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It’s not very often that the CW wins an hour of primetime among adults 18-49. The network accomplished just that last night with the 200th episode of Smallville, which led the competition at 8 PM with a 1.3/5, matching its season premiere demo number and hitting a season high in total viewers with 3.2 million. Supernatural (1.2/4, 2.8 million) was also strong, matching its season premiere numbers and finishing tied for second place in 18-49 at 9 PM behind CSI: NY (1.7/6, 9.5 million). CBS’ CSI: NY and Blue Bloods (1.7/6, 10.3 million) were both down from last week, by 11% and 6%, respectively, while Medium (1.2/4, 6.1 million) at 8 PM held steady to finish No. 2 in the hour behind Smallville. The third original offering at 8 PM, NBC’s new reality series School Pride (0.9/3, 2.9 million) had a poor start, getting beat by a repeat of ABC’s No Ordinary Family (1.0/4, 4.1 million) to finish fourth in the hour, barely edging a House rerun (0.8/3, 2.7 million) on Fox. From 9-11 PM, NBC’s Dateline (1.2/4 million, 4.9 million) was down 25% from the newsmagazine’s delivery from 8-10 PM last week. It finished tied for second place in 18-49 both at 9 PM (with Supernatural) and 10 PM (with ABC’s 20/20). At 10 PM, it improved by 33% on the performance of the cancelled new NBC drama Outlaw. Like NBC, ABC too aired a two-hour newsmagazine from 9-11 PM, with 20/20 matching Dateline‘s 1.2/4 demo delivery. At 10 PM, it was down sharply from last week’s hourlong edition, by 28%. CBS (1.5/5, 8.7 million) nabbed another Friday win in 18-49 and viewers, with CW coming in a close second in 18-49 (1.3/4).
Meanwhile, TBS’ coverage of the American League Championship Series between the New York Yankees and Texas Rangers drew more than 8.1 million viewers, the most-watched LCS Game #1 ever on cable, probably stealing away male viewers from CBS’ crime dramas.
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Tom Welling is so damn hot. I am convinced that is the only reason the show is still alive.
Sexiest Superman ever, which is amusingly a very controversial thing. Many people prefer a sexless Saint Superman, handsome, but not sexually charged. Superman is generally the dull guy women settle for, because he is a good provider, not the sexy guy they want to run off with.
Ooops, NBC cannot get anything right. Last week Friday it averaged 1.4 in the demo, this week just 1.1. They should have tried Outlaw at 8pm as well, just in case it did better. Is not as if they have anything else to put there, or not as if they are fighting for top 3 finish this year in the demo either.
The only upside of being the number 4 network in primetime, it gives you the opportunity to experiment. Nobody is watching anyway.
blue bloods wins 18-49 again and brings over 10 million to a friday night no less, andy you sound like a smug idiot.
Congratulations Smallville. Congratulations CW. For one night a week, it’s almost like you are a real network.
Remember, it takes baby steps.
Excellent for Smallville…my favorite show!
CSI NY and Blue Bloods are doing great too. So CBS has 3 weeks of winning ratings for all their new shows. Looks like they may be the only network to renew all 5 of their newbies.
Tom Welling is really hot. And that is about the only reason I watch the show.
Mon dieu,
The Blue Bloods balloon continues to lose hot air. Not a surprise considering it is the television equivalent of the heated-air craft launched by the Montgolfier brothers in the 1750′s. Outdated, slow, able to remain aloft for only a few intermittent moments of moderate excitement decorated by quaint old designs. The producers should have no fear. It won’t be cancelled. They can keep heaving bags of sand over the side and it will keep barely scraping the treetops. But, malheureusment, perhaps not so long that anyone sees any back end. One can, if one listens closely, hear the guillotine being hoisted.
Don’t get your panties in a bunch Andy. Actually CSI NY and Blue Bloods got excellent ratings against the Yankees/Ranger’s game getting 8.1 million viewers. Biggest game ever.
Yep. The playoffs were on. Numbers for BB and CSI will bounce back next week without baseball.
Tom Welling is hot, but so is Justin Hartley. And this episode was incredibly boring, the typical ‘flashback’ to episodes past. Sad there was no action action action.
Disagree completely. One of the best episodes the series has ever produced, imo.
Well, about every fan out there would disagree with you and an OVERWHELMING majority thought the 200 episode was THE best of the entire series (me included!).
Does anyone else remember Nellie’s Fall Preview posts, that were all jammed with comments on how Jeff Gaspin was going to take NBC to the top, and dominate the fall, with his amazing USA network tastes? Where is that commenter dude now?
I thought it was a really effective episode, well deserved win!
Congraulations smallville you really deserve it.I truly love your show.Tom Welling and Erica Durance are on fire,i love there on screen chemisrty.with those kind of ratings smallville int’s going nowhere.Tom Welling and Erica Durance deserve to be cast on the big screen,so smallville fans let’s get behind them to make it happen.Keep up the great work.Homecoming rodked my socks off.
You’re aware this is the final season of Smallville, announced last season?
I will certainly miss the show, I thought Welling did a good job, the under-appreciated Allison Mack has been outstanding, Justin Hartley a find, and the show itself has been one of the most beautiful and visually striking on TV.
The show has been on for ten years. I’ll miss it. But all good things must end. [I remember when Smallville was pulling in 8 million on the WB. It seems audiences are fleeing TV, Joan of Arcadia could pull in 12 million viewers on Fridays at the same time.]
CBS held well considering TBS drew over 8MM for the Yanks/Rangers game. I’m sure that took a little bite out of the CSI:NY and BB. The two newsmagazines cancel each other out. If one was at 9 and the other at 10 (for an hour only, bet they get better ratings). Problem is that only ABC has something they could offer as an option. NBC is a trainwreck. Medium might do better on Saturday at 9/8 leading into 48Hours. It just isn’t an 8 p.m. show.
The 200th Smallville episode was amazing! Tom Welling for the new Superman movie!
that was a disappointing episode, and it doesn’t look like the producers care since it’s the last season anyway
I hope they spin-off Green Arrow (GA), it’s one of the best superhero-comicbook adaptations (either small or big screen) ever. He has cool gadgets (like Batman), and I just love what they did with the night-vision accessory that replaced the comicbook domino mask, and the voice-distortion gadget. By contrast, the Black Canary adaptation totally sucked – she is supposed to have long blond hair, and a domino mask. I also hope that they do something with Speedy, she was great, and she could be very positive for a GA TV series, if they ever launch one
Tom Welling is this generations SUPERMAN… A guy who’s completely become the character like Chris Reeve did before him.
He simply embodies the character to near perfection… He should be in the new movie as Superman.
No other actor right now holds a candle to him as Superman.
Max,
Thanks for informing us all about the true picture on the Bluebloods ratings. However, as has been stated before, this show has a steadily declining Fackelman score, which– keen observer of the medium that you are — you know to be the measure of crackle. Every week there is a 5-6 point drop in Facklelman numbers on this series. Every “perp”, “collar”, reading of the Miranda, or tire squeal costs .25 Fackelman points, and this is only a partial listing. As noted previously, if the trend continues, one will be forced to conclude that the show does not crackle at all.
While executives at CBS may take comfort in the Neilsen ratings of the show, a low Fackelman over time has been proven to cause serious viewer fatigue, even if not identified or voiced by the audience member. There is merely a vague feeling of ennui or annoyance, the free-floating sense that something somewhere “sucks.” This can lead to decreased advertising dollars, due primarily to the fact that advertisers are often viewers too and being bored by tired genres or genre cliches may cause them to act in ways deleterious to a show’s profit picture. Add to this a lack of “buzz” that seems to afflict this show, the type that more innovative cable fare seems to generate, and CBS executives’ avowals that such things don’t matter, only Nielsens mattter, may prove short sighted. Mssrs, Selleck, Wahlberg et al are bona fide talents but not everything can rest on their shoulders.