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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.5/5 | 1.2/4 | 1.1/4 | 1.0/4 | 0.4/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.49 | 4.67 | 3.78 | 3.09 | 1.19 |
CBS ran the 2005 movie Walk the Line instead of its normal lineup of procedurals and still ran away to another Friday night victory. Two hours of Dateline paced NBC to second place, followed by ABC, and FOX (and of course the CW).
You can compare with previous Friday overnight reports.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Share | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Movie: Walk the Line 8p-11p | 1.5/5 | 6.49 |
| FOX | Don’t Forget the Lyrics | 1.2/4 | 3.44 | |
| ABC | Wife Swap (R) | 1.0/4 | 3.78 | |
| NBC | Howie Do It (R) 8p-9p | 0.7/3 | 2.52 | |
| CW | Movie: Hair Show 8p-10p | 0.4/2 | 1.19 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | Dateline 9p-11p | 1.5/5 | 5.75 |
| ABC | Un-broke: What You Need to know.. | 1.0/3 | 3.33 | |
| FOX | Mental (R) | 0.8/3 | 2.74 | |
| 10:00 | ABC | 20/20 | 1.3/4 | 4.62 |
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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source Marc Berman/Mediaweek.
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I think you meant 1.5 demo for CBS and 1.2 for NBC.
oops. Thanks for the catch Kathy. There weren’t actually any mistakes in that table, other than that table was for LAST Friday not last night! Fixed…
Tonight will be interesting to see. Harper’s Island, Pushing Daisies, and Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
I’ve already seen the 7th ep of Harper’s Island and the show is improving. Unfortunately I’m afraid it won’t even get a 1.0.
klauss, i too have seen the 7th episode and it is doing anything but improving, episodes 1-5 where good, then a 2 week break killed any momentum it had for me.
I will watch episode 8 but the show is dragging.
That Unbroke show was a disgrace.
FOX must be excited, it’s Fridays are doing just as well in the summer as in the regular season….
Holly, the original headline and about a paragraph of prose were dedicated to that sort of comparison. But though my skin is thick, a day off from crazy, bitter, mean-spirited comments never hurts! Plus it is a long summer and there will be many Fridays where such comparisons can be made. I’m saving up!
OMG! a rerun of meantal beat a rerun of howie-dontdo-it.
that, my friends, is the sing of a surefire hit!
o_O
Why dont FOX air repeats of Dollhouse on friday nights? since it will be back in the Fall it makes sense.
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What a boring Friday!
At least ABC spiced it up with a special
Is me or ABC sucks at promoting specials! Diamonds was just DOA; guessing no interest from viewers. I personally liked it. The Un-broke: What You Need to know.. special wasnt promoted enough in my opinion. And 20/20, looks like ABC doesn’t give a d**n about it.
On the other hand, Dateline somehow got viewers and tied with CBS movie in the demo! Nice for NBC. Let’s hope that it gets the same ratings when it moves to Saturdays at 8 next fall.
i whached a movie on blue ray counting down the days to the fall, at leat i have Law and order Ci and In Plain Sight to watch than June when tnt and Usa come back with there stuff
i realized that since 10 April when TSCC finished its episodes, there is no friday that Fox avg. exceeds 1.1. Not with the weeks showing dollhouse, prison break, dont forget lyrics or House repeats. before 10 may fox average was never smaller than 1.4 stg.
except the previous week
What about May 16, when FOX averaged a 1.2 with the Prison Break finale?
Hey, I didn’t know where to ask this. But do you ever report on English TV…?
Liban, sorry, we only track US television numbers.
You can get the British numbers, but no analysis, at http://www.barb.co.uk/ .
Save Hollyoaks!
Here are the Klingon television ratings from last night – HUT was about 26 percent (summer there too, as well as a police action against the Ferengi), and there is no cable yet (Comcast tried it once, but they only lasted 6 months before the entire staff Comcast sent to Klingon was executed):
KBC – “And Now For Something Completely Different” (movie – 3 hours) – 29.5 / 649.5 million
ABC – Extreme Wipeout – Klingon Edition (3 hour special) – 20.1 / 538.3 million
CBS – CSI: Starfleet (3 hour special) – 17.8 / 835.3 million
PBS – Red Green Pledge Drive Special – 15.5 / 441.2 million
NBC – Howie Kill Romulans (3 hour special) – 6.2 / 114.5 million
UNI – Sabado Gigante (3 hour normal program) – 5.5 / 115.3 million
ion – NCIS (3 hour special) (R) – 1.6 / 141.2 million
FOX – Dollhouse Forgets The Lyrics (3 hour special) – 0.1 / 3.3 million
CW – Privileged (3 hour special) – 0.0 / 0.05 million
Conclusions:
1) Ty Pennington is wasted on “Home Edition”, and is much better at demolition when he can use real weapons.
To channel Doctor McCoy, “It’s worse than that, it’s dead, Jim, it’s dead, Jim!”
2) Even with real weapons. Howie can’t draw decent ratings – too bad.
3) CBS gets good overall audience numbers, but worse demos than these would indicate, throughout the entire universe.
4) Duct tape and plaid flannel shirts are very popular on Klingon – who’d have guessed?
5) Klingons do love cleavage described excitedly in a foreign language
6) NCIS is a CBS show, and Klingons love David McCallum – when ion reruns “Man from UNCLE”, it gets about 3.2 / 242.5 million on average.
7) Even if FOX combined Dollhouse with Hugh Laurie, it would still be bilgewater
9) The first half hour of “Different” on KBC got a 78.5 / 1,250.8 million.