TV Ratings: CBS wins, 'Absolute Justice' absolutely great for CW
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Fast national ratings for Friday, Feb. 5. CBS' mystical Friday night lineup propelled it to another victory with 9 million viewers, 5.6/10 households overall. ABC was next with 6.2 million, 4.1/7, followed by NBC with 5.5 million, 3.7/6, FOX at 4 million, 2.4/4 and the CW at 2.8, 1.8/3.
That's actually a big Friday night for the CW -- the Justice Society on "Smallville" had lots of people tuning in.
FOX and NBC flip-flopped in the 18-49 demo, which looked like this: CBS (2.1), ABC (1.6), FOX (1.5), NBC (1.3) and the CW (1.2), all of which are up a good bit from last week.
Friday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Ghost Whisperer" (8.8 million viewers, 5.4/9 households)
NBC: "Law & Order" rerun (5.6 million, 3.7/6)
ABC: "Supernanny" (5.4 million, 3.5/6)
FOX: "House" rerun (3.9 million, 2.4/4)
The CW: "Smallville" (2.6 million, 1.7/3)
18-49 leader: "Ghost Whisperer" (2.2)
9 p.m.
CBS: "Medium" (9.1 million, 5.5/9)
NBC: "Dateline" (6.5 million, 4.4/8)
ABC: "Shark Tank" (4.7 million, 3.0/5)
FOX: "Kitchen Nightmares" (4.1 million, 2.4/4)
The CW: "Smallville" (2.9 million, 1.9/3)
18-49 leader: "Medium" (2.2)
10 p.m.
CBS: "Numb3rs" (9.2 million, 5.8/10)
ABC: "20/20" (8.6 million, 5.9/10)
NBC: "The Jay Leno Show" (4.5 million, 3.0/5)
18-49 leader: "Numb3rs" (2.0)
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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That's JUSTICE SOCIETY!
The JUSTICE LEAGUE is still in its infancy on Smallville.
20/20 is BIG again and keeping the pressure on Numbers for that number one spot at 10pm. Overall one of the best Friday night performances for all the networks that I can remember...Supernanny continuing to grow; FOX much improved now that Dollhouse is gone; CBS putting up 9 million viewers all night long
Yeah, it doesn't say much for a show's appeal when Gordon Ramsey shouting for an hour beats the ratings for Dollhouse's last few episodes. What a waste of a potentially-great show.
Even though not a single show scored above ten million viewers, I think this will be the norm from now on. I didn't see any of the Friday shows because I was at a pre-Super Bowl party, and I'm sure lots of other people had plans that didn't include network TV viewing. That's the way it is nowadays. More choices equals lower ratings, even for top-rated shows.
As for Numbers, I'm afraid the show is on its last legs, creatively. Why they keep bringing Larry back time and time again is beyond me, as he is easily the worst character on the show. Of all the characters, his could disappear for good, and the show would be much better. Then again, if this is the show's final season (which hasn't been decided yet), he may just be there to wrap up storylines before Numbers goes bye-bye.
Wow smallville posted over 3 million in the last half an hour. Great stuff!!
Wow smallville posted over 3 million in the last half an hour. Great stuff!!
Medium KICK *** last nighttt,....great episode.. Great ratings
The power of the Super-Hero... way to go Smallville, so good last night and so many story threads were laid down for future episodes.
Medium was awesome last night!
Oh, Geoff, I expected so much more. Poor pacing, watered down dialogue and almost no action for 2 hrs. C'MON, it took all of them just to beat Icicle?! And the Martian was completely out of place.
I love seeing Medium doing good numbers on CBS when NBC was too stupid to keep it. Nice.