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| Rating: Adults 18-49 | 2.1/6 | 1.4/4 | 1.2/4 | 1.2/4 | 0.4/1 |
| Rating: Adults 18-34 | 1.3/5 | 1.4/5 | 1.3/4 | 0.9/3 | 0.4/1 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 9.23 | 3.77 | 3.49 | 4.07 | 1.00 |
CBS won a night filled with mostly repeats easily with adults 18-49 and total viewers, while NBC won with adults 18-34 (tied with Univision).
A bad morning for folks with Leno-rage. NBC publicly predicted the Leno would fare better when it ran with new episodes against repeats. But last night, a repeat of The Jay Leno Show put a beat down on an original airing of a scripted show. OK, so that show was Eastwick which ABC was merely burning off, but still. And the repeat Leno lost by a wide margin to a repeat of CSI: NY, but still not bad numbers for a rerun.
Parks & Recreation and Community fans who were rooting for The Office mini-marathon of four repeats to do just as badly so you could say, “See, repeats on NBC just don’t do as well,”….sorry. Repeats of The Office did noticeably better. In fact, head-to-head vs. the ABC comedy repeats (and a Charlie Brown special) The Office fared better every half hour. But repeats of New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried won the 8p-9p hour.
Full Details:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Shr | Viewers (Millons) |
| 8:00 | CBS | New Adventures of Old Christine (R) | 1.6/5 | 6.04 |
| NBC | The Office (R) | 1.4/4 | 3.75 | |
| ABC | Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (R) | 1.3/4 | 4.79 | |
| FOX | Glee (R) | 1.1/3 | 3.40 | |
| CW | One Tree Hill (R) | 0.5/1 | 1.17 | |
| 8:30 | CBS | Gary Unmarried (R) | 1.5/5 | 5.56 |
| NBC | The Office (R) | 1.4/4 | 3.37 | |
| ABC | The Middle (R) | 1.2/4 | 4.34 | |
| 9:00 | CBS | Criminal Minds (R) | 2.4/7 | 11.04 |
| NBC | The Office (R) | 1.6/5 | 3.53 | |
| ABC | Modern Family (R) | 1.3/4 | 3.82 | |
| FOX | Glee (R) | 1.3/4 | 3.59 | |
| CW | Gossip Girl (R) | 0.3/1 | 0.83 | |
| 9:30 | NBC | The Office (R) | 1.3/4 | 4.19 |
| ABC | Cougar Town (R) | 1.1/3 | 3.41 | |
| 10:00 | CBS | CSI: NY (R) | 2.3/7 | 10.85 |
| NBC | The Jay Leno Show (R) | 1.3/4 | 4.38 | |
| ABC | Eastwick | 1.0/3 | 3.26 |
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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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Now i see why Eastwick was cancelled. Pretty good reapete numbers for CSI:NY and Criminal Minds. Congrats NBC for your comedy making it over 1.0 for the 1st time this week.
I’m glad to see an Office repeat beat ABC’s overrated ‘Modern Family’. That show is just a 70′s family sitcom, done ‘Office’ style’. Tallk to the camera (doc style) … single camera …. no laugh track .. some nice looking females.
Too bad about the Nielsen for the ‘Eastwick’ finale – last night’s episode was quite bittersweet all round, and even had a new plot tangent introduced with the Friesen father-son demon-team (with the dad played by Mr. Jerry O’Connell).
I do hope that ABC screens the remaining ‘Eastwick’ episodes this summer on Saturday nights.
hello old christine pickup!!
So glad to see The Office marathon do poorly. Hopefully it will help P&R save face for it’s equally bad (well, worse actually) marathon night.
The weird thing was they showed episode 12 of Eastwick and skipped episode 11 so we missed a piece of the story. So the two episodes left to show are 11 and 13. Maybe they’ll be on the DVD? I guess it’s becoming a marketing ploy to sell DVD’s of canceled shows.
But at least the show did seem to have a completion to the first part of the story.
If Leno can just keep being scheduled against episodes of cancelled shows and keep having a lead in of 4 episodes of NBC’s only hit comedy, then he’ll have a chance.
Wow, that repeat number for Leno is better than some of the Monday and Friday premiere ratings the show has gotten.
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“The weird thing was they showed episode 12 of Eastwick and skipped episode 11 so we missed a piece of the story. So the two episodes left to show are 11 and 13. Maybe they’ll be on the DVD? I guess it’s becoming a marketing ploy to sell DVD’s of canceled shows.”
I don’t know about a marketing ploy, but I’d expect Eastwick, like almost every other scripted show on network television, to get a DVD release.
Let’s face it everybody is doing badly this week. The Christmas-New Years is a yawner for network TV.
A repeat of The Middle did better than a repeat of Cougar Town?
@Cucumber Jones,
That’s not poorly enough. I myself expected about these numbers. What will be really telling, is how 30 Rock does tonight.
Criminal Minds did great! GO Modern Family and Cougar Town!
Hate how they skipped an episode of Eastwick, still a great episode overall, wish it had of done better but I didn’t expect it to get any higher.
@Mumbo,
The ploy is not showing a few episodes and then putting them on the DVD to get fans to purchase it. The few fans the show had! They did it with Dollhouse and Point Pleasant. Those are two I can think of off the top of my head recently.
Lizard
On its own terms, that really is freakishly good for OLD CHRISTINE.
That was the final episode of Eastwick. ABC did skip an episode to air the final episode that was produced so no episodes will be aired in the summer. The show is gone unfortunately.
Well of course Eastwick’s number are gonna keep dropping. everyone knows the show is cancelled, not worth watching on the day anymore, I know I wont! Same goes for why Dollhouse ratings cant go past 0.8 now
EASTWICK WAS FABULOUS LAST NIGHT!! WELL WORTH THE LONG WAIT. IS ABC REALLY CANCELLING EASTWICK BECAUSE OF NIELSEN’S OUTDATED RATING METHODS? REALLY? THEY DON’T EVEN COUNT DVR AND ON-LINE VIEWING IN THEIR STATISTICS. THEY ONLY HAVE 10 THOUSAND NIELSEN BOXES IN HOMES TODAY. THIS POPULATION IS TOO SMALL TO SPEAK FOR 300 MILLION PEOPLE. THIS IS MORE THAN UNFAIR.
Good repeat demo for OTH. Maybe the highest for CW this week.
Connie Taylor, try pressing the caps lock button.
So how many bingo card squares can we reasonably fill from connie taylor’s post?
Surprised by the Glee repeat’s demos…
Why would ABC skip an episode of Eastwick!? I really hope it’s released on DVD.
Oh…Why does Gossip Girl repeat so badly?
Shelly, it’s New Year’s so I’m giving myself a BINGO, courtesy of Connie Taylor.
@johnthemon: What do you expect to learn from a New Year’s Eve “30 Rock” marathon? I would guess it could get the worst numbers of the week. Less than 3 million total viewers?
Better numbers for Leno after lower numbers earlier in the week. Of course they are all repeats and he has has a 4 year deal and is staying at least 2 and hopefully all 4.
@anthony
I expect to finally see how well 30 Rock does without the Office.
i hope NBC’s comedy night done right lineup can become more sucseful like it’s Cosby/Cheers era and that aBC wednseday gets more viewers too. Rock On Office, modern Family, P & R, Community, 30 Rock, and The Jay leno Show
johnthemon, you think New Years Eve repeats is really a good judge of that?
@johnthemon: I don’t put much stock in lead-in programs (as discussed in a previous thread) although I’m told there is statistical evidence to the contrary – I can’t buy into it.
I watch “Parks & Rec” and “The Office” every week and turn the channel when “30 Rock” starts.
I think it’s the most over-rated show in prime time.
Why would ABC only air 11 of the 13 produced episodes? They could have easily had a couple of 2 episode marathons.
Have you seen a promo for Eastwick lately? I haven’t. What a shame, it’s actually a fun li’l show with some nice work from Paul Gross and Jaime Ray Newman. Even RR-O’C isn’t so bad on the show.
Certainly better than a couple of their other 10 pm offerings, like Private Practice which is just horrible and a complete waste of Kate Walsh, and the Christian Slater series.
I betcha this show is a big hit if it airs after Grey’s. Sure, it won’t happen, but I think it would have worked there.
I’m so surprised at the ratings for Old Christine.
I’d never expect it to beat The Office or Glee, but it beat both!
Last night was an ok night for NBC. NBC proved to advertisers that repeat episodes of The Office can beat repeat episodes of ABC’s “hit” comedies in the A 18-49 demo. However, repeat episodes of The Office couldn’t beat repeat episodes of Old Christine and Gary UnMarried. NBC executives must be praying that Two and a Half Men and the Big Bang Theory won’t directly compete with The Office.
ABC had a terrible night. The producers of the Middle now know that the maximum audience for the Middle will be the peak audience for Old Christine. If the quality of the show remains good, then the Middle has a chance to stay on the air for years.
I’m sorry to tell Courtney Cox Arquette that The Middle appears to be a stronger show than her show. The critics appear to prefer The Middle over Cougar Town. Just like Samantha Who?, Cougar Town depends on a strong lead in. If Cougar Town doesn’t improve its quality, it will end up like Samantha Who?
What more can be said about Eastwick? The title of this blog says it all. I applaud ABC for bringing in non crime procedurals to network television. I do feel sorry for the advertisers who probably paid at least twice those who paid to advertise at the Jay Leno Show. Those advertisers are getting ripped off. Next year, those advertisers should demand that if they don’t get the ratings they were promised, they should demand to air commercials on Grey’s Anatomy for free during the November, February, or May sweeps periods.
Do the networks even really care that much about their shows repeating badly? I mean noone expects a Modern Family or Cougar Town rerun to even have comparible numbers to a 1st run episode.
Even if your a fan of the show and missed the episode, chances are your going to hunt for it on Hulu if you have high speed internet.
I think during the holidays and part of January it’s more a matter of just getting something on the air.
Seeing comments that The Office marathon was a disaster is baffling.
Great numbers for the repeat of Criminal Minds – which is always a strong hitter in new episodes and repeats. It’s too bad it will be thrown under the Idol bus, but at least it can hold its own.
@Julia, probably the best indicator so far. I’m not going to compare it to new episodes of course, but to the relative performance of the other comedy marathons on NBC. I expected this to be obvious.
@Tony, don’t underestimate the power of a lead-in. At this point, it’s probably not helping 30 Rock much, the people who like it have already found it. But don’t say that it never helps a show.
I heard that Eastwick had been canceled, and thought it had been pulled. Whenever I tuned in-after the cancellation news, it was never on. I forgot to even check Wed night-probably because, as noted by ‘Joe Bua’ upthread, ABC hasn’t run ANY promos for it.
@ Don J, you are absolutely right. The age of the rerun is over. That’s why nets program the summers with original programming now.
^^…Any they are even streaming it at the network sight, or Hulu, so I can’t even catch up.
Johnthemon: I think your expectations that it’s obvious are unreasonable because it’s New Years Eve. If they’d have done it last night, or Monday night, maybe, but you probably won’t be able to read anything at all into what happens tonight anymore than you could read anything into repeats airing on a Saturday where, for example, reruns of The Office typically perform much worse than they did last night.
@Rob, alright you guys win. I guess I was wrong.
@Kyle B, as has been said countless times before, why would ABC waste promo space for a show they’ve already declared dead?
At least “Eastwick” finally held its lead-in.
And how silly of ABC to pull the 11th episode and air the 12th instead (while never even scheduling the 13th). What purpose did that serve?
I watched modern family (I vowed never to I hate the actress who plays the mother). But damn it it was funny. Same for cougar town. I liked it. But too bad ABC I won’t watch you anymore you said goodbye to Eastwick I say good bye to you.
I think its stupid that people will not watch other shows on ABC just because they cancelled Eastwick. Like as mad as I am, Eastwick didnt get good ratings so ABC had to cancel it. Though ABC cancelled Eastwick, I will still watch The Middle and Modern Family because I like those shows and they shouldnt suffer! But as far as new shows, not watching any just yet.
@johnthemon, If you’re still on the schedule, you still need to draw in an audience, whether you’ve been canned or not…if only to help draw in viewers to other shows, and promote whatever’s gonna take to time period.
rob:
Some viewers are really tempermental and extremely irrational. I recall when FOX canceled Prison Break, I read 700+ posts on some other board of people complaining and saying they vowed never to watch FOX again and said Prison Break has 2-3 more seasons left in it.
Riff:
I write it off to an early start on the holiday egg nog
Well of course Eastwick is doing numbers like that, its beeb cancelled, people will have stopped watching since we know there is no ending to the show, i know i have
@Lizardman
no they didnt skip episode 11. I thought they did too because the episode started off with flashbacks but it wasnt a skipped episode. it was just the characters memory.
It seems the esoteric art of understanding the significance of ratings for reruns requires more time and effort to master than most people care to put into it – surely retailers and movies advertise the hell out of the Christmas season, so I don’t really think the December ratings, while miniscule with razor-thin margins among shows, are as insignificant to sponsors as they are to the public. About the Office: generally, counter-intuitively, syndication improves the ratings of shows still on the air. I got tired of the Office after one year, but I have been watching it every day on TBS between Seindfeld and Earl, and also have watched Earl in syndie after giving up on its 2nd season storyline. I’ve gotten back into the Office. I don’t roar with laughter, but I do appreciate what they are trying to do, and I don’t think the original British version, which is shown late-late night on Adult Swim, is all that much better than the American version. The Office has a cast which looks like actual people, and some of the minor characters are the best and most poignant. What other show would bother to promote the weird ( and true to life ) fatal attraction between the uptight blond control freak and the truly disturbed ( and often hilarious) Rainn Wilson (?) character? Anyway, can’t wait to get to the stats freak posts …
WOW! What’s happened with Christine & Gary? They seem to have really picked up especially in total viewers. Maybe Christine will stick around another season after all. More episodes for Julia’s syndication.
Well, you cannot expect a show that you do not promote, constantly play with air time, et al. to have any decent ratings.
Eastwick as a good little show. How ABC handled the show was horrific. No wonder there was never any good numbers.
Let’s not forget, one area got the full show starting on time.
In other areas, Eastwick started over 20 mins. late. EW started well over twenty minutes late on my local ABC. I was just ready to turn off the TV when the show started. Matter of fact, I was on the ABC forum trying to figure out what was going on right when it started. I had no clue what was going on. I can imagine that others may have given up in the first few minutes assuming that ABC was not going to air it – seems this was an ABC trend with EW to begin with.
So yeah, there goes some ratings if you ask me.
Great news for Jay!! Now he has Betty to contend with!
This is so stupid! Duh no one is going to watch Eastwick after it has been cancelled, especially when the creator said in an interview that the episodes recorded end in the middle of very important story lines. I’m glad networks keep taking chances with non-procedurals. Not every show needs to be a CSI or NCIS. Personally, I like a connected story that I can follow week to week, not just a different version of the same story. Go Eastwick! I will definitely buy the DVD if it gets released.
Cougar Town did poorly, much worse than Modern Family. That show could be in trouble. I always thought the premise was a bit flimsy to sustain 25 episodes a year.
This is a joke, CBS wednesday comedies get low-mid 2′s on originals and it’s repeating like this. Come on.
This is where Neilson ratings is really flawed.
vsaint, it couldn’t possibly be that less people watched them originally, so now when there’s no competition more people haven’t seen them and are checking them out. That couldn’t possibly be the answer. It must be a flaw in the numbers.
Why didn’t ABC air an AFV repeat at 10pm last night and save the two unaired Eastwick episodes on Saturday from 8-10pm? They’re airing Desperate Housewives repeats from 8-10pm on Saturday and we all know how lousy that show does in repeats. I know they are re-airing those two episodes (including the plane crash episode) for people to catch up on the show for Sunday night’s new episode, but is Eastwick that lousy of a performer that it can’t do as “well” as DH repeats on a Saturday?
I hope dick clark and ryan secrest can pull of good ratings for their new years eve show tonight on FOX.
Of course The Office repeats did better. It has more exposure; more people know about it. Maybe marathoning P&R and Community will give those shows a boost in ratings. NBC can only hope.
Kind of surprised at Glee’s repeat numbers.
That’s the second comment of surprise at Glee’s repeat numbers. Is that a good surprised or bad surprised? I see nothing surprising about them either way, so I’m trying to figure out if my expectations are too high or too low, according to some.
Peter:
You do know that everything last night was repeats right including Modern Family and Cougar Town?
I don’t know why any of these repeat figures really matter other than recouping more ad dollars to pay for production and promotion costs.
Since when does Charlie Brown have a New Years Special???
How did the premiere of the real world dc do?
Reruns of The Middle do better then Cougar Town always.
The Middle should be behind Modern Family.
They could be the 00′s Cosby Show/Family Ties…
@Anna
Wednesdays episode of Eastwick was logged as Episode 12 on a number of sites that record that type of information as that was the information passed from ABC. Episode 11 was never aired. I have checked with three sources before I mentioned it online as that information is not always 100% correct. I haven’t found anyone to show me anything tangible otherwise and have made some inquires to those who might know the answer.
Actually it is a pretty moot point at this time. They were in the middle of producing episode 13 when canceled and ABC only showed eleven total on the air. I believe ABC really left the one for Wednesday as the finale.
Lizard
By the way, Episode 11 the episode they skipped was titled “Red Bath and Beyond.”
kyle, re Charlie Brown Special
Since 1986, according to the imdb folks. Just FYI
To “Eastwick” fans, the party-line from ABC is that they have no plans “at the moment” to air “Red Bath and Beyond” and “Pampered and Tampered.” Perhaps you will see them this summer, as you did for the leftovers of last season’s Warner Bros. bomb, “Pushing Daisies.” And perhaps they will insert a repeat of “Magic Snow and Creepy Gene” in between so you can watch it where it was meant to be seen and not have to wonder where all those “previously on” scenes were coming from or how the hell the hot chicks got out of the predicament they were in when they last left off in “Tea and Psychopathy.” (Hi, Anna. Thanks for being wrong as usual. Bye now.)
Neilson is as pathetic a ratings system as the advertisers who pay for it’s mis-information. The ad-based free network TV model is dead. In this day and age, people are much more willing to pay to watch the shows they want, choose when they want to watch them (less commercials) and thereby allow the good ones to stay on the air. My DVR could tell the advertisers quite a bit about which of their awful commercials I skip through however!
Eric, which of your favorite shows was particularly poorly rated (by the pathetic Nielsen system) and recently canceled? or headed for cancellation?
Of course Leno rated higher. ABC disrespected Eastwick fans by skipping episode 11 and will not be showing episode 13..why would I WANT to watch episode 12 to only be left with another cliff hanger and no answers.
I’m thinking that ABC scarred away what little fans Eastwick had by skipping to episode 12. People might have tuned out when the next new episode didn’t seem to have much of a conection to what happened in the last aired episode.
I wonder if Lifetime or SyFy will pick this series up to rerun on their respected channels?
to be fair, abc did show all re-runs between 8-10pm and it was already losing to cbs and nbc
So is there anywhere to watch the real episode 11 of eastwick? I didn’t even bother watching the last episode when I noticed that they skipped it.