| Scoreboard |  |
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| Total Viewers (million) | 5.84 | 4.83 | 4.22 | 4.18 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/6 | 1.1/3 | 1.0/3 | 1.1/3 |
Without an NFL playoff game as a lead-in, Game Show in My Head resumed it’s normal plot and course, as did the night in general.
Full details:
| Time | Network | Show | Viewers (Millons) | 18-49 Rating/Share |
| 8:00 | FOX | Cops | 5.67 | 1.9/6 |
| ABC | Movie: The Pacifier (R) | 4.95 | 1.3/4 | |
| CBS | Game Show in My Head (2 episodes) | 3.64 | 0.9/3 | |
| NBC | Crusoe | 2.76 | 0.6/2 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | America’s Most Wanted | 6.01 | 2.1/6 |
| CBS | Without a Trace (R) | 4.41 | 0.8/3 | |
| NBC | Law & Order (R) | 3.85 | 0.8/3 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 6.42 | 1.4/5 |
| NBC | Law & Order : SVU (R) | 6.06 | 1.6/5 | |
| ABC | Desperate Housewives (R) | 2.65 | 0.8/2 |
Shows are sorted by viewers in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
Definitions:
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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.
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‘Game show’ went back to its normal numbers.
i thought I said that.
Gosh…to say Saturdays are dead would be like saying water is wet.
how strage… Saturday TV in the UK, is one of the, if not THE highest rated of the week? When was the last time that a popular program was show on a Saturday in the US?
The viewers were there when the networks offered something people wanted to watch. It isn’t the viewers’ abandonment of the networks on Saturdays that is the issue. It is the networks’ abandonment of the viewers that is the problem.
Repeats, lame game shows, old movies people have seen over and over? That is not must see TV. The only positive for the networks is that those shows play to their bottom line.
@josh: I think the networks in the U.S. have assumed that with sports, cinema, movie rentals, dining out, nightclubs, yadda yadda yadda…most Americans aren’t tuning in to regularly scheduled television series on a Saturday night. Nielsen panels may have added validity to that. For example, perhaps half the Nielsen meters are showing that TV’s are turned off? I picked half as a random number there, but to extrapolate – if the Nielsen viewers are not watching TV, there’s a good chance that most American viewers are otherwise occupied on Saturday nights.
i believe you mixed up CBS and ABC……….why did game show in my head drop so much sorta wierd
sam, they’re not mixed up. The reason for the drop off is that last week there was an NFL playoff game on before it that probably had 30 million people, with still multiple millions hanging on for the post-game coverage. Last night, it didn’t, so it doesn’t strike me as weird at all.
[edit] i see what you mean, all the data is correct but ABC should rank higher than CBS for the hour in terms of sort order.
Ouch for Crusoe’s numbers. It’s pretty fitting that a boring show like that gets such poor ratings. For a second, I though I was looking at the CW’s numbers and not NBC’s.
yeah thats what i ment rob sorry should of been more specific
Unless there is a Trojans football game on, Saturday’s are meant to be out drinking not staying home watching tv =)
Is there any numbers for Spike Feresten? They aired its first hour long episode and I wanna know people actually saw it.
Unknown, we don’t get late night numbers from Nielsen. NBC provides a good round up of Mon-Fri late night numbers as well as Saturday Night Live numbers in their press releases, but not competitive show weekend late night numbers. You can see them here:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/category/ratings/late-night
Personally I think Crusoe is a great if you give it a chance you might come around to like it too.
It may have done better if NBC put it on a better day, but since it finished production long ago I guess it doesn’t matter if it gets good ratings or not since it’s a mini-series.
What happen with America’s Most Wanted? I think you forgot to post it.
tooltip, i think I accidentally copied and pasted over it. fixed.
I watched Crusoe and didn’t find it boring, actually it had some great fight scenes and lots of action on the homeland as well, with Sam Neill becoming even more sinister.
Pretty kewl.