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TV Ratings: 'American Idol' wins Wednesday, 'Suspect Behavior' shows improvement
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Fast National ratings for Wednesday, March 2, 2011As per usual, "American Idol" won Wednesday night for Fox by a very comfortable margin, experiencing a boost in viewers in its final half an hour. "Idol" led into half-hour comedy "Traffic Light," giving it a considerable boost to 7.3 million viewers. CW shows "America's Next Top Model" and "Shedding for the Wedding" retained most of their viewership from last week's premieres. Newbie "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" is still finding its footing -- though last week showed a drop since the premiere, this week more viewers tuned back in.
FOX won the night with an average of 18.7 viewers and a 10.6 rating/17 share in households. CBS followed with 11.9 million viewers (7.1/12). In third place was ABC (6.8 million, 4.3/7), followed by NBC (4.0 million, 2.5/4) and CW (1.5 million, 1.0/2).
In the 18-49 demographic FOX had a 6.5 rating, followed by CBS with 3.2, ABC with 2.3, NBC with 1.2, and CW with 0.7.
Wednesday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
FOX: "American Idol" (21.7 million, 12.2/20)
CBS: "Survivor: Redemption Island" (11.3 million, 6.4/10)
ABC: "The Middle" (8.1 million viewers, 5.0/8) / "Better With You" (5.9 million viewers, 3.8/6)
NBC: "Minute to Win It" (3.3 million, 2.0/3)
The CW: "America's Next Top Model" (2.0 million, 1.3/2)
18-49 leader: "American Idol" (7.4)
9 p.m.
FOX: "American Idol" (24.2 million, 13.4/21) / "Traffic Light" (7.3 million, 4.4/7)
CBS: "Criminal Minds" (14.3 million, 8.6/14)
ABC: "Modern Family" (10.1 million, 6.1/10) / "Mr. Sunshine" (7.0 million, 4.4/7)
NBC: "Minute to Win It" (3.5 million, 2.1/3)
The CW: "Shedding for the Wedding" (1.1 million, 0.7/1)
18-49 leader: "American Idol" (8.4)
10 p.m.
CBS: "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" (10.3 million, 6.5/12)
NBC: "Law & Order: SVU" rerun (5.3 million, 3.5/6)
ABC: "Off the Map" (4.9 million, 3.2/6)
18-49 leader: "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" (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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Suspect Behaviour went up very little considering this week all they were up against is a rerun of L&O SVU
Copy & past does it again wit this sintance: "CW shows "American Idol" and "Shedding for the Wedding" retained most of their viewership from last week's premieres." Really? American Idiol is a CW shew? Haha lol purr thin! Her boss Preta the divet will be mad. So will that negativity Louse Sillyvulture the louse. Noww back to Yogurt.
M E O W= i post on here before my shift at mcdonalds starts at 2pm.
Best show ever for women “The Good Wife” on Tuesday nights!
While “The Good Wife” has many strong women role models of all ages. Parenthood is demeaning to women; the women on that show are helpless and crazy.
At my University we have “The Good Wife” viewing parties. These viewing parties are going on throughout the United States (Just like the “Sex In The City” viewing parties.). Nobody at my school watches “Parenthood”.
Only losers over 30 years old watch Parenthood. While winners under 30 watch “The Good Wife’ and 20/20. They both have double the viewers of Parenthood.
And after NBC runs commercials for Parenthood nonstop, they still lose 36% of the viewers from their lead in “The Biggest Loser”. I guess “Parenthood” and the people who watch Parenthood are really the biggest Losers.
Overall Jay Leno at 10pm had better numbers than parenthood and his show was canceled.
At Best Parenthood has only slightly better numbers than Jay Leno that is enough to get Parenthood canceled
TUESDAY
10 p.m.
CBS: "The Good Wife" (11.3 million, 7.4/13)
ABC: "20/20" special - "Charlie Sheen: In His Own Words" (9.3 million, 5.8/10)
NBC: "Parenthood" (5 million, 3.2/6)
9 p.m.
NBC: "The Biggest Loser" (7.8 million, 4.8/7)
Cancel Parenthood now
Suspect Behavior vs. Special Victims Unit, now that's what I called a new Wednesday night showdown but still ABC needs to axed Off the Map.
M eow, you are correct:
"CW shows "American Idol" and "Shedding for the Wedding" retained most of their viewership from last week's premieres. Newbie "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" is still finding its footing -- though last week showed a drop since the premiere, this week more viewers tuned back in."
What bad grammer on Copy and Paste parts, how old is she 8! Poor thing needs to stop eating her dozen doughnuts and actually concentrate on copy and pasting the ratings every time she is filling in for Preta. Sad.
I guess ericthemidget, the louse Sillyvulture's lackey is back. What a double louse! Haha lol purr thins. Noww back to Frodo.
julie u really need to get over it now its wednesday rating results and ur still hung over on parenthood. u must be still hung over from the all the soda and chips from your so much fun good wife viewing party. like i said before u really need to get a life now cause ur stating to be annoying. shove the good wife up u no what.
LOL... people watch the goodwive in college... sad being that much of a loser than you watch CBS and this DH ripp off show the goodwive.
Sad how copy & past corrected her artical without acknowleging my and Donna's pointint it out to her. Haha lol purr thin! Its lik shes pretending lik the error wasnt their in the first place. Sad. Sadder than that Lousy Sillyvulture and her lackey ericthemidget. Noww back to Yonkers.