I used to track TV ratings for another organization and had let it by the wayside, but I thought I’d give it a swing and see what kind of list I could come up with because I was curious about a few shows that I watch…  And with that, I compiled a list and sorted it from most popular on down.  Wow, were there some surprises?  Not really.

Sunday Night Football on CBS takes the cake for the week of Wednesday, October 6th to Tuesday, October 12th with almost 21 million viewers.  (I’m not too focused on any specific demographic, just overall.)  Behind football is the reality TV show, Dancing With The Stars, which barely eeked out NCIS as they both pulled in 19 million viewers.  Later on down the list we have The Mentalist and Criminal Minds and such.

I’m a bit worried about CSI: Miami.  Stuffed behind football, it’s going to be a tough sell on a “school night” if it’s going to get jostled around from tentatively unstable football times.  Alex O’Loughlin’s medical drama, Three Rivers, never had a chance sitting behind football.  But CSIM has a strong following already.  Maybe it will do OK.  As far as I’m concerned, anything with over 6 million viewers is doing OK.  But the shows that I like are worrying me to some degree.

Fringe is sitting in the 60′s, sadly, it’s barely outperforming Chase.  OMG, despite Fringe actually having a pretty interesting story line going on this season, it feels fresher then it did last season.  Are we tired of X-Files-like shows?  The Vampire Diaries, though sitting in the 70′s, is kicking butt for The CW amongst that network’s shows. Smallville, in it’s tenth season, pulled in more than 2 million viewers.  But near the very bottom of the barrel of numbers, sits Stargate Universe and Caprica.

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