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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.6/9 | 2.0/6 | 1.9/6 | 1.5/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.4/1 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 2.5/9 | 1.5/6 | 1.3/5 | 0.9/3 | 1.4/5 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.848 | 5.881 | 7.414 | 6.434 | 3.311 | 0.940 |
So You Think You Can Dance was again in close one hour battles from both Wipeout and America’s Got Talent, but Fox, as usual, won on Wednesday (with a 2.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demo) as the competition had nothing to back up their top shows.
While last night looked a lot like the previous Wednesday’s this summer, almost everything was down a bit. Wipeout’s adults 18-49 demo rating was down 7% to its lowest of the summer (2.8 > 2.6), So You Think You Can Dance was down 10% (2.9 > 2.6), America’s Got Talent was down 12% tieing its lowest of the summer (3.3 > 2.9), Primetime: Crime was down 15% (2.0 > 1.7) and The Philanthropist was down 21% (1.4 > 1.1).
Is a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating enough to get The Philanthropist yanked off the schedule? Perhaps, but it’s still a lot better than the 0.7 that got The Listener canceled.
I Survived A Japanese Game Show had the distinction of being the only new episode to see a ratings increase over last week, 13% (1.5 > 1.7)
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 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance? | 2.6 | 10 | 2.5 | 10 | 6.892 |
| ABC | Wipeout | 2.6 | 9 | 2.0 | 8 | 7.657 | |
| NBC | America’s Got Talent (repeat) | 1.6 | 6 | 1.1 | 4 | 6.514 | |
| CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine (repeat) | 1.0 | 4 | 0.7 | 3 | 4.012 | |
| CW | America’s Next Top Model (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.974 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 0.8 | 3 | 4.037 |
| 9:00 | NBC | America’s Got Talent | 2.9 | 9 | 2.1 | 7 | 11.384 |
| FOX | So You Think You Can Dance? | 2.6 | 8 | 2.4 | 9 | 6.804 | |
| ABC | I Survived A Japanese Game Show | 1.7 | 5 | 1.4 | 5 | 4.409 | |
| CBS | Criminal Minds (repeat) | 1.7 | 5 | 0.8 | 3 | 7.300 | |
| CW | America’s Next Top Model (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.906 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY (repeat) | 1.8 | 6 | 1.2 | 4 | 7.977 |
| ABC | Primetime: Crime | 1.7 | 5 | 1.1 | 4 | 5.578 | |
| NBC | The Philanthropist | 1.1 | 4 | 0.7 | 3 | 4.345 |
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Shows are sorted by Adults 18-49 rating in each time slot.
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I don’t know if you guys find this worthy of posting, but apparently Oprah hit an all-time low in ratings last week
http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Dayparts_update_51/Ratings_hit_an_all-time_low_for_Oprah.asp
you said wipeout is down to a 2.6 but it says wipeout got a 3.6. which is right?
Anon, I did have that info in our Syndicated Ratings post
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/07/14/syndicated-ratings-entertainment-tonight-up-21-vs-last-year-as-jackson-boost-for-magazine-shows-continued/22843
And I was conflicted on what to headline, the Oprah fall or the Magazine boost from the Jackson stuff. I went with the Jackson stuff.
rob, thanks for the catch. The error was the 3.6 typo for Wipeout in the table. Now fixed.
and the philanthropist got a 1.2? you said 1.1
haha im catching all ur mistakes.
rob, indeed you are, indeed you are. Although that was a difference between our two data sources which tend to round differently, it’s fixed.
The CW network is rely suffering in the ratings this summer. When it was still the WB, it was great in the ratings from what i remembered and never performed as bad as The CW Network is know. I think that networks needs to target more viewers than just teenage girls because that is all who is basically watching that network, Silly teenage girls. At least the WB was like a standard network that actually gave the other networks some competition most of the time.
I’ll tell you why the ratings were down.
Because I lost power at my house and missed So You Think You Can Dance.
(Outrage.)
Glad to see Japanese Game show improving. It’s a real hoot with lots of heart.
CW is so pathetic. Repeating a reality show? They should just throw some reruns of Buffy or something.
What about Sir Paul on Letterman last night? Any scoop on that?
Wipeout did not end until 9:05 last night. Doesn’t that effect things with Japanese Game show?
gmyers, it does, those 5 min of Wipeout viewing are in the 9pm Japanese Game show numbers. They get removed in the final numbers.
Ratings-wise ( and ONLY ratings wise,) you have to give Wipeout and Talent credit. I thought two years ago SYTYCD was a good idea as far as reality shows go, but it doesn’t seem to be gaining any ground at all. Saw Talent once for as long as it took to spew out a few curse words and change the channel – oh well, like they say: If you don’t like it, change the channel. ( To what …?)
Nothing good on last night.
“CW is so pathetic. Repeating a reality show? They should just throw some reruns of Buffy or something.”
CW strictly programs shows from (C)BS/paramount and (W)arner bros. Buffy and Angel are from 20thFox, but I think WB struck a deal with 20thFox or something because they air both shows on WB.com.
Reba was also produced by 20th, which is why it was cancelled (even with outrageously good ratings at 7:30 on a sunday, 13-episode order, and had to pay like $20m for the 31 episodes WB network ordered but was terminated cuz of the cancellation).
Reaper is produced by ABC studios. Forget Dawson’s Creek (Sony) or anything like that.
Something I don’t get is that if its core focus is on Mon-Wed, then what the hell is a sappy tween vampire show doing on a thursday. Dawn knows it doesn’t work for just any show right?
RM/89, We joke that all the CW cares about is Monday-Wednesday, but they have to care about Thursday too, it’s just that Dawn can’t take credit for last season’s Thursday shows.
I think Dawn is starting to care about Thursdays now that the Vampire Diaries will be on, but thats about it.
Dawn also cares about Tuesdays with putting 90210 and Melrose Place together like it was in the 90s on FOX. I hope Melrose Place does well even though 90210 doesnt get that great of numbers.
The CW needs to target males for once, like put the pro sports or bring back Sunday schedule. They need to do that if they want to live a decade.
Plus most teenage girls are more into watching ABC Family or ABC than the CW, those are facts. Grey’s Anatomy, American Idol, and even Family Guy gets more teenage girls viewing than any CW show combined. This should alarm them somewhat.
I hear lot of NBC late night comedians make fun of the lackluster ratings of NBC, they should include the fact that they are not the CW in one of those jokes next time.
I’ll always be a fan of The CW!
I like The WB better, they should have kept Reba although I did not watch but it had like 3 million viewers on SUNDAY, most CW shows could not even reach that. They should have used that as a lead in for launching shows. I remember before during the WB days Charmed on Sundays averaged 4 million viewers, right? Now Sunday is dead. So sad.
During Charmed’s first and fifth seasons averaged 5 million. The rest averaged 4. Charmed was a good show, they were gonna make a spin-off to premeire when The CW launched, but The CW said no to it.