Note: Any prior rating results are based on the final nationals. Since the level of DVR penetration has increased from 9 percent in early 2006-07 to approximately 20 percent at present, the overall results may be negatively impacted.
Note: Any prior rating results are based on the final nationals. Since the level of DVR penetration has increased from 9 percent in early 2006-07 to approximately 20 percent at present, the overall results may be negatively impacted.
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-Saturday’s Winners: Nothing
-Saturday’s Losers (excluding repeats): The night overall.
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-Ratings Breakdown: Obviously, there is very little to say when the most-watched network of the evening averages just slightly above 6 million viewers. On that note, the perennial combination of Cops (Viewers: #1: 6.11 million; A18-49: #1: 2.1 rating/7 share) and America’s Most Wanted (Viewers: #2: 6.14 million; A18-49: #1: 2.0/ 6) led Fox to Saturday victory.
CBS opened the evening with a movie called Secondhand Lions (Viewers: 5.73 million; A18-49: 1.3/ 4 from 8-10 p.m.), followed by 48 Hours Investigates at a second-place finish in both total viewers (5.84 million) and adults 18-49 (1.4/ 5) at 10 p.m.
ABC may want to reconsider ever putting Jimmy Kimmel in primetime again, with repeat 10 p.m. special, Jimmy Kimmel Live’s All-Star Salute to Jimmy Kimmel, at a mere (and last-place) 3.11 million viewers and a 1.3/ 4 among adults 18-49. Earlier in the evening on ABC was repeat movie Old School at 3.68 million viewers and a 1.4/ 4 in the demo from 8-10 p.m.
Capping off the evening was NBC’s encore combination of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Viewers: #4, 3.66 million; A18-49: #4: 0.8/ 3), Law & Order: SVU (Viewers: #3, 5.73 million; A18-49: #4: 1.3/ 4) and Law & Order (Viewers: #1: 6.51 million; A18-49: #1: 1.5/ 5). I know what you are all thinking: overkill.
Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: -Total Viewers:NBC: 5.30 -Adults 18-49: NBC: 1.2/ 4 -------------------- Capping of the evening was NBC’s encore combination of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Viewers: #4, 3.66 million; A18-49: #4: 0.8/ 3), Law & Order: SVU (Viewers: #3, 5.73 million; A18-49: #4: 1.3/ 4) and Law & Order (Viewers: #1: 6.51 million; A18-49: #1: 1.5/ 5). I know what you are all thinking: overkill.
Overkill indeed.
Over the last eight nights of primetime, 13 of 25 NBC hours have been devoted to one Law & Order skein or another.
Surely NBC can come up with more imaginative and varied programming for Saturday nights.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: -Total Viewers:NBC: 5.30 -Adults 18-49: NBC: 1.2/ 4 -------------------- Capping of the evening was NBC’s encore combination of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Viewers: #4, 3.66 million; A18-49: #4: 0.8/ 3), Law & Order: SVU (Viewers: #3, 5.73 million; A18-49: #4: 1.3/ 4) and Law & Order (Viewers: #1: 6.51 million; A18-49: #1: 1.5/ 5). I know what you are all thinking: overkill.
Overkill indeed.
Over the last eight nights of primetime, 13 of 25 NBC hours have been devoted to one Law & Order skein or another.
Surely NBC can come up with more imaginative and varied programming for Saturday nights.
Well we could have 2 hours of Dateline... or how about they bring back those Saturday night 30 Rock encores? Ooo that would do well. Or how about they just schedule a movie already. 1 vs. 100 has quite a few eps they could reair. Encores of Amnesia? After My Dad is Better than Your Dad flops this week on Monday at 8pm, NBC could move that to Saturday.
Originally posted by Marc Berman: CBS opened the evening with a movie called Secondhand Lions (Viewers: 5.73 million; A18-49: 1.3/ 4 from 8-10 p.m.), followed by 48 Hours Investigates at a second-place finish in both total viewers (5.84 million) and adults 18-49 (1.4/ 5) at 10 p.m.
CBS just as well should schedule movies all the time on Saturdays. They have a large library of made for TV movies available. 48 Hours imo could just as well be utilized in a better timeslot. Its a pretty decent newsmagazine and could probably fill a hole here or there (maybe on Tuesdays once Jericho is done with its run).
Originally posted by Hawk-eye: Within five years we will have two days of the week with these types of numbers as Fridays eventually fall from the grid as well.
I doubt it.
Within 5 years, there will be a way to count DVR numbers, so the fast nationals won't be this low, and with in 5 years, no one knows what could happen.
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I also think Friday will be the new Saturday, maybe even quicker than 5 years. If CBS drops the ball and starts airing repeats on Fridays that day will be dead also
Originally posted by Hawk-eye: Within five years we will have two days of the week with these types of numbers as Fridays eventually fall from the grid as well.
I doubt it.
Within 5 years, there will be a way to count DVR numbers, so the fast nationals won't be this low, and with in 5 years, no one knows what could happen.
The networks are on a downward trend for years long before the DVR become part of the equation. In addition, even if advertisers suddenly agreed to pay for live+7 days (which they won't) it would not likely bring Saturday back into the programming fold. Similarly, Fridays are on an almost inevitable march in the direction of Saturdays which wouldn't be reversed by counting DVR numbers either.
Originally posted by robert: I also think Friday will be the new Saturday, maybe even quicker than 5 years. If CBS drops the ball and starts airing repeats on Fridays that day will be dead also
CBS is the network looking to revive Saturday with slap fighting (whatever its initials are), right? If they are working to make Saturday count, why are you ready to believe that they will be the ones to give up on Friday?
Originally posted by robert: I also think Friday will be the new Saturday, maybe even quicker than 5 years. If CBS drops the ball and starts airing repeats on Fridays that day will be dead also
CBS is the network looking to revive Saturday with slap fighting (whatever its initials are), right? If they are working to make Saturday count, why are you ready to believe that they will be the ones to give up on Friday?
And CBS at least airs one hour of originals on Saturdays. ABC has college football and movies that tend to do better than most of the other network's movie offerings (especially NBC's). NBC does nothing with Saturday. Encores of the previous week's episodes of the Law and Orders (a show that doesn't need weekly encoring) is really a cheap move.
Well, I didn't mean that the Nets wouldn't show anything on Fridays in five years. I think what CBS is doing with MMA (which a the moment is only a few events) will be the future of Fridays. Let's face it showing sports, movies, repeats and other special event type programming that is more targeted to smaller more specific demos is more akin to cable programming, which is what the nets are almost forced to do with their slowest nights (Saturday now - Friday in the furture).
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Should be a good battle between ABC and FOX tonight between 7 and 8:30. FOX should get good numbers for the race which went until almost 8:30. Hey, nothing better than a hard wreck to pump ratings in the last few minutes of the race. And ouch for Jeff Gordon, that could have been a very serious wreck.
