Ratings: Idol Lead-out Could Do a Lot Better
This Tuesday's ratings, at a glance:
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American Idol's final performance show delivered 24.51 million total viewers, a 1.2 mil bump from last Tuesday but down 5.7 mil from a year ago. Lead-out
On the Lot, vying with the
Dancing with the Stars finale, premiered to just 8.97 mil - less than half of the audience retention
House was getting - and not at all helped by 9:30 tune-out to the tune of four mil.
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DWTS bowed out before 22.6 mil, down 4.6 mil from its previous finale.
" Tom Selleck's latest
Jesse Stone telepic pulled almost 13 mil for CBS, two mil fewer than the series' year-ago entry.
" Among scripted season-enders,
NCIS put up a typical 13.88 mil;
Veronica Mars' last two episodes
ever* did 1.83 mil and 2.14 mil; and
SVU (10.21 mil), slipping 2.3 mil, came in third at 10 pm.
* See the
Ausiello Report,
now, for an intriguing update on
Mars' fate.