TV Jots

8pm: ABC’s Saturday Night Football led every hour of primetime on Saturday, achieving an average 10.14 million viewers and a 3.3 rating/10 share among those aged 18 to 49. At 8pm, Fox’s hit reality crime series Cops (6.76m, 2.3/7) placed second on both measures, while a repeat of NBC’s Thursday-night broadcast of the animated feature film The Incredibles (5.58m, 2.0/6) was third. Another repeat on CBS, CSI: Miami (5.01m, 1.3/4), came in last.

9pm: Fox maintained its second-place status during the next hour with Americas Most Wanted (6.59m, 2.2/6). Meanwhile, CBS’ second repeat of the night, CSI: NY (5.87m, 1.4/4), increased the network’s numbers a tad.

10pm: In the final hour of primetime, CBS moved to second place with the newsmagazine 48 Hours Mystery (7.09m, 1.7/5), and the 10:30pm broadcast of a 30 Rock repeat (3.36m, 1.2/4) kept NBC at third.

Overall: ABC and football made first place a no-brainer (10.14m, 3.3/10), while Fox’s two hours of reality came in second (6.67m, 2.2/7). On the bottom half, CBS (5.99m) bested NBC (5.21m) in terms of total viewers, but NBC (2.2/7) did the same to CBS (1.4/4) among 18–49-year-olds.

DATA EXPLANATION: In the households figure 6.4/11, 6.4 is the household RATING that indicates what average percentage of U.S. households tuned into a particular show (6.4%), while 11 is the household SHARE that refers to what average percentage of televisions in use were tuned into a particular show (11%).

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