ 6 (#1)
10:30 p.m. Viewers: 6.08 million (#2), A18-49: 2.3/ 7 (#1)

Retention for Celebrity Circus out of the last-half hour of a 90-minute edition of lead-in Deal or No Deal (Viewers: #1, 10.48 million; A18-49: #2, 2.7/ 8 at 9 p.m.) was 62 percent in total viewers and 85 percent among adults 18-49. Overall, Deal or No Deal averaged a healthy 8.50 million viewers and a 2.1/ 7 among adults 18-49 from 8-9:30 p.m. Yes, 8.5 million viewers in the summer is considered healthy!

A night of encore telecasts on CBS -- The Price is Right (Viewers: #3, 6.11 million; A18-49: #4, 1.2/ 4), Criminal Minds (Viewers: #3, 8.23 million; A18-49: #4, 1.7/ 5) and CSI: NY (Viewers: #1, 9.23 million; A18-49: #2, 2.2/ 6) -- were at typical early summer levels. ABC aired repeats of Wife Swap (Viewers: #4, 4.00 million; A18-49: #3, 1.4/ 5) and Supernanny (Viewers: #4, 4.04 million; A18-49: #4, 1.5/ 4) into the series-finale of Men In Trees (Viewers: #3, 4.51 million; A18-49: #3, 1.1/ 3 at 10 p.m.). And the CW capped off the evening with a repeat of America’s Next Top Model (Viewers: #5, 1.23 million; A18-49: #5, 0.5/ 2) and Farmer Wants a Wife (Viewers: #5, 1.98 million; A18-49: #5, 0.8/ 2), which deserves a note of positive mention for building by 60 percent out of the Top Model encore among adults 18-49.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

G'bye, Men in Trees--you may have been a third-rate attempt to cross Sex and the City with Northern Exposure, but I shall miss ogling your female cast members. Except for Heche, who kind of annoys me.

Man, you know its summer when abysmal programming like CELEBRITY CIRCUS is being shown.

There is only one bright spot. SWINGTOWN. I'm hoping that tonight there will not be a huge drop off from the premier. It was very well done and actually entertaining. It would have been even better on FX where they could have been bolder.

It's competition FEAR ITSELF is weak. I tuned in last week thinking it would be like most anthology shows and have HALF HOUR segments. Instead I was treated to a full hour padded out to tell a vampire story. I'm not expecting a huge drop though because it can't get much lower than what it pulled last week....

Respectable start for Circus, but the loss of nearly 1M viewers during the show is not a good sign. It will get another DoND boost next week, but I can't see this show surviving as a standalone.

Celebrity Circus opened up decently for NBC. The drop in viewers is a little concerning for each half hour, but the demo stayed the same.

Men in Trees' finale was generally ignored.

CW's Farmer Wants A Wife is hanging in there at around 2 million. Still good for CW. Time to find a second farmer and get him a wife.

Is really 6 million that respectable, even for a summer program?

Fear Itself will take another week, or two, to see how it will do, since it will be going up against the NBA Finals again this week. If the Finals go 7 Games, I think it will be on again next thursday.

Did anyone here actually WATCH Celberity Circus? How bad was it?

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Originally posted by robert:
Is really 6 million that respectable, even for a summer program?

Given that a lot of NBC's programs struggle to get 6 million viewers during the regular season, I'd say 6 million in the summer is respectable. If it managed to stay at this level (it won't), it would definitely get renewed.

If you think about it, it did better than most episodes of 30 Rock & Friday Night Lights

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Originally posted by Holly:

quote:

Originally posted by robert:
Is really 6 million that respectable, even for a summer program?

Given that a lot of NBC's programs struggle to get 6 million viewers during the regular season, I'd say 6 million in the summer is respectable. If it managed to stay at this level (it won't), it would definitely get renewed.

I watched Celebrity Circus. It actually was pretty good and better than I expected. It is focused more to a kid/family audience, so 10 PM is too late for it to go on. If it holds its numbers, it should move to 8 PM. As for renewing it, if it stays in the 5 to 6 million range, I could see it being renewed for the summer. It is very cheap programming.

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
Fear Itself will take another week, or two, to see how it will do, since it will be going up against the NBA Finals again this week. If the Finals go 7 Games, I think it will be on again next thursday.

Did anyone here actually WATCH Celberity Circus? How bad was it?

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Originally posted by WlcmDoNotDisturb90210:
I watched Celebrity Circus. It actually was pretty good and better than I expected. It is focused more to a kid/family audience, so 10 PM is too late for it to go on. If it holds its numbers, it should move to 8 PM. As for renewing it, if it stays in the 5 to 6 million range, I could see it being renewed for the summer. It is very cheap programming.

I did hear on a radio program the the D-List stars were paid about $75,000 each for the run of their acts. I am sure thats cheaper than most scripted shows pay acters on a per episode basis.

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Originally posted by robert:
Is really 6 million that respectable, even for a summer program?

Maybe (even more than that on NBC ).

Does anybody knows the stars of 'Dancing with the Stars' are being paid?

Maybe $250,000? it's a huge show so I don't know.

Rodney King to appear on VH1's `Celebrity Rehab'
... from nytimes.com

Rodney King will appear in the next installment of VH1's ''Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew.''

The show features famous people dealing with drug and alcohol problems aided by celebrity addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky.

King, whose 1991 beating by Los Angeles police led to deadly rioting the next year, prompting him to make a famously earnest plea for peace, will appear with actor Jeff Conaway, former Guns 'N Roses drummer Steven Adler, Rod Stewart's son Sean and actress Tawny Kitaen.

The new season is slated to premiere in October, the network said Tuesday.

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Originally posted by RoyBoyCF:

quote:

Originally posted by robert:
Is really 6 million that respectable, even for a summer program?

Maybe (even more than that on NBC ).

Ya,

I liked the show i thought it was good and I'm, g
glad it did ok in the ratings.