-Yesterday’s Winners: Dancing With the Stars (ABC), Heroes (NBC), The King of Queens (CBS), CSI: Miami (CBS)
-Honorable Mention: Deal or No Deal (NBC), Two and a Half Men (CBS), 24 (Fox)
-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats): Drive (Fox), Everybody Hates Chris (CW), All of Us (CW), Girlfriends (CW), The Game (CW), The Real Wedding Crashers (NBC)
Note: The individual show results are posted after the analysis courtesy of TravisYanin.
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-Ratings Breakdown: Led by the addictive Dancing With the Stars, ABC opened the week on a winning note with an advantage over the No. 2 network (CBS in total viewers; NBC among adults 18-49) of 2.18 million viewers and five percent in the demo. Fox was fourth in both categories, followed by lagging The CW in the distant No. 5 spot.
Dancing With the Stars was the most-watched show of the evening, with 18.66 million viewers (and a 4.9 rating/13 share among adults 18-49) from 8-9:30 p.m. Take a look at the half-hour breakdown:
Second in the 8 p.m. hour behind Dancing With the Stars was NBC’s Deal or No Deal at a healthy 10.84 million viewers and a 3.3/10 among adults 18-49. Next were CBS comedies How I Met Your Mother (Viewers: 6.20 million; A18-49: 2.3/ 7), which was a repeat, and The New Adventures of Old Christine (Viewers: 6.93 million; A18-49: 2.4/ 7), followed by Fox’s stalled Drive (Viewers: 4.60 million; A18-49: 1.8/ 5), and CW comedies Everybody Hates Chris (Viewers: 3.01 million; A18-49: 1.3/ 4) and All of Us (Viewers: 2.40 million; A18-49: 1.1/ 3).
Dancing With the Stars, of course, took the 9 p.m. half hour, with 20.39 million viewers and a 5.5/13 among adults 18-49. Combined with the first half hour of another 90-minute edition of The Bachelor: An Officer and a Gentleman (Viewers: #4, 10.56 million; A18-49: #4, 3.5/ 8), ABC averaged a dominant 15.47 million viewers and a 4.5/11 in the demo in the 9 p.m. hour. Also airing from 9-10 p.m. were CBS’ Two and a Half Men (Viewers: #2, 12.23 million; A18-49: #3, 3.9/10) and soon-to-conclude The King of Queens (Viewers: #1, 12.50 million; A18-49: #2, 4.1/10), NBC’s Heroes (Viewers: #3, 11.98 million; A18-49: #1, 5.3/13), Fox’s 24 (Viewers: #4, 10.31 million; A18-49: #4, 3.9/10), and The CW’s Girlfriends (Viewers: #5, 2.40 million; A18-49: #5, 1.2/ 3) and The Game (Viewers: #5, 2.51 million; A18-49: #5, 1.1/ 3). As predicted, Heroes won the hour among adults 18-49, but 24 deserves an “honorable mention” for building out of Drive by 5.71 million viewers and 117 percent among adults 18-49.
In series-premiere news, NBC comedy/reality hybrid The Real Wedding Crashers opened at a disappointing (and last-place) 7.05 million viewers and a 3.1/ 8 among adults 18-49 at 10 p.m. Comparably, retention out of the second half-hour of Heroes (Viewers: 12.24 million; A18-49: 5.4/13 at 9:30 p.m.) was just 58 percent in viewers and 57 percent among adults 18-49. But this was, however, an improvement over the final episode of former occupant The Black Donnellys on April 2 (Viewers: 5.30 million; A18-49: 2.0/ 5).
First at 10 p.m., of course, was CBS’ veteran CSI: Miami (Viewers: 16.73 million; A18-49: 5.1/14), followed by the 10-11 p.m. portion of ABC’s long-in-the-tooth The Bachelor: An Officer and a Gentleman at 8.93 million viewers and a 3.4/ 9 among adults 18-49. Overall, The Bachelor averaged 9.47 million viewers and a 3.4/ 9 from 9:30-11 p.m. Although ABC will argue there is still an audience, retention for The Bachelor out of the last half-hour of Dancing With the Stars was just 46 percent in viewers and 62 percent among adults 18-49. ABC can do better out of mega-hit Dancing With the Stars.
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Dancing with the Stars - 18.664 million viewers - 12.4/20 HH - 4.9/13 A18-49
The Bachelor - 9.471 million viewers - 6.7/11 HH - 3.4/9 A18-49
How I Met Your Mother (R) - 6.202 million viewers - 4.0/7 HH - 2.3/7 A18-49
Old Christine - 6.933 million viewers - 4.5/7 HH - 2.4/7 A18-49
Two and a Half Men - 12.229 million viewers - 7.9/12 HH - 3.9/10 A18-49
King of Queens - 12.499 million viewers - 8.1/12 HH - 4.1/10 A18-49
don't you hate it when the ratings are delayed so long by Nielsen? been happening a lot lately... Marc, any idea what is happening when they're delayed?
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It's pretty evident that a lot of folks are tuning from Dancing With the Star to King Of Queens (based on it's improved numbers from 2 1/2 Men). While I love the show and am glad to see it do well and get the ratings it deserves, it's kind of a shame they didn't have something else in the slot that was more thought of as a future ratings investment.
I think it's really stupid of CBS to air start the night off with a repeat of How I Met Your Mother. It's starting the night with a bad start. Repeats of King of Queens (episodes from earlier this season) or Two and a Half Men would perform better!
don't you hate it when the ratings are delayed so long by Nielsen?
Yeah, but it's not a big deal. And those Drive #'s were definitely worth the wait.
Already below 3.0 HH, below five million total viewers, and below 2.0 in the demo. These #'s wouldn't be very encouraging for a CW show--not that CW could afford a show this expensive.
So what happened? Did all the watercoolers in the country go out of order last week?
I keep hearing people say that if people watched the show, they'd like it.
Okay, so why didn't all the millions of people who watched the show last week tell everybody they knew to watch it?
Answer: They either didn't think it was worth watching, didn't think it was worth mentioning, or were too embarassed to mention they'd watched it at all.
