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TV Ratings: CBS edges rivals Sunday
Fast National ratings for Sunday, April 25, 2010CBS just barely declared victory, drawing in the most viewers Sunday night, but ABC took the demo title in a close race.
CBS averaged 9.0 million viewers and a 5.7 rating/9 share, falling a bit from the previous week's win brought by the Academy of Country Music Awards. Next came ABC with 8.5 million and a 5.3/9, NBC (6.3 million, 3.9/6) and FOX (4.6 million, 2.8/5).
ABC's 2.3 rating for the adult demo was enough to lead the pack, followed by NBC and FOX tying with 2.2 apiece and then CBS with a 1.8.
Sunday hour by hour:
7 p.m.
CBS: "60 Minutes" (11.2 million viewers, 7.1/13 households)
ABC: "America's Funniest Home Videos" rerun (7.4 million, 4.2/8)
NBC: "Dateline NBC" (4.1 million, 2.7/5)
FOX: "'Til Death" (2.2 million, 1.5/3), "The Simpsons" rerun (2.7 million, 1.8/3)
18-49 leader: "America's Funniest Home Videos," (1.7)
8 p.m.
CBS: "The Amazing Race" (10.6 million, 6.3/10 )
ABC: "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" rerun (6.9 million, 4.2/7)
NBC: "Minute to Win It" (5.6 million, 3.3/5)
FOX: "The Simpsons" (5.9 million, 3.4/6), "The Cleveland Show" rerun (5.1 million, 3.0/5)
18-49 leader: "The Amazing Race," (3.1)
9 p.m.
ABC: "Desperate Housewives" (11.1 million, 7.0/11)
NBC: "The Celebrity Apprentice" (7.3 million, 4.4/7)
CBS: "When Love Is Not Enough" (7.0 million, 4.5/7)
FOX: "Family Guy" rerun (6.4 million, 3.7/6), "American Dad" (5.3 million, 3.3/5)
18-49 leader: "Desperate Housewives" (3.3)
10 p.m.
ABC: "Brothers & Sisters" (8.41 million, 5.7/10)
NBC: "The Celebrity Apprentice" (8.39 million, 5.2/9)
CBS: "When Love Is Not Enough" (7.2 million, 4.8/8)
18-49 leader: "The Celebrity Apprentice" (3.3)
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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Glad to see DH viewership rise. Show is back on track after a dull mid season rut.
Woo nice to come bak from nice vacay with bf. Notice how CBS is last place in demo. Sad, porr thing lol. Leslie Moonbat clarly craters to old fogies only. She is no match for the bunnified leading tower de pizza that is ABCDEFG. Now off to see master Yoda.
At FOX, 'Til Death continues to decimate the rest of the night.
I'm entirely baffled at the amounts of money FOX is leaving on the table by leaving 'Til Death on.
This little talked-about show is perhaps the worst example of the "if we keep it on people will watch" approach to programming that is killing the networks' ratings.
It's also quite sad to see 60 minutes and its so-so ratings tower over the rest of the night and edge even Desperate Housewives.
Clearly the magic year of Stephen McPherson seems to have been a fluke and they need help picking shows.
Sunday is fast becoming the poster child of how uninspiring reality shows hammer the overall ratings down.
At FOX, 'Til Death continues to decimate the rest of the night.
I'm entirely baffled at the amounts of money FOX is leaving on the table by leaving 'Til Death on.
This little talked-about show is perhaps the worst example of the "if we keep it on people will watch" approach to programming that is killing the networks' ratings.
It's also quite sad to see 60 minutes and its so-so ratings tower over the rest of the night and edge even Desperate Housewives.
Clearly the magic year of Stephen McPherson seems to have been a fluke and they need help picking shows.
Sunday is fast becoming the poster child of how uninspiring reality shows hammer the overall ratings down.
At FOX, 'Til Death continues to decimate the rest of the night.
I'm entirely baffled at the amounts of money FOX is leaving on the table by leaving 'Til Death on.
This little talked-about show is perhaps the worst example of the "if we keep it on people will watch" approach to programming that is killing the networks' ratings.
It's also quite sad to see 60 minutes and its so-so ratings tower over the rest of the night and edge even Desperate Housewives.
Clearly the magic year of Stephen McPherson seems to have been a fluke and they need help picking shows.
Sunday is fast becoming the poster child of how uninspiring reality shows hammer the overall ratings down.
Sorry about the triple post, the zap2it posting engine seems to be sputtering. :)
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Desperate Housewives once again has all the pieces in place to make yet another dramatic rise to the finale starting with last night's episode which featured one of it best storylines and greatest four de force acting performances from the entire cast.
Nearly 8 million viewers for an America's Funniest Home Videos repeat and 7 million viewers for an Extreme Home Makeover repeat. ABC gets some serious mileage out of its Sunday reality hits. People seem to never tire of them. I wonder how big the audience will be when they return with new episodes? They've been in repeats for a while. Not that the tv watching public seems to mind either way.
@Hahn: Congratulations on a much improved article. :)
To give you a reason why I think zap2it is doing a great job reporting on ratings you have to realize how awful the coverage in the Hollywood trade papers is.
Rick Kissell of Variety actually portrayed Sunday as a night of complete and utter disappointment for CBS even as everyone else had cause to celebrate.
Yes, you read right, according to Variety, winning the night is losing the night.
Kissell is the one who write that The Mentalist was doing horribly after it once again was the highest-rated show on Thursday.
I assume that those "reporters" are not dishonest and that they're just too devoid of a spine to stand up to the relentless PR emanating from executives suites at NBC, CW, FOX and ABC, where the people that picked low-rated shows are fighting for their jobs by spinning the press.
As Brian Lowry of Variety also pointed out, they are too lazy to do any research (which is why they're all too happy to endorse the 18-49 nonsense wholesale) and have poor math skills (which makes it easy to pass off a time-slot hit as a real hit).
The problem is that many executives then turn to believing their own press, ala Jeff Zucker who persuaded himself that the network business is dying and that his low ratings are inevitable even as CBS keeps on growing its audience (something you'd never know if you read Variety or even worse the Hollywood Reporter where James Hibberd thinks that even mentioning overall audience is verboten and anything not written by PR spin-meister doesn't make it to print (which may explain why the Hollywood Reporter is teetering on the cusp of bankruptcy).