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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.1/7 | 1.6/5 | 1.4/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.6/2 | 0.5/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.8/7 | 0.9/3 | 1.5/6 | 1.0/4 | 0.4/2 | 0.4/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.438 | 8.729 | 3.667 | 3.950 | 2.341 | 1.250 |
Fox, boosted by So You Think You Can Dance?, easily won Thursday vs. pitiful competition. While NBC’s The Listener may be listening, no one’s watching, as it sank to a series low rating.
Even though it was the most watched show of the night, So You Think You Can Dance? was down 12% in the 18-49 demo from last week. NBC’s I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here was about even with last week’s outing. While, The Listener’s 18-49 demo rating fell 29% vs. last week, to a series low.
You can see TV ratings from other recent Overnight ratings reports here.
Full details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating | 18-49 Share | 18-34 Rating | 18-34 Share | Viewers Live+SD (Millons) |
| 8:00 | NBC | I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! | 1.7 | 7 | 1.3 | 6 | 4.893 |
| FOX | Bones (repeat) | 1.3 | 5 | 0.9 | 4 | 4.577 | |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 1.3 | 5 | 0.8 | 4 | 7.111 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty (repeat) | 0.8 | 3 | 0.6 | 3 | 2.899 | |
| CW | Smallville (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.462 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! | 1.9 | 7 | 1.5 | 6 | 5.072 |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 0.9 | 3 | 8.111 | |
| FOX | Bones (repeat) | 1.4 | 5 | 1.1 | 4 | 5.138 | |
| ABC | Ugly Betty (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 2.403 | |
| CW | Smallville (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.4 | 2 | 1.307 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.8 | 9 | 2.6 | 9 | 7.802 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 1.0 | 4 | 9.360 | |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.4 | 4 | 1.2 | 4 | 3.326 | |
| ABC | Grey’s Anatomy (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.4 | 2 | 2.220 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.158 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 3.0 | 9 | 2.7 | 9 | 8.236 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 1.0 | 3 | 9.829 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.8 | 3 | 2.769 | |
| ABC | Grey’s Anatomy (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 2.325 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.075 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.8 | 5 | 1.0 | 3 | 9.139 |
| NBC | The Listener | 1.0 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 3.822 | |
| ABC | Private Practice (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.3 | 1 | 2.064 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.8 | 6 | 1.0 | 3 | 8.823 |
| NBC | The Listener | 0.9 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 3.818 | |
| ABC | Private Practice (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.3 | 1 | 2.135 |
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Shows are sorted from highest 18-49 rating to lowest in each time slot.
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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 and Numbers 102.
Will the networks ever again have a scripted hit in the summer months? Now granted the networks are not taking any chances on any fresh shows (Mental, The Listener, The Philanthropist are shows that have very little expectations). Can the networks ever again promote and succeed with a scripted show during this time period?
Everyday when I look at the numbers I feel more and more strongly that Nielsen information is incorrect. I know its summer, but I really feel like these numbers are underestimated.
and we all know that feelings are fact…
the only question now is whether CW will break 1.5 this summer..
Wow, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice reruns do horribly.
LOL with ABC.
LMAO @ ABC hitting CW-like levels. Yuck.
The Goode Family is the big summer hit ABC was looking for.
well The Listener’s ratings are on about the same par as the quality
the show is downright horrible, so it’s a mystery that it even gets 1.0 in the demo
Who would guess that ABC is the new CW!!
I hate tv summer..:@
Say what you want about “I’m a Celeb…”, but it’s not a re-run. I’m sick and watching the same episodes that I already saw…It’s starting to get sooo boring. Only that, SYTYCD and The Listener (technically a re-broadcast), was new tonight.
Ugh, no wonder why Summer viewers are so low. Why not test even more new shows?
NBC is the new CW, not ABC. ABC is practically performing NBC-like levels during the regular season. While NBC is performing CW levels during it’s regular season.
NBC is the only network I’m laughing at on the chart.
I always think it is funny that the summer sees such a huge drop in numbers, which I don’t get, almost everyone I know is still wathcin TV. Does cable programming effect network viewership more in the Summer.
It makes me wonder if good shows like Burn Notice, Rescue Me, and Royal Pains would do if placed on network TV?
I will say the the Listener is pretty good for a Canadian produced show. I wonder what kind of numbers it gets up there on CTV?
SGNJ, Because we just get broadcast data on an overnight basis, it’s easy to slip into the trap assuming that’s all that people watch on TV. On average, about 55% of the prime-time audience is watching cable networks. That % watching cable is higher in the summer, but I don’t have the data in a very convenient form to show it.
I watched some of The Listener last night and I thought it was pretty awful, so I agree with MNIS, the ratings match the quality for sure…
When it comes to telepaths on TV, True Blood on HBO Sunday night nearly beat The Listener!
I watched the first twenty minutes of the Listener last night. The sex hook was pleasant enough, but when I realized this guy could read minds and was happy just being a paramedic, and saving women from choking on peanuts and of course righting all wrongs in the justice system, I bailed. The people in the cast were almost embarassingly beautiful, with lots of long lush close-ups, but I think you got to have more to a show than that to get more than a 1.5. I don’t think this new angle – normal people who just happen to have incredible psychic gifts, can please either soap opera fans or fans of the occult. On some level it is disconcerting to think that somebody who can read your mind isn’t clearly and obviously a weirdo.
Couldn’t we just add up the 18-49 shares to see approximately how many people watched broadcast, vs. cable? That’d be 25. Of course, that’s off a bit since there a few broadcast networks that air with tiny ratings.
I wonder if Burn Notice & Royal Pains got the top 18-49 ratings of the night after So You Think.
The last show i enjoyed during the summer was, The OC.
It aired on August. so partially in the summer.
I don’t know if it was a hit, right away.
But i remember all the buzz around it.
I do not care if it is summer or if the super bowl is against me, if I am a network executive, I am ashamed of these numbers.
The Live Feed has numbers for Burn Notice (5.8 million and a 1.9) and Royal Pains (6.5 million and a 2.1).
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/06/royal-pains-hits-ratings-high.html
The Listener from what I’ve heard is a rip-off of the Mentalist.
Why can’t some networks make new series simply replacing the repeats.
Wow. I’m really surprised by how well Royal Pains is doing. It’s not a bad show but it doesn’t seem like something that would appeal to a wide audience. Though I guess people like to watch shows featuring the lifestyles of the rich, if Real Housewives success is anything to go by.
Because new series in summer is a waste of money. Repeats get new fans of the shows ready for the new season.
Wow repeats of Ugly Betty isn’t bad compare to the repeats of Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice.
Cbs should bring Flashpoint back for Summer
NBC is stupid for airing repeats infront of The Listener. Its like they want the show to die. Of course The Office doesnt do well in repeats and 30 Rock doesnt seem to keep its audience. The Listener should move to 9/8c so that at least the show gets in some sort of lead in.
Seems while The Listner is a ratings grabber(from what I’ve read) in other countries no one in the US is paying it much attention.
Christopher, They don’t have any new episodes of Flashpoint available right now. The season is done and filming won’t start for a while yet.
wow. It’s sad how NBC is trying so hard to come back. I wish them well. It must be hard to compete with CBS that gets 10m viewers for a repeat
How important are these ratings for the Listener and it’s chances for renewal given that it’s a Canadian show, and the whole first season aired over there already?
@BeerVendor, The fact that it is a shared-cost Canadian production means it can get lower ratings than a full-cost production, but the ratings still matter. A 0.9 is really bad even for something cheap, and I’m sure NBC was hoping for more. Even so, it’s impossible to guess what NBC is thinking. If it’s cheap enough they might keep it around for summer filler even with a 1.0.
BeerVendor, The Listener premiered in Canada a day before it aired in the US, so we’re seeing it for the first time up here too.
NBC doesn’t promote the show(they just bought it as summer filler)and puts throw away repeats of the Office and 30 Rock in front of it, so I’m not surprised at the ratings. There’ll be a second season though because CTV and Fox make a mint off of it internationally. Plus it’s getting expensive for Canadian private broadcasters to keep buy American shows, so while the Listener is not perfect, shows like it and Flashpoint are probably going to be the Canadian industry’s future.
Anyways I’m stickin’ with it because it’s summer, I actually like it and if I can put up with Heroes and Dollhouse, than I can put up with this.
Yes, while the show does horribly in the U.S. It has been doing well in Canada (although it’s ratings are slipping), but it did amazingly well internationally, particularly in Italy, and I believe Fox fronted enough money to produce a new season. I’ve read some of the international comments on the show, and consensus is that it starts to pick up in quality ala Dollhouse, that is, it stops sucking around episode six. It will be interesting to see if this effects the ratings to any significant extent or whether the show has already doomed itself with it’s rough start. Right now NBC seems content to let it sit there.
Actually, I just reviewed some of the Listener’s data again. Not only is it funded by CTV, but it’s also funded by it’s sister network Space, and now has an executive producer for Fox International on-board, which means production costs are spread among three different networks (although 2 are owned by the same network.) Additionally, The Listener gets a Canadian federal tax credit, and I believe it gets one from the Ontario government as well. If you’ve seen the show, you’ll notice its production values aren’t exactly through the roof either. It seems like for all the interested parties this show is extremely cheap to produce.
What this means is that NBC likely has to pay relatively little for a license to run the show since the other networks have to pay so little to produce it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets some sort of a nod for next summer as well.
I’m not surprised at it’s current numbers however. Engaged fan bases are vital for a show’s survival, especially for the buzz they can create. These fan bases are also internet savvy however, and likely already watched the show in it’s entirety before the season started airing Stateside. As the U.S. imports shows with increasing numbers whether or not this theory holds true will be seen.
JeffC, “These fan bases are also internet savvy however, and likely already watched the show in it’s entirety before the season started airing Stateside. As the U.S. imports shows with increasing numbers whether or not this theory holds true will be seen.”
Is your theory that The Listener’s audience has been reduced because prior to its airing in the US its episodes were downloaded and viewed by a large number of potential US viewers thereby reducing its viewing audience? Oh, Boy.
The number of people in the US who likely downloaded an unknown international show like The Listener before it aired in the US could fit in your living room.
There could be a lot of reasons The Listener is getting terrible ratings, but that’s not one of them.
Unless you have a *very* big, perhaps stadium-sized living room, the number of people in the US who downloaded/watched The Listener before it aired in the USA probably wouldn’t fit. But the number of people who live in Nielsen households who did that would fit with room to spare. That room might be completely empty.
At the end of the day it doesn’t really make a difference whether the Listener gets renewed by NBC or not. It doesn’t even matter whether Americans watch it in droves or not. For them it’s just summer filler. It has an audience already waiting for it in Canada and other world markets. Plus since Fox(who have already got their money’s worth from the show) distributes it internationally who knows, they could bring it back next year for their summer line up. Either way the Listener has a better chance of having a longer run than Dollhouse.
NBC 2009 will be like NBC 1979 sans the high viewership (due to cable, etc.)
Forgettable TV.
How many people have nielsen boxes anyway? What about all the other people? How do they calculate fairly when they really don’t know what everyone else is watching? This system is so flawed. Thier has to be a way to tap into the satelites and figure out what all the people are watching.
Everyone is watching digital TV now right?
I’m one of those people who watched The Listener long before I ever knew it was even going to be on NBC and developed a liking towards it. It’s not a broadcast network kind of show and I mentioned that a while ago on here as it’s more designed to be on cable then anything else.