Ratings: Fox's 5th Grader Overachieves
This Tuesday, as the 90-minute American Idol averaged 30.44 million total viewers (a week-to-week bump of one million, this despite Sanjay's disturbing li'l outfit)....• NCIS (16.2 million) was up 840,000, while Gilmore Girls stood pat with 4.08 mil.• At 9, The Unit (12.81 million) surged 1.25 mil to deliver its best numbers since Oct. 10. Veronica Mars (2.74 mil) inched up 400K from last week's season low.• Not at all surprisingly, Fox's Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? quiz show enjoyed a big ol' ride on Idol's coattails at 9:30, debuting to an audience of 26.57 million. UPDATE: Fox notes that this is its highest-rated series premiere ever, and the most-watched series debut on any network in eight-and-a-half years (since NBC's Jesse, Sept. 1998).• SVU drew 11.72 million (down 220 thou), besting a Criminal Minds repeat (10.52 mil) and ABC's Bob Woodruff special )10.11 mil).
This Tuesday, as the 90-minute
American Idol averaged 30.44 million total viewers (a week-to-week bump of one million, this despite Sanjay's disturbing li'l outfit)....
"
NCIS (16.2 million) was up 840,000, while
Gilmore Girls stood pat with 4.08 mil.
" At 9,
The Unit (12.81 million) surged 1.25 mil to deliver its best numbers since Oct. 10.
Veronica Mars (2.74 mil) inched up 400K from last week's season low.
" Not at all surprisingly, Fox's
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? quiz show enjoyed a big ol' ride on
Idol's coattails at 9:30, debuting to an audience of 26.57 million.
UPDATE: Fox notes that this is its highest-rated series premiere
ever, and the most-watched series debut on
any network in eight-and-a-half years (since NBC's
Jesse, Sept. 1998).
"
SVU drew 11.72 million (down 220 thou), besting a
Criminal Minds repeat (10.52 mil) and ABC's Bob Woodruff special )10.11 mil).