Fast National Ratings for Wednesday, December 19th

Primetime Schedule Courtesy of Justin
ABC:
8:00pm Duel
9:00pm Private Practice (R)
10:02pm Holiday Celebration at Ford's Theatre [special]

CBS:
8:00pm Frosty the Snowman (R) [special]
8:30pm Frosty Returns (R) [special]
9:00pm Criminal Minds (R)
10:00pm CSI: NY (R)

NBC:
8:00pm Clash of the Choirs
10:00pm Journeyman

Fox:
8:00pm Back to You (R)
8:30pm 'Til Death (R)
9:00pm Kitchen Nightmares (R)

CW:
8:00pm Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants
9:00pm Gossip Girl

TIME   NET      HH  A18-49     Viewers  A18-34

8-11   ABC   4.1/7   1.7/5   5,916,000
8-11   CBS  6.5/11   2.7/8  10,039,000
8-11   NBC   4.6/8   2.2/6   7,052,000
8-10   FOX   3.2/5   1.9/5   4,725,000
8-10    CW   1.3/2   0.8/2   1,785,000   0.9/3

8:00   ABC   4.8/8   2.0/6   7,114,000
8:00   CBS   4.5/8   2.4/8   7,571,000
8:00   NBC   5.4/9   2.2/7   8,143,000
8:00   FOX   3.3/6   1.6/5   4,764,000
8:00    CW   1.2/2   0.8/2   1,715,000   0.8/3

8:30   ABC   5.1/8   2.3/7   7,720,000
8:30   CBS   4.0/7   2.1/6   6,963,000
8:30   NBC   5.5/9   2.4/7   8,430,000
8:30   FOX   3.5/6   1.8/5   5,166,000
8:30    CW   1.3/2   0.8/2   1,834,000   0.9/3

9:00   ABC   3.9/6   1.7/5   5,484,000
9:00   CBS  7.3/12   2.8/8  11,536,000
9:00   NBC   5.3/9   2.5/7   8,335,000
9:00   FOX   2.8/5   1.9/5   4,287,000
9:00    CW   1.3/2   0.8/2   1,770,000   1.0/3

9:30   ABC   3.9/6   1.7/5   5,436,000
9:30   CBS  7.6/12   3.0/8  11,748,000
9:30   NBC   5.2/8   2.5/7   8,107,000
9:30   FOX   3.0/5   2.2/6   4,682,000
9:30    CW   1.3/2   0.8/2   1,821,000   1.0/3

10:00  ABC   3.7/6   1.3/4   5,255,000
10:00  CBS  7.8/13   2.9/8  11,366,000
10:00  NBC   3.3/6   1.8/5   4,716,000

10:30  ABC   3.1/6   1.0/3   4,484,000
10:30  CBS  7.7/14   2.8/9  11,047,000
10:30  NBC   3.1/6   1.7/5   4,579,000

Programming notes:
- ABC's Duel ran until 9:02pm. Private Practice's repeat ran until 10:03pm, followed by the Holiday Special from Ford Theatre.
- NBC's Journeyman aired outside it's normal day and time and is considered a special.

Wow...Gossip Girl slipped more than a million viewers from its last new episode. Why did the CW even air a new episode last night? Those ratings are not good at all. Most repeats on the net do better.

Peace!

A new Gossip Girl only earned 1.8 million?????

As always, thank you, Travis.

Wow, I came in to see how Clash of the Choirs did last night and saw the hit Gossip Girl took. OUCH. Maybe they should have aired their holiday episode earlier in the month?

Yeah, I love Gossip Girl, but I didn't realize there was a new one on. I would have missed it without the DVR.

I wonder if networks will reconsider showing one new episode in between weeks of reruns. I know they want to parcel out the remaining eps, but it doesn't seem to be working ratings wise for many shows.

Duel has been pretty steady. ABC did more harm than good by airing those stretched out 90 minute shows. If the finale on Sunday does well, I think it will return.

Seems to work for Smallville and Supernatural. Their fans know when episodes air. Of course, everybody seems to watch GG on iTunes.

Aside from CW shows, there's been some season lows for network shows like Criminal Minds and either one of the CSI's or L&O's. Probably partly due to the holiday, people assume everything is repeats now anyway. But playing one episode surrounded by repeats messes with the casual fans.

Sorry to see "Journeyman" end its run of episodes on a low ratings, but it did end on a good note with more info on why Dan was travelling, a look at what happenes to the previous traveler, and Katie Vasser got to see Dan disappear on one of his trips.

Any chance the Sci-Fi Channel will pick it up?

quote:

What Would Riggins Do?

Riggins would totally have aired the episode earlier in the month (i.e. last week after the Top Model finale).

omg... what happened to GG?!?!?!?! did not one know that it was a new ep??

I just realized Crowned was a new episode too. Not good at all.

Peace!!

quote:

Originally posted by wenart25:
I just realized Crowned was a new episode too. Not good at all.

Peace!!

Crowned was a new episode?? didnt notice..

quote:

Originally posted by galveston:
Seems to work for Smallville and Supernatural. Their fans know when episodes air. Of course, everybody seems to watch GG on iTunes.

Well On the odd week Smallville had a sizeable decrease in viewers (close to a million).

Supernatural on the other hand, improved over its last original episode, slightly.

Now whether thats do to Supernatural having more psychotic fans (I mean devoted) and the others ahving more casual fans, who knows. We would need to see more examples to really judge.

Of course it for Gossip Girls you also might factor that it heavily depended on America's Next Top Model to help gain viewers and with it gone......