The Crank in the Shaft-RATINGS

The ratings will be posted here!

the first ratings are here:

Meanwhile it was good news/bad news over at Fox. Bones won the 8pm hour with a 6.7/11, and surely will win the demos as well, but at 9pm it was a full hour of ‘Til Death (one half hour replacing the already cancelled Do Not Disturb) which scored a mere 2.9/5. Ouch.

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TV Guide:

8 pm/ET
Bones handily topped the hour (and demos, with 9.82 million total viewers (up 220K week-to-week). Knight Rider (somehow) got a bit more gas — adding 260 thou to its debut numbers — to place second with 7.56 million.
CBS' combo of Christine (6.86 million) and Gary (6.98 million) placed third, each gaining about 150 thou. Pushing Daisies returned to an audience of 6.3 million, down 11 percent from its last episode (12/12/07). Top Model held steady with 4 million.

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wow thats awesome! im surprised pushing daisies didn't push more with the fans... and there's a lot of drop off between bones and til death. and i was wondering what happened to that other show. it didn't last too long. dang!

but WOOT for Bones!!!!!

Wow!!!!!! I thought that PD would have a much bigger audience. I'm surprised at that.

GO BONES!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!

And we're totally showing up Fox! Yes!

Zap2It Reports.

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Ratings: CBS in Its Right 'Minds' Wednesday
CBS cruises to victory while ABC premieres struggle


October 2, 2008

Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008

CBS' crime-solving duo helped the network roll to a ratings victory Wednesday, while the premieres of three sophomore shows on ABC struggled to regain the audience they had last fall.

CBS averaged a 7.9 rating/13 share for the night, easily beating second-place NBC's 5.4/9. ABC took third with a 4.8/8. FOX, 4.4/7, came in fourth, and The CW drew a 2.0/3.

The adults 18-49 title also went to CBS, which drew a 3.3 rating in the key advertising demographic. ABC managed to grab second with a 2.6, followed closely by NBC, 2.5, and FOX, 2.4. The CW came in at 1.4.

FOX's "Bones" led the 8 p.m. hour with a 6.1/10. CBS' "New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Gary Unmarried" finished second in households, but NBC's "Knight Rider" (4.6/7), which grew a tiny bit from its premiere, had more total viewers. The premiere of "Pushing Daisies" scored only a 4.1/7, well below its average from last season. "America's Next Top Model" earned a 2.7/4 for The CW.

CBS took the lead at 9 p.m. with "Criminal Minds," 9.3/14. The finale of "America's Got Talent" delivered a 7.7/12 for NBC. ABC moved up to third with "Private Practice," 5.5/8. A pair of "'Til Death" episodes averaged 2.7/4 for FOX, keeping it ahead of The CW's "90210" encore.

"CSI: NY" posted the night's best rating, 9.5/15, for CBS at 10 p.m. "Dirty Sexy Money" debuted to a 4.8/8 on ABC, topping the 3.9/7 for "Lipstick Jungle" on NBC.

Ratings information is taken from fast national data, which includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are preliminary and subject to change.

Wonderful, I love that Bones took the 8pm time slot!!!!!!! I hope we can keep that up!

i am thinking our beloved 'bones' is proving that it can stand on its own........i thinks its wonderful

a2b, you are quite right. EW actually thinks the same. You just gotta love Mandi Bierly.

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Ratings: Debuts of 'Pushing Daisies,' 'Private Practice,' 'Dirty Sexy Money' take a hit

Oct 2, 2008, 02:48 PM | by Mandi Bierly


As we learned on Monday, when we saw low numbers for the returns of NBC's Chuck (down 26 percent compared to last season's premiere) and Life (down 30 percent), after long, strike-induced hiatuses, it's "out of sight, out of mind" for some TV viewers. ABC got a taste of that Wednesday night with the return of Pushing Daisies, Private Practice, and Dirty Sexy Money — all of which had been off the air since December 2007.
Daisies
According to overnight ratings, Pushing Daisies grabbed 6.3 million viewers, down from its season 1 debut (13 million), its season 1 average (8.8 million), and its last original episode (6.8 million). It finished fourth in the 8 p.m. hour, behind Fox's solid Bones (9.8 million), a Wednesday night new comer that continues to out-perform its averages in last season's Monday and Tuesday time slots. Daisies also trailed NBC's Knight Rider (7.6 million), which actually grew its audience by about a million over the course of the hour and bested last week's season premiere by 3 percent, and CBS's comedy block of The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried. Christine's 6.9 million viewers is a 6 percent improvement from its season premiere, but a 31 percent drop from last season's average. Jay Mohr's Gary Unmarried (7 million) once again built on its lead-in, and was up 2 percent from its series debut. America's Next Top Model rounded out the hour with 4 million viewers.

Moving on to the 9 p.m. hour, Private Practice came in third with 8 million viewers. That's down from last year's debut (14.4 million), last season's average (9.9 million), and its last original episode (10.4 million) back in December '07. As ABC is quick to note, however, Practice was Wednesday night's top show among adults 18-34 and the key women demos (18-34 and 18-49). Still, it was CBS' Criminal Minds that won the hour with 14.5 million viewers, down 15 percent from last week's season premiere but still up 21 percent from last season's average. In second place was the season finale of NBC's America's Got Talent, which averaged 12.6 million viewers but naturally grew its audience in the second half hour (from 11.7 million to 13.4 million). Fox came in fourth with a block of two new 'Til Death episodes. The first was seen by 4.7 million viewers, the second by 3.9 million. (FYI: That latter number is still 276,000 more than what tuned in for the last episode of former 9:30 p.m. time slot holder Do Not Disturb.) The CW had 1.7 million sets of eyes for its encore of Tuesday's 90210.

As for the 10 p.m., Dirty Sexy Money returned to 7.1 million viewers to finish second. That's down from the season 1 premiere (10.4 million) and last season's average (7.4 million) but actually up 6 percent from its last original episode (6.7 million), which aired in December. CBS' CSI:NY dominated the hour with 14.7 million viewers, up about 80,000 viewers from last week's season debut and 33 percent from last season's average. NBC's Lipstick Jungle brought up the rear with 5.3 million viewers, down 15 percent from last week's season opener and 14 percent from its freshman average, when it aired Thursdays.

Daisies, Practice, and Money will likely see their numbers rise somewhat once DVR usage reports come in -- though probably no more than about 10 percent. "I wouldn't put those ABC shows in the strong category," a rival network exec said.