Ratings News - 12th January 2011

Tuesday 1/11/11
Note: The overnight data now includes DVR playback until 3 a.m. local time. One year earlier it was based on Live data only.

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Rtg/Shr
CBS 11.3/17
NBC 4.9/ 7
ABC 3.9/ 6
Fox 3.3/ 5
CW 0.7/ 1

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-Note: The year-to-year overnight comparisons are not available today.

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-Yesterday’s Winners:
NCIS (CBS), NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS), The Good Wife (CBS)

-Yesterday’s Losers (excluding repeats):
No Ordinary Family (ABC), V (ABC), Detroit 1-8-7 (ABC), Parenthood (NBC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
It was a clean overnight Tuesday sweep for CBS with its combination of NCIS (13.6 rating/20 share), spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles (11.4/17) and older skewing The Good Wife (8.8/14). Distant NBC aired two-hours of The Biggest Loser: Couples (5.5/ 8 from 8-10 p.m.), which always resonates among adults 18-49, and sophomore Parenthood (#3: 3.6/ 6), which no longer holds the potential of a long run like it did last spring. Here is the half-hour breakdown for The Biggest Loser: Couples:

The Biggest Loser: Couples (NBC)
8:00 p.m.: 5.5/ 8 (#2)
8:30 p.m.: 5.4/ 8 (#2)
9:00 p.m.: 5.5/ 8 (#2)
9:30 p.m.: 5.8/ 9 (#2)

Next up was ABC with its line-up of on-the-fence freshman drama No Ordinary Family (#3: 3.8/ 8), week two of the second season of V (#3: 4.2/ 6) and Detroit 1-8-7 (#2: 3.7/ 6), which will be replaced in April by long delayed Dana Delany crime solver Body of Proof. Compared to one week earlier (5.0/ 7 on January 4), V dipped by 16 percent.

Elsewhere, Fox populated the evening with a repeat of Glee (#4: 3.4/ 5) and recent game show entry Million Dollar Money Drop (#4: 3.3/ 5), which has lost steam after a promising start last month. And The CW aired encore telecasts of One Tree Hill (#5: 0.7/ 1) and Life Unexpected (#5: 0.6/ 1), which concludes with back-to-back episodes next Tuesday. Glee talent sighting at the Fox party last night: Jane Lynch.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)

Source: pifeedback