Note: Any prior rating results are based on the final nationals. Also, 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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-Yesterday’s Winners: American Idol (Fox), Deal or No Deal (NBC), Moment of Truth (Fox), Criminal Minds (CBS)
-Honorable Mention: CSI: NY (CBS), Law & Order (NBC)
-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats): Power of 10 (CBS), Wife Swap (ABC), Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants (CW), Cashmere Mafia (ABC)
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-Ratings Breakdown: Led by American Idol and the stellar debut of Moment of Truth, Fox got over the “hump” in grand fashion, more than doubling the No. 2 network, NBC, in both total viewers and adults 18-49. American Idol opened the evening with 26.80 million viewers and a 10.8 rating/28 share among adults 18-49, followed by the launch of Moment of Truth at a very dominant 23.23 million viewers and a 10.2/24 in the demo. Retention of 81 percent in viewers and 89 percent among adults 18-49 for Moment of Truth out of the second half of American Idol (Viewers: 28.52 million; A18-49: 11.4/28 at 8:30 p.m.) makes it the biggest launch out of the blockbuster reality/competition to-date.
Second-place NBC kicked-off Wednesday with Deal or No Deal at a healthy (and second place) 13.76 million viewers and a 3.7/10 among adults 18-49 from 8-9 p.m. If you think nine million dollar cases in the last game were a lot, the next will feature 10! Next on NBC was Law & Order: Criminal Intent at 9 p.m. (Viewers: #3, 8.27 million; A18-49: #4, 2.2/ 5), which continues to get squashed by CBS’ competing Criminal Intent (Viewers: #2, 12.88 million; A18-49: #2, 3.2/ 8), followed by Law & Order at 10.33 million viewers (#2) and a 3.0/ 8 among adults 18-49 (#2) at 10 p.m. Comparably, Law & Order built from spin-off Criminal Intent by 2.06 million viewers and 36 percent in the demo.
CBS’ just benched Power of 10 limped out of the starting gate, with just 3.88 million viewers (#4) and a 0.9/ 2 among adults 18-49 (#4) at 8 p.m. That led into the aforementioned Criminal Minds (Viewers: #2, 12.88 million; A18-49: #2, 3.2/ 8), followed by CSI: NY at 10 p.m. (Viewers: #1, 11.67 million; A18-49: #1, 3.3/ 9). Compared to one year earlier (Viewers: 13.35 million; A18-49: 3.8/10 on Jan. 24, 2007), CSI: NY declined by 1.68 million viewers and 13 percent in the demo. Criminal Minds, meanwhile, built from lead-in Power of 10 by a mammoth 9 million viewers and 256 percent among adults 18-49.
ABC remained out of the competitive Wednesday loop as a result of Wife Swap (Viewers: #3, 5.61 million; A18-49: #3, 1.9/ 5), Supernanny (Viewers: #4, 7.14 million; A18-49: #3, 2.7/ 6) and Cashmere Mafia (Viewers: #3, 5.58 million; A18-49: #3, 2.0/ 5). But the one positive worth noting was growth of a hefty 1.53 million viewers and 42 percent among adults 18-49 for Supernanny out of Wife Swap.
Last, and very least, was the CW’s pathetic Crowned: The Mother of all Pageants (Viewers: 1.46 million; A18-49: 0.7/ 2), and a repeat of soon-to-relocate Gossip Girl (Viewers: 1.15 million; A18-49: 0.5/ 1). If you have not seen Crowned, you really should check out that “desashing” ceremony. The only thing missing is a laugh track!
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If you want your computer to auto vote for you (quicker & easier than voting by hand), follow these steps.
Then use Firefox to go to the iMacros install page and click on "install now", you need to scroll down the page a bit. You also need to click on "install" in the dialogue box that pops up. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3863
After iMacros is installed it will ask you to restart Firefox, do that, and then you can start using it.
On the left side of Firefox you will see a new bar for iMacros, if it's not visible at first you can find a small icon somewhere near the toolbar. It's blue with a yellow dot (click on it).
To record a macro to vote: go to the tv.com page for either show or episode.
Look in the iMacros toolbar for the 3 different tabs called "Play", "Rec" and "Edit".
Click on "Rec" and then click "STOP".
Next, click on the "Edit" tab, and click "Edit Macro". Change the details in it to the following: TAG POS=6 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Vote<SP>Again
Click save.
Then click "Play (Loop)" below. Not the usual Play, it's the loop you want, it will repeat your macro over and over again. Changed the Max number to 999.
When it gets to 999, play it again.
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Kudos to Fox, Criminal Minds, the NBC lineup, and yes, even ABC's for week to week growth. Wife Swap is holding up fine against Idol and once March gets here will likely return to at least 7 million viewer range if not more. Supernanny had very nice growth at 9. Cashmere Mafia is a flop however. I expect better results for Men in Trees in the coming months.
As you may or may not know, Pushing Daisies has been knocked off the top spot of TV.com's "Best New Fall Show" by Bionic Woman.
I didn't know.
Of course, like 99.9999999999999999999999% of humanity, I didn't CARE.
So Californication, which ended up with an audience of around half a million people is in THIRD place?
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We cant let that steaming pile of turd win!
Which steaming pile of turd is this again?
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So we all need to pull together and vote!
Well I think there are more pressing issues that should be driving young people to the polls, but if this motivates you to participate in the democratic process--oh--you mean vote in the meaningless online poll that allows multiple voting and is basically just some website's way of generating hits and attracting attention to itself, don't you?
will begin @ the following time (translated into different timezones). Just look up on this list where you live, and your time is typed beside it.
Could I just say, if your generation was half as interested in making sure your REAL votes were counted, there'd be no Diebolds, and Bush would probably not be President?
Well, I guess I just did.
Best of luck to your favorite steaming pile of turd.
Originally posted by vlis: and keep in mind, AI ran over
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Originally posted by Marc Berman: All things considered, it held well.
Moment of Truth 9:00 p.m. V: 25.09 million, A18-49: 10.9/26 9:30 p.m. V: 21.38 million, A18-49: 9.5/23
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Originally posted by Fred Farrar: Mr. TV, the half hour breakdowns of Moment of Truth would be interesting (and maybe very depressing).
You have been very quite of late Vlis. How pathetic is ABC these days? At least they will have 1 hour a week that should rate well starting next week with LOST...
I've only now seen MoT and actually i don't think is so bad as many are saying here. Don't gat me wrong i still think it's crappy TV but i don't think is worse than AI or 5th Grader for example. So i expect this show to keep doing very well, maybe around 20 million next time
ABC is very pathetic. They need help desperately. Lost will be new but with CSI's repeats opposite it. CBS can still pull the win in viewers for that hour.
Cashmere and Big Shots will both need canceling. They might as well put in repeats of Private Practice and Pushing Daises to try and get new viewers for those shows.
