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TV ratings: 'American Idol' wins Thursday, but everyone's down
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Fast National ratings for Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011Thursday was a pretty soft night across the board on the broadcast networks, all of which were off compared to last week. The start of "American Idol's" Hollywood round led FOX to a win.
FOX averaged 15.9 million viewers and an 8.9 rating/14 share in households for the night, topping CBS' 13 million viewers and 7.9/13. ABC (8.2 million, 5.2/8) came in third, a good ways ahead of NBC (4.5 million, 2.7/4). The CW trailed with 2.3 million viewers and a 1.5/2.
In the adults 18-49 demographic, FOX's 5.3 rating led the way by a large margin and was off just slightly from last week's 5.4. CBS, 3.0, finished second, just ahead of ABC's 2.9. NBC averaged 2.2 in the demo and The CW 1.0.
Thursday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
FOX: "American Idol" (21.7 million viewers, 11.9/19 households)
CBS: "The Big Bang Theory" (12.8 million, 7.6/12)/"$#*! My Dad Says" (10.4 million, 6.3/10)
ABC: "Wipeout" (6.9 million, 3.9/6)
NBC: "Community" (3.85 million, 2.4/4)/"Perfect Couples" (3.1 million, 1.9/3)
The CW: "The Vampire Diaries" (2.75 million, 1.7/3)
18-49 leader: "American Idol" (7.2)
9 p.m.
CBS: "CSI" (12.65 million, 7.8/12)
ABC: "Grey's Anatomy" (10.4 million, 6.6/10)
FOX: "Bones" (10.1 million, 5.8/9)
NBC: "The Office" (6.9 million, 4.0/6)/"Parks and Recreation" (5.1 million, 3.0/5)
The CW: "Nikita" (1.9 million, 1.2/2)
18-49 leader: "Grey's Anatomy" (3.9)
10 p.m.
CBS: "The Mentalist" (14.75 million, 8.9/15)
ABC: "Private Practice" (7.3 million, 5.0/9)
NBC: "30 Rock" (4.6 million, 2.8/5)/"Outsourced" (3.65 million, 2.3/4)
18-49 leader: "The Mentalist" (2.9)
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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Missed Community last night but The Office and Parks and Rec had me cracking up. What a great hour of comedy last night.
Not EVERYTHING was down. Private Practice was up a bit from last week. This particular episode was promoted to death. It continued the VERY popular storyline regarding the rapist and the victim
Looks like Community will probably be canceled. It's a shame since its the funniest show on TV.
Are people FINALLY sick of the the Vampire Diaries and Nikita being OVER-EXPOSED?!?!?!? :D
Aww Man, Bones was so close to beating Grey's. Mabey next week.
People have sworn not to watch the "Vampire Diaries" for the rest of the season since the CW pre-empted the return of "Smallville" and "Supernatural" in favor of repeating TVD and Nikita on Friday 2 weeks ago. That could be the reason TVD and Nikita are down.
All were off compared to last week? Bones looks like it had almost the same fast national ratings it got for last Thursday's new episode, and The Mentalist's ratings were around the same, or higher, that it normally gets on Thursday nights.
Vampire Diaries & Nikita are better than Smallville & Supernatural. Community & Outsourced are the best comedies on Thursdays. The Office & Parks are almost awful but better than Perfect Couples. 30 Rock is the 3rd best of the night. This is coming from a TV Junkie, I know from experience. Big Bang Theory is also bad. Take that from an expert like me. Bye
c'mon ppl...'perfect couples' is awesome. 'community' has lost its mojo.
which of us crazy ppl r watching 'outsourced?' with everything that's going on in egypt...oh, forget it.