Ratings

[Docker2.0]

Is Smallville the CW's highest rated show? PLEASE tell me Gossip Girl or 90210 is not! Someone needs to get rid of Dawn! Its like its the CW is the Lifetime channel lite!

 

[SV Fan]

Is Smallville the CW's highest rated show? PLEASE tell me Gossip Girl or 90210 is not! Someone needs to get rid of Dawn! Its like its the CW is the Lifetime channel lite!

Unless America's Top Model is on I am pretty sure it is(most there other shows save Supernatural barely scrap 3M)

 

[Webhead2006]

yea from everything i heard about all the other drama shows they are scraping at the bottom of ratings at 1-low 3million mark where smallville/supernatural are high 3-5million viewers are are the network's top rated scripted shows.

 

[Docker2.0]

Hahaha! I hope you guys are right! Its funny how the CW markets Gossip Girl and all those crappy girlie shows that not even girls like but barely market Smallville and Supernatural at all.

 

[SV Fan]

Hahaha! I hope you guys are right! Its funny how the CW markets Gossip Girl and all those crappy girlie shows that not even girls like but barely market Smallville and Supernatural at all.

I am not a TV person, but to me part of the problem to me seems they have so many shows of a similar type that they are dividing there own audience. Not everybody will watch every teenage Drama that is on TV so by having 6 similar type shows, chances are they might get alot of people who watch 1-2 of them but give up on the others ones becuase it's to much. They would probably be better off cutting down the girlie shows down to 2 nights then try diverisfy there other nights.

 

[Docker2.0]

I agree! you'd think with all the fanboys and the success of Smallville, the CW would try some kind of spin off to see where it leads instead of 20 other girl dramas that look exactly the same. But only a person with common sense would know this, not the WB.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

has nothing to do with the WB. It's all on Dawn Ostroff who came over from UPN and now calls the shots (or misfires) at the CW.

 

[Webhead2006]

YEa with dawn o in charged she wants everything to be all woman demo(no offense to you ladies here). And it is silly why give all the advertise and money to gg/90210/etc..... shows which are failing in ratings but the shows that are the top rated ones for the network keep getting budget slashes.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

almost the same ratings as before they went on hiatus

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Prime-Time Ratings:
Thursday 3/12/09

-Total Viewers:
CBS: 13.88 million, ABC: 9.94, Fox: 8.66, NBC: 7.29, CW: 3.28

-Adults 18-49:
CBS: 3.7 rating/10 share, ABC: 3.5/ 9, NBC and Fox: 3.1/ 8 each, CW: 1.3/ 4

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
Survivor: Tocantins (CBS), CSI (CBS), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), ER (NBC)

-Honorable Mention:
Bones (Fox)

-Disappointing:
Private Practice (ABC)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
Kath & Kim (NBC) -- please NBC, officially cancel this!

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-Ratings Breakdown:
CBS led this second Thursday of the February 2009 sweeps, beating No. 2 ABC by 3.94 million viewers and six percent among adults 18-49. Fox and NBC tied for the No. 3 and 4 spots, while the CW finished a distant fifth.

The Eye net opened the night on a normally dominant note, with veteran Survivor: Tocantins at 12.89 million viewers and a 4.1 rating/12 share among adults 18-49 at 8 p.m. (which is right on par with the Micronesia version from one year earlier). As for the show itself, tone it down, Taj. What was that outburst all about?

Second in the 8 p.m. hour was Fox’s underappreciated Bones at a healthy 9.55 million viewers and a 2.8/ 8 in the demo. Also present was ABC’s hiatus-bound Ugly Betty (Viewers: #3, 7.21 million; A18-49: #3, 2.1/ 6), followed by a repeat of My Name Is Earl (Viewers: #4, 4.41 million; A18-49: #4, 1.7/ 5) and the season (or series) finale of the abysmal Kath & Kim (Viewers: #4, 4.00 million; A18-49: #4, 1.7/ 5) on NBC, and already renewed Smallville on the CW (Viewers: #5, 3.72 million; A18-49: #5, 1.6/ 5). Keep in mind that ABC will debut new sitcom Motherhood at 8 p.m. followed by the return of Samantha Who? effective on March 26.

CBS warhorse CSI and Grey’s Anatomy on ABC led the 9 p.m. hour, but both were below average. Take a look:

Thursday 9 p.m.
CSI (CBS)
Viewers: 16.96 million (#1), A18-49: 4.2/10 (#2)

Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
Viewers: 13.54 million (#2), A18-49: 4.9/12 (#1)

Hell’s Kitchen on Fox and NBC’s The Office and 30 Rock shared the No. 3 and 4 spots as follows:

Thursday 9 p.m.
Hell’s Kitchen (Fox)
Viewers: 7.76 million (#3), A18-49: 3.5/ 9 (#4)

The Office (NBC) – 9 p.m.
Viewers: 7.51 million (#4), A18-49: 4.0/10 (#2t)

30 Rock (NBC) – 9:30 p.m.
Viewers: 6.41 million (#4), A18-49: 3.3/ 8 (#4)

And Supernatural on the CW capped off the 9 p.m. hour with 2.84 million viewers and a 1.1/ 3 among adults 18-49. Comparably, that put retention out of the second half of Smallville (Viewers: 3.84 million; A18-49: 1.6/ 5 at 8:30 p.m.) of 74 percent in total viewers and 69 percent in the demo.

 

[Webhead2006]

Good to see smallville is holding its ratings of high 3million-4million viewers still.

 

[04nbod]

YEa with dawn o in charged she wants everything to be all woman demo(no offense to you ladies here). And it is silly why give all the advertise and money to gg/90210/etc..... shows which are failing in ratings but the shows that are the top rated ones for the network keep getting budget slashes.

no offence taken. Remember, we woman loved the WB in its sci fi days. Buffy, Angel, Roswell...all that had a big female fan base. I don't feel like the CW makes shows for me (Smallville and Supernatural being the hangovers of a better time). I don't want to watch vapid socialites ***** about each other. I want excitement in my shows. I want to watch women who do good like Lois Lane, Kara Zor-el, Buffy Summers, Veronica Mars etc...

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea dawn just thinks those silly rich girl drama shows are the best things to have. I wish she was a better president but at this rate and if u been following Cw's troubles she is running it into the ground fast.

 

[The Incredible Hulk]

Hex ratings, staying consistent around 3.74 million. It still may have been impacted by the NCAA Tournament and AI's odd Thursday night show this week due to Obama on Tuesday.

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Prime-Time Ratings:
Thursday 3/26/09

-Total Viewers:
Fox: 16.65 million, ABC; 10.97, CBS: 10.12, NBC: 7.78, CW: 3.46

-Adults 18-49:
Fox: 6.1 rating/16 share, ABC: 3.8/10, CBS: 3.5/ 9, NBC: 3.1/ 8, CW: 1.4/ 4

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
American Idol (Fox), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
My Name is Earl (NBC)

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-Note: Any year-ago comparisons are based on the final nationals.

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-Ratings Breakdown:
Fox dominated this final Thursday in March (and the first night after the February 2009 sweeps) care of the live American Idol Results Show, which was pushed back one night due to President Obama in prime-time on Tuesday. Second was ABC, followed by March Madness on CBS, NBC and the CW.

American Idol stood well above the competition, with 22.35 million viewers and a 7.5 rating/21 share among adults 18-49. That led into loud Hell’s Kitchen, which was above-average with 10.94 million viewers (#3) and a 4.8/12 share in the demo (#2) at 9 p.m. It certainly does not hurt having American Idol as your lead-in, now does it?

In series-premiere news, ABC sitcom In the Motherhood was nothing to boast about with 6.72 million viewers and a 2.1/ 6 among adults 18-49 -- third in both categories (and better than NBC’s competing My Name is Earl). Comparably, this was about equal to the weak-ago performance of former occupant Ugly Betty. In the Motherhood led into the return of Samantha Who?, which debuted in the Thursday 8:30 p.m. time period with a compatible 6.53 million viewers (#3) and a 2.1/ 6 in the demo (#2t). Next on ABC was Grey’s Anatomy (Viewers: 15.81 million; A18-49: 5.5/13), which according to posters at PIFeedback was an amazing episode, followed by spin-off Private Practice (Viewers: #1, 10.47 million; A18-49: #1t, 3.7/10 at 10 p.m.). Retention for Private Practice out of the second half of Grey’s Anatomy (Viewers: 16.54 million; A18-49: 5.8/14 at 9:30 p.m.) was an acceptable 63 percent in total viewers and 64 percent in the demo).

Over at CBS was day one of the 2009 NCAA Basketball: Regional Semi-Finals at an estimated 10.12 million viewers (#3) and a 3.5/ 9 among adults 18-49 (#3) in prime-time. Comparably, that was close to levels from one year earlier (Viewers: 10.02 million; A18-49: 3.9/11 on March 27, 2008). As a reminder, results for any live sporting event are always approximate.

NBC was at typical lackluster Thursday levels with its combination of My Name is Earl (Viewers: #4, 5.87 million; A18-49: #4, 2.0/ 6), a repeat of The Office (Viewers: #4, 4.87 million; A18-49: #3t, 2.1/ 5), an original installment of The Office (Viewers: #4, 8.44 million; A18-49: #3, 4.3/11), which always generates interest among adults 18-49, silly 30 Rock (Viewers: #4, 7.17 million; A18-49: #4, 3.4/ 8) and veteran ER (Viewers: #2, 10.16 million; A18-49: #3, 3.6/10), which officially concludes next Thursday. To anyone expecting huge results for the ER-ender, this will be no M*A*S*H. As for The Office, I missed it last night. Is Michael back at Dunder-Mifflin yet?

The CW capped off the evening with original episodes of the already renewed Smallville (Viewers: #5, 3.74 million; A18-49: #5, 1.5/ 4), which heads into season nine next fall (time flies!) and the very compatible Supernatural (Viewers: #5, 3.17 million; A18-49: #5, 1.2/ 3), which enters season five.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

 

[Webhead2006]

nice roughly 4million viewers. Good rating.

 

[Zing79]

I would like to bring this thread back just to point this out: the show that replaced Smallville (Vampire Diaries) had a series premier that barely beat out Smallville's season premier last year.

And this week they lost 1.2 million viewers from that premier and are now at 3.76 million in the overnights. Scroll up to see what Smallville did for Hex (spoiler warning it's virtually the same number ) - an episode in the middle of its season against the NCAA Tournament.

What are the odds VD (yes I'm intentionally using that acronym as a pun) loses even more audience next week, and the week after that, etc?

So in conclusion: if your personal opinion was that Dawn Ostrof was dumber that a monkey before this, allow the numbers to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is indeed that stupid.

She'll kill two shows at once. VD won't survive Thursdays against the competition it has, and Smallville is going to get hit hard by being on Friday.

That deserves a

 

[Webhead2006]

oh i doubt it will keep above 3 million viewers for its remaining episodes. I wish it luck and all we know the network needs good ratings for shows to keep the network up and going. Though all we can hope for smallville is for it to hold and maintain its ratings. By the chance zing i know last week's season premire for supernatural was about 3.4 million viewers, do you know how episode 2 ratings went?

As for the friday move really only one show is in direct competiton with smallville which is the first hr of wwe smackdown on my network. The other shows on fridays ghost whisperer/law and order/ugly betty are not in smallville's demo. Then you have to look at how the show did on its tuesdays/wensdays/thursday nights and it was always going up again shows like american idol, survivor, and others who had much stronger numbers and were getting 1-3rd place of the night with smallville getting its 3-4 million viewers and getting 5-7th place of the night.

 

[Webhead2006]

oh i doubt it will keep above 3 million viewers for its remaining episodes. I wish it luck and all we know the network needs good ratings for shows to keep the network up and going. Though all we can hope for smallville is for it to hold and maintain its ratings. By the chance zing i know last week's season premire for supernatural was about 3.4 million viewers, do you know how episode 2 ratings went?

As for the friday move really only one show is in direct competiton with smallville which is the first hr of wwe smackdown on my network. The other shows on fridays ghost whisperer/law and order/ugly betty are not in smallville's demo. Then you have to look at how the show did on its tuesdays/wensdays/thursday nights and it was always going up again shows like american idol, survivor, and others who had much stronger numbers and were getting 1-3rd place of the night with smallville getting its 3-4 million viewers and getting 5-7th place of the night.

 

[Webhead2006]

ok so i was just checking next friday's lineup from the main networks. brothers fox, ghost whisperer cbs, law and order nbc, baseball abc(ugly betty will be here normally), and wwe smackdown my network. So as i was saying before smackdown is really only show in smallville's target demo. Then fox has a new show, and who knows how good or bad it will be. Then cbs/nbc/abc have their solid shows in ghost whisperer and law and order.

So i figure weekly it will probably go 1. ghost whisperer(probably getting 8-10million) 2. law and order(8-10million) 3 ugly betty(7-9million), 4 fox show(6-8million), 5 smallville(3-5million) 6 smackdown(2-4million) for the top 6 shows at 8 pm.

 

[triplet]

I don't know how bad Fridays is going to be for Smallville...I don't see that the overnights have been posted for last night yet, but since the competing shows are all so different from Smallville (ugly betty, ghost whisperer and L&O), I think it will just as well or better than it had on Thursdays.

But I suppose only time will tell... We'll see this time next week.

 

[Mikelus]

...but it’s hard not to imagine CBS dominating Fridays. They typically won the night last season, and Medium is a net positive. Second place looks to be a battle between NBC and ABC that I think NBC will likely win. Leno has his easiest competition of the week and should do relatively well.

Fox looks to be well back in 4th, but since their Fridays last season were so screwed up, season to season comparisons may not be that bad. The CW will see a big increase on Fridays, since Smallville, their best 18-49 demo show last season, will do far better than The Game and Everybody Hates Chris that it replaces.

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/1...ollhouse-ugly-betty-til-death-southland/26735

SV should be fine, between 2-3 million viewers* is more than many CW shows and much better than what they had last year on Fridays.

* Taking into account less people watch TV on Fridays and the yearly decrease in ratings.

 

[Prison Mike]

but will it do better than when it was on Thursday nights? I doubt it.

 

[Webhead2006]

well its all a waiting game right now. I am sure smallville will be able to keep its average viewership and if the +7 figures count in too for the DVR/TIVO crowds. But its hard to judge the season to we have at least 3-4 episodes aired so we can see how its holding it viewers and then compare it to the other main networks. And its bound to do better then any of the stuff cw had on fridays before.

 

[SV Fan]

For arguement sake SV doesn't go up against Ugly Betty, Supernanny is on ABC at 8PM. The fact that UB is on at 9PM might actually help SV out a little. I can also see Dollhouse helping SV out a bit(the show on Fox at 8 PM is a comedy so...)

As for my guess how it will do in the ratings, it pulled a 1.57M viewers last night for a repeat and it seems like for the past few years SV has slightly doubled it's last repeat in terms of Season Premiere rating, so I am guessing it will be in the 3.2-3.4M range.

I think if the show gets good word of mouth you will se ratings go up slightly(much like how it did from Toxic -> Bloodline) but if it's taken negatively it might dip under 3M.

As for VD, I am guessing the show ill take one more dip in the ratings and level off(although It probably will stay above 3M)

 

[Webhead2006]

by chance does any one know how episode two of supernatural did this week?

 

[SV Fan]

by chance does any one know how episode two of supernatural did this week?

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