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CBS wins Friday night with new eps of 'Ghost Whisperer,' 'Medium'
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Fast National ratings for Friday, Nov. 20, 2010.Not everyone was out seeing "Twilight: New Moon" last night. Some folks stayed in for new episodes of "Ghost Whisperer," "Law & Order," "Medium" and "20/20."
CBS won the overall night with 8 million viewers and a 5.1 rating/9 share in households. ABC finished second in viewers, with 6.8 million (4.1 rating/7 share in households) but NBC's 6.6 million viewers had a larger rating and share of households at 4.3/8. FOX remained in fourth place with just under 3.5 million viewers, 2.3 rating/4 share in households. The CW brought up the rear with 1.7 million viewers and a 1.1/2.
The 18-49 demo was a tie between CBS and ABC at 1.9, NBC was third at 1.4, then FOX with 1.0 and finally the CW at 0.7.
Friday hour by hour:
8 pm
CBS: "Ghost Whisperer" (8.4 million viewers, 5.4/9 share in households)
NBC: "Law & Order" (7.5 million viewers, 4.8/9)
ABC: "Shrek the Third" (5.8 million viewers, 3.4/6 share in households)
FOX: "House" rerun (3.3 million viewers, 2.1/4 share in households)
CW: "Smallville" (2.5 million viewers, 1.6/3 share in households)
18-49 leader: "Ghost Whisperer" (2.0)
9 pm
CBS: "Medium" (7.8 million viewers, 5.0/9 share in households)
NBC: "Dateline" (7.6 million viewers, 5.0/9 share in households)
ABC: "Shrek the Third" (6.8 million viewers, 3.7/6 share in households)
FOX: "Bones" rerun (3.6 million viewers, 2.4/4 share in households)
CW: "America's Next Top Model" rerun (.9 million viewers, 0.7/1 share in households)
18-49 leader: "Shrek the Third" (2.1)
10 pm
ABC: "20/20" (7.9 million viewers, 5.3/10 share in households)
CBS: "Numb3rs" (7.8 million viewers, 5.1/9 share in households
NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" (4.7 million viewers, 3.2/6 share in households)
18-49 leader: "20/20" (1.8)
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CBS are putting original scripted dramas agaisnt A Movie and only for one week because they have ugly betty who is getting uglier every week i think Cbs have good showd on friday like Medium and Numbers that give me a very entertaint friday CBS keep doin the good job and forget about abc you still win the night
ABC should just pack it up
CBS has familiar, well-liked shows on Friday nights, which is why they tend to win the night overall. However, none of the shows are really "hits" by any definition of the word, since not one show on any of the networks had above ten million viewers (although I still question the math behind the Nielsen numbers, and will continue to do so for as long as they operate under the same old paradigm). Right now, I think all the networks are spinning their wheels, which is why relatively-few shows have been cancelled so far. Twenty years ago, every show on Friday night would have been canned after sporting such low numbers; these days, I think CBS is just happy to win any of the time slots, and they have adjusted their outlook and business model to mirror that reality. I just hope the networks don't give up on Fridays as they have Saturdays. If they keep that up, in twenty years they'll only be programming new shows on Thursday nights at 8/7 and farming out the remainder of prime-time to the affiliates. That's exaggeration, of course, but probably not by much.
I still can't believe they kept Ugly Betty instead of Eastwick. There moving Ugly Betty to Eastwick's timeslot the show is played out.
Aaron R...20 years ago was the beginning of ABC's highly successful "TGIF" block of Friday night comedy shows.
Sure numbers were much higher than today's, but you must consider there was also much less television choices for the viewers than today, and also no internet diversion pulling away even more viewers.
And in 1989, most households still just had your basic CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX channels to choose from--making ratings of course much higher than 2009 for these networks.
They may be successful to try this again...or even take a real gamble and try a block of Saturday night comedies like NBC did, speaking of 20 years ago.
I'd love to see the networks rework Saturdays into something worth staying home for, Peanuts, but I fear that they're convinced nobody will watch (well, nobody they consider important, anyway). They're starting to do the same thing with Fridays, sure as can be that "the folks who matter" aren't home anyway, so why bother programming anything at all? It's a little short-sided and stupid, from a business standpoint, but I don't think anybody in charge of a network nowadays could pass even a freshman course in business administration, hence the mess the networks are in.
JAY LENO is Killing NBC.
Give Jay Leno a 2 hour block on Saturday nights and pair it with a couple of sitcoms. Then replace Jay's Monday-Friday night episodes with original programming. Everybody wins.
Time to bounce Leno and Ugly Betty needs to be shown the door after this season. the formula is just wearing thin right now. ANTM rerun on the CW is an absolute joke!
Jay Leno is killing or has killed! lol.