Ratings: Week 1

[bpatrick]

Week 1 Nielsen ratings are in this morning's USA Today,
and some interesting things occur:

[EDIT]

SEASON TO DATE (average in millions overall/18-49)

ABC [EDIT]
CBS [EDIT]
NBC [EDIT]
Fox [EDIT]
Uni [EDIT]
CW [EDIT]

Top 20 (viewers in millions)

1. CSI (CBS) [EDIT]
2. Dancing With The Stars (Mon., ABC) [EDIT]
3. Grey's Anatomy (ABC) [EDIT]
4. Desperate Housewives (ABC) [EDIT]
5. Dancing With The Stars (Tue., ABC) [EDIT]
6. House (Fox) [EDIT]
7. Heroes (NBC) [EDIT]
8. Dancing Results (ABC) [EDIT]
9. Without A Trace (CBS) [EDIT]
10. CSI: Miami (CBS) [EDIT]
11. Sunday Night Football (NBC) [EDIT]
12. Private Practice (ABC) [EDIT]
13. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
(8 PM, ABC) [EDIT]
14. Survivor: China (CBS) [EDIT]
15. Bionic Woman (NBC
NCIS (CBS) [EDIT]
17. Cold Case (CBS) [EDIT]
18. Two And A Half Men (CBS) [EDIT]
19. Brothers & Sisters (ABC)
60 Minutes (CBS) [EDIT]

AMONG AGES 18-49

1. Grey's Anatomy [EDIT]
2. CSI [EDIT]
3. House [EDIT]
4. Desperate Housewives [EDIT]
5. Heroes [EDIT]
6. Sunday Night Football [EDIT]
7. Dancing With The Stars (Mon.) [EDIT]
8. Bionic Woman [EDIT]
9. Private Practice [EDIT]
11. Brothers & Sisters [EDIT]
12. Dancing With The Stars (Tue.)
Law & Order: SVU (NBC)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Two And A Half Men [EDIT]
16. Without A Trace
CSI: Miami
Survivor: China [EDIT]
19. Big Shots (ABC)
Rules Of Engagement (CBS) [EDIT]

YOUNGEST SKEWING NEW SHOWS (median age)

1. Gossip Girl (CW) [EDIT]
2. Reaper (CW) [EDIT]
3. Kitchen Nightmares (Fox) [EDIT]
4. Kid Nation (CBS) [EDIT]
5. Bionic Woman (NBC) [EDIT]

OLDEST SKEWING NEW SHOWS (median age)

1. Cane (CBS) [EDIT]
2. Moonlight (CBS) [EDIT]
3. Dirty Sexy Money (ABC) [EDIT]
4. Private Practice (ABC) [EDIT]
5. Big Bang Theory (CBS) [EDIT]
For the record, a couple of the most-discussed shows:

Kid Nation dropped from 17th to 51st against the
onslaught of the Dancing With The Stars results show
on ABC. Overall, Kid Nation attracted 7.5
million viewers last week; Dancing With The Stars
attracted 16.8 million on Wednesday.

Cane's debut ranked 26th, but as noted above, it's
the oldest-skewing new show. Overall, it finished
second in its time slot, with 11.2 million viewers to
12.1 million for Law & Order: SVU. The demographics,
however, don't bode well; Cane skews older than Smith,
which occupied the Tuesday 10 PM slot on CBS last year
and was quickly dispatched.

Now has anyone seen the overnights for Cavemen?

[EDIT-content truncated because it originates from a copyrighted source. Unauthorized use of such sources is in violation of our terms of service as well as established academic and professional standards. In this case, rankers are not a problem but individual breakdowns are.]

 

[BRNout]

WOW am I out of touch!! I didn't watch even one of those shows. My wife watches "Dancing with the Stars" while I go outside to the deck and enjoy a cigar. Can't stand that junk. :

 

[Braves2005]

I do not see Deal Or No Deal in the Top 20 at all. How did it rank? If it ranked below 30, then it is a huge decline from last season when it was in the Top 10 and Top 20 constantly.

I think that the CBS Monday night comedy lineup is in huge trouble and of need of a huge overhaul starting with the stupidest show going for them and that is Rules Of Engagement.

And yes, I would like to see the overnight ratings for Cavemen and Carpoolers.

 

[bpatrick]

Deal Or No Deal fell from 12th the week of
Sept. 17 to 42nd last week--another victim
of Dancing With The Stars.

Question for moderator: I want to be clear
on this. I can post the rank order of the
shows but not the actual numbers for them,
correct? If so, my apologies. Thanks.

 

[Braves2005]

Deal Or No Deal fell from 12th the week of
Sept. 17 to 42nd last week--another victim
of Dancing With The Stars.

That is a very steep decline indeed. It looks like that Deal Or No Deal has its work cut out from them. How is Deal Or No Deal doing on Fridays for NBC since it has basically no competition from the other networks?

 

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And now back to the discussion about Cavemen and Carpoolers...

 

[bpatrick]

Deal Or No Deal fell from 12th the week of
Sept. 17 to 42nd last week--another victim
of Dancing With The Stars.

That is a very steep decline indeed. It looks like that Deal Or No Deal has its work cut out from them. How is Deal Or No Deal doing on Fridays for NBC since it has basically no competition from the other networks?

Deal Or No Deal tied for 54th on Friday, finishing second to Ghost Whisperer (43rd).

 

[hootmon]

Looks like the bloom is off the rose for Deal Or No Deal. Anyone care to remind me what happened to "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"
Maybe NBC just needs to air it about eight more times a week.

 

[imhomerjay]

The thing about Deal is...there's nothing to it but flash. Jeopardy, Millionaire, 1 vs 100...heck, even Crosswords: answer trivia questions. Wheel of Fortune: solve word puzzles. Family Feud and Power of 10: show some insight into the American psyche (not DEEP into it ;D).

Deal or No Deal: pick a suitcase. Pick other suitcases and hope yours has a bigger sign inside it than the others. Zero skill required.

I watched the show in years 1 and 2. Even a hard-core game show junkie like me is losing interest now. I've only watched about 3/4 of one episode this year and knocked the saved ones off my DVR. It's just too boring now--I've seen it all: the pretty models in holy-cow outfits, Howie's schtick, the manufactured melodrama, and the increasingly annoying contestants. Sometimes the show seems like they pick up castoffs from Extreme Makeover Home Edition, with the tales of woe.

Although ABC overdid Millionaire, and Regis was a bit of an acquired taste, at least you could play along with the trivia, and, more importantly, the "drama" emerged naturally in the game play. Deal is becoming increasingly forced. I read one person on another board compare Millionaire's escalating jackpot to what Deal is doing with the extra cases. Certainly that's a fair comparison from the trying-to-get-ratings standpoint (though it's failing for NBC), but Millionaire never made the game easier, they just increased the prize for someone who completed the same challenge.

As a social experiment, watching what people will do when facing a guaranteed payout vs. risking it for a better payout is mildly interesting, but not for this many years.