Overnight Ratings - Wednesday 3/8/06

Last week's Fast Nationals came from Zap2it.com.
Rick Kissell at Variety.com supplied the viewers/adults data.

Last night's data from The Programming Insider: Thursday 3/9/06
By Marc Berman

Note: Fast national rating results for Wednesday were not available
at press time.

Overnight Ratings - Wednesday 3/8/06

Metered Market Ratings

FOX: 12.5 rating/19 share (14.5/22)
CBS: 8.1/12 (7.3/11)
NBC: 6.3/10 (6.8/11)
ABC: 5.0/8 (6.9/11)
UPN: 4.7/7 (1.2/2)
WB: 1.5/2 (2.1/3)

-Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening (Wednesday, March 9, 2005):
UPN: +38, Fox: +21, CBS: +12, NBC: -20, WB: -29, ABC: -37

-Yesterday's Winners:
American Idol (Fox), America's Next Top Model (UPN),
Criminal Minds (CBS), CSI: NY (CBS)

-Yesterday's Losers:
The Biggest Loser: Special Edition (NBC), George Lopez (ABC),
Freddie (ABC), Invasion (ABC)

8PM - FOX - "American Idol" - 17.4/26
(90 mins, 16.7/26)
CBS - "Still Standing" (2 eps, season/series finale) - 4.9/7 (4.7/7)
UPN - "America's Next Top Model" (season premiere, 2 hrs) - 4.7/7
("America's Next Top Model: Where The Girls Are", no data;
"Veronica Mars", repeat, no data)
ABC - "George Lopez" (repeat) - 4.3/7
(new, no data)
NBC - "The Biggest Loser: Military Wives" (Part 1 of 2) - 3.5/5
("Deal or No Deal", 6.5/10)
WB - "One Tree Hill" (repeat) - 1.3/2
(new, 2.5/4)

8:30PM - ABC - "Freddie" - (no data either week)

9PM - CBS - "Criminal Minds" - 9.9/15 (8.0/12)
FOX - "Bones" - 7.5/11
("American Idol", 16.7/26;
"Free Ride", debut, 8.6/13)

Laddy...

Yay, Bones.

Patrick Joseph McNamara...

It looks like it could be back next year.

ABC - "Lost" (repeat) - 6.2/9
(new, 9.9/15)
NBC - "Law & Order" (repeat) - 6.2/9 (5.6/8)
WB - "Beauty and the Geek" (repeat) - 1.7/3 (no data)

10PM - CBS - "CSI: NY" - 9.5/15 (9.1/15)
NBC - "Law & Order" - 9.2/15 (8.2/13)
ABC - "Invasion" - 4.8/8
("The Barbara Walters Oscars Special", 7.0/12)

Laddy...

Invasion kept 80% of Lost last night. :)

Patrick Joseph McNamara...

But it's below the 5.0 mark. That's a bad sign for any show on the big 3,
especially considering Invasion was a new episode and Lost was a repeat.
Surface ended on a 6.0. I like Invasion, but it doesn't look as if it will
be back next year.

Ian J. Ball...

I think the worse stat for "Invasion" is that it's under a '10 share'
(i.e. "Invasion" has only an '8 share') - IMO, no "Big Three" network
show will survive if it has less than a 10 share.

Shows ranked in order of ratings:

FOX - "American Idol" - 17.4/26
CBS - "Criminal Minds" - 9.9/15
CBS - "CSI: NY" - 9.5/15
NBC - "Law & Order" - 9.2/15
FOX - "Bones" - 7.5/11
ABC - "Lost" (repeat) - 6.2/9
NBC - "Law & Order" (repeat) - 6.2/9
CBS - "Still Standing" (2 eps, season/series finale) - 4.9/7
ABC - "Invasion" - 4.8/8
UPN - "America's Next Top Model" (season premiere, 2 hrs) - 4.7/7
ABC - "George Lopez" (repeat) - 4.3/7
NBC - "The Biggest Loser: Military Wives" (Part 1 of 2) - 3.5/5
WB - "Beauty and the Geek" (repeat) - 1.7/3
WB - "One Tree Hill" (repeat) - 1.3/2
ABC - "Freddie" - (no data)

Cheers,

TD (aka Rhonda)

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Every kid alive gonna know my name
An overnight phenomenon like there's never been
A motivated supersonic king of the scene
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