TV ratings: 'NCIS,' CBS blow away Tuesday competition

Once again this proves that ABC is a garbage network. Mewow, your network's rerun ratings are pathetic. Yes, I would rather be an "old timer shows" than the crap on ABC. NCIS was great!! Gibbs rocks!!!

I've tried to watch NCIS its just to boring for me but obviously it has something that people want what that is I can't figure out. I understand CSI and NCIS have great numbers but CBS please stop making remakes of the same stuff over and over but I guess its hard when some of the tv audience likes to watch shows with the same formula: bad guy's do bad and the good guys catch them!! Thank god LOST returns shortly:) after thats over not much left on network tv that requires more than just having a tv on to understand what is going on.

the good wife, 14 millions! way to go Julianna!!

As a scrubs fan please cancel it now PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEE.

its a Death Watch for ABC's Scrubs and Better Off Dead, i mean Ted..

@dgh: You have put your finger on CBS' dilemma. How do you renew your lineup when you are clobbering the competition?

It's very hard to focus on what you're doing wrong when all the competition is doing so much worse than you are.

CBS does suffer from having too many "me too" shows, especially when those shows stay on way past their creative prime.

People will say I'm way off base, but I do think that in the current environment, given the paucity of network competition, CBS could easily aim at AVERAGING close to 20 million viewers in a couple of years.

I don't think they'll be as aggressive as that however.

On the minus side, I disagree that if people don't like what you like they're necessarily less intelligent than you.

TV shows in particular are not an exercise in intellect, but rather an exercise in emotions and storytelling with a little intellect mixed in. :)

@Rick: I have to congratulate once again for a very well written report.

You are one of the very few who dares to call it as it is and admit that CBS is head and shoulders above the rest.

If one of your colleagues had written this report we'd likely have been submitted to spin explaining how ABC and NBC are really doing great.

It's amazingly refreshing to read something reflecting reality with sharp contrast. :)

Was a little disappointed in The Good Wife last night - it started off good and intriguing, but then it tapered off and the explanation behind the judge's actions I found really weak and doesn't make much sense - they should've kept the racial reason - that would've been much, much more understandable - AND more intriguing, to say the least. With the explanation they gave, there's a serious flaw - why would he throw only the black kids in that "house" - wouldn't he have gotten even more money if he had thrown the white kids there, too..?? Something lacking here, people. Someone should wake the writers up - they need to keep this show meaty, or it'll drip downward. And we wouldn't want that, would we..?? On the bright side - Will came out swinging - he was really macho last night - and so good. Last point - does anyone notice that Tony Goldwyn chooses to play bad people all the time - like in Ghost, Murder at 1600 - and in more that I cannot remember the titles. I find that odd, as usually actors go bad AND good alternately. All in all - hope they swing back to good plots in the next episodes - keep my fingers crossed.

@Bambi: Tony Goldwyn played Christian Slater's partner in Kuffs and a film actor (who wasn't evil) in The L Word just off the top of my head. :)

Generally, actor play what they're hired for. Especially these days when mismanagement has destroyed a lot of jobs, there is very little choice of good parts.

On the subject of Christian Slater, I'm amazed that nobody seems to be questioning the "wisdom" of keeping The Forgotten (and its really, really awful videography) on the air for a full year.

What is NBC trying to accomplish besides hiding that it doesn't have a bench at all?

@ Rick: CBS line up overall was down vs. their last new telecast night, it swept the competition away on Tuesday to average a 3.6 adults 18-49 rating on the night.
Compared to their last original telecasts on 11/14, NCIS was down 2% to a 4.3 adults 18-49 rating. NCIS: LA fell 16% to a 3.6 rating. While The Good Wife was flat with a 2.8 rating (but did hit a series high in average viewership).

After yet another telecast this season of A Charlie Brown Christmas, ABC’s “What were they thinking?” comedy hour plunged as Scrubs fell 22% from last week to a 1.8 rating, and Better Off Ted found new levels of pitiful with a 1.3 rating (lowest ever) in its second outing, down 13% from its premiere.

NBC’s Sing-Off was up 13% from its premiere on Monday to a 2.6 rating, tieing Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance (which was flat vs. last week’s 2.3 rating) in the 8pm hour, and crushing the ABC comedies and Fox’s Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live special at 9pm which could manage only a 1.7 rating.

The Jay Leno Show was down 38% from its post Biggest Loser finale telecast last Tuesday, but its 1.8 rating will still have some “Leno Ragers” fuming.