Here are the fast affiliate results by network and by each half-hour for Thursday, Nov. 22, 2007, Thanksgiving:

Overall Results

CBS
Viewers: 12.80 million, A18-49: 3.6 rating/ 11 share

ABC
Viewers: 9.27 million, A18-49: 3.1/ 9

NBC
Viewers: 6.80 million, A18-49: 2.5/ 7

Fox
Viewers: 4.12 million, A18-49: 1.5/ 5

CW
Viewers: 1.12 million, A18-49: 0.4/ 1

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8:00 p.m.

CBS - Survivor: China Clips Show)
Viewers: 12.02 million (#1), A18-49: 3.8 rating/12 share (#1)

ABC - Ugly Betty
Viewers: 7.05 million (#2), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#3)

NBC - Movie: The Incredibles
Viewers: 6.33 million (#3), A18-49: 2.1/ 7 (#2)

Fox - Movie: Dodgeball
Viewers: 3.97 million (#4), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#4)

CW - Movie: Raise Your Voice
Viewers: 1.23 million (#5), A18-49: 0.4/ 1 (#4t)

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8:30 p.m.

CBS - Survivor: China (Clips Show)
Viewers: 11.27 million (#1), A18-49: 3.5/11 (#1)

ABC - Ugly Betty
Viewers: 8.00 million (#2), A18-49: 2.3/ 7 (#3)

NBC - Movie: The Incredibles
Viewers: 7.29 million (#3), A18-49: 2.6/ 8 (#2)

Fox - Movie: Dodgeball
Viewers: 4.13 million (#4), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#4)

CW - Movie: Raise Your Voice
Viewers: 1.12 million (#5), A18-49: 0.4/ 1 (#4)

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9:00 p.m.

CBS - CSI
Viewers: 14.96 million (#1), A18-49: 4.2/12 (#2)

ABC - Grey's Anatomy
Viewers: 13.60 million (#2), A18-49: 4.9/14 (#1)

NBC - Movie: The Incredibles
Viewers: 6.93 million (#3), A18-49: 2.4/ 7 (#3)

Fox - Movie: Dodgeball
V-ewers: 4.11 million (#4), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#4)

CW - Movie: Raise Your Voice
Viewers: 1.04 million (#5), A18-49: 0.3/ 1 (#5)

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9:30 p.m.

CBS - CSI
Viewers: 14.27 million (#1), A18-49: 4.1/11 (#2)

ABC - Grey's Anatomy
Viewers: 14.23 million (#2), A18-49: 5.2/14 (#1)

NBC - Movie: The Incredibles
Viewers: 7.27 million (#3), A18-49: 2.6/ 7 (#3)

Fox - Movie: Dodgeball
VIewers: 4.30 million (#4), A18-49: 1.7/ 5 (#4)

CW - Movie: Raise Your Voice
Viewers: 1.08 million (#5), A18-49: 0.4/ 1 (#5)

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10:00 p.m.

CBS - Without a Trace
Viewers: 12.15 million (#1), A18-49: 3.1/ 9 (#1t)

ABC - October Road (season premiere/preview)
Viewers: 7.33 million (#3), A18-49: 2.6/ 7 (#3)

NBC - Movie: The Incredibles
Viewers: 8.35 million (#2), A18-49: 3.1/ 9 (#1t)

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10:30 p.m.

CBS - Without a Trace
Viewers: 12.10 million (#1), A18-49: 3.0/ 9 (#1)

ABC - October Road (season premiere/preview)
Viewers: 5.40 million (#2), A18-49: 1.9/ 6 (#3)

NBC - The Office (R)
Viewers: 4.60 million (#3), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#2)

What the world is going on with ABC. I am glad that CBS won the night, but is Thanksgiving really messing with ABC ratings? I think all these are series lows for the whole night and with October Road only getting 5 million following GA means that its going to be a bad for ABC on Mondays now...

Woah, what happened here? Grey's Anatomy usually has 19-20 million viewers an episode and last night it was 13-14 million. Ugly Betty usually has 10-11 million an episode and last night it was 7-8 million. It was Thanksgiving so people were with there families instead of watching TV.

Ouch for CSI and GA. Bad numbers for both, but CSI is the big loser.
As for OR the second half hour says it all. This show won't pull more than 5 million on Mondays

Ouch @ October Road

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Posted 23 November 2007 03:40 PM Hide Post
What the world is going on with ABC. I am glad that CBS won the night, but is Thanksgiving really messing with ABC ratings? I think all these are series lows for the whole night and with October Road only getting 5 million following GA means that its going to be a bad for ABC on Mondays now...
Posts: 31 | Registered: 13 October 2007

Actually this time CBS was affected almost as much as ABC. With the strike why did those 2 networks waste original episodes on a night no one was watching TV?

Interesting how Survivor: China held up despite airing a clips show.

Not a good night for ABC with lowish scores for all those expensive first run episodes. And Big Shots retains its hold on the most popular lead-out for Grey's Anatomy so far this season.

In the battle of the movie nights, the broadcast premiere of The Incredibles got a pretty decent demo number and bested the broadcast premiere of Dodgeball, however, The CW's first movie night with the broadcast premiere of Raise Your Voice did poorly.

Why do networks put new stuff on during Thanksgiving? Is it because of sweeps?

Well, they never used to. And Fox and the CW bailed out last night. Logically, it is because of the sweeps, but do the networks really care about the sweeps anymore? It sure doesn't seem so.

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Originally posted by crateriko:
Why do networks put new stuff on during Thanksgiving? Is it because of sweeps?

It was a terrible return, in particular, for October Road.

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Originally posted by dumont:
Not a good night for ABC with lowish scores for all those expensive first run episodes. And Big Shots retains its hold on the most popular lead-out for Grey's Anatomy so far this season.

In the battle of the movie nights, the broadcast premiere of The Incredibles got a pretty decent demo number and bested the broadcast premiere of Dodgeball, however, The CW's first movie night with the broadcast premiere of Raise Your Voice did poorly.

The Incredibles seems like it did better than most of NBC's regular Thursday night... I just thoguht maybe they need to put movies on Thursday night intead of the Crap-o-roma they have on Thursdays...

Ouch for October Road... I can only image what will happen on Monday...

DVR usage will certainly help CSI and GA. In light of the strike, I'm really surprised that ABC and CBS didn't switch their strategy and hold those new episodes back.

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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
Interesting how Survivor: China held up despite airing a clips show.

Good numbers, despite dropping in the 2nd half-hour (something that rarely happens, considering it leads into CSI). I guess some people initially didn't realize it was a clips show and they eventually decided to tune out.