THE JAY LENO SHOW Beats Bruckheimer's FORGOTTEN!! HELL’S Beats DANCING and DANCE!! Tuesday Ratings!!
Published at: Sept. 30, 2009, 2:20 p.m. CST by hercules
I am – Hercules!!
“So You Think You Can Dance” and “Shark Tank” returned to Tuesday on a rare late-September weeknight without any real premieres. The 18-49 rankings (last week in parentheses):
4.6 (4.8) NCIS
4.1 (4.4) NCIS Los Angeles
3.6 (3.1) The Biggest Loser
3.1 (3.1) The Good Wife
3.1 (3.2) Hell’s Kitchen
2.6 (3.5) Dancing With The Stars
2.4 (----) So You Think You Can Dance
2.3 (2.5) The Jay Leno Show
2.0 (2.6) The Forgotten
1.5 (----) Shark Tank
1.2 (1.0) 90210
0.8 (0.8) Melrose Place
* CBS now owns Tuesday night with “The Good Wife” and its two JAGverse shows putting it at #1 in all timeslots.
* “Jay Leno” beat the second episode of “Forgotten,” suggesting the Christian Slater procedural will soon join “Justice,” “Just Legal,” “E-Ring,” “Modern Men,” “Skin,” “Close To Home” and “Soldier of Fortune Inc.” as one of the shorter-lived Jerry Bruckheimer TV productions. (With the cancellation of “Without A Trace” and “Eleventh Hour” and big ratings declines for “CSI,” “CSI: Miami” and “Cold Case,” Bruckheimer is having a tough year.)
* “Dancing With The Stars” fell a mammoth 26% from last week while its timeslot competition, “The Biggest Loser,” rose 16%. The ABC dance show is fast losing ground to the Fox dance show, and may lose more if the latter continues to indulge upskirt camerawork:
Find James Hibberd’s analysis of the Tuesday ratings here.