Prime Time Ratings:
Monday 4/16/07

The following results are based on the fast national ratings (Live Plus Same Day data)

-Total Viewers:
ABC: 13.96 million, CBS: 11.55, Fox: 8.39, NBC: 8.13, CW: 1.91

-Adults 18-49:
ABC: 4.2 rating/11 share, CBS: 3.9/10, Fox: 3.3/ 8, NBC: 2.9/ 8, CW: 0.8/ 2

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
Dancing With the Stars (ABC), 24 (Fox), The King of Queens (CBS), CSI: Miami (CBS)

-Honorable Mention:
Deal or No Deal (NBC), Two and a Half Men (CBS)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
Thank God You’re Here (NBC), Drive (Fox)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
ABC opened the week on a winning note in both total viewers and adults 18-49, courtesy of Dancing With the Stars at a typically dominant 18.60 million viewers and a 4.9 rating/13 share in the demo from 8-9:30 p.m. CBS finished a solid second, followed by Fox, NBC and repeat-riddled The CW.

ABC’s Dancing With the Stars led the 8 p.m. hour with 18.16 million viewers and a 4.7/13 among adults 18-49. Second was NBC’s Deal or No Deal (Viewers: 11.01 million; A18-49: 3.3/ 9), followed by CBS sitcoms How I Met Your Mother (R, Viewers: 6.60 million; A18-49: 2.3/ 7) and The New Adventures of Old Christine (Viewers: 7.06 million; A18-49: 2.6/ 7). Growth for Old Christine out of the How I Met Your Mother encore of 460,000 viewers and 13 percent among adults 18-49 is worth noting (and keeps it off the loser’s list). Fox drama Drive debuted in the time period with a disappointing fourth-place finish. Take a look at Drive versus former occupant Prison Break on the year-ago evening.

Fox/Monday 8-9 p.m.
4/17/06 Prison Break – Viewers: 8.10 million (#3), A18-49: 3.5/10 (#2)
4/16/07 Drive – Viewers: 5.64 million (#4), A18-49: 2.3/ 6 (#4)
Percent Change – Viewers: -30, A18-49: -34

Capping off the 8 p.m. hour were repeats of CW sitcoms Everybody Hates Chris (Viewers: 1.93 million; A18-49: 0.7/ 2) and All of Us (Viewers: 1.72 million; A18-49: 0.7/ 2). Ouch!

Dancing With the Stars, of course, dominated the 9 p.m. half-hour, with 19.63 million viewers and a 5.4/13 among adults 18-49. Take a look at the half-hour track:

8:00 p.m. Viewers: 16.90 million, A18-49: 4.2/12
8:30 p.m. Viewers: 19.42 million, A18-49: 5.2/14
9:00 p.m. Viewers: 19.63 million, A18-49: 5.4/13

Dancing With the Stars led into tired The Bachelor: An Officer and a Gentleman, with 9.26 million viewers and a 3.5/ 9 among adults 18-49 from 9:30-11 p.m. (and retention out of the last half-hour of Dancing With the Stars of just 47 percent in viewers and 65 percent in the demo). Why ABC has already renewed The Bachelor for next season is beyond me.

Second behind the final half-hour of Dancing With the Stars at 9 p.m. was CBS’ Two and a Half Men, with 12.98 million viewers and a 4.4/11 among adults 18-49. That led into soon-to-conclude The King of Queens at a dominant 12.29 million viewers and a 4.5/11 among adults 18-49 at 9:30 p.m. Third was Fox’s 24 (Viewers: 11.15 million; A18-49: 4.3/10), which deserves accolades for virtually doubling the performance of lead-in Drive, followed by week two of NBC’s improvisational themed Thank God You’re Here at a modest 6.94 million viewers and a 2.9/ 7 among adults 18-49. One week earlier, Thank God You’re Here kicked-off with 8.18 million viewers and a 3.6/ 9 in the demo from 9-11 p.m.

Last, and very least in the 9 p.m. hour were repeats of CW sitcoms Girlfriends (Viewers: 1.95 million; A18-49: 0.9/ 2) and The Game (Viewers: 2.07 million; A18-49: 0.8/ 2), which are both on the fence for next season. Although I always say never judge a show by a repeat, The CW may want to rethink airing a two-hour Monday comedy block next season.

CBS’ aforementioned CSI: Miami led the 10 p.m. hour with 15.18 million viewers and a 4.7/13 among adults 18-49, followed by the ABC’s The Bachelor: An Officer and a Gentleman (Viewers: 8.62 million; A18-49: 3.5/ 9), and a special edition of NBC’s Dateline on the Virginia Tech tragedy (Viewers: 6.44 million; A18-49: 2.0/ 6). Since I know someone will ask, here is the half-hour breakdown for The Bachelor:

9:30 p.m. Viewers: 10.55 million (#3), A18-49: 3.6/ 9 (#3)
10:00 p.m. Viewers: 8.74 million (#2), A18-49: 3.5/ 9 (#2)
10:30 p.m. Viewers: 8.50 million (#2), A18-49: 3.5/ 9 (#2)

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Well Drive didn't lose many viewers from Sunday, at least the people watching it liked it.

Will it see all of its scheduled Airings this spring???

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Originally posted by BSGjunkie:
Well Drive didn't lose many viewers from Sunday, at least the people watching it liked it.

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Well Drive didn't lose many viewers from Sunday, at least the people watching it liked it.

What makes you so sure it was the same exact group of people? In fact, there's absolutely no chance that was the case.

Remember, a certain number of people will be watching FOX no matter what's on. Repeats of even their less successful shows do better ratings on Monday than Drive did last night. So while I'm sure some people who watched the Sunday premiere did watch last night, ratings like this strongly indicate that a very large percentage did NOT.

Was 24 worth watching last night? I still have it on my DVR, but decided on a night on the town instead of TV (okay, I did watch Drive... the cliffhanger worked so much better on TV than it did on script).

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Will it see all of its scheduled Airings this spring???

Drive?

I think it could last about as long as The Black Donnelly's--even though it's not doing nearly as well.

Not clear on whether the initial 13 ep run (most of which was going to air post-sweeps) has all been produced. If not, I think they better start producing faster.

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Originally posted by BSGjunkie:
Well Drive didn't lose many viewers from Sunday, at least the people watching it liked it.

Yeah but unless its ratings improve it looks like it may not make it past its 13 episode order (or maybe not all of them will air). I still enjoyed it though. Especially the final scene. I don't really have a show I watch regularly now, and I thought I found a new one (although it has only been three episodes). Oh well , heh.

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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
Dancing With the Stars led into tired The Bachelor: An Officer and a Gentleman, with 9.26 million viewers and a 3.5/ 9 among adults 18-49 from 9:30-11 p.m. (and retention out of the last half-hour of Dancing With the Stars of just 47 percent in viewers and 65 percent in the demo). Why ABC has already renewed The Bachelor for next season is beyond me.

Because ABC wants to help a woman and a man find love, or help one man get laid.

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Will it see all of its scheduled Airings this spring???
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Originally posted by BSGjunkie:
Well Drive didn't lose many viewers from Sunday, at least the people watching it liked it.

I doubt Drive will be around for May sweeps. It dropped 7% of total viewers and 12% of A18-49 from the previous night's premiere. It's only going to get worse. Fox did much better with a House repeat last week. I'm betting that Fox will soon pull Drive and replace it with House reruns. Drive could return for a summer burn-off, but with Fox, you never know.

I half watched it, and it was another boring rehash of plots from seasons past (now the Chinese are making a play for the Russian allegorythym).

And that fake scar on the President...it is such an atrocious make-up job...it looks like a centipede landed on his face.

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Originally posted by TravisYanan:
Was 24 worth watching last night? I still have it on my DVR, but decided on a night on the town instead of TV (okay, I did watch Drive... the cliffhanger worked so much better on TV than it did on script).

pisher - 6 episodes of Drive were set to air the spring (meaning only 3 more), with the other 7 of 13 (still in production... the reshot pilot only started shooting on January 15th) unschedule. With these ratings, I'd expect summer burnoff. Fox had, obviously, hoped it was going to be a bigger out of the gate success (sigh, i couldn't resist some form of racing metaphor...) and was going to save the other 7 for the 2007-08 season (prbobly to start airing in August when Prison Break came back).

but unless there's an uptick over the next three weeks... yeah, summer burnoff of the final 7 (although i'd suspect maybe 4 of those air and a DVD with unaired episodes is sold... this is a Tim Minear series).

BL was new tonite; I guess it will air next week which was suppose to be a repeat.

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Originally posted by pisher:

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Well Drive didn't lose many viewers from Sunday, at least the people watching it liked it.

What makes you so sure it was the same exact group of people? In fact, there's absolutely no chance that was the case.

Remember, a certain number of people will be watching FOX no matter what's on. Repeats of even their less successful shows do better ratings on Monday than Drive did last night. So while I'm sure some people who watched the Sunday premiere did watch last night, ratings like this strongly indicate that a very large percentage did NOT.

They didn't get the premier online, that's why I think it kept the majority of it's audience. This show was heavily promoted during Prison Break so those fans should have known to check in on Sunday. Next week I guess will be more telling.

Is this another series low for CSI:Miami? It dropped in viewers from about 16 million last week to just over 15 million this week.

What is going on w/ CBS' procedurals? I thought it might just be a one-week blip, but Criminal Minds and CSI:NY were way down last week as well...

If DRIVE is cancelled again before its story is played out it will become very tiresome with this trend think REUNION,VANISHED, THE NINE, and other serialized drams not being allowed to play out. And as far a putting episdoes on line...some people either don't have computer access at home or frankly don't enjoy watching a TV program in a tiny little box on a computer monitor.