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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.4/5 | 1.2/4 | 1.1/4 | 0.7/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 4.02 | 3.52 | 5.85 | 3.55 |
Fox’s reality crime line up of Cops and America’s Most Wanted triumphed on Saturday night, as they usually do without special competition. The seventeen fans of Harper’s Island shouldn’t worry, it will be back next Saturday.
Past Saturday overnight reports are available here.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) |
| 8:00 | FOX | Cops x2 | 1.3 | 6 | 3.72 |
| ABC | Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire (8-11p) | 1.2 | 4 | 3.52 | |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 0.7 | 3 | 4.86 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (repeat) | 0.7 | 3 | 3.37 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | America’s Most Wanted | 1.4 | 5 | 4.31 |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.1 | 4 | 5.90 | |
| NBC | Southland (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 2.76 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery | 1.5 | 5 | 6.79 |
| NBC | Law & Order (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 4.52 |
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Shows are sorted by adults 18-49 rating in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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.
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err, it looks like you put the ABC logo twice…
Southland low! Last episode had more than 4 mil. (R)…just like the original episode..so I thought it will happen again…
Its amazing how NBC can’t win any night.
double ABC logo fixed and replaced w/NBC, if you’re still seeing it, it’s your browser cache…
NBC affiliates – there’s your sign – you’re getting Saturday nights back…
…and give Bill the credit when this comes true (and the commission for the increased ad revenues you’ll get to keep airing whatever else you air instead of Southland)
Not that anyone really cares, except for TVBTN addicts and network execs who are addicts to Amphojel, but are the differences in HUT between 8 and 9 on Saturdays worth bothering about?
Reason I ask – AMW got a higher demo rating, but a lower share, than Cops. It looks like the 2d hour of Mentalist increased the overall audience in the demo to lower the AMW share, despite its higher demo – am I reading that right?
Theoacme, the difference between 8 and 9 on Saturday is probably about the same as every other day of the week.
I find that Saturday almost always grows throughout the night. 48 Hours Mystery and the Law & Order repeat consistently outperform the rest of their networks’ lineups.
Ew. If Mentalist (which has shown to repeat well on other nights) can’t bring’m on Saturdays, it really is a wasteland
NBC has too many people with negatively laden microexpressions.
@Kermonk: LOL!
There might only be 17 of us, but we love us some Harper’s Island!
So much for the repeat of the Mentalist doing better than new Harper’s Island.
Go Harper’s Island!!
I wonder what would happen if Fox aired an episode of ‘Idol’ on a Saturday. Here in the UK Saturday is a tv goldmine, pulling in the highest ratings. ‘Britains got Talent’ pulls around 12 million, ‘X-Factor’ (Simon Cowell talent show) pulls around 10 million , ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ (UK Dancing with the Stars) gets around 10 million, ‘Doctor Who’ around 9 million. I find it fascinating how TV nights differ around the world. Perhaps you guys in the US have lives and go out on the weekend lol.
Perhaps you guys just need a show people would watch on the weekend. I know the soaps here in the UK which pull around 6-10 million throughout the week would probably do a lot worse on a Saturday. We love family entertainment and talent shows on a Saturday. How do they do on Saturdays in the US? There must be millions of families who watch TV in the US on Saturday nights, but don’t want all the heavy drama ‘Mentalist’, ‘Law and Order’, ‘Southland’ or crime shows ‘AMW’, ‘Cops’. I would be interested to see if the audience would follow America’s Got Talent to a Saturday night.
Maybe the mentalist reapeat did not do well because people are finalyl getting sick of them repeating it everyother day. That show has repeated itself more than it has show new episodes.