Tuesday’s Numbers
By fred | February 27, 2008
Once again Fox easily won the night, both in total viewers and on the demo, thanks to a new installment of American Idol, most-watched program of the night way ahead of any competition. At 8.00 CBS was still able to keep up a good face with 11.2 million viewers in front of a rerun of NCIS, not bad : that’s 300 000 more viewers for The Eye while Idol had one more million viewers !
At 9.00 Back To You was back and had no trouble reaching a series high with 12.3 million viewers, which may sound good but it’s not, because it means the show lost more than half the viewers of its lead-in ! Totally make sense to me, though. Meanwhile According To Jim is still as low as usual pulling out only 4.6 million viewers (1.4 on the 18-49 demo), so it got renewed… Go figure!
At 10.00 you would think that Jericho regaining some viewers, with 6.9 million viewers (5.9 million last week) would be a good news, but you’d be wrong. First off, not even 7 million is still pretty bad, and considering that it opposed the crappy Quarterlife - premiering on NBC with a stunning 3.9 million viewers watching, so you can easily bet on its cancellation very soon - it should have done better.
Last week ABC had about the same amount of viewers (7.4 million vs 7.6 million this week) while the rerun of Law & Order: SVU on NBC had close to 5.5 million more viewers ! So Jericho gaining only one million is not really reason to celebrate, far from it.
All numbers of the night below :
Posted in Numbers/Ratings
Shows: According To Jim, Back To You, Carpoolers, Jericho, One Tree Hill, Quarterlife
