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Ratings: NCIS Clubs Cavemen and House Parties
Cote de Pablo and Mark Harmon in NCIS by Robert Voets/CBS
Tuesday's ratings recap, here and now:
8 pm/ET
NCIS dominated the hour with 16.26 million total viewers, a massive 19 percent week-to-week surge. (It was also NCIS' most-watched outing since last Dec. 12.) ABC's Cavemen-Carpoolers combo placed second with about 9 mil each. Bones (7.89 mil) and Beauty and the Geek (2.66 mil) each lost around 350 thou.
9 pm
With 17.28 million viewers, House dealt the DWTS results show (15.7 mil, dipping 902K) some bad medicine, in total viewers and key demos. Up 600,000 from its season opener, The Unit came in third with 11.34 mil. Reaper (2.82 mil) reaped 400 thou fewer souls than in its debut.
10 pm
Law & Order: SVU (11.7 mil) topped... yet dropped (400K). Boston Legal (10.94 mil) gained 640 thou week-to-week to best CBS' Cane (whose ratings soured 17 percent from the premiere).
Lastly, an update on Heroes' season premiere, which now — factoring in Saturday's replay — can boast an audience of 17 million (up from the original 14.1 mil). That adjustment, thanks to a new rule now under review by Nielsen, helped NBC tie ABC for that week in the 18-49 demographic.
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Oct 3, 2007 11:49 AM
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Matt, I am just curious if you mean Cane gained or lost viewers in its second week? Is rouring good or bad?
Is it me or are EVERYONE'S numbers down? Perhaps it finally IS time to report numbers three days later to account for all of the DVRs. I mean, the numbers lately for How I Met Your Mother and Bones are a little troubling.
And everyone PLEASE watch Dirty Sexy Money! It is without a doubt my favorite show of the fall and I would hate to see it cancelled!
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Oct 3, 2007 11:59 AM
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And did 9 million people REALLY sample Cavemen? REALLY????
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Oct 3, 2007 12:01 PM
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I am just curious if you mean Cane gained or lost viewers in its second week? Is rouring good or bad?
Typo; soured. It's a sugar joke. Ha!
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Oct 3, 2007 12:10 PM
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I'm confused about how this ratings +3 thing works for DVR viewings of shows. Maybe Matt or someone can explain it briefly?
What I really want to know is whether everybody's dvr'd shows would be included were they to go this route. I am not a "Nielsen family," so my viewing habits are not being tallied in that regard, but I do have two Tivo boxes--does that mean that the shows I view on Tivo are being reported via the Tivo company, or are there "Nielsen" Tivo families too, and only their dvr playbacks are recorded?
And, were my dvr'd shows being reported, does it depend on how soon after the shows air live that I watch them (which the +3 days would seem to imply)?
In her celeb. blog before The Office premiere, Kate Flannery said that we (readers) should watch The Office live and not dvr it because it "makes a difference"--wouldn't that only make a difference if you're a Nielsen family?
Thanks to anyone who has a little more insight into how this works.
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Oct 3, 2007 12:21 PM
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I gotta question those Caveman and Carpoolers ratings. I'd be more apt to believe that 9 million viewers were split between the 2 shows, not 9 million for each show. That just doesn't seem right. And if it is, God help us all!
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Oct 3, 2007 12:43 PM
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8:00 PM
Cavemen... 8,970,000
8:30 PM
Carpoolers... 9,017,000
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Oct 3, 2007 12:50 PM
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As much as I think NCIS is a bleh show, I'm glad something clobbered Cavemen and Carpoolers.
I watched both purely because I'm trying to see every new show's first episode. Of the four truly bad new shows to debut this fall, they are the worst.
The biggest surprise was that Carpoolers was just as bad as Cavemen -- I thought it would be marginally better.
The other two worst new shows are the ham-handedly quirky Life (I get it -- he likes fruit!) and the irksome Private Practice.
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Oct 3, 2007 1:04 PM
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The ratings updates are my favorite news brief. When I was kid I did school projects on TV ratings--I'm a dork!
Anyhow, is there an expected/respectable percentage drop a new show is projected to get in its second episode? I know that I for one was curious about Cavemen and watched it, but have no plans to see it again, so I'd expect a BIG drop in their numbers next week.
I've got my fingers crossed for Pushing Daises' numbers to push through the roof!
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Oct 3, 2007 1:13 PM
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I know that I for one was curious about Cavemen and watched it, but have no plans to see it again, so I'd expect a BIG drop in their numbers next week. - jlspaulding
I'm praying for it.
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Oct 3, 2007 1:25 PM
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WHERE IS THE BLOG FOR THE UNIT????????
It has 11 million viewers and had a blog for the first 2 seasons - where's the respect TV Guide?
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Oct 3, 2007 1:29 PM
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NCIS was the big winner last night because ABC made a bad move by putting Dancing with the Stars, (I still don't get why people like this show). Up against House, which now in its 4th season countiues to delight viewers. Did they think they would pull away viewers from the best show on TV?
Cavemen and Carpoolers wont be around very long, their numbers will drop big time next week. How did Cavemen even get to reach the screen!!
In fact there has so far been no new shows this year that has got me wanting to watch again. I guess I am not alone as the numbers show.
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Oct 3, 2007 1:46 PM
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More people watched Cavemen than Bones? For bleep's sake, that is just so not right. At all.
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Oct 3, 2007 1:47 PM
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Actually, I think all of those people tuned into Cavemen for the commercials!!
Which gives me some GREAT ideas for some new shows..... 
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Oct 3, 2007 2:08 PM
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I didn't want to come off as sarcastic, Matt. I actually was thinking roured was a word! I like Cane. It seems to have the beginnings of some good drama. Also it has two words which ring true to any Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan: Jimmy Smits.
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Oct 3, 2007 2:09 PM
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