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TV ratings: 'American Idol' top 12, CBS dramas top Thursday
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Fast National ratings for Thursday, March 11, 2010The announcement of this season's "American Idol" top 12 scored Thursday night's best ratings, but CBS ended up leading the viewer race on the strength of "CSI" and "The Mentalist."
The two dramas helped CBS lead the night in viewers as the network averaged 14.5 million people and an 8.8 rating/15 share in households. FOX (13.4 million, 7.9/13) finished second, a good bit ahead of third-place ABC (7.8 million, 5.3/9), which saw "Grey's Anatomy" continue to struggle some. NBC (5.8 million, 3.6/6) came in fourth, and an evening of reruns on The CW trailed with 1.4 million viewers and a 1.0/2.
FOX coasted to a win in the adults 18-49 demographic, drawing a 4.7 rating. CBS took second with a 3.4. NBC's 2.7 edged ABC's 2.6 for third, while The CW posted a 0.5.
Thursday's hourly numbers:
8 p.m.
FOX: "American Idol" results (19.15 million viewers, 11.1/18 households)
CBS: "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains" (12.1 million, 7.0/11)
NBC: "Community" (4.7 million, 3.0/5)/"Parks and Recreation" (4.6 million, 3.0/5)
ABC: "Grey's Anatomy" rerun (4.4 million, 3.2/5)
The CW: "The Vampire Diaries" rerun (1.5 million, 1.1/2)
18-49 leader: "American Idol" (6.2)
9 p.m.
CBS: "CSI" (15.4 million, 9.4/15)
ABC: "Grey's Anatomy" (11 million, 7.2/12)
FOX: "Kitchen Nightmares" (7.6 million, 4.7/8)
NBC: "The Office" (7.5 million, 4.4/7)/"30 Rock" (5.9 million, 3.5/6)
The CW: "Supernatural" rerun (1.4 million, 1.0/2)
18-49 leader: "Grey's Anatomy" (4.0)
10 p.m.
CBS: "The Mentalist" (16 million, 10.0/18)
ABC: "Private Practice" (7.9 million, 5.5/10)
NBC: "The Marriage Ref" (6 million, 3.9/7)
18-49 leader: "The Mentalist" (3.4)
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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Greys has lost millions of viewers since the beginning of the season. Where once they were averaging 15M a week now they are at 11M. That must be worrying ABC execs
Another pathetic night for ABC. Why do they continue to show last week's episodes in prime time?? And in their so called "choice demographics", they came in dead last again!! Pathetic.
Another sad night for ABC, with the fading Greys, the never was a hit PP, at this point only the should be cancelled FlashForward can save this network. NBC, again failed to capitalize on the Olympics and The Marriage Ref is another loser for them, just add that to the list of 10 other shows currently on NBC.
CBS with its overly redundant crime shows did great, but for how long can recycling the tired CSI formula win the night for the network.
Fox instead of using a scripted programming to build of the Idol audience just ran more reality programming. When will lazy execs stop this nonsense and get some good drama on TV.
The Marriage Ref is starting its sinking into cancellation. It should only be a half hour show. It gets way too boring with being so long.
even the reruns of The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural pull more people then new episodes of Melrose Place. CW cancel MP and bring us more quality show like SPN and tVD.
even reruns of The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural pull more people then new episodes of Melrose Place. CW cancel MP and bring us more quality show like SPN and tVD.
I can see why Heigel isn't coming back to Grey's. If Pompeo and Dempsey are smart they will drop out of that dismal show too before their careers go bust.
CBS and FOX dominated the night. Survivor is still holding up. and Kitchen Nightmares did well.
You need to bring Lily Scott back this is a joke
Survivor did a decent job and is still in the 12M range despite competing with Idol. That's what brought it down compared to shows like CSI or The Mentalist.
Anyways, Grey's Anatomy isn't even in Idol's timeslot and still did worse than Survivor (for its 20th season).