Overnight Ratings - Thursday 4/13/06

Marc's Note: The Programming Insider will be on hiatus the week of April 17.
See you back on April 24.

TD Note: *sigh* Which means I'll be wading through the Zap2it.com
and Variety numbers next week and slapping 'em into some kind of
order for ya.

David...

Bad news about Variety. It's subscription-only now. But the Hollywood
Reporter has some information as well.

patty1...

Maybe he heard that you were back and decided to start taking lots
of vacations so you'd have more to do. :-)

Last week's and last night's Metered Market Ratings from
The Programming Insider by Marc Berman:

Overnight Ratings - Thursday 4/13/06

Metered Market Ratings

CBS: 12.8 rating/21 share (12.4/19)
ABC: 5.2/8 (5.7/9)
NBC: 5.0/8 (6.3/10)
FOX: 3.0/5 (3.1/5)
WB: 3.0/5 (3.1/5)
UPN: 1.9/3 (2.8/3)

-Percent Change From the Comparable Year-Ago Evening (Thursday 4/14/05):
ABC: +33, WB: +25, CBS: -17, Fox: -25, NBC: -35, UPN: -46

Note: The fast national rating results for Thursday were not available at press
time.

-Yesterday's Winners:
Survivor Panama - Exile Island (CBS), CSI (CBS), Without A Trace (CBS)

-Yesterday's Losers (excluding repeats):
That '70s Show (Fox), The Loop (Fox), Love, Inc. (UPN),
Eve (UPN), Cuts (UPN)

Marc's Note re: UPN's Thursday lineup: As expected, only Everybody
Hates Chris will remain in production on The CW next season.

8PM - CBS - "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island" - 9.2/16 (9.5/15)
NBC - "Will & Grace" - 5.0/9 (6.6/11)
ABC - "American Inventor" - 4.6/8
("Extreme Makeover Home Edition", 5.1/8)
WB - "Smallville" - 3.1/5 (3.4/5)
FOX - "That '70s Show" (new) - 2.9/5
(repeat, 3.0/5)
UPN - "Everybody Hates Chris" (new) - 2.7/5
(repeat, 2.6/4)

8:30PM - NBC - "My Name is Earl" (repeat) - 4.9/8 (6.0/9)
FOX - "The Loop" - 2.4/4 (2.5/4)
UPN - "Love, Inc." (new) - 1.7/3
(repeat, 1.8/3)

9PM - CBS - "CSI" - 16.0/25 (16.1/24)
NBC - "My Name Is Earl" (repeat) - 5.4/8
(new, 7.0/10)
ABC - "American Inventor" - 5.1/8 (6.0/9)

Patrick Joseph McNamara...

It's interesting that this picked up in the ratings in it's second hour,
although the first hour was practically unwatchable. I FF'd through the
first 20 min of recap. (If I had to watch it live I wouldn't watch.) The
show spends too much effort trying to create an emotional connection with
the contestants, but just comes across as a series of montages. At this
point, there's no reason to watch until the final show when they announce
the winner.

FOX - "The O.C." - 3.3/5 (3.5/5)
WB - "Supernatural" - 2.8/4 (2.8/4)
UPN - "Eve" (new) - 1.7/3
(repeat, 1.5/2)

9:30PM - NBC - "The Office" (repeat) - 4.4/7
("Teachers", repeat, 4.9/7)
UPN - "Cuts" (new) - 1.6/2
(repeat, 1.4/2)

10PM - CBS - "Without A Trace" (new) - 13.2/21
(repeat, 11.4/18)
ABC - "Commander in Chief" - 6.0/10
("Primetime Live", 6.0/10)
NBC - "ER" (repeat) - 5.1/8 (6.5/11)

Shows ranked in order of ratings:

CBS - "CSI" - 16.0/25
CBS - "Without A Trace" - 13.2/21

patty1...

Yet not two of their better episodes, IMHO.

CBS - "Survivor: Panama - Exile Island" - 9.2/16
ABC - "Commander in Chief" - 6.0/10
NBC - "My Name Is Earl" (repeat) - 5.4/8
ABC - "American Inventor" - 5.1/8

Ar Q...

I forgot C-in-C has been moved. Does anyone know if it will repeat this
week?

David...

Probably better than people expected, and a nice lift from its
lead-in. Whether it gets renewed will probably come down to whether it

Steven L....

It got narrowly beaten even by a rerun of ER, which scored 5.1/8. A

Steven L....

Oops, I meant it narrowly beat a rerun of ER.

first-run episode of ER might have gotten around 6.2/11 and, together

Obveeus...

I think that you largely underestimate what a first-run episode of ER would
have gotten.

with the first run episode of Without a Trace, clobbered it.

can raise its 18-49 numbers.

NBC - "ER" (repeat) - 5.1/8
NBC - "Will & Grace" - 5.0/9
NBC - "My Name is Earl" (repeat) - 4.9/8
ABC - "American Inventor" - 4.6/8
NBC - "The Office" (repeat) - 4.4/7
FOX - "The O.C." - 3.3/5
WB - "Smallville" - 3.1/5
FOX - "That '70s Show" - 2.9/5
WB - "Supernatural" - 2.8/4
UPN - "Everybody Hates Chris" - 2.7/5
FOX - "The Loop" - 2.4/4
UPN - "Love, Inc." - 1.7/3
UPN - "Eve" - 1.7/3
UPN - "Cuts" - 1.6/2

Cheers,

TD (aka Rhonda)

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