Updated National Ratings in Primetime

THE PROGRAMMING INSIDERWednesday, November 25, 2009 Prime-Time Metered Market Tuesday Ratings:ABC and CBS Tie for Leadership National Ratings in Prime-Time:Week of November 16, 2009 Ratings Box:What’s Hot/What’s Not On the Air Tonight:Prime-Time Programming Options TV Tidbits:Notes of Interest TV Trivia Time: A Friends Thanksgiving________________________________________________________________________________ Note: The Programming Insider will be on hiatus for the remainder of the week, returning on Monday, Nov. 30. Happy Thanksgiving!_________________________________________________________________________ Prime-Time Metered Market Tuesday Ratings:ABC and CBS Tie for Leadership Tuesday 11/24/09 HH Rtg/Shr ABC 10.1/16CBS 10.1/16NBC 4.3/ 7Fox 3.1/ 5CW 0.8/ 1 ---------- -Note: The year-to-year overnight comparisons are not available today. ---------- -Yesterday’s Winners:NCIS (CBS), Dancing With the Stars (ABC), NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS), The Good Wife (CBS) -Honorable Mention:V (ABC), The Biggest Loser (NBC) -Yesterday’s Losers:So You Think You Can Dance (Fox), The Jay Leno Show (NBC) ---------- -Ratings Breakdown:ABC and CBS shared the top Tuesday overnight spot, each beating the No. 3 network, NBC, by a hefty 135 percent. But NBC will, of course, be on the adult 18-49 map as a result of The Biggest Loser. Fourth overall in the metered markets was Fox, followed by The CW. The season-finale of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars (congratulations, Donny Osmond, who did not deserve to win) was the highest-rated show of the evening, with a rock-solid 12.4 rating/20 share from 9-11 p.m. Here is the half-hour breakdown: Dancing With the Stars (ABC)9:00 p.m.: 11.4/18 (#1)9:30 p.m.: 11.7/18 (#1)10:00 p.m.: 13.3/21 (#1)10:30 p.m.: 13.1/22 (#1) Maya…you were robbed! Personally, I will miss seeing the Osbournes in the audience in future seasons of Dancing With the Stars, won’t you? Earlier in the evening on ABC was V at a consistent second-place 5.7/ 9 in the overnights at 8 p.m. Four episodes into its run and V is going on hiatus until it returns later in the season in a miniseries format. Bad programming move, ABC! CBS had another stellar Tuesday care of NCIS (#1: 11.6/19), spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles (#2: 10.3/16) and compatible The Good Wife (#2: 8.5/14). Next was NBC with its combination of The Biggest Loser (4.8/ 8 from 8-10 p.m.) and cellar-dweller The Jay Leno Show (#3: 3.3/ 5). Take a look at the half-hour breakdown for The Biggest Loser (and keep in mind it always resonates among adults 18-49). The Biggest Loser (NBC)8:00 p.m.: 4.6/ 8 (#3)8:30 p.m.: 4.8/ 8 (#3)9:00 p.m.: 4.8/ 8 (#3)9:30 p.m.: 5.3/ 8 (#3) Fox was below average care of a two-hour edition of So You Think You Can Dance (3.1/ 5), which seems awkward outside of the summer, and The CW populated the evening with repeats of 90210 (#5: 1.0/ 2) and Melrose Place (#5: 0.7/ 3). Here is the half-hour breakdown for So You Think You Can Dance: So You Think You Can Dance (Fox)8:00 p.m.: 3.3/ 5 (#4)8:30 p.m.: 3.4/ 6 (#4)9:00 p.m.: 2.9/ 5 (#4)9:30 p.m.: 2.8/ 4 (#4) No worries, Heather Locklear fans. She will be back on Melrose Place next week. Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)_____________________________________________________________________________ National Ratings in Prime-Time:Week of November 16, 2009 Excluding adults 18-49 (which was a tie between ABC and Fox), CBS swept the week of Nov. 16, with a first-place finish in households, total viewers, adults 18-49 (tied with ABC) and adults 25-54. Comparably, CBS has now ranked first in total viewers for eight of the last nine weeks. ABC, which like CBS was consistent from the year-ago week, finished one notch below CBS in the aforementioned four categories. Elsewhere, NBC ranked third across the board (tied with CBS among adults 18-34), also close to one year earlier. But fourth-place Fox took a considerable hit, dipping by as much as 29 percent among adults 25-54. Last-place The CW remained on the plus side, but its growth is a reflection of low-rated Sunday being factored into the year-ago averages. In the specials department, The 2009 American Music Awards on ABC was amply sampled opposite Sunday Night Football, with 14.24 million viewers and a 5.5 rating/14 share among adults 18-49 from 8-11 p.m. Comparably, this was its largest audience since 2002 and its highest adults 18-49 rating since 2004. Also on ABC, In the Spotlight with Robin Roberts, which featured an hour-long interview with Janet Jackson, finished second in the Wednesday 10 p.m. hour with 6.62 million viewers and a 2.3/ 7 among adults 18-49. Comparably, that was double-digit increase over regularly scheduled occupant Eastwick. Here are the final national ratings for the week of November 16, 2009 (with percent change versus the comparable year-ago week in parentheses), followed by the freshman series results (including The Jay Leno Show being broken out separately), and the top 30 rated programs of the week. -Households:CBS: 7.3 rating/12 share (- 4), ABC: 6.3/10 (- 2), NBC: 4.7/ 8 (+ 4), Fox: 3.8/ 6 (-25), CW: 1.6/ 2 (+ 7) -Total Viewers: CBS: 11.62 million (- 4), ABC: 10.01 (- 1), NBC: 7.46 (+ 5), Fox: 6.31 (-25), CW: 2.34 (+ 4) -Adults 18-49:CBS: 3.0/ 8 (- 3), ABC: 3.0 rating/8 share (– 6), NBC: 2.5/ 7 (- 4), Fox: 2.4/ 7 (-20), CW: 1.1/ 3 (+10) -Adults 25-54:CBS: 3.9/10 (- 2), ABC: 3.6/ 9 (- 3), NBC: 2.9/ 7 (- 3), Fox: 2.5/ 6 (-29), CW: 1.0/ 3 (+11) -Adults 18-34:ABC and Fox: 2.4/ 8 each (-11 each), CBS: 2.1/ 7 (+ 5), NBC: 2.1/ 7 (- 9), CW: 1.4/ 4 (+ 8) -------------------- Freshman Series Results (in order of total viewers) NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) – Tuesday 9 p.m. ET Viewers: 14.87 million (#8), A18-49: 3.4/ 9 (#22)Grade: A The Good Wife (CBS) – Tuesday 10 p.m. ETViewers: 12.70 million (#17), A18-49: 2.6/ 8 (#38)Grade: B+ V (ABC) – Tuesday 8 p.m. ET Viewers: 9.32 million (#26), A18-49: 3.1/ 9 (#31)Grade: B Modern Family (ABC) – Wednesday 9 p.m. ETViewers: 9.16 million (#27), A18-49: 3.7/10 (#14t)Grade: B+ FlashForward (ABC) – Thursday 8 p.m. ETViewers: 7.98 million (#33), A18-49: 2.4/ 7 (#42)Grade: C Cougar Town (ABC) – Wednesday 9:30 p.m. ETViewers: 7.92 million (#34t), A18-49: 3.2/ 8 (#27t)Grade: B Three Rivers (CBS) – Sunday 10:30 p.m. ET (OTO time period flip with Cold Case)Viewers: 7.89 million (#36), A18-49: 1.7/ 5 (#68)Grade: D The Forgotten (ABC) – Tuesday 10 p.m. ETViewers: 7.53 million (#40), A18-49: 1.8/ 5 (#61)Grade: C- Accidentally on Purpose (CBS) – Monday 8:30 p.m. ETViewers: 7.28 million (#46t), A18-49: 2.8/ 7 (#35)Grade: C The Middle (ABC) – Wednesday 8:30 p.m. ETViewers: 7.06 million (#50), A18-49: 2.4/ 7 (#44)Grade: C The Cleveland Show (Fox) – Sunday 8:30 p.m. ETViewers: 6.56 million (#54), A18-49: 3.3/ 8 (#23t)Grade: B The Jay Leno Show (NBC) – Tuesday 10 p.m. ETViewers: 6.00 million (#59), A18-49: 1.9/ 6 (#56)Grade: D Trauma (NBC) – Monday 9 p.m. ETViewers: 5.18 million (#71), A18-49: 1.8/ 4 (#65t)Grade: F Community (NBC) – Thursday 8 p.m. ETViewers: 4.86 million (#74), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#52t)Grade: D The Jay Leno Show (NBC) – Wednesday 10 p.m. ETViewers: 4.79 million (#75), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#78t)Grade: F The Jay Leno Show (NBC) – Thursday 10 p.m. ETViewers: 4.77 million (#76), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#72t)Grade: F The Jay Leno Show (NBC) – Friday 10 p.m. ETViewers: 4.67 million (#77), A18-49: 1.3/ 4 (#80)Grade: F The Jay Leno Show (NBC) – Monday 10 p.m. ETMonday: Viewers: 4.46 million (#79), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#78t)Grade: F The Vampire Diaries (CW) – Wednesday 10 p.m. ETViewers: 3.57 million (#85), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#72t)Grade: B Brothers (Fox) – Sunday 7 p.m. ETViewers: 2.27 million (#90), A18-49: 0.8/ 2 (#91t)Grade: F Melrose Place (CW) – Tuesday 9 p.m. ET Viewers: 1.57 million (#95), A18-49: 0.8/ 2 (#91t)Grade: F --------------- Top 30 Rankings -Total Viewers:NCIS: 20.34 million, Dancing With the Stars – Monday (ABC): 18.84, Sunday Night Football (NBC, Philadelphia vs. Chicago): 17.33, Dancing With the Stars – Tuesday (ABC): 16.02, 60 Minutes (CBS): 15.98, The Mentalist (CBS): 15.85, CSI (CBS): 14.91, NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS): 14.87, The 2009 American Music Awards (ABC): 14.29, Grey’s Anatomy (ABC): 14.07, Two and a Half Men (CBS): 13.96, Criminal Minds (CBS): 13.70, CSI: NY (CBS): 13.62, CSI: Miami (CBS): 13.26, The Big Bang Theory (CBS): 13.23, CSI: Miami (CBS): 13.26, Sunday Night Football Pre-Kick (NBC): 12.74, The Good Wife (CBS): 12.70, House (Fox): 12.67, Survivor: Samoa (CBS): 12.33, The Good Wife (CBS): 12.07, Castle (ABC): 10.53, Bones (Fox): 9.88, Football Night in America, part 3 (NBC): 9.66, The Biggest Loser (NBC): 9.56, Cold Case (CBS): 9.55, V (ABC): 9.32, Modern Family (ABC): 9.16, Merry Madagascar (NBC): 8.97, Private Practice (ABC): 8.93, Law & Order: SVU (NBC): 8.44 -Adults 18-49:Sunday Night Football (NBC, Philadelphia vs. Chicago): 6.6 rating/17 share, The 2009 American Music Awards (ABC): 5.5/14, Grey’s Anatomy (ABC): 5.1/13, House (Fox): 5.0/13, The Big Bang Theory (CBS): 5.0/12, Two and a Half Men (CBS): 4.7/12, Sunday Night Pre-Kick (NBC): 4.6/12, NCIS (CBS): 4.1/11, Dancing With the Stars – Monday (ABC): 3.9/10, Family Guy (Fox): 3.9/ 9, Survivor: Samoa (CBS): 3.8/11, The Mentalist (CBS): 3.7/11, CSI: Miami (CBS), The Biggest Loser (NBC), Modern Family (ABC), Criminal Minds (CBS) and The Office (NBC): 3.7/10 each, The Amazing Race (CBS): 3.7/ 9, Football Night in America (NBC, part 3) and CSI (CBS): 3.5/ 9 each, How I Met Your Mother (CBS) and NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS): 3.4/ 9 each, Glee (Fox) and 60 Minutes (CBS): 3.3/ 9 each, The Simpsons (Fox) and The Cleveland Show (Fox): 3.3/ 8 each, Dancing With the Stars – Tuesday (ABC) and CSI: NY (CBS): 3.2/ 9 each, Cougar Town (ABC): 3.2/ 8, V (ABC) and Private Practice (ABC): 3.1/ 9 each Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat) Ratings Box:What’s Hot/What’s Not -Above Average Curb Your Enthusiasm:The season-finale of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, featuring the cast of Seinfeld, averaged 1.33 million viewers on Sunday, Nov. 22 at 9 p.m. ET -- it most-watched finale in over five years. Comparably, that built from the prior season ender (1.07 million on Nov. 11, 2007) by 260,000 viewers. The repeat at 10 p.m. was watched by an additional 716,000 viewers. -Updated Cable Rankings:What follows are the top 10 rated basic cable networks in prime-time for the week of November 16. Total Viewers:USA: 3.08 million, ESPN: 2.93, Fox News: 2.43, TBS: 2.00, TNT: 1.96, Nick at Nite: 1.83, History: 1.65, ABC Family: 1.58, A&E: 1.43, Cartoon Network: 1.39 -Adults 18-49:ESPN: 1.45 million, USA: 1.29 million, TBS: 1.11 million, TNT: 871,000, FX: 701,000, A&E: 635,000, Comedy Central: 610,000, History: 600,000, Spike TV: 588,000, ABC Family: 581,000 -Adults 25-54:ESPN: 1.45 million, USA: 1.36 million, TNT: 927,000, TBS: 919,000, History: 690,000, A&E: 686,000, Fox News: 655,000, Food Network: 637,000, Syfy: 632,000, FX: 611,000 -Adults 18-34:ESPN: 743,000, TBS: 638,000, USA: 606,000, FX: 384,000, TNT: 373,000, Comedy Central: 328,000, Spike TV: 322,000, MTV: 318,000, Nick at Nite: 301,000, TLC: 291,000 Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat) On the Air Tonight:Prime-Time Programming Options Wednesday 11/25/09Final Night of the Nov. 2009 Sweeps ABC: 8:00 p.m. Modern Family (R) 8:30 p.m. The Middle 9:00 p.m. Modern Family 9:30 p.m. Cougar Town10:00 p.m. Eastwick CBS: 8:00 p.m. The New Adventures of Old Christine 8:30 p.m. Gary Unmarried 9:00 p.m. Criminal Minds10:00 p.m. CSI: NY NBC: 8:00 p.m. The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? (two hours)10:00 p.m. The Jay Leno Show Fox: 8:00 p.m. So You Think You Can Dance Results Show 9:00 p.m. Glee CW 8:00 p.m. Movie: Gracie ______________________________________________________________________ TV Tidbits:Notes of Interest -ABC Family Attempts to Break the Guinness World Record Books:In support of upcoming holiday movie Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe, ABC Family will attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of Santa’s elves together in one place. The event will take place at ABC Family’s World Record Elf Party at New York’s The Pond at Bryant Park on Monday, Dec. 7 from 12-2 p.m. ET, where Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe stars Jenny McCarthy and Dean McDermott will be on hand to help gather over 250 elves to set the new world record. Guinness World Records will hand out elf costumes to adults and children onsite at the event. Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe premieres on Sunday, Dec. 13 at 8 p.m. ET. -Fox in Midseason:Fox has unveiled its programming plans for January and beyond. The network will feature four new series (game show Our Little Genius, dramas Human Target and Past Life, and sitcom Sons of Tucson); plus the return of American Idol, 24 and Kitchen Nightmares; new time periods for Glee and The Cleveland Show; and a full-season order for sophomore drama Lie to Me. American Idol returns on Tuesday, Jan. 12 with a two-hour installment, followed by its Wednesday 8 p.m. time period opener one night later. Leading out of American Idol on Wednesday, Jan. 13 is the premiere of Our Little Genius from Mark Burnett at 9 p.m. Effective on Tuesday, Jan. 19, Our Little Genius bows at 9 p.m. out of American Idol, and is scheduled there until Glee moves into the hour on April 13. Drama Human Target opens on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 9 p.m. out of Idol. See below for new program descriptions. Veteran 24 will kick-off season eight with a two-hour episode on Sunday, Jan. 17 at 8 p.m., followed by another two-hour installment one night later on Monday, Jan. 18. Effective on Jan. 25, 24 airs Mondays at 9 p.m. out of House. Current Thursday 9 p.m. occupant Fringe will take two-month rest following the Feb. 4 telecast, returning on April 1. Filling the time period will be new drama Past Life, which opens with a two-hour episode on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 8 p.m. Fridays, meanwhile, will feature encore telecasts of Bones at 8 p.m. into Dollhouse, which concludes on Jan. 22. Effective Friday, Jan. 29 will be repeats of House into the return of Kitchen Nightmares. Saturday, of course, will remain unchanged care of veteran Cops and America’s Most Wanted. But Sunday will feature a new sitcom, Sons of Tucson, out of The Simpsons at 8:30 p.m. beginning on March 14. Current occupant The Cleveland Show will move to 9:30 p.m. in place of American Dad (which is expected to air earlier in the evening). Also returning at a later time on Fox will be Lie To Me and ‘Til Death. Here is the Fox midseason line-up (with new shows in caps), followed by the new program descriptions. Monday8:00 p.m. House9:00 p.m. 24 (effective on Jan. 25) Tuesday8:00 p.m. American Idol9:00 p.m. OUR LITTLE GENIUS (effective on Jan. 19), Glee beginning on April 13 Wednesday8:00 p.m. American Idol9:00 p.m. HUMAN TARGET (effective on Jan. 20) Thursday8:00 p.m. Bones9:00 p.m. Fringe (PAST LIFE effective on Jan. 18) Friday8:00 p.m. Bones R (repeats of House effective on Jan. 29)9:00 p.m. Dollhouse (Kitchen Nightmares effective on Jan. 29) Saturday8:00 p.m. Cops9:00 p.m. America’s Most Wanted Sunday7:00 p.m. TBD7:30 p.m. TBD8:00 p.m. The Simpsons8:30 p.m. The Cleveland Show (SONS OF TUCSON effective on March 14)9:00 p.m. Family Guy9:30 p.m. American Dad (The Cleveland Show effective on March 14) New Program Descriptions Human Target Based on the DC Comics property, a private detective and bodyguard named Christopher Chance (Mark Valley) operates by impersonating his clients in order to eliminate threats to his boss. Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies) also star. Our Little Genius Kids ages 6 to 12 answer increasingly difficult questions in their topic of expertise, while their parents can choose to walk away with the accumulated cash at any time. Past Life A psychologist with a specialty in reincarnation and past life regression therapy teams up with a cynical former NYPD detective to resolve people’s present day problems by exploring past life issues. Kelli Giddish, Nick Bishop, Ravi Patel and Richard Schiff (The West Wing) star. Sons of Tucson Three teenage brothers higher a seemingly nice, but misguided man to pretend to be their father after their real Dad is sent to prison for a white collar crime. Davis Cleveland, Frank Dolce, Troy Gentile, Tyler Labine and Natalie Martinez star. _________________________________________________________________________ TV Trivia Time:A Friends Thanksgiving Remember when Rachel made trifle as the dessert on Thanksgiving? Which one of the following ingredients did she not include in it? a) beefb) chickenc) custardd) lady fingerse) jam The answer to yesterday’s question… What was the name of the first Bradford grandchild on Eight is Enough? a) Betty Lynnb) Carol Anne c) Dorothy Jane d) Hester Suee) Sandra Sue Is: e) Sandra Sue, who was born to third daughter Susan and her hubby Merle “The Pearl” Stockwell. All together now… There's a magic in the early morning we found, When the sun rise smiles on everything around. It's a portrait of the happiness that we feel and always will, For eight is enough to fill our lives with love. Oh we spend our days like bright and shiny new dimes. If we're ever puzzled by the changing times. There's a plate of homemade wishes on the kitchen window sill, And eight is enough to fill our lives with love. -Current kudos goes to:Gerry Bixenspan, Barbara Bloomfield (2x), Larry Collins, Tom Condosta, Bob Eisenstaedt, Josh Emmett, Jerry Gibbons, Maureen Goldman, Bob Ingersoll, Mary Kalnin, Synda Kollman, Mark Krause, Steven Kurtzer, Laura Nachman, Gordon Purcell, Colleen Roth, Greg Salerno, Michelle Stanton, Myndi Weinraub

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