'NCIS' soars to top of the ratings
With repeats ruling the airwaves, the drama helps CBS extend its
streak as the most-watched network.
From City News Service

With no first-run episodes of any of the season's six most-watched
programs, CBS' "NCIS" emerged as the week's most-watched program for
the first time in its four-season history, according to figures
released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.

Topped by the 17.39 million viewers for "NCIS," CBS had six of the
eight most-watched programs between Dec. 11 and Sunday to extend its
streak of being the most-watched network each week of the season to 13
weeks.

CBS averaged 12.27 million viewers for its prime-time programming,
while NBC was second with 9.1 million, followed by Fox with 7.35
million, ABC with 7.23 million and the CW with 2.52 million.

Sunday's two-hour finale of CBS' "Survivor: Cook Islands" drew 16.42
million viewers to rank No. 3 for the week. But it was the lowest
among the 13 "Survivor" finales.

ESPN's "Monday Night Football" was in its customary place atop cable
programs, with the Dec. 11 game between the Chicago Bears and St.
Louis Rams drawing 11.18 million viewers, which would have put it 20th
among the programs on the five major broadcast networks.

A pair of World Wrestling Entertainment professional wrestling
programs finished second and third for the week among cable programs,
enabling USA to be the week's most-watched cable channel in prime
time, averaging 2.55 million viewers.

The "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams" finished first in the
weekly ratings among the three nightly network newscasts for the 13th
consecutive week and 124th time in the last 128 weeks with 9.02
million viewers. "ABC's World News With Charles Gibson" was second
with 8.45 million, while the "CBS Evening News With Katie Couric" was
in third place for the 12th consecutive week with 7.47 million
viewers.

Prime-time TV rankings

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last
week (Dec. 11-17) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are
based on the average number of people who watched a program from start
to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 283.5 million potential viewers
in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

 Program  Network  Viewers  
1 NCIS CBS 17.39
2 Deal or No Deal (Mon.) NBC 16.70
3 Survivor: Cook Island Finale CBS 16.42
4 House (Tue.) FOX 16.12
5 Criminal Minds CBS 16.06

6 CSI: Miami CBS 15.99
7 CSI: NY CBS 15.83
8 Two and a Half Men CBS 15.69
9 Sunday Night Football NBC 15.26
10 CSI CBS 15.12

11 Survivor: Cook Islands CBS 14.55
12 NFL Postgame (Sun.) FOX 14.41
13 60 Minutes CBS 14.18
14 Wonderful World of Disney: "Santa Claus 2" ABC 13.67
15 The Unit CBS 13.65

16 Survivor: Cook Island Reunion CBS 13.53
17 The New Adventures of Old Christine CBS 11.96
18 Biggest Loser 3 NBC 11.73
19 Numb3rs CBS 11.23
20 "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" ABC 10.96

21 Criminal Minds (Tue.) CBS 10.41
22 Shark CBS 10.25
23 NFL Pregame (Sun.) NBC 10.21
24 Grey's Anatomy ABC 10.00
25 Medium NBC 9.96

26 The OT (football postgame) FOX 9.85
27 Ghost Whisperer CBS 9.66
28 Close to Home CBS 9.65
29 King of Queens (8:30 p.m.) CBS 9.04
30 King of Queens (8 p.m.) CBS 9.02

31 Family Guy (9 p.m.) FOX 8.91
32 The Simpsons FOX 8.88
33 Law & Order: SVU NBC 8.81
34 "Barbara Walters Special" ABC 8.79
35 1 vs. 100 NBC 8.78

36 The Class CBS 8.70
37 How I Met Your Mother CBS 8.66
38 Bones (8 p.m.) FOX 8.60
39 The Office NBC 8.44
40 Las Vegas NBC 8.39

41 Ugly Betty (Thu.) ABC 8.05
42 Football Night in America, Part 3 NBC 8.04
43 "Charlie Brown Christmas" ABC 7.98
44 Family Guy (9:30 p.m.) FOX 7.90
45 Scrubs NBC 7.73

46 Desperate Housewives ABC 7.72
47 Supernanny ABC 7.71
48 20/20 (10 p.m.) ABC 7.68
 ER NBC 7.68
50 Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC 7.41

51 "A Year Without Santa Claus" NBC 7.40
 American Dad FOX 7.40
53 20/20 (9 p.m.) ABC 7.38
54 House (Mon., 9 p.m.) FOX 7.24
55 Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 6.92

56 Law & Order NBC 6.69
57 "Elf" CBS 6.59
58 Wife Swap ABC 6.56
59 La Fea Más Bella (Wed.) UNI 6.37
60 Men in Trees ABC 6.36

 America's Most Wanted FOX 6.36
62 House (Mon., 8 p.m.) FOX 6.34
63 Show Me the Money ABC 6.32
64 America's Funniest Home Videos (Fri.) ABC 6.24
65 La Fea Más Bella (Thu.) UNI 6.17

66 Bones (9 p.m.) FOX 6.13
67 30 Rock NBC 5.94
68 Cops FOX 5.93
69 La Fea Más Bella (Fri.) UNI 5.75
70 Friday Night Lights NBC 5.66

71 La Fea Más Bella (Tue.) UNI 5.58
72 La Fea Más Bella (Mon.) UNI 5.55
73 "It's a Wonderful Life" NBC 5.37
74 Standoff FOX 5.11
75 48 Hours Mystery CBS 4.81

76 Big Day ABC 4.77
77 What About Brian ABC 4.73
78 Wonderful World of Disney: "Finding Nemo" ABC 4.64
79 Til Death FOX 4.61
80 Football Night in America, Part 2 NBC 4.53

81 Friday Night Smackdown CW 4.50
82 Primetime ABC 4.35
83 Mundo de Fieras (Thu.) UNI 4.32
84 The O.C. FOX 4.25
85 War at Home FOX 4.19

86 Mundo de Fieras (Wed.) UNI 3.96
87 Day Break ABC 3.94
88 Justice FOX 3.91
89 Mundo de Fieras (Fri.) UNI 3.69
90 Mundo de Fieras (Mon.) UNI 3.59

91 Help Me Help You ABC 3.54
92 Ugly Betty (Sat.) ABC 3.52
93 Reba (7:30 p.m.) CW 3.47
94 Trading Spouses FOX 3.44
 Mundo de Fieras (Tue.) UNI 3.44

96 Aqui y Ahora (Thu.) UNI 3.38
97 Heridas de Amor (Wed.) UNI 3.29
98 Don Francisco Presenta UNI 3.27
99 Cine Especial 2 UNI 3.23
100 Cristina UNI 3.18

101 Heridas de Amor (Thu.) UNI 3.08
102 Smallville CW 3.00
103 Heridas de Amor (Fri.) UNI 2.95
104 Casos Vida UNI 2.89
105 Heridas de Amor (Tue.) UNI 2.82

106 Girlfriends CW 2.81
 Heridas de Amor (Mon.) UNI 2.81
108 Everybody Hates Chris CW 2.80
109 All of Us CW 2.71
 The Game CW 2.71

111 Reba (Sun.) CW 2.54
112 Ver Para Creer UNI 2.53
113 Cine Especial 1 UNI 2.52
114 Sabado Gigante UNI 2.45
115 Gilmore Girls CW 2.30

116 Supernatural CW 2.13
117 "Top Model: Brit Invasion" (Wed.) CW 2.08
118 "Family Television Awards" CW 1.69
119 Casos Familia UNI 1.62
120 Amor Mio (Mon.) TEL 1.11

121 Amor Mio (Fri.) TEL 1.10
122 Amor Mio (Wed.) TEL 1.03
 Amor Mio (Thu.) TEL 1.03
124 Viuda de Blanco (Fri.) TEL 1.02
125 "Top Model: British Invasion" (Sun.) CW 1.01

 Viuda de Blanco (Mon.) TEL 0.90
132 Marina (Fri.) TEL 0.89
133 Amores (Fri.) TEL 0.87
134 Marina (Mon.) TEL 0.86
 Amores (Mon.) TEL 0.86

136 Amores (Thu.) TEL 0.85
 Marina (Tue.) TEL 0.85
138 Marina (Wed.) TEL 0.84
 Decisiones (Mon.) TEL 0.84
140 Decisiones (Thu.) TEL 0.83

141 Viuda de Blanco (Tue.) TEL 0.79
142 Amores (Wed.) TEL 0.76
143 Cinemundo del Sabado TEL 0.71
144 Decisiones (Wed.) TEL 0.70
 Cinemundo del Sabado TEL 0.70

146 Decisiones (Tue.) TEL 0.68
147 Amores (Tue.) TEL 0.63
148 Cinemundo Premier TEL 0.53
149 Vas o No Vas TEL 0.45
150 Seguro y Urgente TEL 0.42

This list taken totally out of its actual context don't mean shit.

  -- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.  
It never works.  I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently.  I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans.  God, I need some coffee.

Ugly Betty has been a ratings hit in every version in every country so far
(and the American version isn't doing badly), so no surprise that the
Mexican version did very well in Mexico, and is doing well in the
syndication on Univision.

It is, however, a closed-ended series, and when it runs its course there's
no particular evidence that whatever telenovela replaces it will 'beat up
on CW'.  The other telenovelas Univsion broadcasts currently do well
compared to CW programs, but don't 'beat up' on them.

--
"Oh Buffy, you really do need to have
 every square inch of your ass kicked."
  - Willow Rosenberg

The CW really needs to grow some new hits fast.

--
Steven D. Litvintchouk
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