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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 1.9/7 | 1.7/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.2/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.4/2 |
| Rating/Share: Adults 18-34 | 1.6/6 | 1.2/4 | 1.8/7 | 1.0/4 | 0.7/3 | 0.4/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 6.058 | 7.144 | 3.781 | 3.323 | 3.381 | 1.264 |
Midsummer ratings doldrums have set in with a vengeance, as Fox, lead by So You Think You Can Dance, won the night with an 18-49 demo rating average of just 1.9.
I’m sure that once we see USA’s numbers (by press release or trade press) for Burn Notice and Royal Pains, they’ll be able to tout wins vs. broadcast shows on the night. Update: Indeed they did.
While it won its broadcast hour, Big Brother’s 18-49 demo rating fell 17% from its premiere last week (2.3 > 1.9). While many people like Harry Potter, few cared to watch the ABC News special on his author J.K. Rowling, as it drew but a 1.1 demo rating.
While So You Think You Can Dance was the top demo rated show of the night, it was still down 11% from last week (2.8 > 2.5).
In the category of too little too late, The Listener, recently canceled by NBC, increased its rating 71% from last week (0.7 > 1.2). Next week’s show is its last on NBC.
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 | 1.9 | 7 | 1.6 | 7 | 5.571 |
| FOX | Bones (repeat) | 1.4 | 5 | 1.1 | 4 | 5.072 | |
| ABC | JK Rowling: A Year in the Life | 1.1 | 4 | 0.9 | 4 | 4.384 | |
| NBC | 30 Rock (repeat) | 1.1 | 4 | 0.9 | 4 | 3.350 | |
| CW | Smallville (repeat) | 0.5 | 2 | 0.4 | 2 | 1.417 | |
| 8:30 | NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 1.0 | 4 | 3.031 |
| 9:00 | FOX | So You Think You Can Dance | 2.5 | 8 | 2.2 | 8 | 7.045 |
| CBS | CSI (repeat) | 1.5 | 5 | 1.0 | 3 | 7.470 | |
| NBC | The Office (repeat) | 1.4 | 5 | 1.3 | 5 | 3.060 | |
| ABC | Grey’s Anatomy (repeat) | 0.8 | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 2.810 | |
| CW | Supernatural (repeat) | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 | 1 | 1.112 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | 30 Rock (repeat) | 1.2 | 4 | 1.1 | 4 | 2.788 |
| 10:00 | CBS | The Mentalist (repeat) | 1.8 | 6 | 1.0 | 4 | 8.391 |
| NBC | The Listener | 1.2 | 4 | 0.7 | 3 | 3.855 | |
| ABC | Private Practice (repeat) | 0.9 | 3 | 0.6 | 2 | 2.948 |
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Shows are sorted from highest 18-49 rating to lowest in each time slot.
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ABC’s summer ratings are really bad this year. Which is bad because it doesnt give them much to promote their new shows.
Mentalist should be so big next season! I really can’t wait.
Wow, The Listener did way better. To bad all the new viewers aren’t going to see the rest of the season.
Its amazing how bad Greys Anatomy does when in repeats. CBS really is the best network it mightin bring in the big 18-49 numbers during the peak season but overall it does well.
yawn….tell me what i really care about, how did burn notice do!
(yes, i know, it goes in the weekly cable review)
Allan, I don’t know how well Burn Notice did, but, I enjoyed it.
Maybe some people went to see Harry Potter. I did. Recorded SYTYCD and BB. Watched them after I got home.
Catherine, if you were a Nielsen family, your viewing would have been counted in these numbers. The Live+Same Day ratings include DVR viewing through 3am the following day.
No wonder BB slipped. The way it’s done in the US is a YAWN! The audience really has no part of the show, so it’s just watching a bunch of tools in a house. At least in the UK the audience gets to evict people via telephone vote and feel like there is something to be connected to. BB US is basically just Survivor in a house…with bleached hair and man-scaping…
Click…
Our BB has done well without audience interaction. That is the trouble with a country that has mulipule time zones.
Flipping, they tried having the viewers vote on who to send home during the first season and it sucked. There was no way for the players to back stab each other because the viewers would just vote the back stabbers out.
SYTYCD is a show I watch muted while I’m doing something else, which is more than I can say for any reality show ever invented. I must have been really bored the night America voted on a BB contestant, because I vaguely recall losing severel IQ points while it happened. Watched the Listener to see if they were saving a good episode for last, but as I expected, after ten minutes I could tell they zigged when they should have zagged and made it even more sexless and altruistic than the premiere episode. That was the week that was – except I watched six hours of Family Guy. I suppose if Nielsen had decided to hook me to a box like they threatened, they would have had to smother with helium in a plastic bag.
I know I sound like a broken record…but wtf NBC! Weren’t they splitting the bill for The Listener with CTV (from Canada). So it must of not been that expensive to keep. Am I right?
By the way, viewers in Canada will get to see the whole season on CTV.