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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Dramas Give Up Top Friday Program Spot For The First Time

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday November 13, 2010 @ 11:03am PSTTags: ABC Ratings, Blue Bloods, CBS Ratings, CSI:NY, CW Ratings, Dateline Friday, Fox Ratings, Medium, NBC Ratings, Primetime: What would You Do?, Ratings Rat Race, School Pride, Smallville, Supernatural, Teri Hatcher, TV
Nellie Andreeva

For the first time this season, a CBS drama was not the highest rated program on Friday among adults 18-49. That honor went to ABC’s newsmagazine Primetime: What Would You Do? (1.9/6) which was recently put in the 9 PM to replace originally scheduled new drama Body of Proof. Meanwhile, Teri Hatcher’s guest spot on Smallville as Lois Lane’s mom gave the departing comic book drama (1.3/4, 3 million) a boost to a tie the season high 18-49 number it hit with its season premiere and 200th episode. READ MORE »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Supernanny’ Premiere Helps ABC Gain On Friday

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday November 6, 2010 @ 6:00am PDTTags: 20/20, ABC Ratings, Blue Bloods, CBS Ratings, CSI:NY, CW Ratings, Dateline Friday, Fox Ratings, Medium, Primetime: What would You Do?, Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, School Pride, Smallville, Supernatural, Suppernanny, The Good Guys, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

No major moves on Friday, though ABC continues to strengthen its lineup and is challenging CBS for the top position in the demo on the night. After successfully introducing Primetime: What Would You do? in the 9 PM hour once … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: Newsmagazines And ‘Smallville’ Up While ‘School Pride’ Slips

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 30, 2010 @ 10:31am PDTTags: ABC Ratings, CW Ratings, Dateline Friday, Fox Ratings, It's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, NBC Ratings, No Ordinary Family, Primetime: What would You Do?, Ratings, School Pride, Smallville, Supernatural, The Good Guys, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

CW’s Smallville continues to fly high as it approaches the end of its 10-season run. The comic book adaptation (1.2/4 in 18-49, 2.9 million) was up 20% in 18-49 and 12% in total viewers from last week. Its … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS & ABC Up, NBC & Fox Down While TBS Wins With Baseball

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 23, 2010 @ 10:19am PDTTags: ABC Ratings, Blue Bloods, CBS Ratings, CSI:NY, CW Ratings, Dateline Friday, Fox Ratings, House, Medium, NBC Ratings, No Ordinary Family, Ratings, School Pride, Smallville, Supernatural, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Texas Rangers’ series-winning Game 6 of the ALCS on TBS topped the broadcast and cable competition last night with 11.9 million viewers. It was the second most watched telecast ever on TBS behind the previous deciding ALCS championship game between the Red Sox and the Rays in 2008.)

The baseball game had little impact on CBS’ crime Friday lineup, which posted across-the-board increases. All dramas dominated their time slots in 18-49 and total viewers to deliver another Friday win for CBS, No. 5 this season. Medium (1.4/5, 6.5 million) was up 17% in 18-49 from its fast national result last week (up 27% from the series’ final rating, which was adjusted down). CSI:NY (1.9/6, 10.3 million) was up 12%, and newly picked up Blue Bloods (1.8/6, 11.1 million) was up 6%. Each show also added more than 500,000 total viewers. Read More »

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NBC’s 10 PM Falls Below ‘Jay Leno Show’ As Networks Grapple With Erosion In The Hour

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday October 17, 2010 @ 8:53am PDTTags: ABC Ratings, CBS Ratings, Chase, Dateline Friday, Hawaii Five-0, Jerry Bruckheimer Chase, Law & Order: LA Low Ratings, NBC, NBC Ratings, Outlaw Low Ratings, Parenthood, Ratings, The Apprentice, The Mentalist, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

Was NBC onto something after all with its Jay Leno primetime experiment? Because for the current fourth week of the season, NBC’s new Monday-Thursday 10 PM lineup is poised for the first time to fall below the rating levels of … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ‘Smallville’ Scores With 200th Episode, ‘School Pride’ Humbled

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 16, 2010 @ 9:06am PDTTags: 20/20, Blue Bloods, CSI:NY, CW Ratings, CW Smallville, Dateline Friday, Ratings, School Pride, Smallville, Supernatural, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

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% Read More »

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Ratings Rat Race: No Bounce For ‘Outlaw’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 9, 2010 @ 10:06am PDTTags: 20/20 Ratings, Blue Bloods, CBS Ratings, Dateline Friday, Jimmy Smits, Jimmy Smits Outlaw, Medium, NBC Outlaw, NBC Ratings, Outlaw, Outlaw Low Ratings, Ratings, TV, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

NBC’s Outlaw is a show in a desperate fight for its life, with its production put on a two-week hiatus that will become permanent unless its ratings improve. They didn’t last night as the legal drama starring Jimmy Smits matched its underwhelming 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 from last week and drew 4.2 million viewers, down 11% from last week. What’s worse, they didn’t despite Outlaw‘s lead-in, a two-hour Dateline (1.6/6) spiking 23% from last week and its drama competition in the 10 PM hour, CBS’ Blue Bloods (1.8/6) weakening by 10% in the demo. Hope is fading fast for Outlaw, which could’ve fared differently on another night as its preview behind America’s Got Talent indicated, but appears to have no future Fridays at 10 PM. Read More »

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