Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Prime-Time Metered Market Tuesday Ratings:
The Rose Bowl Leads Fox to Victory
Ratings Box:
What's Hot/What's Not
On the Air Tonight:
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TV Tidbits:
Notes of Interest
TV Trivia Time:
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Prime-Time Metered Market Tuesday Ratings:
The Rose Bowl Leads Fox to Victory
Note: The following overnight averages exclude the Tulsa market.
| Tuesday 1/01/08 Metered Market Ratings | |
| NETWORK | HH RATING/SHARE |
 | 7.9/12 |
 | 7.1/11 |
 | 6.0/ 9 |
 | 4.5/ 7 |
 | 1.3/ 2 |
-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007):
ABC: +15, Fox: + 5, CBS: - 6, CW: -24, NBC: -27
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-Yesterday's Winners:
Sugar Bowl: Hawaii vs. Georgia (Fox), Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
-Yesterday's Losers (Excluding Repeats):
Just For Laughs (ABC), According to Jim (ABC)
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-Ratings Breakdown:
Fox led this first evening of 2008, with the annual Sugar Bowl (Hawaii vs. Georgia) at an estimated 8.9 rating/13 share in the overnights in prime-time and a 7.9/13 overall from 8:45 p.m. to 12:15 a.m. One year earlier, The Sugar Bowl on Fox (LSU vs. Notre Dame) averaged a heftier 9.8/16 in the overnights on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2007.
NBC finished second overall in the metered markets with its combination of the two-hour season-premiere of The Biggest Loser (6.4/10), which picked up steam in every half hour, and Law & Order: SVU (#1: 8.5/14). Take a look at the half-hour track for The Biggest Loser and keep in mind that it always manages to exhibit some muscle among key adults 18-49.
The Biggest Loser (NBC)
8:00 p.m. 5.5/ 8 (#3)
8:30 p.m. 5.8/ 9 (#3)
9:00 p.m. 6.7/10 (#2)
9:30 p.m. 7.6/11 (#2)
Next was CBS with its line-up of a repeat of NCIS (#2: 8.0/12), a repeat of The Unit (#3: 5.1/ 8) and a Tuesday edition of 48 Hours Mystery (#3: 4.8/ 8).
ABC (which is approximate due to the Rose Bowl bleeding into prime-time) opened the evening with the final portion of The Rose Bowl (USC vs. Illinois) at an estimated 7.3/11 from 8-9 p.m. That number includes the post game show. Next were the season premieres of Just For Laughs (#4: 3.3/ 5), which plays better in the summer, and According to Jim (#4: 3.1/ 5) from 9-10 p.m., followed by a repeat of Boston Legal at a last-place 3.2/5 at 10 p.m. Why ABC needed to renew According to Jim is beyond me.
Last, and very least, were repeats of the CW's Crowned: The Mother of all Beauty Pageants (1.4/ 2) and One Tree Hill (1.3/ 2). Season No. 5 of One Tree Hill begins on Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 8 p.m. ET.
Source: : Nielsen Media Research data
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Late Night Overnight Results for New Year's Eve:
It was no contest once again as Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC scored a hefty 8.8 rating/20 share in the metered markets from 11:30 p.m.-1 a.m. ET on Monday. Comparably, that was down by three percent from last year's 9.1/21. Next was NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly (4.9/11 from 11 p.m. -12:30 a.m. -- equal to one year earlier), followed by Fox's New Year's Eve Live (3.1/ 7 from 11 p.m.-12:30 a.m.).
Daytime Ratings Update - Week of Dec. 17:
It was more split leadership in daytime for the week of Dec. 17. CBS was the most-watched network and NBC No. 1 among key women 18-49 -- 51,000 viewers ahead of second-place ABC in the demo. Here are the results:
Total Viewers:
CBS: 4.10 million, ABC: 2.82, NBC: 2.61
Women 18-49:
NBC: 882,000, ABC: 831,000. CBS: 823,000
Top 5 Programs Among Women 18-49:
The Young and the Restless (CBS): 1.14 million
General Hospital (ABC): 956,000
Days of Our Lives (NBC): 882,000
The View (ABC): 812,000
Bold & the Beautiful (CBS): 802,000
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Fast Affiliate Results for Monday 12/31/07:
What follows are the overall fast affiliate results for Monday, Dec. 31. Of note was the prime-time portion of annual holiday special Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC, with a time period-winning 9.18 million viewers and a 3.1 rating/11 share among adults 18-49 from 10-11 p.m.
Total Viewers:
ABC: 7.79 million, CBS: 5.12, Fox: 3.99, NBC: 3.88, CW: 1.09
Adults 18-49:
ABC: 2.4 rating/8 share, Fox: 1.4/ 5, CBS: 1.3/ 5, NBC: 1.2/ 4, CW: 0.4/ 1
Source: : Nielsen Media Research data
On the Air Tonight:
Prime Time Programming Options
8:00 p.m. Wife Swap (season premiere)
9:00 p.m. Supernanny (season premiere)
10:00 p.m. Supernanny
8:00 p.m. Power of 10 (season premiere)
9:00 p.m. Criminal Minds (R)
10:00 p.m. CSI: NY (R)
8:00 p.m. Deal or No Deal
9:00 p.m. Law & Order (season premiere, two hours)
8:00pm BCS Bowl Pre-Game
8:15pm Fiesta Bowl: West Virginia vs. Oklahoma
8:00 p.m. Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants
9:00 p.m. Gossip Girl
8:00 p.m. Whacked Out Videos
8:30 p.m. Whacked Out Videos
9:00 p.m. Decision House
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TV Tidbits:
Notes of Interest
Writers Strike Update:
Despite production company Worldwide Pants signing an independent agreement for the writers on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, there is no sign of the scribes going back to work as we head into month number three of the strike. The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers is estimating that the eight week to-date strike has cost the writers a staggering $151.2 million. The Writers Guild of America, meanwhile, is expected to picket the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 13.
Speaking of Pickets:
The WGA has told its membership that it plans to picket NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, which all return tonight without its writing staffs tonight.
The Best and Worst of 2007:
Since the majority of readers were off on Monday, here is an encore listing of Mr. TV's Best and Worst on the small screen in 2007.
Winners
The Sopranos (HBO)
Yes, the questionable ending left many fans cold last spring. Is Tony still alive? Was he whacked? But the painful slow decline of Tony Soprano was an appropriate swan song for this troubled mobster. Even if he did live, he is still suffering.
Grey's Anatomy (ABC) and CSI (CBS)
Despite facing each other in the same time period, the two dramas still wiped the floor with the competition (including NBC sitcoms The Office and Scrubs). Who says there can't be two big hits in one hour?
Drew Carey
Morphing from the star of a mediocre sitcom to the host of two successful game shows, The Price is Right and The Power of 10, makes Drew Carey the comeback king of 2007. Even so, I still miss Bob Barker. Don't you?
Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
If you miss the good old days of thirtysomething and seek a group of TV characters to talk about at the water-cooler, look no further. Brothers & Sisters is hands down the best relationship driven drama on the air today.
Dancing with the Stars (ABC)
Variety is not dead. It's alive and well in the form of the red-hot Dancing with the Stars.
High School Musical 2 (Disney Channel)
No, it won't exactly win any Emmys. But a whopping 17.2 million viewers in its debut makes High School Musical 2 the highest rated basic cable broadcast in the history of television.
America Ferrera
A hit show, Ugly Betty, and an Emmy to boot…certainly not a bad beginning for one of the brightest stars of tomorrow…America Ferrera. Now it is time to lose the braces and glamour it up a bit.
Lost (ABC)
After three seasons and countless mysteries, we finally got some answers. But how did Jack and Kate get off the island? And who was Kate going home to? Sawyer? Tune in on Thursday, Jan. 31 for the fourth season-premiere.
Private Practice (ABC)
A big hit? No. But the art of the spin-off is still alive and well in the form of Private Practice.
Showtime
Brotherhood, Californication, Dexter, The L Word, The Tudors, Weeds -- Showtime has picked up where HBO has left off.
Losers
Isaiah Washington
From Grey's Anatomy, a bona fide hit, to the waiting-to-be axed Bionic Woman makes opinionated Isaiah Washington the biggest loser of 2007.
Mandy Patinkin
First he prematurely exits Chicago Hope and the show is not negatively impacted. Then he abruptly departs Criminal Minds and…guess what?...the show is just fine. Will anyone (CBS, in particular) ever hire Mandy Patinkin again?
Viva Laughlin (CBS)
Too bad no one at CBS heard of that classic 1990 fiasco called Cop Rock before it briefly put this musical drama about a casino on the air. Please Melanie Griffith…stay away from the small screen!
Cavemen (ABC)
Why would anyone in their right mind think that a cute series of Geico insurance commercials would make a funny sitcom?
Rosie O'Donnell
While it looked like Rosie O'Donnell would bounce right back after her tumultuous stint on The View with her own talk show on MSNBC, the cable net backed out.
The CW
Word of advice to the programmers of tomorrow: two failed networks does not equal one hit.
ER (NBC)
After 14 seasons it is time to pull the plug on this once must see medical drama. Please NBC…let ER go with some dignity.
Nashville (Fox)
Watching paint dry was more interesting than witnessing this Fox reality series about country musical wannabes in Nashville.
The TV Audience
The ongoing writers' strike means that viewers are being bombarded with repeats and more reality shows. What is a viewer to do?
Summer 2007
Anchorwoman (Fox), The Ex-Wives Club (ABC), Fast Cars & Superstars (ABC), On the Lot (Fox) and Pirate Master (CBS) -- Yup, the "Gone Fishing" sign was up once again.
TV Trivia Time:
Stow It!
Here is an easy question to start the trivia in 2008. Who played Mel's mother on Alice?
a) Eve Arden
b) Spring Byington
c) Imogene Coca
d) ZaSu Pitts
e) Martha Raye
The answer to Monday's question…
In the third season New Year's Eve themed episode of Laverne & Shirley, what year did the gang from Milwaukee ring in?
a) 1958
b) 1959
c) 1960
d) 1962
e) 1965
…Is: c) 1960. All together now…
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Schlemiel, schlimazel, hasenpfeffer incorporated.
We're gonna do it!
Give us any chance, we'll take it.
Give us any rule, we'll break it.
We're gonna make our dreams come true.
Doin' it our way.
Nothin's gonna turn us back now,
Straight ahead and on the track now.
We're gonna make our dreams come true,
Doin' it our way.
There is nothing we won't try,
Never heard the word impossible.
This time there's no stopping us.
We're gonna do it.
On your mark, get set, and go now,
Got a dream and we just know now,
We're gonna make our dream come true.
And we'll do it our way, yes our way.
Make all our dreams come true,
And do it our way, yes our way,
Make all our dreams come true
For me and you.
Current kudos goes to:
Gerry Bixenspan (2x), Larry Collins (2x), Harold Cooper, Audrey Davis, Maureen Goldman, Geoff Gordon, Bob Ingersoll, Tony Naldrett, Alan Perris, Joe Rubi, Michelle Stanton
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