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| Total Viewers (million) | 14.95 | 11.76 | 11.50 | 5.62 | 3.15 | 1.26 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 4.1/10 | 4.3/10 | 3.7/9 | 2.4/6 | 1.1/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.9/7 | 3.9/10 | 3.0/8 | 2.8/7 | 1.1/3 | 0.5/1 |
Updated with show data table below.
With over forty minutes of NFL overrun, CBS easily took the night in terms of viewers, and football ruled the 18-49 and 18-34 demos too, but that was for NBC’s Sunday Night Football matchup(Chicago Bears vs. Minnesota Vikings).
There will be some delays with posting a show data table (sorry) but due to the overrun, the CBS show data is completely horked anyway.
The 7:00p-7:30pm portion of the overrun averaged 24.35 million viewers for CBS. The 7:30p to 8pm portion averaged (~11 minutes of football and 19 minutes of 60 Minutes) averaged 19.38 million. In the 8p-8:30p half hour, which was all 60 Minutes, it averaged 17.90 million viewers.
Desperate Housewives was the most viewed scripted show of the evening, averaging 15.63 million viewers and a 5.6/12 (rating/share) among 18-49 year olds.
Fox had a bit of an off night. Without any NFL overrun, and with Family Guy being a repeat, the best Fox could muster was a fourth place finish in both viewers and all of the demos. Though an original episode of The Simpsons did win the 18-34 demo from 8p-8:30 (3.9/10).
Unsurprisingly, a rerun of Jericho and a movie on the CW did much better than the cancelled MRC Sunday night programming block and the Nielsen ratings were pretty much where you’d figure them to be. Jericho averaged 1.25 million viewers and an 0.4/1 among 18-49 year olds. That’s NOT going to have anyone (at least anyone in their right mind) thinking, “this is a series that needs to be brought back!”, but it was 530,000 more viewers than a repeat of In Harms Way netted last week, and the Jericho rerun did slightly better among adults 18-49 (0.4/1 vs 0.3/1). A repeat of the movie The Crocodile Hunter performed almost identically to the Jericho numbers between 8p-10p.
Full details:
Keep in mind that CBS had a long NFL overrun. The 8p-9pm slot where Amazing Race runs has 19 minutes of 60 Minutes and 41minutes of Amazing Race, etc..the shows will reflect accurate data in the final numbers (including the “live sports” component), these preliminary results will definitely change…
| Time | Net | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share |
| 7:00 | CBS | NFL Football Overun | 24.35 | 7.4/19 | 5.7/17 |
| ABC | America’s Funniest Home Videos | 8.93 | 2.3/6 | 1.8/5 | |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 6.25 | 2.2/6 | 1.7/5 | |
| FOX | King of the Hill (R) | 3.23 | 1.2/3 | 1.1/3 | |
| CW | Jericho (R) | 1.25 | 0.4/1 | 0.3/1 | |
| 7:30 | CBS | NFL Overrun/60 Minutes | 19.38 | 5.2/13 | 3.6/10 |
| FOX | King of the Hill (R) | 3.76 | 1.5/4 | 1.5/4 | |
| 8:00 | CBS | 60 Minutes/Amazing Race | 15.60 | 4.2/9 | 2.8/7 |
| NBC | Football Night in America/Sun Night Football | 12.37 | 4.5/10 | 4.0/10 | |
| ABC | Extreme Makeover: Home Edition | 11.24 | 3.6/8 | 2.8/7 | |
| FOX | The Simpsons | 8.00 | 3.5/8 | 4.2/11 | |
| CW | Movie: The Crocodile Hunter (R) | 1.20 | 0.4/1 | 0.3/1 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | King of the Hill | 6.29 | 2.8/6 | 3.1/8 |
| 9:00 | ABC | Desperate Housewives | 15.63 | 5.6/12 | 4.7/11 |
| NBC | Sunday Night Football | 15.43 | 5.8/12 | 5.4/13 | |
| CBS | Amazing Race/Cold Case | 11.64 | 3.2/7 | 2.3/5 | |
| FOX | Family Guy (R) | 6.94 | 3.2/7 | 4.0/9 | |
| CW | Movie: The Crocodile Hunter (R) | 1.31 | 0.4/1 | 0.3/1 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | American Dad | 5.55 | 2.5/5 | 3.2/8 |
| 10:00 | NBC | Sunday Night Football | 12.99 | 5.0/12 | 4.9/12 |
| CBS | Cold Case/The Unit | 10.69 | 2.9/7 | 1.8/4 | |
| ABC | Brothers & Sisters | 10.19 | 3.5/8 | 2.9/7 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2008 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Definitions:
Fast Affiliate Ratings: These first national ratings, including demographics, are available at approximately 11 AM (ET) the day after telecast, and are released to subscribing customers daily. These data, from the National People Meter sample, are strictly time-period information, based on the normal broadcast network feed, and include all programming on the affiliated stations, sometimes including network programming, sometimes not. The figures may include stations that did not air the entire network feed, as well as local news breaks or cutaways for local coverage or other programming. Fast Affiliate ratings are not as useful for live programs and are likely to differ significantly from the final results, because the data reflect normal broadcast feed patterns. For example, with a World Series game, Fast Affiliate Ratings would include whatever aired from 8-11PM on affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone, following the live football game, but not game coverage that begins at 5PM PT. The same would be true of Presidential debates as well as live award shows and breaking news reports.
Rating: Estimated percentage of the universe of TV households (or other specified group) tuned to a program in the average minute. Ratings are expressed as a percent.
Share (of Audience): The percent of households (or persons) using television who are tuned to a specific program, station or network in a specific area at a specific time. (See also, Rating, which represents tuning or viewing as a percent of the entire population being measured.)
Time Shifted Viewing – Program ratings for national sources are produced in three streams of data – Live, Live+Same Day (Live+SD) and Live+7 Day. Time shifted figures account for incremental viewing that takes place with DVRs which are currently in approximately 24.4% of all U.S. TV households. Live+Same Day (Live+SD) include viewing during the same broadcast day as the original telecast, with a cut-off of 3:00AM local time when meters transmit daily viewing to Nielsen for processing. Live+7 Day ratings include incremental viewing that takes place during the 7 days following a telecast.
For more information see Numbers 101.
Only 1.25 million for Jericho? Thats pretty bad even for that show. When CBS aired reruns in summer of 2007 I think they got around 3 million viewers on a Friday night.
In any event, Jericho is ok as space filler. But anyone still thinking there will be a 3rd Season is nothing short of dillusional. Unless fans make a goofy version like Trek fans did with Star Trek: New Voyages – an internet fan production, that is so hiddious most Trek fans insist it really doesnt exist and is just a figment of people imagination. Fortunately, I doubt Jericho fans have the expertise or money to pull that off.
Earlier this year SCI-FI had Jericho reruns of Season 1 but pulled the plug due, not suprisingly, to low ratings after 15 or 16 episodes and never showed the rest. That pretty much sums up Jericho’s future on CW.
Granted, the CW is still in the Nielsen cellar. But on the bright side, the Jericho/Movie combo nearly doubled the ratings from last week
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It’s more than double in total viewers (1.26 vs. 0.59). Not sure how you’d calculate percent change on the rating/share data exactly. Berman’s site noted an “80%” increase over last week.
I’m not holding out too much hope for a miraculous Jericho Season Three based solely on 1.25 million viewers. However, I am looking forward to kicking back Sunday night to watch Jericho Episode 2, then “The Cutting Edge” with D.B. Sweeney
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If there’s any chance you could show us some half-hourly data from 7:00. 7:30, 8:00, and 8:30, that would be cool. That would help me wrap my mind around football overruns. No big deal though, you already provide plenty of good stuff here!
Oh, forgot to mention, Jerichos ratings dont matter since Nielsen is defective. LOL! Theres really like a gazillion viewers that Nielsen misses. So… soldier on!
Seriously…I think “Sunday Night Movies of the Week” (although perferably newer blockbuster and/or original TV movies) need to come back – I think they would do really well…and especially the mystery dramas!
I STILL HAVE HOPE THAT JERICHO WILL BE GIVEN A SEASON 3. IT’S A GREAT SHOW!!!
Time between post and first crazy fan comment: 14 minutes!
Joe Cool – are you Soylent? Good to see you Soylent! (You have the exact same misspelling of the word “delusional” and the same references to Sci-Fi that Soylent always used on other boards. If you are not Soy, I apologize for the reference).
Clutz, I was only comparing Jericho to In Harms way (which ran in the 7pm-8p hour as well) not the whole night to the whole night. My numbers are correct for that comparison, but yes, last week the whole night only averaged 590,000 and the performance is much improved, although more in line with a similar night a year ago when CW aired new episodes of CW Now and Life is Wild and repeats of Aliens in America an ANTM and averaged 1.15 million and .4/1 in the 18-49 demo.
Hey now Bill, “fan” is an abbreviation of “fanatic” – so of course “fans” are crazy! We’re fanatical ;P
Seriously though, it was “Jericho” that brought me to your site, and now I’m hooked on learning about ratings, studying TV trends, advertising trends, and all that fun stuff. Thanks to you, Mr. Seidman, and company for allowing us to even be here!
Hi Robert, I understand your data now. I was kind of comparing night-to-night. In general, I guess dumping the MRC block for repeats and a movie will keep the CW treading its current waters. As to whether those waters are smooth and high enough to keep the CW alive in years to come? I have no idea there!
The CW made a big mistake in letting someone else program their Sunday night. They should have kept their sitcoms on that night and should have kept their ties with Mr. McMahon (WWE) as well. Even My Network TV is reaping (no pun intended to Reaper) the benfits of the WWE Smackdown program.
Wasn’t Star Trek: New Voyages filmed in an abandoned gas station in New Hampshire?
I think that poor ratings performance dooms Jericho…
Any predictions tonight on Terminator? No more DWTS to compete against it, so the question is, will its ratings go up? I’m going to be an extreme optimist and will say they’ll get 6.5 million viewers and a 2.2 or higher in the 18-49 demo. But remember, I am frequently wrong.
i dont know whos worse: Moonlight fans or Jericho fans
Terminator is a loser even without DWTS.
I didnt know DH was new last night.
I don’t understand why FOX didn’t want to show a new episode of Family Guy. Didn’t the Judge say Peter would be released from prison for blowing up the childrens’ hospital next Sunday at 9:00PM last week?
Outlander, I be happy with 5.6 million viewers.
Also, Fox annoucned another schedule change regarding T:SCC. They’re going back to the orginally schedule.
12/1 Self Made Man
12/8 Alpine Fields
12/15 Earthings Welcome Here (fall finale)
http://www.fox.com/blogs/terminator/2008/12/01/once-more-with-feeling/#comments
Wow ! Yes, Jericho did not do that great . But still did better that those MRC shows , which is kind of funny that again , some canceled shows reruns are doing better than new shows. So many new shows canceled this year makes me think that networks and producers have no clue at all about what viewers want to watch.
Jen, yeah Jericho did better than what was there but thats like saying having your leg below the knee amputated is better than losing your entire leg. Would either option suck any less?
Actually they DO have an idea of what viewers want to watch and they air it – as much as I hate American Idol and shows like that, its what the brainless masses want to watch. NCIS, CSI and other such shows (which Im tired of) at least require some brain power to watch. Those shows have no trouble bagging 10-20 million viewers. Even their reruns do well. NCIS had reruns doing 10 million + this past year.
Joe, your grey matter has apparently turned to jelly. It’s not brainless to be elitist, but you and your ilk are quite wrong for assuming shows like Idol and DWTS are for the brainless masses. I’m not saying that the brainless masses DON’T also watch those shows, but you can be guaranteed that by at least one order of magnitude, there are more 140+ IQ people who watch Dancing with the Stars and American Idol than Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles or Battlestar Galactica.
The desire to watch television for “entertainment” isn’t brainless. Many geniuses and people with above average IQs *love* to watch sports on TV. It doesn’t require flexing the cerebral cortex much, but that makes it no less entertaining. The same holds true for the talent contests.
Shows like Idol and DWTS appeal to a wide range of people, with a wide range of brain power. Shows that appeal to a wider audience by nature do better. But a show like American Idol gets more of everything. Sure, it gets more people with below average IQs than most other shows, but it also gets more people with average IQs and above average IQs too.
Just because it doesn’t entertain you (or me) does not mean it is for the brainless masses.
I understand what you all say about networks wanting shows with 15 and 20 million viewers . I understand TV networks are business , just wanted to make money, so I do understand networks going with shows that give them those ratings. But, where does that leave the rest of us? The ones who don’t belong to the masses and enjoy shows that can only get between 7 or 9 million viewers? I guess nowhere , because we are not good enough for any network . I don’t think any of those big networks would go belly up for keeping just 1 or 2 of those “low ratings” shows in their programming , to give viewers out of the masses a chance to enjoy TV. But of course I know this would never happen because for them everything is always about getting more $$.
Jen. While I love your point, the reality of the situation is that for every show that gets 1 or 2 million viewers that a few people love, the networks will always think that they get those viewers to a show that everyone will love.
I mean I loved Journeyman, Firely, Wonderfallls, Arrested Development, but I also love 24, LOST watched Desperate Housewives for 2 seasons and Greys for one.
So why spend 4 million an episode on something that I and a few will watch when theres a chance that they can spend it and get me and ten million buddies too.
And I’m right they with Rob on this point Joe. American Idol, as much as I hate to sit and watch shows of that ilk, aren’t completely brainless. They may be an advocate of a culture and a society that appeals to those of lower cognitive abillity, but they’re a show built around the celebrated talents of people and what they can do.
It brings back to the old agady of what one person considers dreck is another man’s masterpiece. We have to put up with them; simple as that.
Except Hole in the Wall. I think we can all agree that that is dreck.
JERICHO is a perfect example of over ambition meets defeat in the realm of a TV Series. The series was designed around the premise of 20+ cities being destroyed by Nuclear weapons and what happens to a small town in an area outside of the fallout zones.
They knew exactly what they wanted to do with the 2 main characters. However they treated the show like the old Mini-Series from the 80s. They introduced an extremely large cast with their own problems and how they’d deal with the disaster. The problem was they had no idea about the story arcs for many of these characters. When the ratings came out it wasn’t enough to support the show. So they had to start eliminating cast. They threw away story lines and practically just started ignoring certain characters entirely. Ratings dropped and this was also the same time when they started having “problem of the week,” episodes vs “what is happening to everyone,” episodes.
The problem was the show was too ambitious. The extremely large cast was its downfall. By ignoring story lines and killing characters off they alienated the audience they did have.
I also have to get into the fact that as the show continued to go on they asked viewers to buy into more and more absurd situations. EMP weapons that went off for no apparent reason well after the bombs. A city of at least 2,500 people all shopping at some small market in the city? Where is the Wal-Mart? They were designed specifically for cities that size in the middle of no where. A city that size would have more than a main street market. When we’re finally shown a map of the city and the outlying areas the population can’t be more than 800 people. While that map worked for the season finale plot it immediately said “this isn’t a town of 2,500 people” A farming/cattle community that has no food!
Heck the show mentioned NYC survived. Now that would be a city with food problems. A city that couldn’t possibly hold more than 700 people surrounded by farms and cattle ranches is not going to have food issues whether or not the deer ran south.
The “well thought out,” attack. The 23 cities they show have no strategic placement at all. I’ll use one great example: Texas. They bombed Dallas. They left San Antonio and its air force bases in tact. They left Austin and its army base in tact. They left FT. Hood in tact. Heck, in Kansas where JERICHO is based they mention that Topeka was one of the 23 cities at one point. Why didn’t JERICHO see two mushroom clouds then? One from Denver and one from Topeka. I understand that Topeka had to be eliminated otherwise FT Riley would be in tact. If FT Riley was in tact that whole state would have had US Army all over it. Except JERICHO would have seen both mushroom clouds. In the scenario that JERICHO presented, TEXAS would have been left as a major international power (the air forces best toys, army’s best toys, naval bases, naval air field, etc).
All that said, 1.25M people watched a 3 year old canceled TV show at 7/6 central is kind of amusing. They find another million and it would be a top CW show! I’m pretty sure the JERICHO faithful have no idea it’s on. CW did no advertising for it. If they doubled the numbers the CW would look at it seriously. It’s the whole reason it’s on.
If Chuck and Heroes live up to their Sunday Night Football promos
I hope it results in improved numbers for both.
For the record, Joe (un)Cool, having your leg amputated below the knee might “suck less” (sic) than full amputation. With the advances we’ve made in prosthetics in the past 30 years or so, below-the-knee amputees can walk and run pretty much normally. Watch the You Tube video entitled “Dear Mr. Obama” for an example. I won’t spam this site with the link, you are intelligent enough to look it up
I’m actually a bit offended by your assumptions that being disabled automatically “sucks,” and that people who like talent contests are automatically brainless! Then again, I can’t stay offended for long at someone who cannot spell the word delusional, yet feels compelled to call everyone else brainless
I’m hoping that American Dad is safe, but it’s a bit sad when a repeat of Family Guy beats a new episodes of AD in the ratings.
I would imagine that American Dad was hurt a lot by the repeat of Family Guy. Seeing that’s a repeat, I instinctively assumed American Dad would be a repeat too.
OK I WATCHED JERICHO YESTERDAY AND I LOVE IT!!! AFTER THE 1ST COMMERCIAL I WAS LIKE NOOOOO TURN IT BACK ON… MY QUESTION IS SINCE THE NUMBERS ARE REALLY BAD DO YOU THINK THE CW WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW ALL OF SEASON 1 WITH REPEATS? AND IS IT A CHANCE SEASON 2 WILLL BE SHOWN?
I know Desperate Housewives is always a ratings powerhouse regardless of what it is up against, but the solid performances of America’s Funniest Home Video’s and Extreme Home Makeover against two football games and a late edition of 60 minutes really shows off the strength of ABC’s Sunday night lineup. After football season concludes, their audience should see significant growth. ABC seems to be gifted with creating reality tv hits the way CBS can spot a killer procedural a mile away.
Jen, I find it terribly hard to believe that you don’t watch ANY shows that get a huge audience.
Matt, I agree with you. Footall are helping a LOT to CBS and NBC with overruns but when the football ends, ABC will be on the top in the winter. Sundays for CBS are their weakest night and NBC is a joke.
Matt, like Opportunity Knocks?
Do you have the ratings for the britney spears documentary? i was wondering if it was very high…since she broke records in the UK on x-factor.
What I find interesting about the CW is that shows like Smallville and 90210 have been pulling in what, around 3.5 to 4.5 million for a new episode. Jericho last night showed a rerun of the pilot and pulled in 1.25 which is not very impressive, but no numbers for that network seem to be. Had there have been several weeks of ads coupled together with new episodes of Jericho I can see it pulling in about the same amount of viewers as the two shows I just mentioned. Jericho was averaging about 6 million when CBS pulled it not counting DVR and I find it hard to believe that the core group of 6 million plus would not follow new episodes on the CW.
Pete, but it’s the CW. They aren’t in the same number of households as CBS. I think there might be a possibility of getting 3 million people to watch JERICHO. That would require massive scaling down of the show (similar to what they already did with season 2). Still the numbers aren’t there. IMHO they are good for the CW considering it’s a 3 year old rerun.
I forgot Jericho was on, so I missed it.
I’m not used to there being anything to watch at 7pm.
Nick, did Carol Barbee give you a job once?
When the numbers for a two year old Jericho rerun are as “good” as a rerun of The Crocodile Hunter….
Are we missing the big picture? I saw stocks were down today 700 points. i don’t bother to check the dishrags called net tv. how is DIS doing? GE? Viacom. Haha ha ha ha ha ha ha. The Joker lives. It really has got to the po where these subhuman network suits are crapping blood. Allah, akbar? Sorry. I truly hate them. Arrest me.
Robert, for an unadvertised show it did better than the advertised crap it replaced. We’re talking the CW here. I wouldn’t be shocked if their numbers get better too. So yeah a rerun for a canceled TV series from 2006 getting those numbers on the CW isn’t horrible. They are definitely good compared to what was airing there.
No Chris, may be hard to believe but I don’t . I used to watch CSI Las Vegas , but after the 3rd season I got tired of it , and the other CSIs are the same but in diferent cities. All those shows , Cold Case, C. Minds…after watching a few episodes you realize they are always the same…Actually I don’t enjot any show at the moment. In the past I watched “alias , Buffy , Ally McBeal , The XFiles , Will & Grace and Friends” . I am still trying to find some shows I could enjoy now, but to be honest with so many cancelations going on these days I think is better to put my time and $ in DVDs.
I wonder just how long the CW can keep going with ratings as low as they are for most (all) their shows. Let alone for filler shows such as Jerico. Don’t companies want to make money off their ads? With so few viewers how much can the CW realistically ask for ads?
Oh well, it had to happen eventually. CBS picks up 5 additional episodes of EH.
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/12/cbs-picks-up-fi.html
I too am amazed CW manages to stay on the air. When a twice cancelled show getting 1.25 million viewers is considered an improvement, its an ominous sign.
I remember when they axed Veronica Mars because it was getting ONLY 2.5-3.0 million viewers. These days VM would be cosidered a runaway hit on CW.
Hey Jen,
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I can relate to not watching shows with “huge” audiences. I still watch one huge show – House, though it’s shark-jumping time with House and Cuddy “relationship” issues going on IMHO. “Fringe” is maybe a hit, but not huge numbers when compared to the acronym shows of the CBS network. I like Fringe a lot. Other than that, most TV time for me is spent watching the Pittsburgh Penguins and Discovery Channel. And when I’m looking for something thats scripted drama or comedy, I’ll most likely rent a DVD or check out a movie on cable
TV Sage i actually relished watching shows that did not start off with “huge” Nielsons. The X Files on friday nights was lucky to get over 3 million people.
The Amazing Race premiered the week after 9-11 and was in danger of being cancelled til Season 7 where viewership finally picked up thanks to the Midget (Charla) and her cousin Myrna
TV Guide actually did articles called The Best Shows You’re Not Watching..Party of 5 was on that list.
Also loved Boston Public and my all time fave that never got huge numbers St. Elsewhere. ER still can’t hold a candle to it!
I’m sure the Jericho freaks knew it was on and still think the show is coming back. They are the biggest nuts in the history of TV fans, even beating Firefly and Star Trek, and that’s something.
Family Guy and American Dad where both down! The Simpsons even did better than Family Guy.