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TV Ratings: 'American Idol' dominates, up in both viewers and demo
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Fast National ratings for Wednesday, March 23, 2011"American Idol" dipped a little last week, but is right back up this week. Guess everybody likes Motown. In other shows not named "American Idol," "Modern Family" had a good night, though it was up against a "Criminal Minds" rerun on CBS.
FOX won the night with an average of 23.5 million viewers and a 13.3 rating/22 share in households. CBS was next at 9.4 million, 5.7/9, followed by ABC at 6.5 million, 4.0/7, NBC at 5.6 million, 3.5/6 and the CW at 1.6 million, 1.0/2.
In the 18-49 demographic, FOX obliterated the field with a 7.7 rating, followed by CBS (2.5), ABC (2.2), NBC (1.6) and the CW (0.7).
Wednesday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
FOX: "American Idol" (21.7 million, 12.4/21)
CBS: "Survivor: Redemption Island" (10.8 million, 6.2/10)
ABC: "The Middle" (7.3 million, 4.5/8) / "The Middle" rerun (5.8 million, 3.6/6)
NBC: "Minute to Win It" (4.2 million, 2.4/4)
The CW: "America's Next Top Model" (2.2 million, 1.4/2)
18-49 leader: "American Idol" (7.1)
9 p.m.
FOX: "American Idol" (25.2 million, 14.2/23)
CBS: "Criminal Minds" rerun (8.7 million, 5.3/8)
ABC: "Modern Family" (10.8 million, 6.4/10) / "Mr. Sunshine" (5.9 million, 3.7/6)
NBC: "Law & Order SVU" rerun (3.99 million, 2.5/4)
The CW: "Shedding for the Wedding" (968 K, 0.6/1)
18-49 leader: "American Idol" (8.2)
10 p.m.
CBS: "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" (8.86 million, 5.6/10)
NBC: "Law & Order: SVU" (8.7 million, 5.6/10)
ABC: "Off the Map" (4.5 million, 3.0/5)
18-49 leader: "Law & Order: SVU" (2.6)
Ratings information includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are preliminary and subject to change, especially in the case of live telecasts. Source: The Nielsen Company.
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I also predict that "The Good Wife" will drop in viewers and ratings from here on out, then eventually be canceled. Only racists who like to watch poorly written daytime soap operas will watch this show now. Stop watching “The Good Wife” Lets stomp out Hatred and Bigotry!
They should rename “The Good Wife” to “Alicia and her unbelievable amount of tragedies one after another” or “The most racist program on television”. Wow has the writing on this show completely ruined a great show.
Everyone knows that Chris Noth (Peter Florrick) is not under contract with “The Good Wife” and is starring in This Championship Season on Broadway. Notice he was not in the last episode, and was not around much this year. So Alicia will be single soon. So sad the writers had to write Peter off the show by having him have an affair with Kalinda, wasn’t Peter sleeping with prostitutes enough? and having him become a racist, and having him turn away from his minister., Very poor writing, people will not watch a show with such a poor script.
Having Kalinda have an affair with Peter was also unfair to the Kalinda character. She was likeable and had so much depth before they added this gimmick.
Since Glen Childs dropped out of the campaign he will use the Kalinda and Peter’s affair to derail Peter’s campaign. Since Kalinda and Alicia are BFF this will cause more drama for Alicia, she will have to work with Kalinda who slept with her husband, she will have to deal with her BFF in like forever, sleeping with her husband, and she will run into the arms of Will (her boss) which she has wanted to do forever. Wow, “The Good Wife” now is a bad daytime soap that ran too long and ran out of good writing.
And I agree that the writers of this show are very racists by portraying any featured black male as a gangsters, drug dealers, or having ties to organized crime. How sad, this is a reason to stop watching “The Good Wife” alone.
Also the writers were very racists by saying that all soccer moms and the middle class blue collar white voters in Illinois are racists. By doing that they showed they are the true racists. Really the state that has U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun, and U.S. Senator and current U.S. President Barack Obama? Really the writers went there, how absolutely disgusting “The Good Wife” went there. “The Good Wife” has offended all Americans in one show. Shame on you!
Also I agree with Tyrone – “
Racist quotes like "The Florrick kids just really love black people." on a network show is unbelievable. Then the racist quotes against people who skin color is white does not balance it out. It just shows “The Good Wife” is very racist and promotes racism. If you dislike Racism, stop watching “The Good Wife”, stop buying the products of its sponsors Martin Luther King Jr one of his most famous quotes: "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Why does Idol add viewers in its second hour?
B, easy answer, Survivor is over so quite a few of its viewers switch over to American Idol vs Criminal Minds or Comedies.
I'm actually enjoying this season of Survivor, too bad its going against the American Idol beast. That has hurt it a bit.
The Good Wife is racist? Really?I think the show was mocking pandering to racism not trying to promote racism
Reruns of Middle aren't doing much better than Better With You . BWY will be air after DWTS next month. That is a death wish. Remember Alyssa Milano's cute little comedy RC? It lost a huge chunk of the DWTS audience. But still had good ratings much like most shows that air after huge reality shows.Expectations were just too high.
mod fam was so funny last night. that manny is such the scene stealer.
off the map problem is they should have not shot the show in hawaii they should have shot it in puerto rico have the show same island as lost is boring i never like those ads for show too
Man..Criminal Minds Jr. is against the ropes, takin' HEAVY damage! Get rid of Garafalo--she wasn't in the original crew anyway (can't hurt) And they need some eye candy anyway..Beau Garrett is kinda cute, but looks stick figurey!
wht is this obsession with the good wive? Its on Leslie Moonbat and Jackie Chan's netwart for old peple and louses lik Spoilester! So who cares? Haha lol purr hin. Noww off to Yoda.
*EOW/your alter egos...remember what was suggested to you...hit yourself over the head with a frying pan and make sure you recapture whatever senses you still have left in that rat's nest you call a brain, you worthless piece of garbage!