Filling in for Marc today...

ABC:
8:00pm It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (R) [special]
8:30pm Just for Laughs
9:00pm Dancing With the Stars
10:32pm Miss Guided [series debut]

CBS:
8:00pm NCIS (R)
9:00pm Big Brother 9
10:00pm Jericho

NBC:
8:00pm Biggest Loser
10:00pm Law & Order: SVU (R)

Fox:
8:00pm American Idol

CW:
8:00pm Beauty and the Geek
9:00pm One Tree Hill

Preliminary National Ratings for Tuesday, March 18, 2008 are as follows:

TIME   NET       HH   A18-49     Viewers  A18-34

8-11   ABC   7.6/12    3.1/8  11,952,000
8-11   CBS    4.6/7    2.0/5   7,251,000
8-11   NBC    5.3/8    3.0/8   7,974,000
8-10   FOX  15.1/23  10.3/25  27,005,000
8-10    CW    1.6/2    1.1/3   2,334,000   1.5/4

8:00   ABC    3.8/6    1.9/5   6,317,000
8:00   CBS   6.6/10    1.9/5  10,170,000
8:00   NBC    4.9/8    2.6/7   7,189,000
8:00   FOX  14.8/23   9.7/26  25,958,000
8:00    CW    1.2/2    0.7/2   1,673,000   0.7/2

8:30   ABC    3.1/5    1.6/4   5,076,000
8:30   CBS   7.0/11    2.1/5  10,830,000
8:30   NBC    5.4/8    3.0/8   8,140,000
8:30   FOX  15.8/24  10.5/27  28,443,000
8:30    CW    1.2/2    0.8/2   1,817,000   1.0/3

9:00   ABC   9.3/14    3.3/8  14,618,000
9:00   CBS    3.8/6    2.1/5   5,815,000
9:00   NBC    4.7/7    3.2/8   7,653,000
9:00   FOX  15.2/23  10.5/25  27,271,000
9:00    CW    1.9/3    1.3/3   2,786,000   2.0/5

9:30   ABC  10.0/15    3.6/8  15,719,000
9:30   CBS    3.3/5    1.9/4   5,141,000
9:30   NBC    5.3/8    3.6/8   8,420,000
9:30   FOX  14.7/22  10.5/24  26,348,000
9:30    CW    2.0/3    1.4/3   3,059,000   2.2/6

10:00  ABC  12.8/20   5.1/13  19,986,000
10:00  CBS    3.4/5    2.0/5   5,594,000
10:00  NBC    5.3/8    2.6/7   7,482,000

10:30  ABC   6.7/12    2.9/8   9,993,000
10:30  CBS    3.6/6    2.0/6   5,955,000
10:30  NBC   6.4/11    2.9/8   8,960,000

It looks like AI dropped by ~ 3 million while DWTS dropped by ~ 4 million. A net loss for both. I could see this spun a bunch of different ways by each network. AI for the first time dropped in the last two half-hours, while DWTS picked up steam in each half-hour, but started measurably lower than normal at 9pm.

Obviously CBS should show the 'wrap-up' version of next week's Jericho.

But if they don't, it can always air on the SciFi Channel, which is the only place anybody's going to see Jericho, after next week.

I think the fans of Jericho owe CBS a big vote of thanks for blowing millions more dollars on bringing back a show most people did not remotely care if they ever saw again. CBS gave them what they asked for, and the timeslot is irrelevant. They should thank CBS and move on.

Yeah. Like that'll ever happen.

ABC: Kudos to Charlie Brown and Dancing. Get rid of Just for Laughs already. Miss/Guided isn't going to be around very long.

NBC: Normal results despite increased competition.

CBS: Not good news aside from NCIS, which skews very old. Swapping BB and Jericho probably would've yielded higher results.

Fox: Death Star. Period.

CW: Great job OTH. Not good news for B&tG.

Wow...1.5 million extra people tuned in to the last half of a L&O:SVU repeat.

DWTS lost a lot of its demo facing AI.

And Jericho is about to air its finale.

This is the first this season when AI loses viewers after 9pm. Of course it's also the first time it goes against DWTS
Miss/guided, not that bad but e all know it will drop around 5 million in its regular time slot
Not bad also for OTH given the competition

Idol did fine in winning this head-to-head battle, but the real kudo's go to Biggest Loser for keeping pace with SwtS in the demo.

Wonder if SciFi might decide to continue on with another short season of Jericho. They seem to like what they get by running its first season in syndication.

Good for One Tree Hill for growing out of the mess that is Beauty & the Geek. BaTG should have never left filler status and doing so probably just killed the show.

Glad to see DwTS and AI battling it out. I want more of it so they can kill each other. My house flip back and forth between the two and what I caught out of it was AI doesn't have any star. They have great vocalists, but not anyone who can capture the hearts of America, much like last season. DwTS is boring already. The only personalities in the competition are going home really early. Romeo is the only one who may get people excited outside of the goofballs.

Well it certainly looks like Jericho will not be returning on CBS. Those numbers are pretty dreadful, but its kind of hard to expect more when its put into such a poor timeslot behind a 5.5 million lead in of Big Brother.

I really do hope that SCI-FI will consider picking Jericho up for a third season. They already air repeats of the show weekly and I think it could fit well into their current line up. One can always hope!

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Originally posted by robert:
This is the first this season when AI loses viewers after 9pm. Of course it's also the first time it goes against DWTS
Miss/guided, not that bad but e all know it will drop around 5 million in its regular time slot
Not bad also for OTH given the competition

Didn't AI and DwtS at one point air on a Thursday against each other and the Winter Olympics and Survivor? lol

Yeah for OTH! A lot better than I expected with everything it was up against.

Still think they should keep it on Tuesday nights....

ABC didn't do too bad- I think next week will be more telling (with the double elimination and one of the hotter new music acts in the Jonas Brothers playing)...

Good thing BB10 has been picked up for summer- I was extremely concerned this edition was going to kill the franchise.

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Originally posted by pisher:
Obviously CBS should show the 'wrap-up' version of next week's Jericho.

But if they don't, it can always air on the SciFi Channel, which is the only place anybody's going to see Jericho, after next week.

I think the fans of Jericho owe CBS a big vote of thanks for blowing millions more dollars on bringing back a show most people did not remotely care if they ever saw again. CBS gave them what they asked for, and the timeslot is irrelevant. They should thank CBS and move on.

Yeah. Like that'll ever happen.

It is NOT the FANS FAULT...the fans didn't tell CBS to put JERICHO in the one slot in all of CBS that is known for KILLING shows. A timeslot is not irrelevant to the sucess or failure of a show.

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Well it certainly looks like Jericho will not be returning on CBS. Those numbers are pretty dreadful, but its kind of hard to expect more when its put into such a poor timeslot behind a 5.5 million lead in of Big Brother.

For its first few weeks, Jericho didn't seem to need much of a lead-in--CBS was probably thinking it would make a good lead-in for other shows. But that didn't last. The show didn't have any legs. They made a mistake bringing it back. They made a mistake greenlighting it in the first place.

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I really do hope that SCI-FI will consider picking Jericho up for a third season. They already air repeats of the show weekly and I think it could fit well into their current line up. One can always hope!

Sure--like the fans of Invasion, Surface, Threshold, Firefly, Tru Calling, John Doe, Night Stalker..........