NCIS was up a tenth to a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating for a rerun episode. Though that’s only ~4.4 million people out of the 16.7 million who watched, keep in mind that last week even including all the sports (baseball, football, football pregame, football post game) there were only 26 shows on the broadcast nets that had 4.4 million or more adults 18-49. None of them were repeats.
Last week across all of cable, only one show had more adults 18-49, and that was Monday Night Football with 7.223 million adults 18-49. The next closest was game five of the NLCS with 3.425 followed by Jeff Dunham with 2.952 million and my new favorite show Sons of Anarchy with 2.692 million.
Newcomer NCIS: Los Angeles did not fare nearly as well with a repeat…
Tuesday broadcast finals via Travis Yanan:
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (R, 95% coverage vs normal 97%)
- 8.800 million viewers
- 4.8/8 HH
- 2.8/8 A18-49
Dancing with the Stars (61 minutes)
- 15.198 million viewers
- 9.6/15 HH
- 3.0/7 A18-49
The Forgotten (59 minutes)
- 8.258 million viewers
- 5.5/9 HH
- 2.0/3 A18-49
NCIS (R)
- 16.697 million viewers
- 10.4/16 HH
- 3.3/9 A18-49
NCIS: Los Angeles (R)
- 11.093 million viewers
- 7.2/11 HH
- 2.1/5 A18-49
The Good Wife (R)
- 9.338 million viewers
- 6.4/11 HH
- 1.8/5 A18-49
The Biggest Loser (121 minutes)
- 9.667 million viewers
- 5.8/9 HH
- 3.7/10 A18-49
The Jay Leno Show (59 minutes)
- 6.056 million viewers
- 3.9/7 HH
- 1.8/5 A18-49
So You Think You Can Dance
- 6.473 million viewers
- 4.0/6 HH
- 2.5/6 A18-49
- 2.6/8 A18-34
- 3.6/10 W18-34
90210 (R)
- 1.264 million viewers
- 0.9/1 HH
- 0.6/2 A18-49
- 0.8/2 A18-34
- 1.1/3 W18-34
Melrose Place (R)
- 0.770 million viewers
- 0.5/1 HH
- 0.4/1 A18-49
- 0.3/1 A18-34
- 0.5/1 W18-34
ABC’s lineup is up a little which is good. Leno cant even break a 2.0. Thats just sad considering its lead-in.
Rob, Leno did poorly with it’s best lead in of the week and against some of the weakest competion, 1,8 and 2.0, The Good Wife was a repeat and Forgotten gets repeat-like numbers. This is where Leno was supposed to show his strength, or at least pull up his average, this is below his Tuesday, non-premiere week average.
Keep in mind, NCIS: LA is a new series with less episodes to repeat. Liekly, a number of fans tuned in and realized they had season the same ep a few weeks ago and new the outcome. With the original, they can air a repeat from a season or two ago and even if the viewer saw it, it is more than possible they don’t remember how it ends and will continue to watch. Thats why procedurals like L&O and CSI repeat so damn well.
Charlie Brown specials do really well after all these years. I hope the 30-minute repeat on Wednesday will help The Middle.
So its not anything to worry about. Regular NCIS only did subpar compared to Cold Case and Joan of Arcadia when they all premiered, now NCIS is a powerhouse and LA will be too.
NCIS is been solid for 6 years, but only this year has it been a hit in the demo’s.
Way early to tell if NCIS:LA is going to be a hit long term, look at Mentalist, Fringe. I expect it do well and maybe with aging CSI, it can. Let’s see next year, if or when it gets moved off that plum spot and asked to anchor say Sunday.
Could NCIS become number one show this season above American idol in total viewers?
Paul PT, it’s conceivable for new episodes, but I’d still give the edge to Idol. I don’t have a good Live+SD viewership average for NCIS, but last weeks show was 21.25 million which I think is close to the average so far.
Idol’s two shows averaged 25.5 million and 24.7 million last season. They will likely drop a bit, 10% is a reasonable guess. That still puts them slightly above where NCIS is now. Since NCIS is likely to drop a bit as the season goes on, I don’t think it’s possible, but with that many guesses, a surprise isn’t out of the question.
The averages we will see will have repeats factored in, and Idol has no repeats, so it’s average will be 100% new shows, and NCIS’ will not. That won’t stop CBS from calculating its new episode average if they think they can make PR hay with it, but it will stop me!
How is 11 million viewers for a new series on a repeat considered not faring as well?
^ for total viewer it is solid but demo a sharp from from NCIS’ 3.3 to 2.1. But then again it is just a repeat.
Terrence, I’m not sure I understand the question. How is 11.1 million viewers not faring as well as 16.7 million (not that total viewers really matters) or a 2.1 adults 18-49 rating not fairing as well as a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating?
I don’t think NCIS: LA did BADLY by any means for a freshman series rerun, but it didn’t fare as well as NCIS and it was not the ratings beast in reruns NCIS was.
Didn’t The Big Bang Theory repeat better?
The Forgotten got more ratings then previous weeks. That’s great! I enjoy the show. Hopefully ABC gives it a chance.
The Forgotten last night was fantastic! And the Veterinarian was Kimberly Estrada from “LOST”. That was so cool to see her on the show playing the Veterinarian. I loved the story about the dog. That is unique. Christian is great! Keep it up. I love THE FORGOTTEN!