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Metered Market Thursday Ratings
CBS Sweeps; 30 Rock Wedding Not Much of an Attraction on NBC
Thursday 11/29/12
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Rating/Share
CBS 8.7/14
ABC 5.1/ 8
Fox 4.4/ 7
NBC 2.7/ 4
CW 1.8/ 3
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-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening (Thursday 12/091/11):
CW: +100, CBS: +50, ABC: - 7, NBC: -18, Fox: -33
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-Winners:
The Big Bang Theory (CBS), Two and a Half Men (CBS), Person of Interest (CBS), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC)
-Losers (excluding repeats):
30 Rock (NBC), Up All Night (NBC), The Office (NBC), Parks and Recreation (NBC), Beauty and the Beast (CW), Rock Center With Brian Williams (NBC)
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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was another clean overnight Thursday sweep for CBS, which bested distant No. 2 ABC by 71 percent. Note to Angus T. Jones: Viewers are still watching the show you hate being on. Red-hot The Big Bang Theory opened the evening for the Eye net with an 11.2 rating/18 share at 8 p.m., which topped the evening and led into veteran Two and a Half Men at a 9.0/14 at 8:30 p.m. Next was sophomore Person of Interest (#2: 9.2/14), which is one of those CBS crime solvers that has a long shelf life, followed by recently introduced Elementary at a 6.8/12 at 10 p.m. Retention for Elementary out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of Person of Interest was acceptable at 75 percent.
On ABC, freshman drama Last Resort earned its cancellation stripes with a distant third-place 3.7/ 6 at 8 p.m. Aging Grey’s Anatomy perked up to a 6.7/11 at 9 p.m., which was 91 percent above the 8:30 p.m. portion of Last Resort (3.5/ 6), followed by sophomore Scandal at a second-place 5.0/ 9 at 10 p.m. Retention for Scandal out of the 9:30 p.m. portion of Grey’s Anatomy (6.8/11), both Shonda Rhimes dramas, was 74 percent.
Over at Fox, The X Factor led off the night with a second-place 5.3/ 9 at 8 p.m., which was 27 percent below the 7.3/12 on the year-ago evening. That led into relocated Glee at a third-place 3.8/ 6 at 9 p.m., which continues to underperform its former Tuesday 8 p.m. performance. Of positive note for Glee, however, is the ongoing solid DVR figures.
Elsewhere, the marriage of Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) to Criss Chross (James Marsden) on NBC’s soon-to-conclude 30 Rock did not help much, with a fourth-place 3.0/ 5 in the overnights at 8 p.m.. Next on the Peacock net was hiatus-bound Up All Night at a mere 2.4/ 4 (#4) at 8:30 p.m., followed by tired The Office (#4: 3.0/ 5), which concludes this spring, overrated Parks and Recreation (#4: 2.3/ 6) and Rock Center With Brian Williams (#3: 3.0/ 5) from 9-11 p.m. As a reminder, Parks and Recreation shifts to Thursday at 8:30 p.m. out of returning Community effective on February 7.
The CW capped off this final Thursday in November with young demo favorite The Vampire Diaries (#5: 2.3/ 4 at 8 p.m.) and the recently introduced remake of Beauty and the Beast (#3: 1.3/ 2 at 9 p.m.), which is no better than failed year-ago occupant The Secret Circle.
Source: Nielsen Media Research
Source: Marc Berman@TVMediaInsights
