Top 30 Programs of the Week of Sept. 19 – Sept. 25 (Total Viewers in millions)

1. CSI (CBS, season premiere: 29.02 million)
2. Desperate Housewives (ABC, season premiere: 28.36)
3. Lost (ABC, season premiere: 23.47)
4. Criminal Minds (CBS, Thursday 10 p.m. preview: 19.57)
5. CSI: Miami (CBS, season premiere: 19.21)
6. Gray’s Anatomy (ABC, season premiere: 18.98)
7. Survivor: Guatemala (CBS: 16.98)
8. Law & Order: SVU (NBC, season premiere: 16.82)
9. Invasion (ABC, premiere: 16.43)
10. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC: 16.41)
11. 60 Minutes (CBS, season premiere: 16.35)
12. NFL Monday Night Football (ABC: 16.10)
13. NCIS (CBS, season premiere: 15.48)
14. Destination Lost (ABC: 15.27)
15. My Name Is Earl (NBC, premiere: 15.25)
16. Two and a Half Men (CBS, season premiere: 15.04)
17. ER (NBC, season premiere: 14.37)
18. Cold Case (CBS, season premiere: 13.68)
19. House (Fox: 13.64)
20. Out Of Practice (CBS, premiere: 13.18)
21. Crossing Jordan (NBC, season premiere: 13.08)
22. Law & Order (NBC, season premiere: 13.03)
23. Medium (NBC, season premiere: 12.69)
24. Las Vegas (NBC, season premiere: 12.49)
25. Ghost Whisperer (CBS, premiere: 11.25)
26. Surface (NBC, premiere: 11.18)
Numb3rs (CBS, season premiere: 11.18)
28. How I Met Your Mother (CBS, premiere: 10.94)
29. Dancing With the Stars: Dance-Off (ABC, 10.91)
30. CSI R (CBS, Wednesday: 10.75)

It is also worth noting that in the 18-49 demo, Desperate Housewives (1) and Lost (2) outranked CSI (3) while shows like The Office, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad and The War at Home are in the Top 20.

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Awwww... I was going to do that

Lol, no biggie.... I have the rest until #115 if anyone wants to look up a show they watch.
86. Arrested Development: 4.62 million viewers


Here is the Network ranking (average viewers in millions)
LW: Last Week
YTD: Year to Date Average (since this was the first week of the season, the average is the same as the week)

Network__LW____YTD
CBS------12.85-----12.85
ABC------12.29-----12.29
NBC------9.90-------9.90
FOX-------6.48------6.48
UPN-------4.15------4.15
WB--------3.28------3.28

I think that's the closest any network come to CBS in years. I am thoroughly impressed by ABC!
Where CBS usually rules about 7-8 of the top 10 shows of the week, ABC has, in this first week of te new season, claimed 5 out of the 10 shows, while CBS has 4.

It's still a bit of a longshot, but ABC could get neck and neck with CBS by season's end if ratings for its new shows (as well as big boosts in softmore shows) remain respectably high.

Actually you can take over if you want, you have the L.A. Times one (much better and complete).

It's hard posting stuff like these while you're at work.

LOL.... where did you work at again?

Hehe. I Pm'ed you.

1. CSI (CBS, season premiere: 29.02 million)
2. Desperate Housewives (ABC, season premiere: 28.36)
3. Lost (ABC, season premiere: 23.47)
4. Criminal Minds (CBS, Thursday 10 p.m. preview: 19.57)
5. CSI: Miami (CBS, season premiere: 19.21)
6. Gray’s Anatomy (ABC, season premiere: 18.98)
7. Survivor: Guatemala (CBS: 16.98)
8. Law & Order: SVU (NBC, season premiere: 16.82)
9. Invasion (ABC, premiere: 16.43)
10. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC: 16.41)

ABC - 5
CBS - 4
NBC - 1

WOW! nbc is getting its ass beaten.

Fourth place, here we come...

Tuesday Ratings are out!
ABC won the night!
Commander in Chief is #1 for the night with 16+ million viewers.
Boston Legal had a respectable debut with 12.5 million viewers.
Earl dropped to around 11 million

I don't know who you guys post the ratings, so I didn't bother.
Do you guys actually sit down and retype all the names and rspective numbers or copy and paset from an easily copy-pastable ranking format out there?

Guys, is there an online source that lists the ratings of most every show (Like you said the Latimes.com does)? Zap2it and others only do the top 20 and I was looking for a more in-depth listing.

Thanks

TV Ratings are slipping at an alarming rate guys - sure housewives and lost are doing these boffo impressive numbers; but on the flip side; a new debut today does 12 million and people call it a hit.
4 years ago a hit constituted a 16m debut and solid holds afterwards. Networks aren't so quick to hit the cancel button any more because they know that viewers are mainly starting to cling to a select few shows and only the highest quality newbies will succeed with them.

Even though it won't be the same this week, I think it's hilarious that the highest rated comedy last week was My Name is Earl in its debut week!

Ouch. I wonder if Chris will fall too. All the other openers have quite a bit minus Mother, which has surprisingly held well. Mother is looking to be be the #1 new comedy this year...

As a fan of "How I Met Your Mother" (It consists of low-key humor and lots of heart) I hope it sustains. It really surprised me how good the first two episodes were. "Everybody Hates Chris" was okay and not really something I'd watch religiously since it's on during "The OC" and I also plan on watchin "Night Stalker" when it premieres this week. Too bad UPN didn't make a deal with Google to run every ep. on Google video.

I think it's best if I just take a pic of the paper every Wednesday and upload it...



there's the whole list. I'm not sure if you'll be able to zoom on that, so let me get the link to the pic to see if it ight be better.

Let's hope not.

Apprentice 4 is 37th. Pathetic for a show that was hitting 4th/5th last year in Season 1, still top 13 in Season 2, and top 20 in Season 3. It might not even be top 40 by the end.

I think its the last year for Trump-mania.

Thanks for the picture Would you be able to do this every week?

I thihnk I might as well create a brand new thread next week and just keep adding the weekly chart to the original post rather than having a different/scattered threads for each week!

That should work just fine