Just getting the Metered Market overnight numbers up for everyone to chew on waiting for the Fast Affiliate Numbers:
| Metered Market Ratings | ||||
| NET | HH Rating / Share | |||
| CBS | 9.6/15 | |||
| ABC | 8.4/13 | |||
| NBC | 5.9/9 | |||
| FOX | 5.4/9 | |||
| CW | 2.5/4 | |||
| Time | Net | Show | HH Rating | Share |
| 8:00 | CBS | Survivor: Gabon | 7.4 | 12 |
| ABC | Ugly Betty | 6.9 | 11 | |
| FOX | MLB Playoff: Dodgers/Phillies | 4.7 | 8 | |
| NBC | My Name is Earl | 4.6 | 7 | |
| CW | Smallville | 2.9 | 5 | |
| UNI | Cuidado con el Angel | |||
| 8:30 | FOX | MLB Playoff: Dodgers/Phillies | 6.2 | 10 |
| NBC | Kath & Kim (premiere) | 4.9 | 7 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | CSI (premiere) | 14.1 | 22 |
| ABC | Grey’s Anatomy | 10.1 | 15 | |
| NBC | The Office | 5.2 | 8 | |
| CW | Supernatural | 2.2 | 3 | |
| UNI | Fuego en la Sangre | |||
| 9:30 | NBC | Saturday Night Live Special | 7.1 | 11 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Life on Mars (premiere) | 8.2 | 14 |
| CBS | Eleventh Hour (premiere) | 7.4 | 12 | |
| NBC | ER | 6.7 | 11 | |
| UNI | La Rosa de Guadalupe |
Shows are sorted by HH Rating in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Definitions:
Metered Market Overnight Ratings: This is normally the first available ratings information, and is based on the electronic measurement service that Nielsen provides in 56 of the nation’s largest markets. In each market a sample of homes is selected to represent that individual market. Often, networks or syndicators provide metered market information as an early indicator of a program’s performance. In aggregate, the 56 metered markets represent 79,890,610 homes, or 70% of all U.S. TV households. Preliminary metered market data are available as early as 8:00AM (ET). Final metered market information, reflecting line-up changes, pre-emptions and runovers, are normally available by 3:30PM (ET).
Good to see Smallville still doing well.
That’s a pretty good premiere number for Life on Mars if it holds. We’ll see what next week brings, of course.
Since it’s ABC, I have to ask, did Grey’s run into the 10 o’clock hour by two mins?
Glad to see Life on Mars did well. Loved it!!
How many is that in millions for Life On Mars and Eleventh Hour roughly?
I think it may have run in by a minute, but I am not positive! Seems like a lot of Grey’s viewers stuck around though.
Yay! for Smallville!!
Yes! CSI won – On my please take them off the air list–(along with) CIRCUS/DANCING WITH THE STARS (but most of them aren’t dancing)…I also want GREYS off in 3 years…LAST NIGHT’S CSI WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST OF EPISODES – It was powerful!!!
I enjoy Smallville – but its stories are either wearing on me or their just not as good – so I hope this year or next year is its last…
CSI looks like it spanked Grey’s Anatomy big time! ABC is not having a good season are they? But at least they aren’t in NBC’s position.
That was a gigantic number for CSI…I can’t see it keeping that number throughout its season. Mark Berman labeled 11th Hour a loser…but I don’t know what show could compete with that lead-in. It reached about the same share and demo as Life On Mars which he picked as a winner–I guess because it’s on ABC.
BTW, I was torn between watching 11th Hour and LOM. I watched 11th Hr. and will catch LOM on stream, even it means dealing with ABC.com’s crappy viewer.
Andrea, while I don’t really think Berman’s winners and losers lists are a scientific thing at all, and usually have a ton of bias that has nothing to do with numbers mixed into them, I would think the reason Eleventh Hour would be a loser and Life on Mars a winner, even if they had exactly the same numbers, would be due to retention. It looks like Eleventh Hour only retained about 50% of its lead-in, which Life on Mars was around 80%. Plus, the half hours may be very telling when comparing them.
I am rooting all the way for Life on Mars!
Come on supernatural deserves so much better than that.. just because cw is weak people should start waching the show-much better than greys lately.. people just give it a chance
Hey Andrea – I saw LIfe on Mars available to watch on Inside the Tube. Its a widget of the premiere if you still want to watch. I have to watch 11th Hour still, but I am sticking with Life on Mars b/c I loved it.
http://insidethetube.blogspot.com/2008/10/watch-series-premiere-of-life-on-mars.html