Thursday’s Numbers
By fred | June 6, 2008
So since last night there was something on, let’s have a look at the numbers… and the winner is, no surprise, CBS’ Swingtown ! That being said ABC won the night in both viewers as well as on the demo, and CBS only came in third after Fox. Which leaves NBC only the fourth place.
Everything happened at 10.00, when the NBA Finals got the most viewers with 10.3 million and a 4.2 on the demo ! Nope, Thursdays aren’t what they used to be… Swingtown was followed by 8.6 million viewers while Fear Itself only had 5.2 million of them, so more than 3 million less. Now obviously that ain’t good, but I’ll go ahead and say that this isn’t actually bad news either.
I mean, this is NBC we’re talking about, so I don’t think they were even hoping for 8 million, and in all fairness Swingtown had for lead-in a rerun of CSI, which just happens to be the most-watched program of the night (NBA excluded). Meanwhile on NBC, leading in to Fear Itself was tow hours of Last Comic Standing, pulling not more than 4.9 million viewers.
In other words, while Swingtown was loosing 800 000 viewers on CBS, Fear Itself brought 300 000 more viewers to NBC. The real disappointing news might be the demo, because not only is a 2.0 not really great, it’s also less than it’s lead-in. Of course the episode in itself wasn’t really good, and nothing original, so that definitely wasn’t going to help.
Let’s hope next week things will go a bit better, just enough so that NBC doesn’t go and pull the plug sooner than necessary.
All numbers of the night below :
| Thursday, June 5th | ||
| Show | Network | Viewers (18-49) |
| 8.00 | ||
| So You Think You Can Dance [8.00-10.00] | Fox | 9.1 M (3.3) |
| NBA Pregame [8.30] | ABC | 8.9 M (3.4) |
| Jimmy Kimmel Live Special | ABC | 8.2 M (2.9) |
| CSI (R) | CBS | 8.2 M (1.9) |
| Last Comic Standing [8.00-10.00] | NBC | 4.9 M (2.1) |
| Smallville (R) | The CW | 1.7 M (0.6) |
| 9.00 | ||
| NBA Finals: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Boston Celtics | ABC | 9.6 M (3.7) |
| CSI (R) | CBS | 9.4 M (2.3) |
| So You Think You Can Dance [8.00-10.00] | Fox | 9.1 M (3.3) |
| Last Comic Standing [8.00-10.00] | NBC | 4.9 M (2.1) |
| Supernatural (R) | The CW | 1.8 M (0.6) |
| 10.00 | ||
| NBA Finals: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Boston Celtics | ABC | 10.3 M (4.2) |
| Swingtown | CBS | 8.6 M (2.8) |
| Fear Itself | NBC | 5.2 M (2.0) |
| Global | Adults 18-49 | ||
| ABC | 9.5 M | ABC | 3.7 |
| Fox | 9.1 M | Fox | 3.3 |
| CBS | 8.8 M | CBS | 2.3 |
| NBC | 5.0 M | NBC | 2.1 |
| The CW | 1.7 M | The CW | 0.6 |
Posted in Numbers/Ratings
Shows: Fear Itself, Swingtown
