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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 3.9/11 | 3.4/9 | 3.0/8 | 1.6/4 | 1.5/4 | 1.2/3 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 2.7/8 | 2.8/8 | 2.4/7 | 1.6/5 | 1.1/3 | 1.6/5 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 12.16 | 12.18 | 9.24 | 4.16 | 5.39 | 2.43 |
Some delays with seeing all the overnight data for Monday night. But,with Castle and Chuck already renewed for next season, I predict interest in the Monday overnight ratings posts will drop precipitously until the fall anyway.
But here is some 18-49 prose and I’ll hopefully get the full show data table up later (now posted, scroll down)…
ABC’s Dancing With The Stars final performance show (4.2/12) matched its lowest rated performance show this spring, though still handily bested FOX’s 24 the two hour season finale averaged a 3.0/8 among adults 18-49. At 9p, the two-hour premiere of The Bachelorette (3.0/8) improved a tenth over its summer 2008 debut on the same night last year (2.9/7 on 5/19/08).
On CBS, a special Rules of Engagement (2.6/8) was followed by the season finales of How I Met Your Mother (3.7/10) Two and a Half Men (5.2/14) and the regular Rules of Engagement (4.4/11). The CSI: Miami finale drew a 3.8/10
Back-to-back Deal Or No Deal airings drew a 1.2/3 at 8pm and at a 1.5/4 at 9pm. Medium at 10p (1.9/5) delivered its lowest original rating ever…
Previous Monday overnight reports are available for comparison.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | 18-34 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | ABC | Dancing with the Stars | 4.2/12 | 2.9/9 | 18.66 |
| FOX | 24 (Finale) | 2.9/9 | 2.4/8 | 8.79 | |
| CBS | Rules of Engagement | 2.6/8 | 1.6/6 | 7.49 | |
| NBC | Deal or No Deal | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 | 4.31 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (Finale) | 1.1/3 | 1.6/5 | 2.24 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | How I Met Your Mother (Finale) | 3.7/10 | 2.9/9 | 8.69 |
| 9:00 | CBS | Two and a Half Men | 5.2/14 | 3.3/10 | 15.95 |
| ABC | The Bachelorette (Premiere) | 3.1/8 | 2.8/8 | 9.86 | |
| FOX | 24 (Finale) | 3.1/8 | 2.4/7 | 10.06 | |
| NBC | Deal or No Deal | 1.5/4 | 1.1/3 | 5.37 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill | 1.3/3 | 1.7/5 | 2.63 | |
| 9:30 | CBS | Rules of Engagement (Finale) | 4.4/11 | 2.6/7 | 12.81 |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: Miami (Finale) | 3.8/10 | 2.7/8 | 14.02 |
| ABC | The Bachelorette (Premiere) | 2.9/8 | 2.8/8 | 8.02 | |
| NBC | Medium | 1.9/5 | 1.2/4 | 6.50 |
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Shows are sorted by 18-49 rating in each time slot.
Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company.
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.
poor medium
Ouch at the 24 finale – that seems very low.
i don’t understand why cbs don’t like rules of engagement. someone could tell me why?
I think its really because ROE is a very bad show.
CSI Miami did so great. Basketball really did a number on that show that one week where it dropped below 10 million viewers.
Poor for Medium! but with that lead in!!
If CBS put it after Ghost Whispere it would do much better!
ROE is a very bad show is this good retention? ROE is the only with a good retention from TAAHM. in all this years they where playing this show could improved a lot with more stability after half men.
Jesus, with all the promo they get, one would think ‘Gossip Girl’ will have better numbers than ‘One tree hill’…
Guess not. And only 2.24 M viewers for Dawn’s pet… that gotta hurt. :evilsmile:
ouch 24 was low but it was amazing hopes it gets back on its game next season
I meant that CBS would care more about ROE if it were creatively better.
LOL
On a night with high-profile shows CBS had the best adults 18-34 demo with Twoandahalfmen delivering 3.3
I’ll say it again…Two and Half Men is unstoppable! Not to say the show is good (know there are many haters) but i happen to enjoy it after tuning in for the first time just this season.
Too bad to see the 24 number drop like that, but i expect it picks up some steam with the addition of DVR viewing. Twas a great season, especially after the season 6 debacle.
Also, great to see How I build big in the 18-49 demo out of ROE.
I’m wondering if they aired a new episode of Rules of Engagement at 8 and then repeated the same episode at 9:30 which would get better ratings?
with all that episodes available CBS could did better with ROE.
24 has its best season ever and ratings for its final are so-so! I DON”T get it!
chuck
OMG…I just dont get you Americans…Gossip Girl is a show that has almost everything…the characters are likeable…good-looking…the plot is not boring…its actually really moving at times…and you rather watch your telebrities dance for the x-th time…its just sad…and I bet that if it gets under the risk of being cancelled…there will be posts and emails begging for survival…if you dont want to lose a show then watch on TV…its just THAT SIMPLE (the same situation with Chuck)
Numbers are not that suprising for 24. Its been steadily declining the past few weeks. The writers picked a bad time for the 3 worst episodes of the season to be this late in the season and it hurt in the ratings. It did not do well in its first hour during the 2 hour midseason event as well so that was expected for the 1st hour for the finale. But either way, who cares. Its already renewed for another and more than likely last season. I expect it to add about 2 million in DVR viewing. That number has been pretty consistent all season long.
the wednesday episode and last night 8pm episode was very strange to me… not good to the show!
I think it was better air the last two episodes at 9, after a double two and half men repeat at 8 pm, after HIMYM and Two and a Half Men end this season run…
But they didn’t so i’m waiting for next season to see what cbs plans to this sitcom.
Can I just point out that 24 did Heroes like numbers for its finale last night.
Across the two-hours the 18-49 was even with Heroes finale and lower in the 18-34. And just looking at 9PM it was only a tenth higher in the 18-49 and four tenths lower in the 18-34, what the hell happened there? Competition? Lack of House lead-in?
I bet NBC is ready to renew Deal or No Deal after seeing it’s 9:00 numbers. And they’ll put it in Chuck’s timeslot! Bwahahaha
@ Peter Stulrajter
I don’t think Gossip Girl will be a target for cancellation as long as DAWN is in office. Seriously you don’t have to compare Chuck’s situation to Gossip Girl, Chuck never went down to 2.0 demo, as to Gossip it never reached a 2.0 demo. Gossip Girl targets most women, as to Chuck it caters to every individual. If you’d look at the rating, you can’t say that Chuck and Gossip Girl are at par with each other, because honestly if a show, or any kind of show for that matter having a demo such as Gossip Girl it would be canceled in a heart beat. it’s really a plus that it’s on a network who targets female audiences and has a lower cut off for renewal.Ok, another plus that Gossip Girl has is their very attractive cast, but not to under estimate Chuck I’d take Yvonne Strahovski any day over Blake Lively or Leighton Meester. And I totally hated CW after they canceled Veronica Mars so sorry if I had you as a target.
Gossip Crap is down!!!!! i hope next season will be last for this horrible teen drama. can’t wait to see next drop in the numbers tonight for 90210.
24 is not down! Day 6 finished with a similar 9.4 million.
LOL@ anthony
24 is abysmally low, no house=no dice
at least DOND beat CW…
Wow, low numbers. Bachelorette/24 just hitting the 3 mark. Interesting that though Bachelorette is at 3 and Dancing’s at 4, they’re even with young people. And only one show hit a 3 with young people.
Leighton Meester is a wonderful actress. Veronica Mars, while still very good overall, had a decided downturn in the second season, then again in the third season. Even many diehard fans admit this. I’m afraid that if there had been a 4th season, it might not have been great. And the thing about Veronica is that I only ever loved two characters on that show: V of course, and Lilly, who was technically only a guest star and only showed up once after season one. I love more than two characters on Gossip Girl, which is not horrible. The second half of the season is not as good as the first half at all, but it is still quite good, and better than basically anything else on TV. Gossip Girl is also voiced by Kristen Bell…
Do THAT many people forget to tune in for 2 hour finale of 24…??? I mean it happened every time 24 was 2 hours long —the second hour had nearly 2 million people tuning in late…Every one I know in my area watched it…
I do think FOX needs to crank up the promos when it’s 2 hours…to remind people to tune in early…anyways 24 WILL BE BACK for another day…or season…
…and to help every one remember the next 2 hour episode of “24″ is:
January 17th 2010…write it down!!!
24 was pretty good this year. The numbers were similar for the previous season finale, so good. Jack rules!!!
@ T
I totally agree with your post. As a ‘veronica Mars’ fan I always hated how the CW treated VM… considering the treatment GG gets from the network.
Sorry for the troll guys, but if anyone can help me find the numbers for the 3rd season of VM… just to compare. Thanks.
“24″ was a mixed bag of short arcs meshed together. The ending was no suprise, everyone knew Jacks daughter would save the day for him and that the Presidents daughter would get a smackdown from Mommie Dearest. Though Jacks bedside handwringing about all the bad things he has done to save millions of lives was a bit over the top.
I guess Day 8 will be in NYC. Better come up with something fresh – other than the evil US government conspiracies; its getting a tiring. How about some econuts/anarchists wanting to blow up the power grid/oil infrastructure to save Mother Earth?
Though I still like the idea of sending Jack back to stop the Lincoln assinating then returning to a very changed world – one with Hitlers son running America – which Jack would then have to “handle”. Ok, that would be ridiculous, maybe its time to wrap up “24″ with Day 8 and call it a week.
What the hell happened to Medium’s ratings? Did Rumar Willis scare people away? Angelica Huston didn’t help the ratings???
MEDIUM is toast, apparently. So ratings dont matter anymore. I guess the spinoff LARGE has been shelved.
DWTS is off in the ratings because Lil’ Kim was voted off a few weeks ago! But still good numbers!
I thought 24 was great all year, but it really did slump the last two episodes. The ending was one of, if not the weakest among the previous seasons. Love the show, but hope the writers can put it all together for 24 episodes next year!
Ehi where i can find the GREEK numbers?
it doesn’t mention that medium was a repeat
@AD, you can’t find last night’s Greek #s until next Tuesday probably. Though I posted last week’s in the the weekly cable post (see Cable top 20 in the navigation above).
@Larman, Medium wasn’t a repeat last night.
Argh
Nice showing for HIMYM considering the pretty poor lead-in. And its demo numbers are very impressive.
24 ended up much better in the finals. Numbers from the Berman gang at pifeedback
24 (120 minutes)
- 9.645 million viewers
- 5.7/9 HH
- 3.1/9 A18-49
what happened to the greek numbers! you promised you’d post them if dollhouse got renewed…just sayin’….and himym great numbers great show
Going up a tenth is doing much better? Not sure I agree with that.
A 3.1 is still well below the season average, which isn’t good for the finale and still puts it in the same area as Heroes in the 18-49 and below it in the 18-34. That’s not good.
NBC made a perfect excuse to cancel meduim. Deal or No Deal is doing poorly and NBC purposely because they wanted medium dead.
alex heroes ratings have been already tanking in its 3rd season while 24 is in its 7th.how will heroes look in 4 yrs…canceled
Its really interesting that the ratings for 8pm are a million and a half lower than 9pm. Its not a miss an hour and watch type of show. I’m guessing that DVR numbers will be good. You can’t miss an hour like that, and 9pm is the regular viewing time for the show, so people may have missed the time change.
Its a shame that the 24 finale didnt do better in the ratings because I thought the 2 hour Finale ROCKED! This season was wasy better than the previous season. The problem with a show like 24 is that it needs to get fans hooked from the first episode of the season because this isnt the type of show that someone can just jump into. So whatever the ratings are for the
first episode of the season is pretty much what they will get throughout the season give or take.
Despite gaining 1.5mil viewers and 0.2 18-49 ratings points at 9pm, 24 still had a higher 18-49 share (9 vs
at 8pm. That says it all right there, people weren’t watching tv at 8pm.
Jon K, last night 34% of US adults 18-49 were watching TV 8-9pm, and 38.4% were watching 9-10pm. An increase of about 13% from hour to hour.
Thanks, Bill. Do you know how that compares to normal? It seems kind of low, I mean what is everyone doing on a Monday night?
Jon K, “Normal” I couldn’t say, I don’t track that number over time. I randomly picked another Tuesday in mid-season (Feb 23) and the numbers weren’t that different, 18-49 8-9pm 36.1%,, 9-10pm 39.2%
One tree hill is still going strong!!!!!!
Did anyone here just watch Glee tonight? It was amazing and i couldn’t stop watching. I watched it twice (thanks to my dvr)!
I honestly think it will at LEAST pull in 18 million viewers and a 7 ish rating tomorrow. It was that good and its right after AI and it’s basically AI’s audience
Bad Robot: Send Jack Bauer to join John Connor in the future. Let Catherine Weaver put a spike through his head! LOL!
Is there any there even the remotest of chances that The CW will sober up and pay Chad Michael Murray and Hillary Burton to stick around for season 7. I know its being reported as a done deal but the season finale did nothing to close the doors on their characters when they had plenty of time to write in an exit scenario. Either their wrters have a wose edit strategy than the Bush administration or they are holding on to a faint hope that the pair are reup-able. The cast signed 6 year deals when they were unknowns, recession or no recession you’d hope to think a raise would be offered after 6 years on a low rated but profitable show. Cost cutting measures usually don’t begin with your two main characters. where is the logic? We are talking about a network that treats OTH like Gossip Girl’s ugly redheaded step brother as it seems it is given 3 times the push that OTH recieves when OTH consistently outdraws it week after week.(eg.2.61 to 2.23 mil. this week) I just don’t know where the shoe goes without the two(i know Chad aint no D.D. lewis) but we’ve always een this world through his eyes.
Good news for the other 12 OTH fans out there. While in disgussions with Paul Johansson to act in a fim i’ve written and directed(yeah i’m a Tarintino influenced writer whose constantly ridiculed for my love for OTH and FNL, though FNL is of too high quality to be considered a guilty pleasue) he told me he’d be returning for a 7th season although his hand in directing the show may continue to limit his screen time but no more than it has since season5.
24 finale averaged what the Heroes finale did. Without Heroes as its lead-in, Medium fell apart.
Veronica Mars got treated badly?!? I totally disagree. It had microscopic ratings yet stuck around for three seasons and for a while looked like it had a live shot at yet another season, despite chronic lack of viewers.
As for unfavorably comparing Gossip Girl’s ratings to Chuck’s, I bet if Chuck aired on the CW, its demos would be about half what they currently are.
We did not watch 24 because, for some reason, the screen said something to this effect for the entire 2 hours, “We know that FOX is off-air, please do not call us.” We thought that it was everywhere, but reading these comments, no one else has posted that they had the same problem. We have been faithful 24 viewers since season 2, so needless to say, we are very diasppointed that we did not get to see the finale.
twinsmom, I’m sure you can watch it on fox.com or Hulu.
Oh please, what are these insane comments; Veronica Mars had better ratings than Gossip Girl has now. It was canceled because it was too smart, the network wanted shows more focused in teen girls target audience’s interests (soap opera,fashion,money,teen white people) that’s all.
And only two characters interesting in VM….euh for example Logan was a far superior Chuck Bass, had you really seen the show ? Iam not sure with these comments…