NCIS - 1st Scripted show this season to go past 20 Million Viewers
27 Oct 2010
NCIS NCIS: Los Angeles Ratings The Good WifeCBS won its sixth straight Tuesday in viewers and adults 25-54 as NCIS became the first scripted series this season to top 20 million viewers, delivering its largest audience since January. NCIS: LOS ANGELES and THE GOOD WIFE won their time periods in viewers and demos, according to Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Oct. 26.
NCIS was first in households (12.1/19), viewers (20.18m), adults 25-54 (5.6/14) and second in adults 18-49 (4.1/11). Compared to last week, NCIS added +770,000 viewers (from 19.41m, +4%). NCIS was the night's #1 program in viewers and adults 25-54 with its largest audience since Jan. 26.
NCIS: LOS ANGELES was first in viewers (15.99m), adults 25-54 (4.6/11), adults 18-49 (3.4/09). NCIS: LOS ANGELES was the night's #2 program in viewers, behind NCIS.
THE GOOD WIFE was first in households (8.2/14), viewers (12.59m), adults 25-54 (3.4/09) and adults 18-49 (2.4/07) for the fifth straight week. Compared to last week, THE GOOD WIFE added +420,000 viewers (from 12.17m, +3%).
CBS was first on Tuesday in households (10.0/16), viewers (16.25m), adults 25-54 (4.6/11) and second in adults 18-49 (3.3/09). CBS won its sixth consecutive Tuesday in viewers and adults 25-54.
Source: CBS
Unless Grey's Anatomy or House has a REALLY big episode coming down the pike, NCIS could be the only scripted show to hit 20 million this season.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to NCIS. Last night was great. They finally put the focus on the Abby character, and were rewarded with great ratings! I hope this means they'll stop ignoring her character now.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading the ratings and seeing NCIS at 20+ million viewers every week. Grey's used to have around 20 million too, I believe. (Never watched either regularly, but I remember seeing those huge numbers.) Still, even those numbers are nothing when compared to the late 90s early 00s ratings (ER used to boast around 25+ million viewers if I'm correct...)
ReplyDeleteI still clearly remember the Seinfeld finale - 76.3 million people. It's a completely different ballgame now.
ReplyDeleteIt was fairly popular. The ratings were in the 16-18 million range. If I remember my TV history, Magnum's finale ratings were so inflated because the 2 part finale was supposed to reveal something big about Mangum's past that was teased throughout the run of the series.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet when they do the write-ups, Glee will somehow still be crowned the night's "winner".
ReplyDeleteGrey's Anatomy hasn't topped 20mil since about Season 2.
ReplyDeleteBecause Abby rocks! There's a reason why the fan voted marathons are always Abby heavy. She's the best character in the whole show. The only episode of NCIS-LA I paid for was when Abby visited.
ReplyDeleteWHAT THE HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECK ARE THOSE NUMBERS?!
ReplyDeleteseriously?! Can you imagine 100 million people watching the same thing at the same time and it's not the daily news?!
Do you have any idea why did these numbers have been falling like this? Because it took so long for a show to get to 20 million viewers this season... And it used to get 25 a decade ago.
People don't want to watch TV anymore? Are tv shows days over?
I don't understand it at all! LOL
ReplyDeleteI thought those were counted too. My bad. XD
ReplyDeleteMore channels means people have more choices. There weren't near as many channels or ways to watch TV when most of these came on. You really had 4 choices and one of them was public access.
ReplyDeleteThe 18-49 demographic is the number of people watching between the ages 18 and 49. This is the key demographic that advertisers want to exploit, and therefore what they care about: 1 point for a 18-49 demo is about 1.3 million viewers in the ages between 18-49. So, when you see Glee getting more credit than NCIS for their ratings, it's because Glee gets a 18-49 rating around 4.6-5.0 with a total amount of around 11 million viewers, while NCIS gets around a 3.8-4.1 with about 20 million viewers. This means that NCIS skews old-- most of the people that watch that show in droves are all over the age of 49, and are not a part of the key demographic. However, a 4.0 is still a really great rating and 20 million viewers is something no other show can lately on tv unless it's American Idol--which isn't scripted.
ReplyDeleteMore channels, Cable, Internet, TIVO, etc
ReplyDeleteTop 5 ever
ReplyDelete1 M*A*S*H 100.59
2 Cheers 80.4
3 Seinfeld 76.3
4 Friends 52.5
5 Magnum, P.I. 50.7
Crazy numbers.. and Magnum.... Was it that popular?
Yep, I remember when Lost had 25 million as well for Season 2.
ReplyDeleteYep, it seems that way.
ReplyDeleteMaybe a sweeps episode or a Finale might just might push them up there
although Greys number this year are
14.4 12.6 12.8 12.1 11.0
and House
10.9 10.1 10.8 9.6 9.7
The Mentalist may have more of a chance.
15.3 14.6 14.4 15.1 14.4
Also maybe NCIS LA
15.7 16.6 16.0 16.0 16.0
Which writeups are you referring to?
ReplyDeleteRemember raw numbers are not that important.It's the 18-49 Demo
numbers that the networks really look at.
Ha, great memory.
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