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TV Ratings: CBS Friday lineup wins against Halloween programming
Fast National ratings for Friday, Oct. 29, 2010CBS handily won Friday in every time slot in viewers even in its first hour with "Medium" pitted against Halloween classic "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (although the Peanuts cartoon fared better in the adult 18-49). "Blue Bloods" once again had the best numbers for the night.
CBS led with 9.6 million viewers and a 6.1 rating/11 share. Far behind in second place was ABC's 5.4 million and 3.3/6, then NBC (4 million, 2.8/5), The CW (2.6 million, 1.5/3) and FOX (2.6 million, 1.7/3).
The Eye just barely took the demos win home though, scoring a 1.7 rating just ahead of ABC's 1.6. Following was The CW, 1.2, NBC, 1.1, and FOX, 0.8.
Friday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Medium" (6.9 million, 4.3/8)
ABC: "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (5.5, 3.1/6)
The CW: "Smallville" (2.9 million, 1.7/3)
FOX: "House" rerun (2.8 million, 1.9/4)
NBC: "School Pride" (2.4 million, 1.6/3)
18-49 leader: "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" (1.6)
9 p.m.
CBS: "CSI: NY" (10.4 million, 6.5/12)
ABC: "Primetime: What Would You Do?" (5.4 million, 3.2/6)
NBC: "Dateline" (4.8 million, 3.3/6)
The CW: "Supernatural" (2.5 million, 1.4/3)
FOX: "The Good Guys" (2.4 million, 1.6/3)
18-49 leader: "CSI: NY" (1.8)
10 p.m.
CBS: "Blue Bloods" (11.5 million, 7.3/13)
ABC: "20/20" (5.4 million, 3.5/6)
NBC: "Dateline" (4.98 million, 3.4/6)
18-49 leader: "Blue Bloods" (1.8)
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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Great job Smallville and Blue Bloods.
CBS still rule Fridays but it seems like Medium could be a goner after its season ends. How can other network shows do something to move from their respective lineup to the Friday night dead zone I mean they want the weekend kick off with huge ratings.
those good guys show need to get cancelled---the real good guys including sharon will win tuesday night!!
Interesting to see Medium go up in the fast nationals for the second week running, when it's season order has been reduced from 22 to 13 episodes.
Also, great to see Blue Bloods's fast national ratings keeping steady.
omg! Supernatural beat Fox again! YAY!!!
I'm really getting annoyed by CBS. They are always in the lead and I have never ever watched a program from their station. I'm a ABC/CW girl myself with NBC once in a while. :)
wow, never seen the CW beat 2 of the major 4 (8pm hour). FOX and NBC got to be reeling.
Go Blue Bloods and CSI NY. Awesome shows! And just heard Patricia say its been confirmed that Medium was cancelled. So sad.
Careful what you wish for Charles!
School Pride is one of the worst shows I've ever seen. It's sappy, fake and scripted. They should give it a massive overhaul. Step one should be getting a team of people who actually know what they're doing.
Shaun be careful what you dont wish for!