The NBA playoffs grabbed the top two spots and six out of the top seven spots on this week’s chart, led by the Cleveland Cavaliers / Orlando Magic game on Tuesday that averaged over ten million. A rare week where the info on eight of the top ten shows had already published on our site, starting with last Monday’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 that averaged over 9.8 million viewers. With all the basketball and Jon & Kate progeny, WWE RAW was pushed down to the ninth and tenth spots.
In the 8th spot, The 2009 MTV Movie Awards had its best showing in five years.
Bill and I have both been fans of In Plain Sight, and Bill is a big Law & Order: Criminal Intent fan (at least of the Goren/Eames team), but a repeat of NCIS on Sunday night did almost as well as new episodes of In Plain Sight and Law & Order: CI.
I’ve been catching up on all the old NCIS episodes thanks to USA and since some weeks they run almost 30 episodes (like this past week) armed with DVR, you can catch up quickly! As a special, likely never to be repeated event, I published the numbers for every airing of NCIS on USA Network last week below.
I will be ignoring any numbers requests in the comments, but if you send a message to @TVbytheNumbers on Twitter, I’ll probably reply sooner or later (via Twitter) with the data.
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Top twenty cable network television shows for the week ending May 31 , 2009:
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | CAVALIERS/MAGIC | TNT | Tue | 08:36P-11:52P | 10,075 |
| 2 | MAGIC/CAVALIERS | TNT | Thu | 08:34P-11:38P | 9,995 |
| 3 | JON & KATE PLUS 8 | TLC | Mon | 09:00P-10:13P | 9,802 |
| 4 | LAKERS/NUGGETS | ESPN | Mon | 08:56P-12:06A | 9,731 |
| 5 | LAKERS/NUGGETS | ESPN | Wed | 08:56P-11:50P | 9,238 |
| 6 | LAKERS/NUGGETS | ESPN | Fri | 08:56P-11:40P | 8,462 |
| 7 | CAVALIERS/MAGIC | TNT | Sat | 08:35P-11:13P | 8,362 |
| 8 | 2009 MTV MOVIE AWARDS | MTV | Sun | 09:00P-11:00P | 5,282 |
| 9 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:08P | 4,894 |
| 10 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,486 |
| 11 | PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 4,351 |
| 12 | INSIDE THE NBA PLAYOFFS | TNT | Thu | 11:38P-12:21A | 4,293 |
| 13 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,189 |
| 14 | INSIDE THE NBA PLAYOFFS | TNT | Tue | 11:52P-12:36A | 4,159 |
| 15 | IN PLAIN SIGHT | USA | Sun | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,039 |
| 16 | SPONGEBOB | NICK | Sat | 09:30A-10:00A | 3,991 |
| 17 | LAW & ORDER: CI (ORIG) | USA | Sun | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,970 |
| 18 | NCIS | USA | Sun | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,930 |
| 19 | SPORTSCENTER LATE L | ESPN | Wed | 11:50P-01:00A | 3,870 |
| 20 | INSIDE THE NBA PLAYOFFS | TNT | Sat | 11:13P-12:10A | 3,837 |
| Other shows ( not ranked or sorted) | |||||
| THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Thu | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,526 | |
| JON & KATE PLUS 8 | TLC | Mon | 08:30P-09:00P | 3,451 | |
| BACK AT THE BARNYARD | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 3,394 | |
| MEET THE BROWNS | TBSC | Wed | 10:00P-10:30P | 3,359 | |
| FAMILY GUY | ADSM | Sun | 11:00P-11:30P | 3,267 | |
| DEADLIEST CATCH | DISC | Tue | 09:00P-10:01P | 3,204 | |
| CAKE BOSS | TLC | Mon | 10:13P-10:45P | 3,181 | |
| ICE ROAD TRUCKERS | HIST | Sun | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,018 | |
| MANEATER (PART2) | LIFE | Sun | 09:00P-11:00P | 2,919 | |
| HOUSE | USA | Fri | 10:00P-11:00P | 2,856 | |
| NED DECLASSIFIED | NICK | Tue | 08:00P-08:30P | 2,847 | |
| BONES | TNT | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 2,802 | |
| HILLS, THE | MTV | Sun | 08:00P-09:00P | 2,721 | |
| NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM | FX | Sun | 06:30P-09:00P | 2,625 | |
| Special homage to NCIS! (i probably watched every one of these!) | |||||
| NCIS | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,189 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,930 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,826 | |
| NCIS | USA | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,778 | |
| NCIS | USA | Thu | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,587 | |
| NCIS | USA | Wed | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,519 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 05:00P-06:00P | 3,517 | |
| NCIS | USA | Tue | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,353 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 06:00P-07:00P | 3,297 | |
| NCIS | USA | Fri | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,213 | |
| NCIS | USA | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,137 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 04:00P-05:00P | 3,044 | |
| NCIS | USA | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,005 | |
| NCIS | USA | Mon | 06:00P-07:00P | 3,001 | |
| NCIS | USA | Tue | 06:00P-07:00P | 2,942 | |
| NCIS | USA | Wed | 06:00P-07:00P | 2,851 | |
| NCIS | USA | Wed | 07:00P-08:00P | 2,808 | |
| NCIS | USA | Fri | 06:00P-07:00P | 2,627 | |
| NCIS | USA | Thu | 06:00P-07:00P | 2,610 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 03:00P-04:00P | 2,571 | |
| NCIS | USA | Mon | 05:00P-06:00P | 2,407 | |
| NCIS | USA | Wed | 05:00P-06:00P | 2,334 | |
| NCIS | USA | Tue | 05:00P-06:00P | 2,291 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 02:00P-03:00P | 2,184 | |
| NCIS | USA | Thu | 05:00P-06:00P | 2,116 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 01:00P-02:00P | 2,099 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 12:00P-01:00P | 2,036 | |
| NCIS | USA | Fri | 05:00P-06:00P | 1,888 | |
| NCIS | USA | Sun | 11:00A-12:00P | 1,438 | |
| And because I lost a bet: | |||||
| GREEK | FAM | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 711 | |
| GREEK | FAM | Mon | 12:00A-01:00A | 151 | |
| note that because of the wacky Nielsen day runs 6am-6am | |||||
| the midnight rebroadcast of Greek was really on Tuesday morning | |||||
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Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved
Nothing on Charm School 3 or New York goes to Work this week?
Oh sorry. I didn’t see the Twitter part at first.
Hi Robert,
Thanks as always for the numbers. How are you enjoying NCIS? It’s a great show! I’ve been watching for years now!
The hills season 5 finale did better than season 4 finale!!!great ratings but at least i expected it could be one of the best of all the series!!the show was amazing on lauren’s last episode!!!It will never be the same.,,we miss you LC!!
In Plain Sight and Criminal Intent rebounded slightly considering it was up against the MTV Movie Awards, I wouldn’t be surprised if it they already renewed for a Third and Ninth Season.
FX is getting a lot of mileage out of Night at the Museum, do films on FX usually rate as well or is it just the network premieres?
Most shows like Spongebob repeat well but not as well as NCIS, USA should nab NCIS:LA and The Mentalist once it reaches over 50 or so episodes,
What about Wizards?
Hallmark Saturday Night Original Movie got 2 million viewers if someone care (and I doubt)
keep an eye out for ghost adventures this friday
I don’t usually ask for these types of things, but A&E’s Intervention and their new show Obsessed premiered last week and I was curious how it did.
how does twitter work and stuff I want 2 ask you about Rescue Me but don’t know how 2 ask there :S
in the “what are you doing?” box type the following:
@TVbytheNumbers: how about Rescue Me?
since I see you registered, I actually already answered so you don’t need to ask again. You should just see it in your twitter stream if you’re following me. Or you can just click the link on the right side of your Twitter page that says:
@sigurdursveinn
and you will see the reply.
HaHa! LOVE the NCIS listing
I’ll be honest. I’m kind of glad that you lost the bet. I LOVE Greek. And it’s so hard to find any kind of ratings for ABC Family shows or other cable shows. Here is a quick question, it looks like the ratings went up quite a bit for Greek for last week’s episode. I don’t know much about ratings for cable tv. Do you know if the ratings are good for Greek in terms of ABC Family show ratings and standards? I know that GREEK gets high demos when it comes to female viewers especially. According to the above info, it looks like Greek got 711,000 on cable right? VS the prior episode that got 680,000? So there is an increase.
Do you think the show can get another season? I know that season three has already been order for Greek with the order of 20 episodes. But what are the chances of getting a season four?
And can you tell me what they look for in terms of cable tv show ratings for ABC Family shows? What are the key demos? How the shows are judged and all that? I heard the female demo ratings were especially important. Hence, why GREEK got renewed for season three for next year.
Basically, ANY ratings info you can give me on Greek, I would so appreciate! Because I never know if the show will get canceled or not!
what were the kardashian season finale ratings?
Julia, there’s probably not much difference between 680,000 and 711,000 when it comes to how ABC Family feels about the show. As ABC Family prime time Monday shows go, I would not say these are good numbers (look for the return of The Secret Life of an American Teenager later this month) and it’s worse than Kyle XY which ABC Family recently canceled. But, unfortunately when it comes to cable formulating a method for predicting show renewals and cancellations isn’t as easy as it is with broadcast prime-time shows, and in the case of Greek, like you, I don’t have any idea of whether it will be canceled or not. Sorry!
Robert, is Law & Order : CI renewed?
Robert, thanks so much for answering my question. I appreciate it very much. I’ve also compared the ratings between KYLE XY and GREEK. Kyle XY did get higher ratings and still got canceled at the same time that Greek got renewed for a season three order of 20 episodes. So the ratings for the show were smaller, yet they got a renewal.
I found some articles about Greek getting high female key demo ratings. One of the best in the history of ABC Family.
Maybe that’s why the show was renewed again?
Here is the article about the female key demos ratings for GREEK:
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20081029abcfamily01
It’s for the recent mid season finale a few months ago.
You think the show might get a chance for a season four? I mean ABC chose to cancel Kyle XY instead even though it got higher ratings…And kept Greek for another season?
Julia, its numbers are down quite a bit since October overall and I’m guessing in the demos as well. One of the reasons (there are several though) why it’s harder to make predictions for cable shows is we don’t have any regular access to the age and gender demographic information. I really don’t have any guesses as to what ABC Family will do.
As a Louisvillian I am interested in the ratings for the second and third episodes of Southern Belles:Louisville on Soapnet. I wonder if the ratings have held high from week one or if there has been a significant drop
Any numbers for make me a supermodel???
Please post the Duel II numbers for todays post. It will be very appreciated.
Robert I’m trying to request through Twitter, but I joined just to do that, and I have no idea how to do it. Could you explain how?