Against mostly repeat competition, Fox and So You Think You Can Dance? had an easy time winning a slow pre-holiday Thursday with a 1.7 rating in the adults 18-49 demo for the night. [...]

In their second week of competition, Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance? beat NBC’s America’s Got Talent head to head and put Fox in the winner’s circle for the night with a 3.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demo.[...]

NBC’s America’s Got Talent is on a roll, at 9pm it surged to a 3.7 rating in the 18-49 demo, and it pushed NBC to a convincing win on Tuesday night. ABC’s line up of all new shows put in an even more pitiful showing than last week, falling to just a 1.1 demo rating for the night. [...]

The “break up” episode of Jon & Kate Plus 8 was the top cable show of the year, for all of 6 days, until the Michael Jackson Tribute BET Awards ‘09 edged it by less than 50,000 viewers on Sunday night with 10.653 million. [...]

ABC took the nightly win behind ratings gains in The Bachelorette and Here Come The Newlyweds with an average 2.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demo. [...]

On its second Sunday, NBC’s Merlin nearly perfected its vanishing act, managing only an anemic 1.0 rating for the adults 18-49 demo. Fox animated repeats needed only a 1.5 demo rating to rule the night. [...]

The (un)dead show burn offs kept on coming Saturday (Kings, Harper’s Island and Eli Stone), and Fox crime reality again won the night. [...]

For a second night in a row, Michael Jackson/Farrah Fawcett shows were featured, with NBC’s winning the night. The maybe-pilot movie Virtuality co-written by Battlestar Galactica producer Ronald Moore was virtually unwatched.[...]

On a night when So You Think You Can Dance? lead Fox to a win with a overall nightly 2.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demo, the bigger story was the wall to wall tribute specials to Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett which made for an extremely tight race for second place.[...]