Ratings News - 23rd November 2011 *Full Tables Added*

TV MEDIA INSIGHTS
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Today in TV History:
Ted (Ted Knight) is shocked to learn that his mother is planning on living with her boyfriend on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1974; the guys have a beard growing competition on Cheers in 1989; and Abby (Maura Tierney) tries to send her unstable mother (Sally Field) off on a Thanksgiving themed episode of ER in 2000.

In Today’s Issue

NETWORK
-Metered Market Tuesday Ratings Update
-TV Turkeys 2011
-Week of Nov. 14 Live Plus Same Day Results
-Hulu Adds Carsey Werner Sitcoms
-TV Media Insights in Today’s New York Post

CABLE
-Cable Rankings – Week of November 14

SCHEDULE BOX
-Tenth Wednesday of 2011-12 Season

TRIVIA CHALLENGE
-A Lonely Thanksgiving

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Note: TVMI will not be published tomorrow or Friday. Happy Thanksgiving.
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NETWORK

Metered Market Tuesday Ratings Update
Dancing With the Stars Season-Ender Lifts ABC to Victory

Tuesday 11/22/11
Metered Market Results

Household
Rating/Share
ABC 10.5/17
CBS 9.1/14
Fox 6.5/10
NBC 3.6/ 6
CW 1.0/ 1

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-Percent Change from the Year-Ago Evening (Tuesday 11/23/10):
CW: +67, Fox: +23, CBS: - 7, NBC: -10, ABC: -15

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-Winners:
NCIS (CBS), Dancing With the Stars (ABC), NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS)

-Honorable Mention:
The X Factor (Fox)

-Tired:
The Biggest Loser (NBC)

-Losers:
90210 (CW), Man Up! (ABC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:
The two-hour live Dancing With the Stars season-finale led ABC to overnight victory, with a 15 percent advantage over second-place CBS. Third overall was Fox, which was above average thanks to two-hours of The X Factor, followed by NBC and lowly The CW, which increased because of encore telecasts on the year-ago evening.

Dancing With the Stars took top-rated honors for the evening, of course, with a 13.2 rating/21 share from 9-11 p.m. and the half-hour breakdown as follows:

Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
8:00 p.m.: 12.0/18 (#1)
8:30 p.m.: 13.2/20 (#1)
9:00 p.m.: 13.6/22 (#1)
9:30 p.m.: 13.9/23 (#1)

As positive as this is, one year earlier Dancing With the Stars closed the season with a 16.2/25 on 11/23/10. Congratulations, J.R. Martinez and kudos to Rob Kardashian, who proved he is more than just the younger brother of Kourtney, Kim and Khloe.

Earlier in the evening on ABC was sitcom Last Man Standing, which scored a consistent third-place 6.1/10 in the overnights at 8 p.m., followed by doomed Man Up! at a 4.3/ 7 (#3) at 8:30 p.m. Retention for Man Up! out of Last Man Standing was 70 percent. For more on Man Up!, see out listing of TV Turkeys 2011.

CBS was below average but still a comfortable second with its combination of NCIS (#1: 11.5/18 at 8 p.m.), spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles (#2: 8.9/13 at 9 p.m.) and recently introduced Unforgettable (#2: 7.0/11 at 10 p.m.), which was on par with year-ago occupant The Good Wife.

Over at Fox, two-hours of The X Factor in place of regularly scheduled Glee, New Girl and Raising Hope lifted the network to a 6.5/10 from 8-10 p.m., which built from one week earlier (4.8/ 7 on 11/15/11) by 35 percent. Here is the half-hour breakdown:

The X Factor (Fox)
8:00 p.m.: 6.3/10 (#2)
8:30 p.m.: 6.8/11 (#2)
9:00 p.m.: 6.5/10 (#3)
9:30 p.m.: 6.3/10 (#3)

Elsewhere, another two-hours of The Biggest Loser on NBC (3.6/ 6 from 8-10 p.m.) slid by 20 percent from the 4.5/ 7 in the overnights one year earlier. But demo friendly lead-out Parenthood (#3: 3.4/ 5 at 10 p.m.) actually increased by 17 percent (versus a 2.9/ 5 on 11/24/10). Here is the half-hour breakdown for The Biggest Loser:

The Biggest Loser (NBC)
8:00 p.m.: 3.7/ 6 (#4)
8:30 p.m.: 3.6/ 6 (#4)
9:00 p.m.: 3.5/ 5 (#4)
9:30 p.m.: 3.7/ 6 (#3)

Over at The CW, 90210 sunk to a season low 1.1/ 2 at 8 p.m., followed by a Tuesday 9 p.m. encore telecast of Hart of Dixie at a 0.8/ 1. Both scripted hours, of course, finished a very distant fifth.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

Source: Marc Berman@TVMediaInsights