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| Adults 18-49: Rating/Share | 1.8/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.4/4 | 0.6/2 | 0.5/1 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 1.9/6 | 1.3/4 | 1.0/4 | 1.1/4 | 0.7/2 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 3.85 | 4.71 | 5.88 | 5.61 | 1.50 | 1.25 |
Big Brother was the night’s most watched program with adults 18-49 averaging a 2.5/8 (rating share) with that demographic and 7.36 million viewers overall. At 9pm however, There Goes The Neighborhood lost more than 50% of the demo (1.2/3, 3.821M). A rerun of Cold Case didn’t fare any better in the demo (1.1/3, 4.85M). Earlier in the night 60 Minutes averaged a 1.2/4 and 7.47M viewers.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire bowed out quietly in the finale of its limited run (1.5/5, 7.63M) while its lead in, a repeat hour of America’s Funniest Home Videos did better in the 18-49 demo (1.6/6. 6.55M). Shark Tank had the best 18-49 performance of the night for ABC (1.8/5, 5.61M). Can it be long before Defying Gravity (0.8/2, 2.66M) moves to Saturdays?
Merlin aired its final two episodes of its first (and likely last in the US, at least on NBC) season and also bowed out quietly (1.0/3, 3.22M from 7p-8p, and 1.1.3, 3.92M from 8p-9p). Hey, that’s better than Defying Gravity! From 9pm-11pm The 2009 Miss Universe Pageant averaged a 2.0/6 with adults 18-49 and 5.84 million as Miss Venezuela took the crown. That’s on par with last year’s results in the demo, so it doesn’t look like Heidi Montag flashing her cleavage at the crowd made much difference.
FOX won the night with its all repeat lineup of comedies. ‘Til Death at 7pm had the worst performance (1.0/4, 2.52M) and the Family Guy airing at 9pm (2.4/6, 5.25M) the best.
The best performing half hours of the night demo-wise were Big Brother and Miss Universe tied for the best demo half hours of the night. The 8pm half hour of Big Brother averaged a 2.6 with adults 18-49, as did the last half hour of the Miss Universe Pageant.
CW ran the classic Silence of the Lambs (0.5/1, 1.25M). Soon, CW will be silent on Sunday nights altogether, turning the night over to local affiliates.
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.
Um,Robert, I clicked on the link to Berman’s site and got sent to the ratings for August 16th.
there shouldn’t be a link to Berman’s site in this post (we didn’t get the data from him). If there is, that’s an error, but I don’t see the link.
Bummer about Merlin
Last night episodes were amazing
Fox ran a new episode of Til Death — in August? At 7pm?! Yeah, they really believe in that show.
‘Til Death was new? No it wasnt, was it?
I just check FOX’s website, and it was a repeat. If those numbers are correct, thats a jump of 0.2 in the demo. If ‘Til Death can pull a 1.0 demo for a repeat on Sunday at 7pm, it should be able to do at least a 1.3 on a Friday.
RJ, you are correct….
“Huh” see above.
Post corrected…
is it me or or is the phrase “bowed out quietly” for millionaire sort of at odds with it being the highest rated show of the night in viewers?
i know i know… 18-49 18-49 18-49… we all pray to the 18-49 gods. just saying it’s kinda funny.
tom, considering it once had 30+ million viewers…
It was a nice twist with millionaire last night, with Regis being the celebrity guest.
Robert, yes, but that was 10 years ago. And I believe these episodes are only slightly below how it did in the first episodes of its 1999 summer run.
Super Millionaire, considered a success, averaged around 13 million I believe, during a non-summer run.
VERY exciting episode of Millionaire last night.
Not gonna spoil it if you didn’t see it, but strongly encourage to watch on Hulu ( http://www.hulu.com/watch/91322/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-season-finale ).
Super Millionaire aired in 2004 and had two runs*
I think everyone knows that the only ratings people care about for Sundays this summer are True Blood and Mad Men. I know they’re not released until Tuesday or Wednesday yet that doesn’t stop me from coming here first thing.
All I can say to the finale of Millionaire is “wow”.
Is there any way to get the full ratings? Maarc Berman doesn’t have them yet.
I care about Shark Thank, after an awful premiere numbers is building week after week.
Q, cable overnight ratings are released (at least to the networks) the next day, just not as early as the broadcast overnights. I think somewhere around ~2pm on the east coast. So depending on how the wind blows we might hear about Mad Men and True Blood today, but will definitely hear by Tuesday.
Dennis, it looks like about 2 minutes after your comment, Travis posted the half hourly details:
http://pifeedback.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/63310451/m/932102632
The more I see Shark Tank, the more I love it. And it’s great to see that it maintained that 1.8 despite Millionaire still getting a 1.5 before it. But can anybody tell me why ABC is going to air it before Dancing with the Stars in September rather than after?
Ron, not really. Millionaire premiered on a Monday to 7.5 million — that’s true enough, but by Wednesday of the first week was over 11 million, and by Sunday 15 million. It caught on pretty quickly, even in the first week.
robert… back then millionaire wasn’t on every day for 8 years. i know we expected higher numbers but looking at it fair… the numbers they got were pretty good for summer august doldrums especially on ABC. at least they got some summer eyeballs for a change
and i am not in any way trying to offend you or the others that pray to the 18-49 god. i pray to him too as long as i am in his age range. i am not mocking it. i understand it 100 percent. so don’t take offense.
At least in Canada, Defying Gravity is moving to Fridays at 10p.
I don’t take offense, Tom. I just think you’re wrong.
And of course you’re mocking the focus on 18-49, why deny it? If you have a beef with that though, it’s with the advertisers. But if you want to vent about it here, I don’t have a problem with it.
Susan, interesting. I just saw the schedule updates through Sunday September 13, and Defying Gravity was still slated for Sunday at 10pm, but I won’t be surprised at all if that changes. I doubt they will move it to Friday though, everything they ran last Friday, including repeats of Supernanny and Ugly Betty performed better.
Defying Gravity is a bore fest – its 90% flashbacks that are even more boring than the rest of it.
The only reason I watched any of it this week was, well, I was bored. Its a great sedative and helped me to fall asleep 3/4 of the in.
Wow, Shark Tank was GREAT last night!!!!! I’m really getting into the show now…it’s really well done IMO.
I read that James Parriot, the creator of Defying Gravity, was planning a 3 season story arc if it somehow managed to do well. I guess fat chance of that happening. However, I know this show is a co-production with CTV in Canada and ABC is only paying a small licensing fee to air it here. I wonder if it will still live on in Canada.
WTF WHY U CANCEL MERLIN IT WAS A GOOOD SHOW!!!!!
GREAT ACTORS AND GREAT STORY LINES
David and Merlin2009, Merlin hasn’t been cancelled (the second season has already been filming) but NBC probably won’t want it for another season. However, BBC America could pick it up if it has a hole in its scheduling for next year, especially since no one knows if Torchwood will return for another season.
Til Death looks like it’s doing much better. Know if they can just promote that it’s moveing to Firday Nights in October they would be good for at least 3 million viewers on Friday Night.
Am I the only guy here who watched Miss Universe 2009?
Last night millionaire was good, we almost had a winner.
No R.G. My father and I watched the show while my mom was fast asleep…
Had NBC advertised Merlin once in a blue moon and treated it with even the slightest bit of respect (instead of as some time slot gap filler), it would have done considerably better ratings-wise. It was not the quality of the show that brought it down but NBC’s poor tactics, a horrible time slot, and being aired in the Summer when ratings are down on a network with already low ratings. I hope that BBC America does pick it up because it really does have a great amount of potential.
Til Death was a great show that kind of lost its way. Fox should have supported it more. My family is addicted to Big Brother. This season has been above average. Defying Gravity is a show I was pulling for. But it just isn’t very good. I have two episodes on my DVR that I might just delete. Someone else needs to come up with a space drama like that without the terrible storylines. They pretty much lost me when the girl was hearing a baby cry in space on the first episode.
Me and my family watched Millionaire and Shark Tank last night. My whole family really enjoys Shark Tank, it is done very well.
I recorded Silence of the Lambs last night becuase it is one of my favorite movies.
Nice to see Shark Tank doing better. Mark Burnett knows how to make quality shows (or in this case, how to adapt a foreign show).
QUOTE: “Had NBC advertised Merlin once in a blue moon and treated it with even the slightest bit of respect (instead of as some time slot gap filler), it would have done considerably better ratings-wise.” END QUOTE
If you go back to when Merlin premiered, NBC did a TON of promotion. I remember seeing NBC try to grab the Harry Potter audience by showing previews to the new Harry Potter movie! Merlin is just a quirky show that Americans arent in the mood for. Go back to Pushing Daisies (a favorite of mine), Kath and Kim (sort of quirky, right?), and Dead Like Me. The only quirky show that I can think of that survived is Ugly Betty.
Torchwood is coming back for a fourth season. It was announced almost a month ago. The format is up in the air, though. Could be just a few episodes, could be more like 13. We’ll see.
I think Merlin flopped because it isn’t very good and people weren’t interested, not because it wasn’t promoted enough. Stick the next season on BBC America, and a 1.1 demo would suit them. It stinks for major TV, though.
Shark Tank is still a dud. If a show starts at a sub-2.0 demo and improves fractionally for two weeks to a 1.8, it’s not a success. It’s just slightly less of a miserable failure than it initially looked to be. Maybe it’ll go up a few tenths more but I don’t see it becoming a hit.
Miss Universe did okay. I guess it rated well on the Hispanic households.
Even though business wise its a good decision but I’m still sad that the CW are giving up on Sundays already. Only the Reba-7th Heaven-ANTM rerun line up performed decently for the CW Sunday line up on their first year. Oh well…
Merlin was entertaining. Too bad they buried it on Sunday night.
How can audience spend time watching that junk of Big Brother. I think the serie Merlin is a good one. I hope they have a second chance.
The best performing half hours of the night demo-wise were Big Brother and Miss Universe tied for the best demo half hours of the night. The 8pm half hour of Big Brother averaged a 2.6 with adults 18-49, as did the last half hour of the Miss Universe Pageant.
As I said Invest on promotion promotions and Promotions, so ratings will just increase Miss Universe
Anyone else think Millionaire had to be stagedon Sunday?
I find it to be too big of a coincidence that the final contestant on the final night just happened to be the only contestant to reach the million dollar question…
ABC must have done that on purpose…
I have to admit it was exciting though and reminded me what made the show so entertaining to watch 10 years ago…
I think Defying Gravity has as good a premise and star potential as anything else offered on network tv. It’s very different — maybe that’s why some are acting petulant about it. I like the fact that common things can happen in extraordinary circumstances (like the misplaced wrench shorting out the ship), and that even cliches (like the nasty Ground Control dude) are fun to watch. It takes itself too seriously the way the early Star Trek episodes did, on purpose, resulting in capital-E Entertainment. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so!
I really liked Merlin and I am happy NBC showed it this summer but it is not the type of show that would ever do really well in ratings. I actually think that it would well-enough for the CW. They could put it on Fridays after Smallville since they are similar types of shows. The guy playing Merlin also kind of looks like a skinnier Tom Welling with big ears =)
It’s very different — maybe that’s why some are acting petulant about it.
Huh? Who’s acting petulant: the people who say it has bad numbers and could get moved to Saturday or the people who think the show is too boring (not too different) to watch?
I will miss Merlin. I didn’t watch the first few shows because when I saw the promos, I thought it looked dumb. But one night I stopped on NBC and it was on and I actually enjoyed it. I watched probably the last 7 or 8 episodes of the series. I was hoping it would come back, but looks like its not in the cards.
Anyone know how many epidosdes are in this run/season of Shark Tank?
Warning, opinion only: I doubt if either network or cable,( especialliy network ) has ever had a less eventful summer, particularly where 18-35 or 18-49 is concerned. The closest parallel I can think of is when the censors came down on the dramas and comedies of the 1950’s and replaced Sid Ceasar and Ernie Kovacs with Mr. Ed and Gilligan’s Isle, and Playhouse 90 with Dragnet and Dr. Kildare. BTW, the more I see the subtle attempts to push ” Cougars ” as the next hip hop or lava lamps or whatever, and the more really sad and uninteresting and out of touch this artificially manufactered ” hot new trend ” actually turns out to be, the less hope I have for ABC’s Cougartown to be anything but just another embarassing dud.