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[li]AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY FOX 8.8/24[/li][li]NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL NBC 8.0/20[/li][li]AMERICAN IDOL-THURSDAY FOX 7.7/22[/li][li]THE VOICE NBC 5.4/14[/li][li]MODERN FAMILY ABC 4.8/12[/li][li]DANCING WITH THE STARS ABC 4.8/12[/li][li]BIG BANG THEORY, THE CBS 4.4/13[/li][li]GREY’S ANATOMY ABC 4.3/11[/li][li]SURVIVOR: NICARAGUA CBS 4.3/12[/li][li]NCIS CBS 4.1/11[/li][/ol]
Top Ten Shows (Total Viewers All Ages - in thousands)
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[li]AMERICAN IDOL-WEDNESDAY FOX 25,864[/li][li]AMERICAN IDOL-THURSDAY FOX 23,798[/li][li]DANCING WITH THE STARS ABC 21,927[/li][li]NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL NBC 21,025[/li][li]NCIS CBS 19,377[/li][li]DANCING W/STARS RESULTS ABC 18,612[/li][li]NCIS: LOS ANGELES CBS 16,467[/li][li]THE MENTALIST CBS 15,328[/li][li]CRIMINAL MINDS CBS 14,026[/li][li]CSI CBS 13,626[/li][/ol]
Full story and rankings for all 141 shows at Deadline.com
So any thoughts? Or is it about what you expected?
Not hard to understand, though. Not only does CW have the weakest station lineup (in some smaller markets, the CW “station” is actually a digital subchannel) but it’s the most targeted network in terms of demographics. The highest rated CW show is tied for 92nd in the 18-49 demographic, but only 126 in total audience.
I still hear an attitude from people I know that they refuse to watch any TV show that is on The CW/WB/UPN, simply because “if it was any good, it’d be on a real network.” Yes, that means that they have resisted watching Veronica Mars and Buffy!
Although, come to think of it, I haven’t watched anything on The CW since Life Unexpected got cancelled…
Happy to see The Big Bang Theory so high - I remember a couple years ago that show came very close to not getting renewed. I suppose it’s time to give Mike & Molly a try and see what the hoopla is.
Really odd that Shit My Dad Says ranked 34 and still got cancelled. The show was pretty by-the-book, but it had enough funny moments to be worth 20 minutes a week. Likewise Rules of Engagement was right below it and it got banished to Saturdays for the next (and presumably final) season. How in the fuck did Parks & Rec rank HIGHER than 30 Rock and Community??? I always thought it was a show that nobody except for 5 SMDB posters watched, and only stayed on the air because of political power by the creators?
It was due to the drop off from the previous show. That happens a lot. If the follow up show can’t keep the ratings from the previous show it’s often canceled.
That’s what happened to shows like Jackie Mason’s Chicken Soup and Bridget Loves Bernie. Both were top 20 shows, and both had some controversy surrounding them. But in both cases they ratings fell dramatically from the previous show.
That also happened to a lot of shows that aired directly after Friends on NBC. They couldn’t hold the ratings so they got axed.
So the networks care more about the “package” ratings than the individual show? Wait, so that means that fucking P&R is putting 30 Rock in danger??? Why couldn’t they renew Outsourced and put it on right before 30 Rock?
I disagree with ranking “The voice” at all on this list. At the time these ratings came out, it had been on for a month and had four episodes. That would qualify it for a mini-series, not a season.