The season finale of NBC’s America’s Got Talent averaged 15.5 million viewers over two hours, gaining four million from start to finish. “Thank you, reality TV finale lead-in!” shouted the third episode of NBC’s The Jay Leno Show, which improved on its Tuesday night audience by over 2 million viewers. Fox’s Glee and So You Think You Can Dance each lost less than a million viewers from last Wednesday’s premieres; both should easily win their time slots hour in terms of younger viewers moving forward in a post-Talent world. Not enough people cared about The CW’s series debut of The Beautiful Life; it turns out you can just look at Mischa Barton on the Internet instead, plus that way you don’t have to miss Glee.
| Time | Show | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 p.m. | America’s Got Talent 4 (NBC) Wipeout (ABC) So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) The New Adventures of Old Christine (CBS) America’s Next Top Model (The CW) |
13.5 6.2 5.7 4.5 (repeat) 2.8 |
| 8:30 | Gary Unmarried (CBS) | 4.5 (repeat) |
| 9:00 | America’s Got Talent 4 (NBC) Glee (Fox) Criminal Minds (CBS) Crash Course (ABC) The Beautiful Life: TBL (The CW) |
17.5 (continued) 6.6 6.6 (repeat) 3.7 1.5 |
| 10:00 | The Jay Leno Show (NBC) CSI: NY (CBS) Primetime: Family Secret (ABC) |
13.1 7.5 (repeat) 4.0 |
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I didn’t watch America’s Got Talent but I did watch Leno. Maybe he would have brought in those viewers anyways. I love the way critics forget that more American’s watched leno then letterman. That means more of us like Leno even if the critics don’t.
More American’s what? Eyes?
Just wait till next week when Leno is finally up against the one hour dramas of the new season. His ratings will be in the toilet. I tried to watch last night but the phony opening bit where the audience rushes him for a high-five makes me gag. No one believes that is spontaneous.
I think The Jay Leno Show is just fine. I have always watched him over Letterman(Dave is very good though). So what if Jay is on at 10, there are too many crappy shows on that need to be let go.
Thanks for ushering in an era where networks won’t be taking chances on anything interesting anymore. Leno is going to kill tv as we know it. In a few years, we’ll all be depending on HBO and AMC to save us
I LOVE Jay Leno!!!
Leno’s show is the worst thing I have ever seen. I watched 3 nights, did not laugh once. I agree that next week when real TV programming begins, Leno is in the toilet and will be canceled by Christmas – hopefully.
Leno is programming for fat, older women. If you like Leno you’re probably a fat, old woman.
Ted, I hope you are right sir. But never underestimate America’s insatiable thirst for garbage programming and “Headlines.”
I watched Leno Monday out of curiosity. It’s basically the Tonight Show in prime time. I haven’t watched it again since Monday but I wouldn’t be so dismissive of its numbers. Thirthteen million viewers is a nice bounce back from Tuesday’s slide. Still, the real competition starts next week when it goes up against CBS’ proven 10 o’clock winners and what appears to be a much improved 10 o’clock slate from ABC. And the comment that SYTYCD and Glee may easily win young viewers suggests that you think both will otherwise be slaughtered by the new shows on the opposing networks.
Oopsie…Worst time slot for TBL.
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