-Yesterday’s Winners: American Idol (Fox), Criminal Minds (CBS), CSI: NY (CBS)
-Honorable Mention: The Biggest Loser (NBC)
-Yesterday’s Losers (Excluding Repeats): Life (NBC), Life on Mars (ABC)
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-Ratings Breakdown: The two-hour live performance edition of Fox’s American Idol (which was delayed one night due to President Obama’s Address to Congress) stood well above the competition, virtually equaling the five competing networks combined and total viewers while dominating by 13 percent among adults 18-49. ABC and CBS tied for the No. 2 spots (CBS was a distant second in total viewers, the two networks tied among adults 18-49), followed by fourth-place NBC and an embarrassingly low the CW.
American Idol averaged 24.25 million viewers and an 8.9 rating/23 share among adults 18-49 from 8-10 p.m., with the half-hour breakdown as follows:
As strong as this is, the year-ago telecast was still considerably stronger at 27.55 million viewers and a 10.5/27 among adults 18-49, based on the final nationals. Do the math and that is a loss of 3.30 million viewers and 15 percent in the demo.
My picks to move on are Kris Allen, Megan Joy Corkrey and, of course, rocker Adam Lambert. Whoa! As for the Wild Card spot: Allison Iraheta, who looks 40, not 16! The judges may have liked Allison but I personally had glass shattering in my house as she was singing. As for Nick Mitchell: please…go home already! American Idol is supposed to be a serious singing competition, not a half-baked farce.
Repeats of CBS sitcoms The New Adventures of Old Christine (Viewers: #3, 5.83 million; A18-49: #4, 1.5/ 4) and compatible Gary Unmarried (Viewers: #3, 6.00 million; A18-49: #4, 1.7/ 4) lost steam, of course, in the 8 p.m. hour. But Eye net crime dramas Criminal Minds (Viewers: #2, 13.98 million; A18-49: #3, 3.4/ 8) and CSI: NY (Viewers: #1, 12.69 million; A18-49: #1, 3.2/ 8) successfully bounced back from 9-11 p.m. Keep in mind, of course, that Criminal Minds also faced ABC’s Lost, which clearly makes it a “winner.”
Speaking of Lost, a repeat of last week’s installment kicked-off the evening for ABC with 4.97 million viewers (#4) and a 1.7/ 4 among adults 18-49 (#3) at 8 p.m. That led into the original episode at a below average 9.82 million viewers (#3) and a 4.3/11 among adults 18-49 (#2) at 9 p.m. (#3), followed by failing freshman drama Life on Mars at an estimated 5.55 million viewers (#3) and a 2.0/ 6 in the demo (#3) at 10 p.m. Since the first six minutes of the 10 p.m. hour was Lost, these lackluster fast affiliate results for Life on Mars are actually inflated.
A one hour edition of NBC’s The Biggest Loser (which was the second half of Tuesday’s normally two-hour telecast) was second at 8-9 p.m., with a respectable 8.73 million viewers and a 3.3/ 9 among adults 18-49. Next on NBC was waiting-to-be axed drama Life (Viewers: #4, 4.87 million; A18-49: #4, 1.7/ 4), followed by a repeat of granddaddy Law & Order at a second-place 5.71 million viewers and a 1.7/ 5 in the demo at 10 p.m.
The CW capped off Wednesday with repeats of Privileged (Viewers: #5, 903,000; A18-49: #5, 0.4/ 1) and the just renewed 90210 (Viewers: #5, 572,000; A18-49: #5, 0.2/ 1). Pretty embarrassing, don’t you think?
Well, pity more people didn't watch one of the best Lost episodes in some time. And if Terry O'Quinn hadn't already won an Emmy for portraying John Locke, this performance should have sealed the deal. But just as well he's already won.
Only it should have been for lead actor. He's the center of the show, not Jack. Sure as hell not Kate and Sawyer. I don't give a damn what they have to say to each other next week. Not what I'm tuning in for.
Terry O'Quinn is clearly the lead actor on Lost now. I think he was pretty much from the begining. And give Emerson an Emmy as well. Those 2 are the only reason i'm still watching the show
Originally posted by MrLinus: same ratings for lost as when it was up against AI 2 weeks ago.. still pretty strong in the demo.
Will probably go up in the finals due to the extra six minutes airing after 10pm.
If it goes up, it will beat CBS's Criminal Minds by an even point in the demo. Outside of the American Idol juggernaut, Lost is the top show of the night by a wide margin.
Originally posted by MrLinus: same ratings for lost as when it was up against AI 2 weeks ago.. still pretty strong in the demo.
Will probably go up in the finals due to the extra six minutes airing after 10pm.
If it goes up, it will beat CBS's Criminal Minds by an even point in the demo. Outside of the American Idol juggernaut, Lost is the top show of the night by a wide margin.
No, CM is still the second show of the night, beats Lost by "only" 4 million viewrs. Not to bad
"Lost" probably would have been higher (like last week) if Obama hadn't pre-empted "Idol". I also didn't see any promos for this episode either during primetime because all the ad spots are being used to promote ABC's new spring shows; most of which probably won't succeed.
Last night's "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" blew the previous season's episodes out of the water!
The holes are starting to fill; things are coming together, all the while in true "Lost" fashion, raising new questions.
We got Waaaaaalt! I'm always for up for a familiar face of the past. Want more!
I was disappointed that they killed Peg Bundy off camera because I had hoped that Locke and Helen would reunite at some point.
Matthew Abbadon's death was unexpected and shocking.
Locke's hanging shadow on the wall was uber creeper.
Best line: "That's the man who killed me".
Can't wait 'till next week!
As for the spoiler above of Evangeline Lilly being available for pilot season, hasn't there been a rumor going around for a while that a major character will be killed? Kate would certainly be shocking.
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1) drawing almost 10 million viewers against the last hour of "Idol" 2) with subsequent Wednesday episodes of "Idol" most likely half-hour results shows 3) and with the idea that "Idol" ratings tend to decline after the top 12 are picked...
"Lost" and "Heroes" really can't be mentioned in the same sentence anymore, as far as total viewers are concerned?
Originally posted by MrLinus: same ratings for lost as when it was up against AI 2 weeks ago.. still pretty strong in the demo.
Will probably go up in the finals due to the extra six minutes airing after 10pm.
If it goes up, it will beat CBS's Criminal Minds by an even point in the demo. Outside of the American Idol juggernaut, Lost is the top show of the night by a wide margin.
No, CM is still the second show of the night, beats Lost by "only" 4 million viewrs. Not to bad
yup, all old viewers that don't matter to the advertisers
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