Tuesday’s Numbers
By fred | May 7, 2008
Last night was pretty much the same as last week, except there were fewer people in front of their TVs, and with a special Dancing With The Stars ABC took the second place from CBS. Of course Fox is still a clear winner, even if Idol lost a few million viewers facing ABC’s special.
At 8.00 it was about 3 million viewers less watching Idol than last week, but of course the show is still the most-watched program of the night by a long shot. On CBS there were 800 000 less viewers than a week ago, which means that NCIS is still holding pretty strong given how ABC went up by 6.4 million viewers switching from According To Jim to a special of Dancing With The Stars.
Meanwhile NBC was well inspired to keep Most Outrageous Moments on longer, followed by a rerun of Law & Order: SVU. Both averaged around 4.2 million viewers, while the Best Of SNL last week only had 2.7 million viewers in its first half-hour, and 3.4 million at 9.00
At 9.00 where the new installment of Dancing With The Stars performed better than last week, getting a little closer to Idol’s numbers one hour before with 18.1 million viewers (though on the demo it remains much lower, 4.4 vs 8.2) Having a strong lead-in surely helps.
Shark, still on the bubble and probably to be canceled, performed as well as last week, while another show on the bubble, The CW’s Reaper, which should be renewed, performed about the same as last week as well. (Difference is, the later is actually a good show, great one even. Also it performs better than other shows, including its lead-in from which it grew by close to a million viewers.)
A 10.00 maybe people had enough of Law & Order: SVU already, because despite being a stronger lead-in than last week’s Best Of SNL, the new episode lost 1.7 million viewers. In the meantime Women’s Murder Club on ABC beat the CBS rerun once again, though this time it did it on the demo as well (2.2 vs 1.9 for CSI: Miami)
All numbers of the night below :
| Tuesday, May 6th | ||
| Show | Network | Viewers (18-49) |
| 8.00 | ||
| American Idol | Fox | 21.3 M (8.2) |
| NCIS | CBS | 13.8 M (2.8) |
| Dancing With The Stars 100th Episode Special | ABC | 10.5 M (2.4) |
| Most Outrageous Moments | NBC | 4.2 M (1.3) |
| Beauty And The Geek | The CW | 1.6 M (0.7) |
| 9.00 | ||
| Dancing With The Stars | ABC | 18.1 M (4.4) |
| Hell’s Kitchen | Fox | 11.3 M (5.2) |
| Shark | CBS | 10.4 M (2.2) |
| Law & Order: SVU (R) | NBC | 4.1 M (1.4) |
| Reaper | The CW | 2.5 M (1.0) |
| 10.00 | ||
| Law & Order: SVU | NBC | 10.4 M (3.5) |
| Women’s Murder Club | ABC | 8.7 M (2.2) |
| CSI: Miami (R) | CBS | 7.6 M (1.9) |
| Global | Adults 18-49 | ||
| Fox | 16.3 M | Fox | 6.7 |
| ABC | 12.4 M | ABC | 3.0 |
| CBS | 10.6 M | CBS | 2.3 |
| NBC | 6.2 M | NBC | 2.1 |
| The CW | 2.1 M | The CW | 0.9 |
Posted in Numbers/Ratings
Shows: Beauth And The Geek, Law & Order: SVU, NCIS, Reaper, Shark, Women's Murder Club
