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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.1/7 | 1.9/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.1/3 | 0.8/3 | 0.5/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.0/7 | 1.2/4 | 1.8/6 | 0.8/3 | 0.6/2 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.727 | 7.525 | 3.562 | 3.055 | 2.772 | 1.243 |
The 11th installment of CBS’s Big Brother returned even with last season’s debut (2.3 rating adults 18-49). But the latest collection of crazy people in a house wasn’t enough to stop So You Think You Can Dance from helping Fox to win the night with a overall 2.1 18-49 demo rating.
CBS is likely very happy with BB 11’s opening. In today’s broadcast world, even is the new way up! Samantha Who? continues to drift slowly into the sunset, even with last week’s 1.0 rating.
So You Think You Can Dance was up 20% in the 18-49 demo from last week against the same competition. I’d guess the lack of an up coming holiday weekend caused the boost, but things could just be getting more interesting as the field narrows.
The numbers for The Listener keep getting worse, and no floor seems to be in sight. It fell to a mere 0.7 adults 18-49 rating, its lowest of the summer. Could a televised fish bowl do that much worse?
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 (Millions) |
| 8:00 | CBS | Big Brother 11 (premiere) | 2.2 | 8 | 1.7 | 7 | 6.609 |
| FOX | Bones (repeat) | 1.4 | 5 | 1.1 | 4 | 5.370 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 0.9 | 4 | 3.350 | |
| ABC | Samantha Who? | 1.0 | 4 | 0.7 | 3 | 3.592 | |
| CW | Smallville (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.351 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Big Brother 11 (premiere) | 2.3 | 8 | 1.8 | 7 | 6.752 |
| FOX | Bones (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 1.1 | 4 | 5.944 | |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.3 | 4 | 1.0 | 4 | 3.021 | |
| ABC | Samantha Who? | 1.0 | 3 | 0.7 | 3 | 3.231 | |
| CW | Smallville (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.364 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.7 | 9 | 2.8 | 10 | 7.662 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 0.9 | 3 | 7.299 | |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.3 | 4 | 1.1 | 4 | 2.931 | |
| ABC | Grey’s Anatomy (repeat) | 0.7 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 2.594 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.5 | 1 | 0.6 | 2 | 1.141 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.9 | 9 | 2.8 | 10 | 7.931 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.6 | 5 | 0.9 | 3 | 7.827 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock (repeat) | 1.1 | 3 | 0.9 | 3 | 2.547 | |
| ABC | Grey’s Anatomy (repeat) | 0.8 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 2.828 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 2 | 1.115 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 0.9 | 3 | 8.192 |
| NBC | The Listener | 0.8 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.155 | |
| ABC | Private Practice (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 2.174 | |
| 10:30 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.7 | 6 | 1.0 | 4 | 8.469 |
| NBC | The Listener | 0.7 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 3.327 | |
| ABC | Private Practice (repeat) | 0.6 | 2 | 0.4 | 2 | 2.211 |
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Shows are sorted from highest 18-49 rating to lowest in each time slot.
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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.
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Big Brother 11 was good.
Whoa I had NOOOOOOOOOOOOO idea BB was back this year – I completely forgot about it. But judging by the “buzz” on the internet this morning, not many seem to be happy that Jesse (from an old season) is back.
As for the 2.3 it got – it’s good, but considering its up against NO COMPETITION…I’m sure CBS might have been expecting a bit more.
Samantha Who gets the same ratings every week. Doesnt ABC see this? how stupid are they!
Holy cow, the new episode of True Blood will most likely draw more viewers than anything on NBC.
Or ABC for that matter. I expected The Office and Grey’s reruns to do better, considering how CBS reruns seem to retain a good chunk of the original episode viewers.
Samantha Who? needs to be brought back instead of BOT
NBC should move The Listener to a different day. I’ve watched the first season and it’s actually not that bad. Unfortunately, The Mentalist is simply much better.
Arent those ratings for sam who identical to last week? both demo numbers and viewers.
Sean, scarily close, but as far as I know, typographically correct!
Big Brother was really good, glad it premiered well.
The headline says SYTYCD got a 2.1 18-49 ?
Shouldnt it be 2.8 ?
So You Think You Can Dance is down over 500,000 viewers per episode this year versus last year, true?
I’m surprised Bones repeats beat 30 Rock and Office repeats.
Well, I’m done with Samantha Who now that Big Brother is back. I mean, Samantha Who is already cancelled, so there’s no point in sticking with it.
romo, my bad sentence structure perhaps. Things are much clearer now. I hope.
So hardly anyone is listening(or watching) The Listener?
Samantha Who? has a week off enxt week then its back with the final two episodes The Other Women and With the Ring which actually wrap most things up
and i loved last night’s “The Dream Job” episode
@CP, IIRC (I haven’t gone back through data to reaffirm, mostly because it would take forever) ‘The Office’ doesn’t repeat that well and I wouldn’t be surprised if ‘30 Rock’ performs similarly in repeats.
Has anyone seen the NBC promos claiming “The Listener” as the #1 new drama of the summer? I laughed my ass off when I saw that.
I was saddened to see the Series Finale of Samantha Who? last night!! The show is still getting over 3 million viewers WITHOUT ANY PROMOTION!!!! Just think what it could do if ABC would actually promote the show. The execs at ABC are so stupid, not to see this !!! Bring Sam Back.