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Tuesday ratings breakdown: Returning shows rule
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The old-timers pushed the new kids around in Tuesday night's ratings.None of the three new shows that debuted Tuesday (Sept. 21) made much noise in the ratings. ABC's cop show "Detroit 1-8-7" scored the biggest total audience with 9.3 million viewers (down a bit from the fast nationals), while FOX's comedy "Raising Hope" had the highest mark of the newcomers in adults 18-49 (3.1).
Neither of those was close to the top of the heap Tuesday, though. "NCIS" didn't open as big as it did last year -- when its premiere scored 20 million viewers -- but the show was still the most-watched of the night with 19.4 million people tuning in (it scored a 4.0 in the 18-49 demo, down from 4.6 last year). A two-hour "NCIS: Los Angeles" premiere averaged 14.7 million viewers and a 3.2 in adults 18-49, down significantly from the one-hour series premiere in 2009 (18.3 million and 4.4 in the demo).
On the upside for CBS, both shows improved on their season finales in May.
The "Dancing With the Stars" results show also opened big, with 18.5 million viewers and a 4.4 demo rating. ABC says it's the best premiere ever for the results show -- though those numbers are only for the 9 o'clock hour; the "DWTS" material you saw between 8 and 9 p.m. ET was a "recap special."
"Glee," meanwhile, grabbed its biggest audience ever (12.45 million viewers, 5.6 among adults 18-49) without an "American Idol" lead-in. The show led the night among adults 18-49 by a wide margin and put up its second-highest rating ever in the demographic. Among adults 18-34, it was "Glee's" best performance ever.
Other notes from Tuesday night:
- NBC took a bit of a hit. The season premiere of "The Biggest Loser" (7.2 million viewers, 2.9 in adults 18-49) was down from last season's debut (which came a week before the full rush of premieres), while "Parenthood" (5.85 million, 2.5) dipped some from its debut last week.
- Full numbers for the new shows: "Detroit 1-8-7" had 9.3 million viewers and a 2.3 rating among adults 18-49; "Raising Hope," 7.3 million and 3.1; and fellow FOX comedy "Running Wilde," 5.6 million and 2.4.
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Glee increased to 12. 5 million viewers and a
5. 6 in the all important 18- 49 demo! It was
2nd in total viewers and first in the demo for
the whole night period . Suck it haters !
The writeups are great but you should also keep the summary of show ratings listed for 8pm, 9pm and 10pm. It's nice to have a quick view of what happened.
Raising Hope was a charmer...I really like Martha Plimpton...I hope it's ratings improve."Running Wilde" not so much
Go Glee! Stellar episode. I think next week will build on the ratings even more. Britney!!!!!
Raising hope reminds me so much of married with children, and malcom in the middle. It's crude and literally LOL hilarious, it makes those family oriented comedies seems like absolute crap.
Running Wilde, god awful doesn't even begin to describe this show.
Dis "analysis" is really just a recap. Haha lol porr thin.
Glee was good and I really enjoyed Raising Hope.I have watched Martha Plimpton for years and she is an amazing actress who can play anything.I hope more people will give this show a shot.
@Ms. C : 18-49 is not "all important" in any way shape or form.
FOX executives love to pretend it is because, with the exception of AI, they can't get really high-rated shows on the schedule, so they resort to slicing the audience to pretend they've won.
As we should all know by now, ad revenue, which is really what it's all about commercially track consistently with overall audience, not any particular demographic group.
As for Glee, it shows what the most aggressive PR campaign of recent years (putting to shame NBC's yearly Office relaunch and FOX's own Family Guy constant campaign) can bring.
Look for it to lose that extra audience in the following weeks.
Detroit 1-8-7 lost about 50% of its lead-in. Not surprisingly, yet another shakycam show fails to find a large audience, but don't look for executives to stop saying that audiences demand the camera shake at least once an episode. :(
Parenthood's audience is already in cancel territory, something [stay tuned for tooting own horn] I believe I predicted last year when it was renewed.
It never ceases to amaze me how the networks keep renewing shows that don't have a chance of delivering just so they can say they renewed something.
Do executive boards really have such lack of memory to tolerate this year after year?!
not a fan of glee!
what about NCIS? Best ratings of all the Tues. night shows!!