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| Rating/Share: Adults 18-49 | 2.4/7 | 2.0/6 | 1.6/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 9.29 | 6.65 | 5.39 | 4.32 | 2.35 |
While most of America was recovering from its Thanksgiving dinners, a Survivor: Samoa clips show was enough to lift CBS to the overall ratings win on Thursday night. Fox’s airing of A Night At The Museum did surprisingly well.
NBC’s The Office averaged a 1.0 rating for adults 18-49 and 2.8 million viewers overall. The special NBC’s People of the Year delivered a 1.4 rating in adults 18-49 and 5.2 million viewers overall. The Jay Leno Show averaged a 1.5 rating for adults 18-49, and 5.0 million viewers overall, its largest audience in six weeks (10/15). Jay beat ABC’s Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City special easily in the demo. Paul’s fans are getting up there in years.
In Late-Night Local People Meters Thursday night:
- Conan O’Brien (1.1/5 in 18-49 in local people meters) topped CBS’s Late Show (1.0/4 with an encore) in Nielsen’s 24 local markets with People Meters.
- At 12:35 a.m., Jimmy Fallon (0.6/3 in 18-49 in local people meters) tied CBS’s Late Late Show (0.6/4 with an encore).
Here are the half hour ratings courtesy of MarcBerman/MediaWeek:
8:00 p.m.
ABC – A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (R)
Viewers: 6.43 million (#2), A18-49: 2.0 rating/7 share (#2)
CBS – Survivor: Samoa Clips Show
Viewers: 10.25 million (#1), A18-49: 3.2/10 (#1)
NBC – The Office (R)
Viewers: 2.68 million (#4), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#4t)
Fox – Movie: A Night at the Museum (R)
Viewers: 6.04 million (#3), A18-49: 1.7/ 6 (#3)
CW – Vampire Diaries (R)
Viewers: 2.41 million (#5), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#4t)
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8:30 p.m.
ABC – A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (R)
Viewers: 6.37 million (#3), A18-49: 1.9/ 6 (#3)
CBS – Survivor: Samoa Clips Show
Viewers: 9.67 million (#1), A18-49: 2.9/ 9 (#1)
NBC – The Office (R)
Viewers: 2.68 million (#4), A18-49: 1.0/ 3 (#4t)
Fox – Movie: A Night at the Museum (R)
Viewers: 6.59 million (#2), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#2)
CW – Vampire Diaries (R)
Viewers: 2.58 million (#5), A18-49: 1.0/ 3 (#4t)
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9:00 p.m.
ABC – Beyonce: I Am…Yours
Viewers: 4.99 million (#3), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#3)
CBS – CSI (R)
Viewers: 8.71 million (#1), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#2)
NBC – NBC’s People of the Year
Viewers: 4.91 million (#4), A18-49: 1.3/ 4 (#4)
Fox – Movie: A Night at the Museum (R)
Viewers: 7.10 million (#2), A18-49: 2.2/ 7 (#1)
CW – Supernatural (R)
Viewers: 2.33 million (#5), A18-49: 1.0/ 3 (#4t)
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9:30 p.m.
ABC – Beyonce: I Am…Yours
Viewers: 5.28 million (#4), A18-49: 1.8/ 5 (#3)
CBS – CSI (R)
Viewers: 8.74 million (#1), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#2)
NBC – NBC’s People of the Year
Viewers: 5.43 million (#2), A18-49: 1.4/ 4 (#4)
Fox – Movie: A Night at the Museum (R)
Viewers: 6.85 million (#2), A18-49: 2.1/ 6 (#1)
CW – Supernatural (R)
Viewers: 2.09 million (#5), A18-49: 0.9/ 3 (#4t)
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10:00 p.m.
ABC – Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City
Viewers: 4.73 million (#3), A18-49: 1.3/ 4 (#3)
CBS – The Mentalist (R)
Viewers: 9.48 million (#1), A18-49: 2.2/ 7 (#1)
NBC – The Jay Leno Show
Viewers: 5.13 million (#2), A18-49: 1.6/ 5 (#2)
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10:30 p.m.
ABC – Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City
Viewers: 4.58 million (#3), A18-49: 1.1/ 4 (#3)
CBS – The Mentalist (R)
Viewers: 8.92 million (#1), A18-49: 2.0/ 6 (#1)
NBC – The Jay Leno Show
Viewers: 4.95 million (#2), A18-49: 1.5/ 5 (#2)
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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. Source: Marc Berman/MediaWeek
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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.
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ABC should’ve aired an AFV repeat at 10pm last night since Jay Leno beat the Paul McCartney special, which barely rated higher than a typical Grey’s repeat.
looks like the Mentalist was FIRST!
Ouch for the McCartney special. It wasn’t that good, though… they cut a verse out of at least several of the songs!
FAIL. i’m so ashamed.
CW is high because football aired here in NY so those #s will change in the finals.
So almost no one was interested in seeing jim and pam get married again.
Well, who woulda thought Jay Leno would be the highlight of the night…
Two nights in a row that Leno has beaten ABC in demo and overall numbers.
For those who are happy about Leno beating ABC, Leno was promoted a lot during the parade and all it got was 1.6? Thats pathetic. I saw like 1 promo for the Paul McCartney concert.
Re SURVIVOR: Freakishly good numbers for a clip show. They were aided by the fact that the show has been red-hot the last three weeks. I never watch the clip show, but even I — like most fans, it seemed — tuned in last night.
The McCartney special was just pathetic: wrong choice of songs (each one a snoozer) and a painful reminder that the guy is simply riding on the coat tail of the Beatles and past fame. This is exactly why he should retire. The numbers just speak for themselves. No one is interested.
SN and vampire diaries repeats were better than a new Melrose place episode… They were quite strong for repeats actually… Impressing (in a CW way)
I wonder if, had FOX aired Fringe at 9, it would have gotten the same ratings as Night At the Museum (or higher/lower?)?
hate re runs at least White Collar is new toinght
That was kind of a lot of people watching Survivor given the day.
I never cheer for The Jay Leno Show but at least he beat that dreadful Paul McCartney special. I don’t understand why people like his music. Actually don’t understand why people like(d) The Beatles either…Lost on me.
Why watch broadcast when you could have been watching the Science Channel’s Punkin Chuckin! Now there was some good clean fun.
SAMUEL, FOOTBALL AIRED IN NY SO THOSE #S FOR THE CW ARE WRONG!
I watched the Office, I don’t watch the show regularly and happened to see that the wedding episode was on so i checked it out, pretty funny.
I assume nobody was watching because they’ve been eating turkey.
Also, why not a huge picture of a Turkey on a plate as the main picture of the article?
Does anyone else think that Russel on survior is being paid to be on the show to make it more interesting. I mean come on he is a millionaire and he has found 3 immunity idols just to keep him there. I just think its odd because what is the chance that 1 person would find one idol but 3 come on.
Survivor Samoa was made up of clips, but virtually all of the clips were never telecast before. It is better described as a program made up of virtually all deleted scenes.
Just to let everyone know, the reason Jay Leno had his largest audience in six weeks was because of the extremely sexy and talented Megan Fox being his guest. I told you all yesterday to watch and it seems that some of you did. Thanks! I’m sure Megan also thanks you. Cheers!
Don’t understand the McCartney bashing.
He was in decent voice and the band rocked.
I agree that his creative juices went dry after Wings disbanded but the guy is a pop music icon and the Beatles were ten times better than any other pop music group established after they hung it up.
Surprised Survivor did that well, a 3.0 on Thanksgiving night is pretty impressive.
Overall this week for Leno seems to be up a bit from the past couple.
Supernatural held up amazingly well, especially for a repeat, and when compared to the TVD ep that was its lead-in.
Beyonce’s showing shows that Thanksgiving Eve just isn’t a good time for viewers, no matter how hot, commercially, an act is. People made a deal about Madonna’s T-giving Eve concert spcial on NBC performing lowly on T-giving Eve in 2005- it drew roughly the same # of viewers that Beyonce’s special did (it was 2 hours vs. Beyonce’s 1-hour, but, you get the drift).
Yes, Pam, I think Russell is a plant on Survivor. I said it after the first episode and every week just confirms my initial thought. From the beginning, CBS has used him in every promo shown. They promoted his (false) claim of fighting for his life during Katrina, only to have his dog die in the disaster. I have a big picture of CBS promoting him lying & bragging about being a 9/11 survivor who pulled himself from the rubble only to have his dog die in the Towers’ collapse. Would never happen. He sabotages his own team (more promo focus) and then finds not 1, not 2, but 3 idols (so far) – IN A JUNGLE – without having one clue about their whereabouts & without knowing an idol even exists (more promo focus). The odds are simply too unbelievable to even consider he isn’t a plant.
Impressive performance from Survivor
I don’t think Russell is being paid to by CBS at all. If CBS was going to get someone to do this wouldn’t they have picked a guy who was better looking? Say a Mick or Jaison, but Russell? A short guy who is heavy with a missing tooth (Oh ya, I’m sure the studios are really going after him).
Russell finding the Idols is actually a no-brainer, in every Survivor since the the Immunity Idols were introduced they have always been hid in obvious locations, Russell just figured out that if he looked around camp sooner or later he would find it. Remember there is no work or school or TV to occupy your time there, so all he has to do is search and search and search for these Idols (even right in front of the other members). No, Russell isn’t a plant for CBS, he is just a fan who was observant enough to play the game and play hard. Enough with conspiracy stories now and let’s enjoy this rewarding season
Not even 40 comments?
The only difference is that “Manny” Madonna is an actual turkey–at least she’s starting to resemble one. That Hottie Beyonce and Beatle man Paul still beat her in both viewer ship demographics, and overall ratings, this yr., with their specials.
If I remember correctly Madonna’s Turkey Special landed clear down at #78 in ‘06, garnering an even punier 4.66 mil viewers. Plus Madonna’s special was hyped till our eyes bled, controversy and all, before it even went to air.
Charlie Brown didn’t do so bad- I’m betting FlashForward couldn’t pull those numbers on a Thanksgiving night.