Preliminary National Ratings for Monday, August 11, 2008
Monday 8.11.08:
ABC: 8:00pm High School Musical: Get in the Picture 9:00pm Samantha Who? (R) 9:30pm Samantha Who? (R) 10:00pm The Mole [season 5 finale]
CBS: 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory (R) 8:30pm How I Met Your Mother (R) 9:00pm Two and a Half Men (R) 9:30pm The New Adventures of Old Christine (R) 10:00pm CSI: Miami (R)
Reformatted for an easier look (Thanks for Posting Travis!)
Network Averages for Monday August 11th, 2008
Net Viewers HH/Share 18-49/share
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NBC 29.95 M 17.6/28 10.2/27
CBS 6.13 M 4.1/7 1.9/5
ABC 2.76 M 1.9/3 1.0/3
FOX 2.60 M 1.7/3 0.9/3
CW 1.04 M 0.7/1 0.4/1
Originally posted by Obveeus: It looks like ABC and CW were largely unaffected by the olympic coverage.
With ratings as low as they post, weekly, on this night, its hard to slide much more.
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Originally posted by Obveeus: CBS took the biggest hit with 2&1/2Men barely coming in above that 8Million prediction someone made yesterday.
We knew NO show would keep its pre olympics levels, but for 2.5 Men to get 8 million and a 2.4 demo against the olympics is pretty impressive. The rest of the night is about were you would think they should be.
The Mole - 10:00pm (HH - 2.0/3) (Viewers - 2.97 M) (18:49 - 1.2/3)
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: We knew NO show would keep its pre olympics levels,
Pending finals, Highschool Musical, The Mole, Gossip Girl, and One Tree Hill all had ZERO drop in the demo.
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but for 2.5 Men to get 8 million and a 2.4 demo against the olympics is pretty impressive.
Yes, an impressive 20% drop in the demo from last week. Not as bad as the other CBS sitcoms, but like I said, CBS was hit most by the Olympics. FOX took a big hit as well, but their programming was totally different than last week, so a comparison is less useful there.
I said yesterday that the under/over number for Two and a Half Men was 8 million, and I was right on. It is still pretty good against the Olympics.
I actually think the other CBS shows held up well against the Olympics. Obviously, a little below their summer averages, but they all won their time slots in both viewers and demo excluding the Olympics, of course.
Originally posted by TV-aholic: We knew NO show would keep its pre olympics levels,
Pending finals, Highschool Musical, The Mole, Gossip Girl, and One Tree Hill all had ZERO drop in the demo.
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but for 2.5 Men to get 8 million and a 2.4 demo against the olympics is pretty impressive.
Yes, an impressive 20% drop in the demo from last week. Not as bad as the other CBS sitcoms, but like I said, CBS was hit most by the Olympics. FOX took a big hit as well, but their programming was totally different than last week, so a comparison is less useful there.
CBS hit the most ? I strongly disagree. They won every single half hour against the other networks (other than NBC, of course) and they are the only network to get over a 1.5 in the demo every half hour. The other networks were basically all below 1.0 every half hour. I think they held up well. You have to take into consideration the Olympics is an extraordinary ratings monster like we have never seen before.
I think the phoniest rated show on TV continues to be Samantha Who. I know it is up against the Olympics but to get 2.5 million viewers and a .8 demo is ridiculous. The CBS 8:00 shows basically doubled it up, and not to mention what the 9:00 CBS sitcoms did opposite it. That show continues to be nothing more than 55% of whatever DWTS gives it. Without DWTS it is dead in the water.
Originally posted by Twins12: CBS hit the most ? I strongly disagree. They won every single half hour against the other networks (other than NBC, of course) and they are the only network to get over a 1.5 in the demo every half hour.
what has coming in second have to do with how much they were affected? The amount of affect is a pretty simple concept. Highschool Musical, The Mole, Gossip Girl, and One Tree Hill did not have any demo drop. CBS took a significant demo drop.
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The other networks were basically all below 1.0 every half hour.
The other networks were at the same level the prior week, hence what 'no affect' would mean.
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I think they held up well. You have to take into consideration the Olympics is an extraordinary ratings monster like we have never seen before.
No one said that CBS sucked and should close up shop. I said that they were hit hardest, which they were.
High School Musical:GITP - 8:00pm 
Samantha Who? (R) - 9:00pm 
The Mole - 10:00pm 
HIMYM (R) - 8:30pm 
Two and a Half Men (R) - 9:00pm 
Old Christine (R) - 9:30pm 
CSI: Miami (R) - 10:00pm 
Prison Break (R) - 7:00pm 
Terminator: SCC (R) - 9:00pm 
The Olympics - 7:00pm 
Gossip Girl (R) - 8:00pm 
One Tree Hill (R) - 9:00pm 
