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TV Ratings: CBS crime-fighting lineup wins easily on Friday
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Fast National ratings for Friday, Nov. 5, 2010"Blue Bloods" lost roughly a million viewers from last week to this week, but the CBS crime-fighting Friday lineup still won easily.
CBS took Friday night with an average of 9.2 million viewers and a 5.8/10 share of households for the night. ABC was in a distant second with 5.3 million and a 3.4/6. NBC was next with 4.7 million and a 3.1/6. FOX and the CW brought up the rear with 3.1 million and a 1.9/3 for FOX and 2.5 million and a 1.5/3 for the CW.
In the 18-49 demo, CBS also won but the margin was much smaller. The networks went CBS (1.7), ABC (1.5), NBC and the CW tied (1.1) and FOX in last (0.9).
Friday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Medium" (6.9 million, 4.5/8)
ABC: "Supernanny" (4.8 million, 3.1/6)
FOX: "House" rerun (3.4 million, 2.1/4)
CW: "Smallville" (2.6 million, 1.6/3)
NBC: "School Pride" (2.3 million, 1.5/3)
18-49 leader: "Medium" (1.5)
9 p.m.
CBS: "CSI: NY" (10.4 million, 6.5/11)
ABC: "Primetime: What Would You Do?" (5.7 million, 3.5/6)
NBC: "Dateline" (5.4 million, 3.6/6)
FOX: "The Good Guys" (2.7 million, 1.7/3)
CW: "Supernatural" (2.4 million, 1.4/3)
18-49 leader: "CSI: NY" (2.0)
10 p.m.
CBS: "Blue Bloods" (10.2 million, 6.4/12)
NBC: "Dateline" (6.5 million, 4.3/8)
ABC: "20/20" (5.3 million, 3.6/7)
18-49 leader: "Blue Bloods" (1.7)
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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Is there a way to save Medium..?? Its first on its timeslot and CBS will be stupid enough to cancel as it did with Ghost whisperer
NBC just cancel school pride already
CSI NY and Blue Bloods make a great pair. They're doing well. Too bad about Medium...it did go up, but CBS will probably still cancel it.
CBS should keep Medium/CSI NY/Blue Bloods. They are all doing well...especially for Fridays. 10pm is difficult even during the week.
10 pm is only difficult when you have crap shows on the air. CBS does quite well on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays with a 3.0 18-49 average. When the morons at ABC puts shows like The Whole Truth on at 10pm, despite the fact that it was preceded by 2 hours of comedy AND is a ripoff of a summer Fox show, of course they are going to fail miserably.
Networks have to face the facts that the 18-49 has dropped off on Fridays. A substantial portion of all of the audiences are outside the demo. Medium's 18-49 is very low, but the 2.0s and 1.8s from the later two shows aren't exactly setting the world on fire.
How do cbs and the other networks due on Friday considering dvrs,vcrs if any etc ? Do rankings change or just magnitudes?
Wow...When CW beats NBC, you know that the balance of power has shifted.
I agree....when you get beat by the CW of all networks...changes seriously need to be made at programming at NBC. Bye Angela Bromstad, the sooner, the better!
An absolute embarrassment for NBC!
Medium is one of the best shows on television and usually wins its time slot. Hopefully CBS will not cancel it.
I JUST READ THAT "UNDERCOVER" IS
BEING CUT. I REALLY LIKE THAT SHOW
.
BUT I KNOW I HAVE NO SAY WITH NBC.
IF THEY PUT IT AT ANOTHER TIME
PERIOD, PERHAPS THE STUPID RATINGS
WOULD BE BETTER.