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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.6/8 | 2.0/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.1/3 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.9/7 | 1.2/4 | 1.5/5 | 0.7/2 | 1.0/3 | 0.3/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 9.479 | 9.722 | 3.713 | 3.476 | 2.887 | 0.907 |
NBC’s America’s Got Talent is on a roll, at 9pm it surged to a 3.7 rating in the 18-49 demo, and it pushed NBC to a convincing win on Tuesday night. ABC’s line up of all new shows put in an even more pitiful showing than last week, falling to just a 1.1 demo rating for the night.
ABC’s Superstars started slowly last week, and took things down a notch again last night, falling 17% in the 18-49 demo. Fans of the show can take heart in the fact that I’m sure it’s crazy cheap. I’m not sure what fans of Better Off Ted can take heart in. It fell 25% in the 18-49 demo from last week vs. even less new show competition. Completing the slide for ABC, Primetime: Family Secrets was also down 25% in the demo from last week.
The finale of Hitched or Ditched was largely ditched by viewers, falling to just a 0.4 rating in both major age demos.
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 (million) |
| 8:00 | NBC | America’s Got Talent (repeat) | 2.3 | 8 | 1.7 | 7 | 8.200 |
| CBS | NCIS (repeat) | 2.0 | 7 | 1.2 | 5 | 10.658 | |
| ABC | The Superstars | 1.3 | 4 | 0.9 | 3 | 4.217 | |
| FOX | Legally Blonde (movie) | 0.8 | 3 | 0.8 | 3 | 2.567 | |
| CW | 90210 (repeat) | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.780 | |
| 9:00 | NBC | America’s Got Talent | 3.7 | 11 | 2.8 | 9 | 12.912 |
| CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.9 | 6 | 1.2 | 4 | 10.364 | |
| ABC | The Superstars | 1.3 | 4 | 0.8 | 3 | 3.585 | |
| FOX | Legally Blonde (movie) | 1.1 | 3 | 1.1 | 4 | 3.207 | |
| CW | Hitched or Ditched (finale) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.033 | |
| 9:30 | ABC | Better Off Ted | 0.6 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.777 |
| 10:00 | CBS | 48 Hours Mystery (repeat) | 2.0 | 6 | 1.2 | 4 | 8.145 |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (repeat) | 1.9 | 6 | 1.3 | 4 | 7.324 | |
| ABC | Primetime: Family Secrets | 0.9 | 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.530 |
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Wow ABC is having a total summer meltdown – this isn’t going to bode particularly well this fall (less opportunity to promote Fall ‘09 offerings)
I’m Superstars even managed to stay above a 1 demo…that show is AWFUL!
Wow, Univision beat ABC in total viewers AND the key demo? Haven’t seen this Superstars show, but with numbers like that, ABC can’t be happy with the show.
I watched The Superstars, America’s Got Talent & Law & Order: SVU. I love The Superstars but there are some persons I’m not familiar. That long jump competition was awesome. TO didnt make it! AGT was alright; the chicken catcher & Thea was awesome. Some acts were just plain weird: Witches in Bikinis? Law & Order: SVU was awesome;never saw that episode before.
NCIS & The Mentalist continue to do great in repeats;amazing isn’t it. 48 Hours was new about MJ. I’m guessing that the Primetime specials will bomb this summer;last year they had better ratings. ABC is barely promoting Better Off Ted; I saw only one promo during the last half-hour of Superstars.
Tonight, I’m watching So You Think You Can Dance? & America’s Got Talent. Gonna watch Wipeout Saturday.
AGT is carrying NBC this summer, like AI does much of the year for Fox.
wow im still really upset with ABC. You would think after Better Off Ted did bad last week, they would promote it better to improve ratings but of course they didnt. the only time i saw any promotion was during the superstars which did horrible but i like it! its way better than that NBC garbage im a celebrity.
The headline should have been NBC’s got Talent; ABC’s got Nothing. Much simpler. Anyhow, Where did NBC find 8 million viewers to watch a repeat?? Law & Order: SVU repeat really well. As for CW, I’m thinking 09-10 should be their last season…
48 Hours also was just 48 Hours, no Mystery
Unbelievable. What does America think is funny these days? I watched Better Off Ted and laughed out loud more in 30 minutes than I had during the rest of the week! I hope ABC pairs it with something next season that will entice more people to give it a look.
I said the exact same thing as Shem when I read the headline!
NCIS and Mentalist are such a great pairing. Look at those numbers. CBS is fiddling with that? I don’t know.
Better Off Ted is hilarious! This is an undiscovered gem on TV – everyone should give this one a try – you’ll spend a good part of 30 mins laughing.
Better Off Ted was pretty good yesterday. I think a better lead in and a little promotion would help.
I haven’t seen anything like this, NBC on top, and ABC behind Univision.
ABC has picked up a new series
ABC is “Defying Gravity.”
The network has picked up Fox TV Studios’ 13-episode adventure drama starring Ron Livingston.
The internationally produced series, also set to air on Canada’s CTV, Germany’s ProSieben and the BBC, hails from familiar ABC auspices: creator/executive producer James Parriott, who served as an exec producer on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Ugly Betty,” and exec producer Michael Edelstein, former exec producer of the network’s “Desperate Housewives.”
“Gravity,” whose cast includes Laura Harris, Christina Cox, Malik Yoba and Florentine Lahme, is set in the near future and revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-year mission through the solar system.
The FtvS-produced series, slated to air on ABC this summer, is a co-venture with Vancouver-based Omni Film Prods., whose Brian Hamilton and Michael Chechik also exec produce.
“Gravity” is one of three drama series that FtvS produced independently with international partners in the past year, along with “Mental” and “Persons Unknown.” It is the second after “Mental” to land a U.S. distributor and the first to go somewhere other than a Fox-affiliated network.
“Since we originally pitched “Gravity” to the international marketplace as ‘Gray’s Anatomy’ in space, getting the series on the network that has ‘Grey’s’ and makes the most successful sci-fi show on TV in ‘Lost’ is a good fit,” FtvS executive vp David Madden said. He describes the show as “having a sci-fi premise but being told in a female-friendly way.”
At ABC, the deal was championed by senior vp Quinn Taylor, who added acquisitions to his longform duties during the network’s recent executive restructuring.
FtvS is in advanced talks with cable networks for “Persons,” with a sale expected during the next couple of weeks.
Unlike “Persons” and “Mental,” which were existing pilot scripts at FtvS originally developed for other networks, “Gravity” was developed specifically for the company’s international producing model.
“We’re excited about being pioneers in doing television a different way,” said Edelstein, who got the ball rolling on the project more than three years ago when he caught a repeat of the BBC docu-drama “Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets” on Discovery Channel, about an international crew of astronauts on a trip through space.
He acquired the rights to it from British producer Impossible Pictures and approached Parriott, with whom he worked on ABC’s drama “Threat Matrix.”
If “Gravity” goes well on ABC and FtvS’ foreign broadcast partners, the two hope to do more seasons of the show.
“I have the first three seasons blocked out, and I know the ending of the series,” Parriott said.
Headline editors, I have bowed to your requests!
I think ABC should move Better Off Ted to another day. Who would not watch NCIS and the Mentalist back to back?
go nbc go !!!!!!!!!!!!
rob, I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! ended last week. People don’t watch Better Off Ted because it sucks, it has nothing to do with the competition.
@ Master Moron, Better Off Ted did not suck. Have you even tried watching it?
I watched the pilot of Better Off Ted. I thought it kind of sucked. I can understand why no one is watching it if it hasn’t gotten any better since then.
Wow, most of NBC’s regular season shows don’t get the ratings AGT does.
I can’t understand why ABC would renew Better off Ted, then burn original episodes during the Summer – unless they were contractually obligated to show them during the 2008-2009 season. They know no one is going to be watching, and “The Superstars” is an awful lead in.
AGT will have a fall premiere in three, two, one…
Probably wanted to air them so they can sell them on DVD.
Josh, give BOT another chance. Has greatly improved over pilot.
Also, since ABC likes confusing people, next week Better Off Ted moves to its regular summer timeslot at 9pm, with Scrubs following at 930. BOT will be a rerun next week.
Will AGT air in fall??? if not, NBC is destroyed
i’ve got to agree that better off ted needs better promotion. i caught an episode by accident a week or two ago and thought it was hilarious, but i had completely forgotten about the show until i saw this story and thread.
BETTER OFF TED is NOT a good match with a sports-reality show called SUPERSTARS. I am glad that SCRUBS will get paired with it soon. But, in my opinion, I think ABC should pull the rest of the new TED episodes from the summer sked to protect the show. Then relaunch it in the fall. It’s an awesome show and deserves better than what it’s getting!
I bet abc is kicking itself for renewing better off ted. samantha who was pulling better numbers on friday nights! behind the goode family no less!
I’ve been meaning to tune into to BOT, but forget it’s on every time! So I think better promotion would help!
BOT did get one promo durring The Bacheloret….last nights episode was the best one so far, it looks like it took them 1/2 a season to figure out the show is better when it focusses less on Ted…But the damage has been done if Ted does not either get some sort of stunt in the Fall(big name guess star, Mariage, Baby….something that will make ABC promote it)or a big lead in….then the show will never survive.
It probably needs a more grounded format as well, America tends to never like a show that is off the wall and live action, I can only think of one that has been accepted(Scrubs) and Srubs has never been a huge hit…Until last year According to Jim has had higher ratings every season.
If they tone down Ted and turn it more into Newsradio/Less Than Perfect…it could probably make it another Season or 2….Less Ted talking to the Camera and The funny comercials(that I like)but confuse the normal viewers…while the show.
I would give Ted a competitor that constantly one ups him(John Cho would be perfect for the roll)
i watched america’s got talent last night because i saw a commercial with a cylon breakdancing but it wasn’t on last night
does anyone know if it already shown or if its on tonight
BoT was fantastic last night. I was skeptical when the series started but not anymore.
Gotta jump in and support Better off Ted too. Love that show. It’s hilarious! Hope they change nothing.
Before the 2008-9 season, Robert and I talked about which show would be the “Moonlight” for the season. That is, which marginal show would provoke the most outsized internet fan reaction to its potential cancellation. I don’t recall if either of us was prescient enough to pick any of the shows that turned out to fall into that category (Pushing Daisies in the fall, Terminator, Chuck in the spring), but I can tell now that Better Off Ted’s going to be on my list for next season!
Mark, I watched the first episode of Better Off Ted, don’t think I laughed once. I tuned in for the second episode and after about five minutes I said to myself “Why the hell am I watching this crap?” and shut off the TV.
daniel, the Cylon breakdancing was on last week’s show. You can probably find it on Youtube.
master moron, better off ted has gotten a lot better since the 1st 2 episodes. i admit they werent that great but once the 3rd episode aired, the rest of the episodes after and including the 3rd episode have been great.
cant believe how some people watch 1 episode and determine how good it can be. people are such retards. u gotta give a show a chance, then if u still dont like it, then dont watch it!
oh and another thing Master Moron, i wasnt comparing Im a Celebrity to Better Off Ted. I was comparing it to The Superstars. The Superstars is way better. I couldnt sit 5 minutes of that Im a Celebity. It was soo boring!!!!!
Oh and NBC’s got Talent and ABC’s got nothing? Wait until the Fall when NBC struggles to get a 2.0 18-49 rating and ABC has Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, Private Practice, Brothers and Sisters, and who can forget how good Greys Anatomy does.
“Better Off Ted” and “Moonlight” lumped into the same category? I just threw up like a statistically-average lady whose stomach has been opened by an HSS machine cranked all the way up.
Watching a show once IS giving it a chance. Not giving it a chance would be never watching it.
Riff, never watched either show, so I cannot comment on the contents, but BOT fans are exhibiting more and more “Moonlighty” symptoms, and if current course and speed hold true, BOT will, at best, be on the bubble.
yes, AGT is on tonight.
Better Off Ted was great last night.
Mr. Bill-Any news on FUTURAMA? I know it has been picked up for 26 episodes, but will it air on Fox again or just cable?
Johnny, Futurama’s coming back only on Comedy Central.
rob, one episode may very well be enough to know if you really dislike a show or are totally bored. sometimes it is even enough to know what the show is about to know that not watching is time well spend on doing anything else (recent CW remakes come to mind in my case)
i personally really like BOT a lot (especially the commercials) but i wouldn´t say that it is a concept that everybody has to like.
i just hope that the show at least survives another full season thanks to cheap production.
saw the first episode of BOT and i didn’t like it but ended up watching another episode later and laughed a lot and then watched another one and it was terrible
that show kinda changes a lot on me
This is for ABC After 9:30 on this day. DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not good really, from 3.7 to 0.6
I Mean 1.3 to 0.6. My mistake, the 3.7 I was thinking was NBC not ABC.
@ BetternotoffTed:
Americans laugh at Two and a Half Men and Seinfeld reruns.
rob, why are u hating on NBC. Give credit where it is due. ABC is falling flat on its face.
better off ted is best show on tv! WOOOO!
I love Better off Ted! It’s ABC’s best comedy…
ABC may be in trouble if it can only stick to the shows it has now. They’ve had trouble starting up new shows. And Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives cant be on forever. The only new ABC shows that were good are CASTLE and Better Off Ted.
mark: i liked the unusuals a lot too. but sadly that one is gone for good.
i think abc has more of a problem in finding shows that can immediately perform as well as their well established shows.
Just watch Bed Off Ted on abc.com. It was by the far the funniest episode. I hope that people are watching it online like myself. Does ABC announce the amount of hits on their website each month?
Shem, i dont hate NBC but the only thing i like on there is Deal or No Deal and the last i remember, the show only averaged a 1.2 rating in adults 18-49, which is sad.
Mark, all the networks have trouble starting up new shows except CBS. The thing is, networks never give shows a chance to succeed and gain an audience especially ABC. I know they are the worst and i hope they stop cancelling shows. Still mad they cancelled Samantha Who which does do better than Better Off Ted.
And Shows like Greys Anatomy and Desperate Housewives can easily last another 10 years. Look at ER which lasted 15 years on NBC.