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Fast National ratings for Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010The latest elimination on "Big Brother 12" led CBS to a ratings win Thursday night, while "Rookie Blue" continued to put up decent summer numbers for ABC.
CBS averaged 6.7 million viewers and a 4.2 rating/8 share in households for the night, which was good enough to beat out ABC (6.1 million, 3.7/7) for the top spot in the Nielsens. FOX came in third with 4.7 million viewers and a 3.0/5. NBC (3 million, 2.0/4) finished fourth, while The CW (1.2 million, 0.8/1) brought up the rear.
ABC and CBS tied for the lead among adults 18-49, each scoring a 1.6 rating. FOX was not far behind at 1.4. NBC drew a 1.1 and The CW a 0.4.
Thursday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Big Brother 12" (7 million viewers, 4.2/8 households)
ABC: "Wipeout" rerun (6.5 million, 3.8/7)
FOX: "Glee" rerun (3.8 million, 2.5/5)
NBC: "Community" rerun (2.8 million, 1.9/4)/"30 Rock" rerun (2.4 million, 1.7/3)
The CW: "The Vampire Diaries" rerun (1.2 million, 0.8/2)
18-49 leader: "Big Brother 12" (2.4)
9 p.m.
ABC: "Rookie Blue" (6.85 million, 4.2/7)
CBS: "CSI" rerun (6 million, 3.9/7)
FOX: "So You Think You Can Dance" results (5.5 million, 3.4/6)
NBC: "The Office" rerun (2.85 million, 1.8/3)/"Parks and Recreation" rerun (2.4 million, 1.6/3)
The CW: "Moonlight" rerun (1.1 million, 0.7/1)
18-49 leader: "Rookie Blue" and "So You Think You Can Dance" tied at 1.8
10 p.m.
CBS: "The Mentalist" rerun (7.05 million, 4.6/8)
ABC: "Boston Med" (4.9 million, 3.3/6)
NBC: "Law & Order: SVU" rerun (3.8 million, 2.6/5)
18-49 leader: "Boston Med" and "The Mentalist" tied at 1.3
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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Rookie Blue was stellar last night. One of the best net shows ever done. Amazing script, amazing acting, amazing...everything. Too bad nobody watched!!! ABC needs to do some serious promotion and generate genuine buzz around this show. The potential is awesome.
Rookie Blue is the next great cop show, bet CBS is worried not that boring passed its prime CSI gets betten my it every week.
Rookie Blue is the next great cop show, bet CBS is worried not that boring passed its prime CSI gets betten my it every week.
Big Brother 12 is the best TV show of all time! Big Brother has been the best TV show since it started in the year 2000 :-)
I thought that picture was Brittany from Glee.
oh yea, anything wt Jackie Chan hosted on tv, will suck big time, not sure why the old man keep her on tv still.
Putting it lightly, that was one of the strongest Rookie Blue episodes of the season. Hope it keeps going up in the ratings. Next week looks stellar as well!
Simple douchebag ****/Donna/Pierre...he's married to that pile of crap and the poor thing, like you always say, needs to bloat her big ego and wants to be the centerfront of this network...soon to be called the Chen Broadcasting Service.
sad how the old thing sleeps wt her boss to get yet another tv show!
NBC's comedy lineup averaged 2.6 million viewers. That's funny. LOL.