Wednesday’s Numbers
By fred | May 15, 2008
Just another Wednesday in the land of television. Last night American Idol was on, Fox was a clear winner both in viewers as well as on the demo. CBS was a good second, while others were not performing as well (though not doing too bad on the demo). Yeah, what else is new?
At 8.00 the most-watched program was Deal Or No Deal on NBC, with 7.7 million viewers. It doesn’t look good, yet it’s 100 000 more viewers than last week. After that the most interesting thing is probably that Back To You had 1.1 million more viewers at 8.30 than lead-in Til Death half an hour before, and it performed better on the demo as well (2.5 vs 2.2) Yet, the former has been canceled while the later will come back next season…
But of course, Back To You might be more expensive, and rumors are that they weren’t too happy to be on Fox anyways so that surely didn’t help. Anyways… time for American Idol.
With 24.3 million viewers and 9.0 on the demo, Fox doesn’t have to worry much as long as this still works. Meanwhile on CBS Criminal Minds was still holding good, with 12.7 million viewers and 3.0 on the demo. That’s a little less than last week (200 000 less viewers), thought the episode was much better, but considering Idol increased by almost 2 million viewers, it’s really not bad.
At 10.00 CSI: New-York was again winner of the slot with 11.6 million viewers, so one million less than last week. Not that they went anywhere really, because Law & Order was 400 000 viewers down and Boston Legal only had 300 000 more viewers than last week’s Barbara Walters’ Journey. Boston Legal had mixed results : it was the most-watched program on ABC last night, but is was the least performing one on the demo at the same time.
All numbers of the night below :
| Wednesday, May 14th | ||
| Show | Network | Viewers (18-49) |
| 8.00 | ||
| Deal Or No Deal | NBC | 7.7 M (1.9) |
| The Price Is Right | CBS | 7.3 M (1.4) |
| Back To You [8.30] | Fox | 6.9 M (2.5) |
| Wife Swap | ABC | 6.5 M (2.5) |
| ’Til Death | Fox | 5.8 M (2.2) |
| America’s Next Top Model | The CW | 4.6 M (2.3) |
| 9.00 | ||
| American Idol | Fox | 24.3 M (9.0) |
| Criminal Minds | CBS | 12.7 M (3.0) |
| Deal Or No Deal | NBC | 6.6 M (1.8) |
| Supernanny | ABC | 5.8 M (2.4) |
| Farmer Wants A Wife | The CW | 1.9 M (0.9) |
| 10.00 | ||
| CSI: New-York | CBS | 11.6 M (3.1) |
| Law & Order | NBC | 8.4 M (2.7) |
| Boston Legal | ABC | 7.7 M (2.3) |
| Global | Adults 18-49 | ||
| Fox | 15.3 M | Fox | 5.6 |
| CBS | 10.6 M | CBS | 2.5 |
| NBC | 7.6 M | ABC | 2.4 |
| ABC | 6.6 M | NBC | 2.1 |
| The CW | 3.3 M | The CW | 1.6 |
Posted in Numbers/Ratings
Shows: Back To You, Boston Legal, Criminal Minds, CSI: New-York, Law & Order, Til Death
