Reuters.com: "House" helps Fox to win in key ratings race

hiake · Sep 27, 2007

"House" helps Fox to win in key ratings race

By Paul J. Gough

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "House" overpowered primetime Tuesday, handing Fox a win for the night despite competition from ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" and NBC's "Law & Order: SVU."

Despite heavy promotion, CBS' new Jimmy Smits drama "Cane" came in second place at 10 p.m. against "SVU."

"House" averaged 18.1 million viewers and a 7.7 rating/19 share in the adults 18-49 demographic in the 9 p.m. hour, according to preliminary estimates released Wednesday by Nielsen Media Research.

It was the highest-rated premiere in the key demo for any network so far this season as well as the highest ratings ever for "House" without help from "American Idol." Compared with last year's season premiere, "House" was up 7% in adults 18-49, but down by one million total viewers.

The second consecutive 90-minute episode of "Dancing" (18.3 million, 4.7/13) was down from Monday, but gave ABC a win in all three half-hours (8:00-9:30) in both viewership and the demo.

CBS pulled out a strong second place in viewership during the 8 p.m. hour with "NCIS" (13.7 million, 3.1/9), while "House" had a lock on adults 18-49 in the last half-hour of "Dancing."

At 10 p.m., "Law & Order: SVU" (12.1 million, 4.8/13) was down 8% in the demo compared with its premiere a year ago, but easily beat "Cane" (11.1 million, 2.9/8) by that measure. It was the best time period premiere for CBS since "Judging Amy" nine years ago.

A 90-minute "Boston Legal" (10.3 million, 2.5/7) came in third place at 10 p.m., down 26% in the demo compared with last year's one-hour premiere.

NBC's two-hour "The Biggest Loser" (6.6 million, 3.0/8) was about even with last year's third episode yet down from last week's 3.4/9. That wasn't surprising given the competition, and "Loser" built steadily hour-to-hour from 8 to 10 p.m.. At 9 p.m., CBS' "The Unit" (10.7 million, 2.8/7) was down from last year.

Fox (13.2 million, 5.4/14) was tops for the night in the adults 18-49 demographic, followed by ABC (14.3 million, 3.6/10) and NBC (8.4 million, 3.6/10), then CBS (11.8 million, 2.9/8) and the CW (3.1 million, 1.5/4).

Source: Reuters.com
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Many fans were practically STARVING for House for the better part of summer, of course it's going to hit a new high in rating... I wonder how that ratings is relative to other big shows like Heroes and Prison Break -tongue2

Logy · Sep 27, 2007

thats impressive house and it was without the lead in of American idol

hiake · Sep 27, 2007

Anyone know if the current house on Global is 1 episode or more later than the one airing on FOX???

KaY_xD · Sep 27, 2007

hiake said: ↑

Anyone know if the current house on Global is 1 episode or more later than the one airing on FOX???
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i ain't sure what you're talking about, but Episode 1 is about they had mistaken the patient. well if u don't knw what i'm talking about, just remember, House's guitar is "kidnapped". ahha. that's a funny part.

hiake · Sep 27, 2007

KaY_xD said: ↑

i ain't sure what you're talking about, but Episode 1 is about they had mistaken the patient. well if u don't knw what i'm talking about, just remember, House's guitar is "kidnapped". ahha. that's a funny part.
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I saw that this tuesday (which is 2 days ago) at 9pm... I found the ER doctor EXTREMELY interesting, she kind of remind me of Chase, no clue why. But heck, House is pulling an Apprentice: House M.D. this season -tongue2

Good, so Canada's got the same episode of house as FOX -devil

Reuters.com: "House" helps Fox to win in key ratings race

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