-Adults 18-49: Fox: 5.1 rating/13 share, ABC: 3.7/10, CBS and NBC: 2.7/ 7 each, CW: 1.1/ 3
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-Yesterday’s Winners: NCIS (CBS), It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown R (ABC), Dancing With the Stars (ABC), House (Fox), Boston Legal (ABC)
-Yesterday’s Losers: The Singing Bee (NBC), Beauty and the Geek (CW), Reaper (CW), Cane (CBS)
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-Ratings Breakdown: It was another Tuesday of split leadership with the home of Dancing With the Stars, ABC, first in total viewers and the home of House, Fox, No. 1 among adults 18-49. CBS opened the evening with warhorse NCIS at a dominant 16.32 million viewers, but a repeat of ABC holiday special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (in place of dying combo Cavemen and Carpoolers) took the 8 p.m. hour among adults 18-49. Take a look:
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown R (ABC) Viewers: 11.44 million (#2), A18-49: 3.8/11 (#1)
Needless to say, this was a vast improvement for ABC from Cavemen and Carpoolers.
Also worth noting in the 8 p.m. hour was Fox’s underrated Bones, at a third-place finish in both total viewers (8.85 million) and adults 18-49 (3.2/ 9). NBC kicked-off the night with failing The Singing Bee at 5.83 million viewers (#4) and a 1.7/ 5 among adults 18-49 (#4) in the 8 p.m. half-hour, followed by The Biggest Loser 4 at a typical 6.29 million viewers and a 2.8/ 7 among adults 18-49 from 8:30-10 p.m. Last was the CW’s uneventful Beauty and the Geek at 2.38 million viewers and a 1.1/ 3 in the demo from 8-9 p.m.
ABC and Fox shared top honors, as usual, from 9-10 p.m. as follows:
Tuesday 9 p.m.
Dancing With the Stars (ABC) Viewers: 18.58 million (#1), A18-49: 4.2/10 (#2)
House (Fox) Viewers: 17.16 million (#2), A18-49: 7.0/17 (#1)
Also airing in the 9 p.m. hour was CBS’ male-driven The Unit (Viewers: #3, 10.72 million; A18-49: #4, 2.8/ 7), which fits well out of NCIS, and the CW’s struggling Reaper (Viewers: #5, 2.52 million; A18-49: #5, 1.1/ 3), which is no better than former failed occupant Veronica Mars.
With NBC’s normally dominant Law & Order: SVU a repeat, ABC’s Boston Legal won the 10 p.m. hour, with 11.76 million viewers and a 3.1/ 8 among adults 18-49. Second was the SVU repeat (Viewers: 8.66 million; A18-49: 3.0/ 8), followed by CBS’ Cane at 8.06 million viewers and a 2.0/ 5 in the demo. If CBS wants to save Cane it must remember that serialized dramas take time to find an audience.
NCIS is really old skewing. Bones has half of the viewers and the same demo numbers BL will come down by a lot beacause of the overrun Cane well disappointing again. If i were CBS's boss i would give this show a full season order but that's it no renwal with these numbers. Also i would move the show on fridays. That's where it belongs on an older skewing night
Nothing really interesting about this Tuesday, although if Cane is really going to stick around, one would hope it could get more viewers than an SVU repeat. It didn't spike like BL did.
Originally posted by spotupj: Nothing really interesting about this Tuesday, although if Cane is really going to stick around, one would hope it could get more viewers than an SVU repeat. It didn't spike like BL did.
When the finals arrive you'l see BL in the upper 10 million range so no great spike there also
Originally posted by spotupj: Nothing really interesting about this Tuesday, although if Cane is really going to stick around, one would hope it could get more viewers than an SVU repeat. It didn't spike like BL did.
When the finals arrive you'l see BL in the upper 10 million range so no great spike there also
Not true. BL gets 10.80 something last week, and after the finals, it reaches 10.00 or so, so how could an 11.76 go down to 10.00 as well. You are wrong. Even with the DANCING oveerrun, BL will be at 11.00 or high 10.90 or something and a 3.0 in the demo. So, yes, it will see a rise.
Originally posted by spotupj: Nothing really interesting about this Tuesday, although if Cane is really going to stick around, one would hope it could get more viewers than an SVU repeat. It didn't spike like BL did.
When the finals arrive you'l see BL in the upper 10 million range so no great spike there also
Not true. BL gets 10.80 something last week, and after the finals, it reaches 10.00 or so, so how could an 11.76 go down to 10.00 as well. You are wrong. Even with the DANCING oveerrun, BL will be at 11.00 or high 10.90 or something and a 3.0 in the demo. So, yes, it will see a rise.
I said upper 10 million, that means 10.7-10.9. So we agree basically. But that's not a huge increase like the previous poster said
Originally posted by spotupj: Nothing really interesting about this Tuesday, although if Cane is really going to stick around, one would hope it could get more viewers than an SVU repeat. It didn't spike like BL did.
When the finals arrive you'l see BL in the upper 10 million range so no great spike there also
Not true. BL gets 10.80 something last week, and after the finals, it reaches 10.00 or so, so how could an 11.76 go down to 10.00 as well. You are wrong. Even with the DANCING oveerrun, BL will be at 11.00 or high 10.90 or something and a 3.0 in the demo. So, yes, it will see a rise.
I said upper 10 million, that means 10.7-10.9. So we agree basically. But that's not a huge increase like the previous poster said
No, not a huge increase, but it deserves to be on the winners list for this week (the only time it will make it on the air), and even with the one week preemption, it remains solid.
People were saying the show should move to Fridays or something after 20/20 was on last week, so this should stop those comments.
A great performance for the "Great Pumpkin/You're Not Elected" Charlie Brown specials at 8-9 pm. With about 50 Charlie Brown episodes filmed over the past forty plus years, I'm surprised the Alphabet doesn't programme them more often in their schedule. They are highly dependable demo-gatherers.
Encouraging news for Mr. Kelly to see Boston Legal nudging above 3 in the demo.
But grim demo numbers for Singing Bee, Reaper and Cane. NBC should go to 2 hours for the remainder of the Biggest Loser cycle.
Reaper may not be doing better than VM, but I think it's safe to say it would be if it had the Gilmore Girls lead-in that VM had all last season. VM certainly never grew out of its lead-in the way Reaper has several times.
