Not exactly a rainbow over a pot o’ gold, but Dollhouse’s adults 18-49 rating increased to a .9 in the final numbers for Friday. Still a series low, but still better than the results for Brothers and ‘Till Death and tied with CW’s Smallville.
Medium increased to a 1.9 and had the best 18-49 rating on Friday, edging out Dateline’s 1.8.
The Jay Leno Show hit a series low 1.4 adults 18-49 rating.
Friday broadcast finals via “Travis Yanan” (ratings junkies should definitely follow him on Twitter!):
Flashforward (R)
- 3.528 million viewers
- 2.4/4 HH
- 1.0/4 A18-49
The Forgotten (R)
- 3.860 million viewers
- 2.5/5 HH
- 0.9/3 A18-49
20/20
- 6.530 million viewers
- 4.5/8 HH
- 1.7/6 A18-49
Ghost Whisperer
- 7.620 million viewers
- 4.8/9 HH
- 1.7/7 A18-49
Medium
- 7.838 million viewers
- 5.1/9 HH
- 1.9/6 A18-49
Numb3rs
- 7.848 million viewers
- 5.1/9 HH
- 1.6/5 A18-49
Law & Order
- 6.791 million viewers
- 4.6/9 HH
- 1.2/5 A18-49
Dateline (61 minutes)
- 7.706 million viewers
- 5.2/9 HH
- 1.8/6 A18-49
The Jay Leno Show (59 minutes)
- 5.343 million viewers
- 3.6/7 HH
- 1.4/5 A18-49
Brothers (31 minutes)
- 2.256 million viewers
- 1.5/3 HH
- 0.8/3 A18-49
Til Death
- 2.235 million viewers
- 1.4/3 HH
- 0.8/3 A18-49
Dollhouse (59 minutes)
- 2.049 million viewers
- 1.3/2 HH
- 0.9/3 A18-49 (a night of all originals, and Fox’s highest rated show doesn’t even hit a 1.0…)
Smallville
- 2.238 million viewers
- 1.4/3 HH
- 0.9/4 A18-49
- 1.1/4 A18-34
- 0.7/3 W18-34
America’s Next Top Model (R)
- 1.187 million viewers
- 0.8/1 HH
- 0.5/2 A18-49
- 0.6/2 A18-34
- 0.6/2 W18-34
Oh thank god, Dollhouse is safe!
Dont worry the fans got it under control.
http://www.dollverse.com/2009/10/dollhouse-is-at-risk-of-being-pulled-off-air/
Bill&Robert run while you still can!
I’m still waiting for Dan to concede that Brothers will NOT be picked up for a full season to be paired with Til Death. I know he and I have waxed hypothetical on that one; but after it’s two weeks, I think it’s safe to say I was correct with it being gone soon.
I’m of two minds. I’m dying to see what happens to lead to and what happens after Epitaph One, but the show is being so slow in getting there. Maybe they should pull a Desperate Housewives/One Tree Hill and just go at warp-speed pace. That would help with making the show more serialized rather than meandering and thus for me more interesting. If at the end of this series we’re still years from that future, boo.
Dollhouse increased 12.5 percent! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! Yay! This is all the proof one needs to know that fans of Joss are a mighty force to be reckoned with! Today we conquer FOX, tomorrow the world, and after that, the sky’s the limit! Has any other show increased by such a high percentage?! I think not, and I am always correct about such things! I’m hearing from my inside sources (not to be confused with the voices inside my head) that Dollhouse will soon get the official pickup of its back 9! Yay!
Watch Dollhouse this week or else!
JBF -
Kinda playing fast and loose with the term “mighty force”, aren’t ya?
squiggleslash, I wanted to say that! *pouts*
If Dollhouse posts another 0.8/0.9 for this week and next, it’ll be yanked. If it “improves” to a 1.0 or 1.1, it’ll run out it’s 13 episodes and be canceled. If it rises to a 1.3, it might, MIGHT, get a back 9 order, though I’d still say cancellation.
I’m basing this off the numbers you TVBTN guys ran for the Dollhouse vs. House Rerun profits post. Dollhouse gets a better profit than the reruns at 1.2/1.3 than House would for the FOX group, that’s why I say it MIGHT get that back 9.
kudos to medium!
Gusar – it’s OK, you can say it too!
by any chance you have the rating/viewers for Smallville on Saturday night in NY? (it was pre-empted in NY on Friday)
What does “back 9″ mean, anyway? I’ve been seeing folks throwing it around an awful lot lately, and a Google search on the matter turns up nothing but golf.
A show gets a 13 episode order (usually) if it does well enough, networks will pick up 9 more episodes, bringing the season to a traditional 22 episodes.
Derek, sorry any airings outside of the national network timeslot are outside of information we see.
Chinny, new shows, and sometimes returning shows, are only given orders for 13 (of the typical season’s 22) shows at the beginning of a season. If they perform well enough early they get an order for the balance of the season “the back 9″. If they don’t they either air the 13 episodes and vanish or occasionally get pulled before the 13 episodes air.
Chinny: A standard season is 22 episodes long – sometimes networks only order the first 13 episodes to see how they will do. If the beginning of the season goes well they will order the “back 9″ – that is, 9 more episodes to make a full season worth (22) of episodes. (Alternatively, if it doesn’t do well they may choose to just let the 13 ordered episodes run their course and then the season be done without ordering the back 9. Worst case scenario: the show gets pulled off the air before the full original 13 even run).
Plastviktor says on October 5, 2009 at 2:14 pm:
“Dont worry the fans got it under control. http://www.dollverse.com/2009/10/dollhouse-is-at-risk-of-being-pulled-off-air/”
Oh, goody! The pleas for cash can’t be too far behind! There will always be a ticking clock, too. It helps spur donations.
I can’t wait for people to come together naively in support of a television show and later separate as cynical souls tormented by each other’s financial mismanagement.
The best that Dollhouse donators can hope to achieve from this is to entertain and amuse me by your efforts.
The only way you can do that is by purchasing skywriting. If you don’t do skywriting, your attempt to save Dollhouse WILL FAIL. Everyone knows that CEOs and the rest of the PTB contingent are constantly looking to the sky for guidance on what to do. Jeff Zucker hasn’t seen the ground in about three years. Your skywriting will tell the PTB what to do. They believe in signs. Your skywriting is the sign they need.
What about Variety and Hollywood Reporter ads? Ha! Circulation is so low that the HR will go 100% digital next year.
A rolling billboard? That’s so last month.
The only way anyone can save Dollhouse is to by skywriting that says “SAVE DOLLHOUSE” in letters as large as the Empire State Building.
TSCC fans never did skywriting. That’s why their show was never renewed. They were clueless and out of touch with the industry, but you won’t be.
SKYWRITING! Set up the Paypal for it today!
I have to say the scariest omen for the future of Dollhouse is that many of the fans sound right now like T:SCC fans did a few weeks before their show was pulled.
Still, a 0.9 is not a 0.8. I’m just concerned next week is going to see another drop, I really think the last episode did a lot of damage.
Im kinda confuse about Smallville’s ratings did it do better then last week? Did the ratings for this week just save its life? Please help me understan. Thank You.
It’s still a mystery to me that Dollhouse was renewed after season 1 – Wheedon was definitely having an off day when he came up with this one…
@Justin, Smallville was preempted in New York (largest market) last Friday for a Mets game. The NY numbers were removed from the fast nationals and reflected in the finals. So these numbers can’t be compared to last week because we’re missing NY.