| Scoreboard for Tue. May 6, 2008 |  |
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| Total Viewers (million) | 16.25 | 12.44 | 10.62 | 6.24 | 2.05 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 6.7/18 | 3.0/8 | 2.3/6 | 2.1/6 | 0.9/2 |
FOX was noticeably off of the week ago Tuesday performance, let alone last year’s numbers. Still, it was enough to win the night for FOX as American Idol once again dominated. Hell’s Kitchen again won the 18-49 demographic in the 9pm hour, and although it too was off versus last week’s overnight numbers and will be adjusted downward some in the finals to compensate for a couple of minutes of American Idol overrun.
ABC improved its performance versus last week largely because a one hour Dancing With the Stars 100th episode special performed markedly better than According to Jim. Women’s Murder Club improved over last week in the 10pm slot by a little (last week’s overnight numbers were 8.14m and a 1.9/5, this week was 8.68m and a 2.2/6 in the 18-49 demographic). Better is better, but it can’t help that in the 18-34 demo, with more than five million fewer viewers, Aqui’ y Ahora pulled better 18-34 demo numbers than WMC (1.5/4 vs. 1.2/4).
NBC added an extra half hour repeat of Most Outrageous Moments and a repeat of Law & Order: SVU instead of a “best of” Saturday Night Live rerun, and the performance was a bit better than last weeks. But the regular airing of Law & Order: SVU at 10pm was down versus last week when it pulled 12.06m and a 4.1/11 in the demo. This week it garnered only 10.44m and a 3.5/10, though it still won the 10pm hour easily.
CBS’s NCIS also underperformed versus last week – losing about 800K viewers and .2 in the 18-49. I think you can chalk a lot of that as well as Idol’s losses up to ABC getting over 6 million more viewers with its DWTS special than it did with According to Jim. Shark remains on the bubble at 9pm but performed consistently versus last week netting 10.43m viewers and a 2.2/5 in the demo. At 10pm, CBS ran a rerun of CSI: Miami which did almost exactly the same as a repeat of CSI in that slot last week. Both reruns did better than Jericho or Secret Talents of the Stars!
Still on the bubble Reaper on CW had more overall viewers than already renewed Gossip Girl did on Monday. Though Reaper probably didn’t perform as well with teens and women, it performed way better than its lead-in, Beauty and the Geek. CW is going to need *some* shows, I’m guessing they’ll keep Reaper around. We’ll see. Either way, like Gossip Girl, Reaper is no Fuego en la Sangre, which pulled 4.7m and a 2.0/5 in the 18-49 demo for Univision at 9pm.
Tuesday night’s details:
| Time | Network | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
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| 8:00 | FOX | American Idol 8p-9p | 21.25 | 8.2/23 |
| CBS | NCIS | 13.79 | 2.8/8 | |
| NBC | Most Outrageous Moments | 4.21 | 1.3/4 | |
| ABC | Dancing w/Stars 100th Episode Special | 10.5 | 2.4/7 | |
| CW | Beauty and the Geek | 1.63 | 0.7/2 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Shark | 10.43 | 2.2/5 |
| ABC | Dancing With the Stars | 18.14 | 4.4/11 | |
| FOX | Hells Kitchen | 11.25 | 5.2/13 | |
| CW | Reaper | 2.47 | 1.0/3 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (Repeat) | 4.06 | 1.4/4 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (Repeat) | 7.62 | 1.9/5 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU | 10.44 | 3.5/10 | |
| ABC | Womens Murder Club | 8.68 | 2.2/6 |
Nielsen Ratings Source: Nielsen Media Research. Full night’s results available via Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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May 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
While everybody else is airing new episodes in the month of may sweeps. NBC can only program one hour of new television. A clip show is not new television. I guess there is only so many nights NBC can fill with Deal or no Deal
CW will hopefully renew reaper. They have to fill hours somehow and I suspect its cheaper to renew a show than to develop a whole bunch of new ones. Plus reaper is good and its audience should build.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Of course a csi rerun is going to draw 7.5 million viewers, it draws millions in reruns on cable. Also it is funny that Shark was dog meat at the 10pm slot, but moves up an hour to the slot people wanted Jericho in and finds several million more viewers.
May 7th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Bah. Shark ran what, once as a RERUN in the Tuesday 10pm slot? Once. As a repeat. Please.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
p.s. – Took me forever to get into the new system (I got stuck in a loop and the prompts to escape its evil clutches were less than definitive).
May 7th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Jim, you are correct. The Tuesday Idol has averaged 28.2 million viewers through April 27 of this year.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2008/05/01/season-to-...
May 8th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Reruns of CSI Miami get 7.6 million while fresh episodes of Jericho usually got 6 million? Another nail in the coffin of Jericho. Jericho Season 1 was great but Season 2 just fell flat in the end – I can understand why millions of Season 1 fans abandoned ship.
It will be interesting to see what show CBS sticks in that 10pm slot in the fall.
Shark is definitely benefitting from the move to 9pm thought it appears to mainly attract old viewers. 10 million should be enough to keep it alive for another season. Not a show I watch much but its better than all those socalled reality shows out there; only Hells Kitchen is somewhat watchable – really does great in the key demo – only if men cry and theres lots of yelling and plates flying across the room.
And why is Beauty and the Geek still on? Whoa is CW. That network should shut down and start from scratch.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I saw that Esai Morales signed on for the BSG Caprica prequel, another nail for Jericho?
May 8th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Guess Who, you won't have long to wait, CBS will announce its Fall 2008 schedule within the next week.
I'd bet against Beauty and the Geek returning.
May 8th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I know that I'm just one viewer, but I didn't get to see NCIS because I live in Indiana and they were going over all the election results.