The biggest surprise to me from last night if the early metered market numbers are any indication is how “well” 30 Rock held up. Last week, an Oprah fueled sweeps Thursday pulled a 5.1/8 household rating/share in the early metered markets and last night, without Oprah, and with Sarah Palin fading into our rear view mirrors, 30 Rock got a 4.7/7, and will likely fare very well in the demos. NBC has professed love and patience for Kath & Kim, but how much love and patience can be tolerated at a 3.4/5.
Kath & Kim needs a guest appearance from Sarah Palin pronto because My Name is Earl had a 4.3/7. Maybe they ought to flip-flop Kath & Kim and Early if they are going to keep both because Kath & Kim isn’t likely helping The Office (4.8/7) any. Though with so many people DVRing The Office, perhaps it just doesn’t matter.
I’m sure we’ll see some Sarah Palin in primetime by March sweeps, but whether Kath & Kim will still be on the air then (yeah, I know NBC gave it a full order, but…3.4/5!) is another story. I’d like to see her show up on Lost to torment Benjamin Linus. Kidding! Kind of…
I fell asleep early last night and did not yet watch Supernatural, Life on Mars, The Office or 30 Rock yet, so if there is a whiff of spoilers in the comments today, I will be ignoring them. Speaking of Life on Mars, it was down a bit from last week’s 5.8/10. Last night it got a 5.5/9. Whether that’s due to an uptick with an Anthony Edwards return sweeps edition of ER that scored a 7.2/12, is hard to say. What isn’t hard to say is that the guest appearances certainly helped ER which had a 6.0/10 last week. I expect the “one more year!” talk to continue, even though the plan was for this to be ER’s final season.
We’ll post the full overnight report hopefully by 9:30am PST. Note: due to football airing in the local markets in New York and Boston last night, there is even greater potential than normal for both the early metered market numbers and the fast nationals to be adjusted in the final numbers.
Full metered market report via Berman.
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
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To me “Life on Mars” rocks it’s my appointment tv for the week. Last nights episode was terrific!
You didn’t miss anything – the only thing worse than last night’s episode of Supernatural was the preview for next week’s episode. I don’t even know where to begin in my description of why it was so awful . . .
Wow the office has a smaller 18-49 share 0f veiwers than Heroes. So is thursday less competitive or more than Mondays?
Oh no, we aren’t starting the first thing are we?
I disagree about Supernatural. Boy fans are sure hard to please. If it’s funny, they complain. If it’s serious, there’s not enough action. Without giving too much away, I was glad they gave Sam some screen time. And please remember, it is a TV show. These are not real people. The choices made advance the story line. I have faith that Eric has the story all mapped out and I’m enjoying the ride immensely.
So 30 Rock very likely beating Heroes is going to put Heroes at, what, fourth place in scripted? Sixth in unscripted?
Possibly lower
fin, I’d say Thursdays are probably more competative due to Grey’s/CSI. However, I do think Mondays are a close second.
Sarah Palin on LOST would just be odd! Especially if she were Jacob or some weird twist like that!
But at the 18-49 so far Heroes is the second highest show for NBC (scripted) with 30 Rock third. Office first.
I as usual enjoyed My Name is Earl last night it holds up well considering NBC kisses the other shows butts like The Office and 30 Rock and they have already given Kath & Kim a full order with it’s crappy numbers I ask where is the love for Earl anyways good show and I also enjoyed Smallville last night and the preview for next weeks show looks really good with Doomsday showing up I am looking forward to watching that
Smallville is with every season getting better and this seasons ratings look much better than last seasons. Its a wonder that with such a small budget you can produce some good effects (apart from the fortress).
ER proberly has to go as NBC’s trying to build up a comedy night which isn’t doing too well at the 8:00pm spot. MNIE may be better than Kath & Kim but that doesn’t make it better. MNIS has like 700,000 more veiwers but only 100,000 more on 18-49. They’re not that different i think. Or are they?
May be better in total veiwership*
Wow K&K do better than Chuck in the 18-49
I loved Supernatural. My only problem with these weeks episode is that it showed that the current Ruby isn’t a character I’m feeling from the actress. They did give her a lot more to work with then they did previously. It introduced a lot of stuff to advance the storyline. I can’t wait to see where Eric Kripke is taking us- I think this will be the best season yet- especially since Dean is becoming a part of the mythos rather then just Sam’s Guardian Big Bro. The only episodes I’ve enjoyed more this season were 4.01 and 4.03.