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Nielsen Ratings Wednesday June 18: Reality Over Reruns

Posted on 19 June 2008 by Bill Gorman

Scoreboard FOX NBC CBS ABC CW
Total Viewers (million) 8.73 6.99 6.95 4.46 1.81
Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 3.2/10 2.1/6 1.6/5 1.7/5 0.7/2

Unlike Monday night when reruns stomped reality, the tables were turned on Wednesday as Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance delivered the night for both viewers [8.73 million] and adults 18-49 [3.2 rating/ 10 share]. Likewise, NBC finished second for both viewers and adults 18-49 with the reality duo of Deal or No Deal and Celebrity Circus.

CBS’s reruns of Price is Right, Criminal Minds and CSI:NY delivered the viewers for a close third place finish, but the adults 18-49 stayed away and it finished fourth. ABC went with reruns of reality [Wife Swap, Supernanny] and managed only a weak third in the demo. The CW, who’s phones are in the process of being disconnected, managed only 2.31 million viewers for Farmer Wants a Wife. Edit: As my partner points out below, and I recognize, those results for a CW show, and a summer one at that, are relatively quite strong!

Full details:


Time Net Show Viewers Live+SD (Millons) 18-49 Rating/Share
8:00 FOX So You Think You Can Dance (8-10p) 8.73 3.2/10
  NBC Deal or No Deal (8-930p) 8.25 2.1/7
  CBS Price is Right Million Dollar (repeat) 5.65 1.2/4
  ABC Wife Swap (repeat) 4.54 1.7/6
  CW America’s Next Top Model (repeat) 1.31 0.5/2
         
9:00 CBS Criminal Minds (repeat) 7.19 1.7/5
  ABC Supernanny (repeat) 4.50 1.7/5
  CW Farmer Wants A Wife 2.31 0.9/3
         
9:30 NBC Celebrity Circus (930-11p) 5.72 2.0/6
         
10:00 CBS CSI:NY (repeat) 8.00 1.9/6
  ABC Supernanny (repeat) 4.35 1.7/5

Nielsen Ratings Source: Nielsen Media Research. Full night’s results available via Marc Berman/Mediaweek.

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5 Responses to “Nielsen Ratings Wednesday June 18: Reality Over Reruns”

  1. Bill Gorman says:

    You sir are correct! My lens for looking at CW results had become obscured from disuse.

    Indeed, a 0.9 in the 18-49 demo for FWAW, does make it a bona fide summer hit for the likes of the CW.

    As you point out the far more expensive, and loved, Gossip Girl averaged only a 1.0 18-49 rating during the regular season.

  2. Angie says:

    Did you guys read about how the CW held a casting call for their “hit” Gossip Girl . . . and only four people showed up? Funniest story ever!

  3. Gusar says:

    @Angie: Where? Got a link?

  4. Holly says:

    Granted, part of that was apparently because they only wanted SAG actors, but it's still funny.


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