US ratings: what’s going on?

7 September 2006 Rob Buckley US TV 3 Comments

Here’s the top-rated TV shows in the US for the last week:

  1. CSI: Miami (CBS)
  2. Law and Order: SVU (NBC)
  3. Two and a Half Men (CBS)
  4. Prison Break (FOX)
  5. 60 Minutes (CBS)
  6. Two and a Half Men – 8pm (CBS)
  7. CSI (CBS)
  8. Without A Trace (CBS)
  9. Criminal Minds (CBS)
  10. CSI: NY (CBS)
  11. Justice (FOX)
  12. Celebrity Duets (FOX)
  13. NCAA Football: Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech (ABC)
  14. Bones (FOX)
  15. Big Brother (CBS)
  16. Vanished (FOX)
  17. California 500 (NBC)
  18. 20/20 – special (ABC)
  19. Celebrity Duets – 8pm (FOX)
  20. The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS)

I’ve highlighted the shows that are running new episodes in bold (including sporting events, etc). Good to see Justice making a relatively good start with its first episode, and interesting to see Vanished hanging in there.

All the same, the top three shows are repeats. Of the top ten, eight are repeats.

And then there’s the craziness that CSI: Miami is number one and that The New Adventures of Old Christine is in there at all.

What is to be made of it all? I guess you could always argue that Fox still has fewer affiliates than the other networks so has a lower potential audience for its shows. Couple that with the fact it’s the only network running any big new dramas at the moment and it’s more surprising than anything except re-runs is in the top ten.

All the same, it’s odd. Let’s see what happens next week when House figures in.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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