TV Ratings For Oct 6 to 12th 2010 [DWTS, NCIS, The Mentalist, Criminal Minds]

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.

The Syfy Channel put both Stargate Universe on Caprica on Tuesday night and it shows.  Worse night of the week to put a struggling show on.  Heck, even a decent show has problems competing with CBS on this night.  Technically, I can see these going by the wayside, but gads, the net needs to consider where they’ve put the shows before they take the shovel to them.  Unless that was the intent.  I hope not.  Time will tell!  Well, at least on this list, Caprica beat out Terriers.  Though to be fair to note, I don’t include a lot of cable network shows in the list.

Question:  Do you want to see all the cable network shows?  Do you want to see broadcast and cable in their own lists?  Let me know folks!  If I keep doing this, I can give it a swing.

Without further adieu, here’s the list of 134 ranked shows.  See if you can find your favorite.

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Ahh crumbs  (Update):  Forgot to put credit source:  Media Week Forums.

About Bruce Simmons

I've been writing newsletters since 1999. Of late, I've been focusing on the entertainment consumer angle on mostly the sci-fi, fantasy and action genres of TV, movies and books.

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