Prime Time Thursday Ratings

Game 2 of the World Series between the Rays and the Phillies declined 17% in adults 18-49 and 12% in total viewers from Game 1. Year-to-year, Thursday's game declined 25% in viewers from 2007's Game 2 between the Red Sox and the Rockies.

	8	8:30	9	9:30	10	10:30
3.6 / 9	Ugly Betty 2.8 / 8 8.7 mil		Grey's Anatomy 5.4 / 13 14.5 mil		Life on Mars 2.4 / 6 7.9 mil
4.3 / 11	Survivor: Gabon 4.4 / 12 13.3 mil		CSI 5.5 / 13 19.5 mil		Eleventh Hour 3.1 / 8 11.8 mil
3.7 / 10	MLB Pre-Game 1.8 / 6 6.5 mil	World Series, Game 2: Rays vs. Phillies 4.0 / 11 12.8 mil
3.2 / 8	My Name is Earl 2.5 / 7 6.4 mil	Kath and Kim 2.2 / 6 5 mil	The Office 4.2 / 10 8 mil	SNL Weekend Update Thursday 4.0 / 9 8.8 mil	ER 3.2 / 8 8.8 mil
1.5 / 4	Smallville 1.7 / 4 4.2 mil		Supernatural 1.3 / 3 3.3 mil		No Programming

Source: Nielsen Media Research

*Ratings are specified in the 18-to 49-year-old demographic and viewership in P2+.

A note about ratings: Ratings are expressed as percentages of Nielsen's estimated 114.5 million U.S. television households. The first number, the rating, is a percentage of households tuned into a specific program at a specific time.

The second number, the share, is a percentage of households with televisions in use tuned into that same program. For example, if a show obtains a 10.2/16, this means that 10.2% of all U.S. households tuned into the program at some point during the broadcast. Meanwhile, 16% of all households watching television during the time period viewed the program at some point. Ratings are broken down further by demographic, as networks sell advertising time based on the makeup of the audience.