Top 15 shows for the 2004-05 season

[bpatrick]

TV Guide mentioned this this week.

1. American Idol (Tue) averages 27.3 million
viewers a week
2. CSI 26.5 million
3. American Idol (Wed) 26.0 million
4. Desperate Housewives 23.7 million
5. Survivor: Palau 20.9 million
6. Survivor: Vanuatu 19.6 million
7. CSI: Miami 18.9 million
8. Without A Trace 18.8 million
9. Grey's Anatomy 18.4 million
10. Everybody Loves Raymond 17.4 million
11. Two And A Half Men 16.4 million
12. Monday Night Football 16.3 million
13. Lost 15.96 million
14. The Apprentice 15.94 million
15. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
15.8 million

Highest-rated show to be canceled:
Law & Order: Trial By Jury 10.7 million

Lowest-rated show to be renewed:
Veronica Mars 2.4 million

Will & Grace lost more than six million viewers
this year, averaging 10.3 million viewers a week.

 

[Markxxx]

> TV Guide mentioned this this week.
>
> 1. American Idol (Tue) averages 27.3 million
> viewers a week
> 2. CSI 26.5 million
> 3. American Idol (Wed) 26.0 million
> 4. Desperate Housewives 23.7 million
> 5. Survivor: Palau 20.9 million
> 6. Survivor: Vanuatu 19.6 million
> 7. CSI: Miami 18.9 million
> 8. Without A Trace 18.8 million
> 9. Grey's Anatomy 18.4 million
> 10. Everybody Loves Raymond 17.4 million
> 11. Two And A Half Men 16.4 million
> 12. Monday Night Football 16.3 million
> 13. Lost 15.96 million
> 14. The Apprentice 15.94 million
> 15. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
> 15.8 million
>
> Highest-rated show to be canceled:
> Law & Order: Trial By Jury 10.7 million
>
> Lowest-rated show to be renewed:
> Veronica Mars 2.4 million
>
> Will & Grace lost more than six million viewers
> this year, averaging 10.3 million viewers a week.
>
I take it this is the first time FOX ever had a show that wound up in the Number One spot for the year
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[bpatrick]

> > TV Guide mentioned this this week.
> >
> > 1. American Idol (Tue) averages 27.3 million
> > viewers a week
> > 2. CSI 26.5 million
> > 3. American Idol (Wed) 26.0 million
> > 4. Desperate Housewives 23.7 million
> > 5. Survivor: Palau 20.9 million
> > 6. Survivor: Vanuatu 19.6 million
> > 7. CSI: Miami 18.9 million
> > 8. Without A Trace 18.8 million
> > 9. Grey's Anatomy 18.4 million
> > 10. Everybody Loves Raymond 17.4 million
> > 11. Two And A Half Men 16.4 million
> > 12. Monday Night Football 16.3 million
> > 13. Lost 15.96 million
> > 14. The Apprentice 15.94 million
> > 15. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
> > 15.8 million
> >
> > Highest-rated show to be canceled:
> > Law & Order: Trial By Jury 10.7 million
> >
> > Lowest-rated show to be renewed:
> > Veronica Mars 2.4 million
> >
> > Will & Grace lost more than six million viewers
> > this year, averaging 10.3 million viewers a week.
> >
> I take it this is the first time FOX ever had a show that
> wound up in the Number One spot for the year
>
It is. American Idol (Tue) finished second to CSI last
year.

Anybody else notice that NBC had exactly one program
in the top 15--The Apprentice? That would have been
unthinkable not too long ago. I hope NBC hasn't started
down the road that led to the shambles of the late '70s/
early '80s.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

B. Patrick noted:

> "Will & Grace" lost more than six million viewers
> this year, averaging 10.3 million viewers a week.

The reason: In the just-ended TV season, "Will and Grace" had "Joey" as a lead-in. By contrast, the far more popular "Friends" had led-off NBC's Thursday-night schedule for the previous decade, benefitting all the shows that followed, including "Will and Grace".

In fact, had "Joey" not been a spin-off of "Friends", the show would have been toast at the end of the recently-concluded TV season. I would think that next season, "Joey"'s ratings will have to improve or else it will get the axe.

I also believe that "Will and Grace" would have done better at 8 P.M. (ET/PT) on Thursdays than "Joey" did. However, as part of the deal that put "Joey" on NBC's primetime schedule, the network was probably contractually obligied to run it in the old "Friends" timeslot of 8 P.M. ET/PT.