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TV ratings: 'NCIS,' Kennedy Center Honors lead a quiet Tuesday
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Fast National ratings for Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009CBS coasted to a ratings victory Tuesday night on the strength of an "NCIS" repeat and its annual Kennedy Center Honors broadcast, which featured the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Mel Brooks.
CBS drew 10.7 million viewers and a 6.8 rating/11 share in households for the night, more than double the average for second-place ABC (5 million, 3.1/5). FOX (3.6 million, 2.1/3) came in third. NBC finished fourth with 2.9 million viewers and a 1.9/3, and The CW (925,000, 0.6/1) trailed.
No network broke the 2.0 mark in the adults 18-49 demographic, which CBS led with a 1.9. ABC and FOX tied for second at 1.5. NBC was fourth with a scant 0.9, and The CW managed only a 0.3.
Tuesday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "NCIS" rerun (12.9 million viewers, 8.0/13 households)
ABC: Special - "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" (4.2 million, 2.3/4)
FOX: Movie - "The Benchwarmers" (3.6 million, 2.1/3)
NBC: "Parks and Recreation" reruns - two episodes (3 million, 2.0/3)
The CW: "90210" rerun (1.1 million, 0.7/1)
18-49 leader: "NCIS" (2.4)
9 p.m.
CBS: Special - Kennedy Center Honors (10 million, 6.4/11)
FOX: "The Benchwarmers" (3.6 million, 2.2/4)
ABC: "Scrubs" rerun (2.9 million, 1.7/3)/"Better Off Ted" (2.7 million, 1.7/3)
NBC: "Parks and Recreation" reruns - two episodes (2.75 million, 1.8/3)
The CW: "Melrose Place" rerun (719,000, 0.5/1)
18-49 leader: Kennedy Center Honors (1.7)
10 p.m.
CBS: Kennedy Center Honors (9.2 million, 5.9/10)
ABC: "20/20" special - "The Blind Side: The Real Story" (7.9 million, 5.1/9)
NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" rerun (3 million, 1.9/3)
18-49 leader: "20/20" (2.2)
Ratings information includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are preliminary and subject to change. Source: The Nielsen Company.
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If you ask me I am sick of watching shows where celebrities get honored. We should be honoring everyday heroes. Not actors and actresses for doing what they like and getting paid millions of dollars for it.
Those 10 million who watched Kennedy Honors must really have been bored or don't have remotes and are too lazy to get up to turn the channel.
The Kennedy Center was fantastic last night. This was a 10 star/thumbs up show (so I use my kids'thumbs!)
I never thought I'd watch it, but I was channel surfing and they started with Robert DiNiro. I was hooked. Then Dave Brubek (I'm a jazz fan) and some of his music as well as his sons who inherited some mean talent. Then Mel Brooks. Sheesh was he a productive, hysterically funny talent. I didn't realize he was responsible for so many shows and music and humor.
I was actually choked-up and teary-eyed seeing these talented people and the quick retrospective of their talent and successes. I felt honored to watch. Wish I had as many accomplishments to have an honor like that!
I didn't get to watch the rest yet -- but I TiVod it!