TV / Video The Programming Insider: Thursday 8/11/11 By Marc Berman|August 11, 2011 Share By Marc Berman|August 11, 2011 Share In Today's Issue Prime-Time Metered Market Wednesday Ratings: Fox Wins; America’s Got Talent on NBC the Standout Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not On the Air Tonight: Prime-Time Programming Options TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest TV Trivia Time: Bye, Bye Brenda _____________________________________________________________ PRIME-TIME METERED MARKET WEDNESDAY RATINGS: Fox Wins; America’s Got Talent on NBC the Standout Wednesday 8/10/11 All times are ET/PT. Household Rating/Share Fox: 4.5/ 8, CBS: 4.3/ 7, NBC: 3.8/ 6, ABC: 2.9/ 5, CW: 0.7/ 1 Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening (Wednesday 8/11/10): ABC: + 4, CW: – 2, Fox: – 4, NBC: -19, CW: -22 -Yesterday’s Winners: Big Brother (CBS), America’s Got Talent (NBC) -Reliable Summer Player: So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) -Yesterday’s Losers: Love in the Wild (NBC) Ratings Breakdown: The two-hour final performance show of the season on So You Think You Can Dance led Fox to midweek victory, with a 4.5 rating/8 share in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. Here is the half-hour breakdown: So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) 8:00 p.m.: 4.5/ 8 (#2) 8:30 p.m.: 4.5/ 8 (#2) 9:00 p.m.: 4.4/ 8 (#2) 9:30 p.m.: 4.4/ 7 (#2) Compared to the year-ago season-ending performance show (4.7/ 8 on Aug. 11, 2010), that was a loss of 4 percent. Next Wednesday, repeats of Mobbed and House will occupy the evening for Fox. Second-place CBS opened on a winning note care of summer favorite Big Brother, which averaged a 4.7/ 8 in the overnights at 8 p.m. As for uneventful Lawon volunteering to put himself on the block last night, why Lawon . . . why? That move made Marcellas’ classic blunder look like rocket science. Big Brother led into repeats of Criminal Minds (#3: 3.7/ 7) and relocated CSI (#1: 4.6/ 8) from 9-11 p.m. There is every reason to believe veteran CSI will win the Wednesday 10 p.m. hour next season in total viewers by a wide margin. Over at NBC, the standout of course was America’s Got Talent, which finished first for the evening in the 9 p.m. hour with a 5.9/10 in the overnights. Comparably, that built from lead-in game show Minute to Win It (#4: 2.8/ 5 at 8 p.m.) by a hefty 111 percent. At 10 p.m., recent summer entry Love in the Wild sunk to a last-place 2.7/ 5, which dipped from the 9:30 p.m. portion of America’s Got Talent (6.1/10) by 56 percent. Elsewhere, repeats of ABC sitcoms The Middle (#3: 3.1/ 5), two episodes of Modern Family (8:30 p.m.: #3, 3.1/ 5; 9 p.m.: #3t, 3.4/ 6) and Happy Endings (#4: 2.0/ 3) led into a second-place 3.0/ 5 in the overnights for Primetime: Nightline at 10 p.m. The CW capped off the evening with two encore telecasts of America’s Got Talent (#5: avg. 0.7/ 1), which will feature its first all-star edition this fall. Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat) _________________________________________________________________ RATINGS BOX: What’s Hot/What’s Not Respectable Return for Bachelor Pad on ABC: The second season opener of Bachelor Pad on ABC, a spin-off of the ongoing Bachelor franchise, led ABC to Monday night victory in total viewers on Aug. 8, with a second-place finish among adults 18-49 (behind Fox’s combination of Hell’s Kitchen and Masterchef). The three-hour installment averaged 7.00 million viewers and a 2.3 rating/6 share in the demo. Continue Reading Pages: 1 2 3 4 Adweek Adweek