Wednesday’s Numbers
By fred | April 17, 2008
Last night ABC opened the night with the Democratic Presidential Debate, and all in all it wasn’t bad. Of course, Fox was still clear winner with a new American Idol, and with new scripted dramas CBS actually performed better. But it was still much better for the Alphabet than the usual Wife Swap and other Supernanny…
At 8.00 the Democratic Presidential Debate was actually the most-watched program, and the only one to reach 10 million viewers (10.9 million). Other than that nothing impressive anywhere, so let’s move on to the next hour shall we.
Of course American Idol was a clear winner, with 22.7 million viewers and 8.5 on the demo. Meanwhile on CBS, finally a good episode of Criminal Minds was on, and it did hold nicely with close to 13 million viewers, a little less (about 200 000) than last week, yet it performed better on the demo (3.5 vs 3.3) And on ABC the Debate was still good, loosing a few viewers but getting a little stronger on the demo, with 10.5 million viewers and 2.8 on the demo.
At 10.00 CSI: New-York was in good shape, growing from its lead-in with 13.4 million viewers, 1.2 million more viewers than last week. On ABC though, it was the opposite on earlier : while the debate performed better than the usual reality TV, and many viewers left ABC when Men In Trees was on. Only 6.1 million of them stuck around, putting the last after a rerun of Law & Order on NBC, including on the demo (1.6 vs 1.8) Not good.
All numbers of the night below :
| Wednesday, April 16th | ||
| Show | Network | Viewers (18-49) |
| 8.00 | ||
| Democratic Presidential Debate | ABC | 10.9 M (2.7) |
| Deal Or No Deal | NBC | 9.7 M (2.6) |
| Back To You [8.30] | Fox | 7.0 M (2.4) |
| Big Brother | CBS | 6.1 M (2.3) |
| Til Death | Fox | 5.9 M (2.0) |
| America’s Next Top Model | The CW | 3.7 M (1.8) |
| 9.00 | ||
| American Idol | Fox | 22.7 M (8.5) |
| Criminal Minds | CBS | 12.9 M (3.5) |
| Democratic Presidential Debate | ABC | 10.5 M (2.8) |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent (R) | NBC | 4.4 M (1.4) |
| Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious (R) | The CW | 1.8 M (0.9) |
| 10.00 | ||
| CSI: New-York | CBS | 13.4 M (3.7) |
| Law & Order (R) | NBC | 6.2 M (1.8) |
| Men In Trees | ABC | 6.1 M (1.6) |
| Global | Adults 18-49 | ||
| Fox | 14.6 M | Fox | 5.4 |
| CBS | 10.8 M | CBS | 3.2 |
| ABC | 9.2 M | ABC | 2.4 |
| NBC | 6.8 M | NBC | 1.9 |
| The CW | 2.8 M | The CW | 1.4 |
Posted in Numbers/Ratings
Shows: Back To You, Criminal Minds, CSI: New-York, Men In Trees
