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NBC’s One Sure Thing in Primetime is Football

Four weeks into the new season and NBC can point to one night of primetime in which its on top: "Sunday Night Football," reports the Futon Critic. The average total viewership for "SNF" is up to 20.8 million, significantly higher…

‘Kourtney & Khloe’ Season Finale a High for E!

Sunday’s season finale of "Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami" resulted in E!’s highest-rated first-season finale in more than seven years, the network said. The finale averaged more than 2.6 million total viewers, more than quadrupling E!’s average primetime delivery. The network also said that the finale ranked the…

‘NBC Evening News’ Retains Top Spot in Ratings

Brian Williams and the NBC "Nightly News" continues to lead among the network news broadcasts, reports TVNewser.com. For the week of Sept. 28, "Nightly News" drew 8,310,000 total viewers, ABC’s "World News" was next with 7,650,000 and Katie Couric on…

Strong Return for ABC’s ‘Private Practice’

"Private Practice" returned to the ABC lineup Thursday night with a strong showing in the Nielsen ratings, reports The Futon Critic. In the adults 18-49 demographic, "Private Practice" was second only to "Grey’s Anatomy," which preceeded it at 9 p.m. "Practice"…

Spike Fights its Way to Best Original Ratings Ever

The Sept. 30 “The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights” drew 5.3 million viewers, making it the most-watched original series in Spike’s history, reports Multichannel News. It was also the network’s top show ever among men 18 to 34 and 18 to 49….

CBS Again Dominates Tuesday Night

The overnight numbers are in and CBS again is raking up big numbers for its Tuesday night lineup of "NCIS," "NCIS: LA" and "The Good Wife," reports B&C. "NCIS" drew 21.6 million total viewers, even more than the premiere week,…

No More Daily Ratings for MyNetworkTV

There will be no more daily ratings reports for MyNetworkTV, which will now receive Nielsen numbers in the weekly syndication ratings report, Variety reports. The change comes as MyNetworkTV this week ceased to be a network and switched over to…

‘House’ and ‘Big Bang’ Do Great in Overnights but ‘Trauma’ Has Rocky Opening

Monday night overnight Nielsen ratings reveal that Fox won the night with adults 18-49, led by "House" with a 5.7/15, but CBS’s "Big Bang Theory" also did well with a 5.1/12, reports TVbythenumbers.com. "The Big Bang Theory" did better than CBS’…

CBS Wins Friday in the Ratings; ABC Impresses With Reruns of New Shows; ‘Dollhouse’ Continues to Struggle on Fox

CBS won Friday night both in the 18-49-year old demo and total viewers. ABC, with reruns of three shows shown earlier in the week, "Modern Family," "Cougar Town" and "FlashForward," along with the season premiere of "20/20," came in second…

A Feisty ABC Growled Wednesday Night: Ratings of ‘Modern Family’ and ‘Cougar Town’ Beat Expectations

The overnights from Wednesday show that ABC’s new show, "Modern Family" and "Cougar Town" started strong and were more than competitive with the other nets, reports TVbythenumbers.com. CBS’s "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Gary Unmarried" had good opening…