TV Ratings: CBS tops Friday, 'Dollhouse' finale beat by 'Smallville'
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Fast National ratings for Friday, Jan. 29, 2010After last week's "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon, Friday returned to its usual programming, which means CBS claimed victory once again in each hour of primetime even though numbers overall were soft. FOX's "Dollhouse" series made its final goodbyes to even more lackluster ratings, performing worse than The CW's "Smallville" in the same hour.
CBS drew 8.3 million viewers and a 5.2 rating /9 share in households for the night. NBC took second with 6.4 million and a 4.2/7, followed by ABC (5.7 million, 3.8/7), FOX (2.7 million, 1.7/3) and The CW (2.0, 1.3/2).
CBS also took the adults 18-49 demo crown with a 1.8 rating. ABC came next with a 1.5, then NBC, 1.4, FOX, 1.1, and The CW, 0.8.
and NBC tied for second at 1.5, and FOX scored a 1.0. The CW managed only a 0.5.
Friday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Ghost Whisperer" (8.3 million viewers, 5.1/9 households)
NBC: "Law & Order" (6.8 million, 4.4/8)
ABC: "Supernanny" (4.7 million, 3.0/5)
The CW: "Smallville" (2.5 million, 1.6/3)
FOX: "Dollhouse" finale (2.2 million, 1.4/2)
18-49 leader: "Ghost Whisperer" (1.9)
9 p.m.
CBS: "Medium" (8.0 million, 5.0/9)
NBC: "Dateline" (7.3 million, 5.0/9)
ABC: "Shark Tank" (4.4 million, 2.7/5)
FOX: "Kitchen Nightmares" (3.3 million, 2.0/3)
The CW: "Smallville" rerun (1.5 million, 0.9/2)
18-49 leader: "Medium" (1.8)
10 p.m.
CBS: "Numb3rs" (8.7 million, 5.5/10)
ABC: "20/20" (8.1 million, 5.6/10)
NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" (4.9 million, 3.2/6)
18-49 leader: "Numb3rs" (1.8)
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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SMALLVILLE BEAT Dollhouse!!!
Awesome!!! Next Friday the two hour event....
SMALLVILLE: ABSOLUTE JUSTICE
Well that sucks. Even though 2 million people is a lot watchers. Don't see why Dollhouse is going away when it's awesome!
On the Friday prime-time Tv schedule grid on Zap2it yesterday it didn't say a new episode of Law & Order was being shown on NBC at 8 pm Eastern. So why hasn't this been put beside the ratings for last night's episode? It's been very confusing this month. Has only one new episode been shown in January (on the 15th), the episode "BlackMail"?
I have said it and i will say it again i want smallville to go out good so i want next season to be the last i want it to be about 13 eps shown strait though and i want to to have lex return and be about him truely becoming superman.
Can we move beyond Smallville and take this series to Metropolis already!!!!!!
Enough young clark kent stuff, let's see Welling as Superman.
Smallville? Is that still on?
They didn't count me. 2,000,001. SO there.
I love Dollhouse, but I didn't watch last night because FOX didn't air the episode that preceded the series finale. I'm sure a lot of Whedon fans didn't watch for a similar reason.
I watched Dollhouse and to say I was rather disappointed, was an understatement. They showed all of the episodes, but I can see where someone might think they didn't. Last night's episode was called Epitaph 2: Return. They had an Epitaph 1, but it was never aired and only available for viewing by the DVD. I thought it would be confusing if you hadn't seen the Epitaph 1 episode, because it's just a continuation of that episode. It had been a while since I had seen the episode and I was still a little confused. They abruptly ended the episode though and I though it was weak!
I usually watch Smallville at 8 and then Dollhouse at 9. But this Friday they were on at the same time. I had a tough decision to make. I decided to just watch Smallville because they had already canceled Dollhouse and it didnt really need the ratings if it wasnt coming back. Smallville is likely to stay on for a while and it could use the ratings.