ABC’s Romantically Challenged premiered with a 3.1 adults 18-49 rating, proving to not be ratings challenged in its first outing. For historical comparison, last season the eventually canceled Surviving Suburbia premiered with a 3.0 adults 18-49 rating in the similar timeslot.
Ahead of Romantically Challenged, Dancing With The Stars was down 4% from last week to a 4.7 rating, and after Challenged, Castle drew a 2.7 rating, down 15% from last week.
On Fox, House was even with last week’s outing at a 4.0 adults 18-49 rating while 24 was up 12% from last week to a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating.
CBS’ How I Met Your Mother was up sharply, adding 14% vs. last week for a 3.2 adults 18-49 rating, and Rules Of Engagement gained 7% vs. last week to a 3.0 rating. Bouncing up from last week’s series low rating, CSI: Miami was up 6% to a 3.3 adults 18-49 rating.
The lone new show on NBC last night, Trauma, kept bumping along the bottom, tying its series low 1.3 adults 18-49 rating.
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Glee returned to E4 after a three-week break with its biggest audience of the series last night.
The musical comedy grabbed 1.6 million for E4, up 9% from its previous high. The show had a further 352,000 viewers on E4+1.
The show has continued to increase its audiences, with last night’s episode rating 40% higher than the season premiere. E4 was the third most watched channel at 9pm yesterday, one of the rare occasions when a multichannel beat a terrestrial.
Terrestrial ratings: All BBC1 and ITV1 soaps were up compared to last week’s ratings. On BBC1, daytime soap Doctors picked up 1.6m – a gain of 23% vs. last week. EastEnders was the most watched TV show of the day with 9.2m at 8pm, up 5% from last week. ITV1’s Emmerdale attracted 7.1m, up 4% vs. last week; while the second edition of Coronation Street had 9.0m – a rise of 6% vs. last week.
BBC1’s The One Show rose 14% vs. last week to 4.8m at 7pm, following the news that presenter Adrian Chiles would be leaving the show and moving to ITV later this year. Chiles was reportedly furious over the BBC’s plans to replace him with Chris Evans on Friday editions of the show.
The better lead-in helped Bang Goes The Theory post one of its highest ratings ever, up 29% vs. last week. At 9pm, a repeat of New Tricks gained 5% vs. last week.
There was increased news interest due to volcanic ash disrupting UK airspace, with BBC’s News at Ten rising 25% vs. last week to 5m. ITV1’s news bulletin at the same time was up 48% to 3.1m.
An hour earlier on ITV1, Joanna Lumley’s (Patsy!) Nile dropped only a tick vs. last week to win its slot with 4.7m. Out of the Frying Pan was flat vs. last week at 1.2m for BBC2, while on Channel 4 Blitz Street was a tick down vs. last week’s slot average. FlashForward was the bottom of the terrestrials at 9pm with 1.5m for Five – a tick down vs. last week.
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DOCTOR WHO PREMIERE BBC AMERICA’S HIGHEST RATED TELECAST EVER
April 19, 2010, New York, NY- Doctor Who, in a new era for the iconic series, broke BBC AMERICA ratings records with its season premiere this past Saturday, April 17, delivering 1.2 million viewers in Live + Same Day – BBC AMERICA’s highest rated telecast ever. Additionally, it was the best Live + Same Day A25-54 delivery ever and ranked BBC AMERICA #2 among all ad supported cable nets in its time period (9-10:10PM) among coverage rating. Doctor Who is also currently the #1 TV series in the iTunes store. This outstanding achievement follows a slew of critical acclaim leading up to the premiere and a launch week that saw new showrunner, Steven Moffat, new Doctor, Matt Smith, and his trusty companion, Karen Gillan, greeting thousands of fans over a series of events and screenings in New York and Los Angeles.
·The Doctor Who premiere on Saturday, April 17 was BBC AMERICA’s best Live + Same Day P2+ rating (.68) and delivery ever (1,196,000).
·The Doctor Who premiere on Saturday, April 17 was BBC AMERICA’s best Live + Same Day A25-54 rating (.89) and delivery ever (682,000).
·In Live + Same Day coverage rating, BBC AMERICA premiere beat SYFY’s season premieres for Doctor Who seasons 2-4 in P2+ and adults 25-54.
·The .89 in adults 25-54 coverage rating for the Doctor Who premiere on Saturday, April 17 ranked #2 among all ad supported cable nets in its time period (9-10:10PM).
("P2+" stands for "people age 2 and older.")
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I watched the Sabres (sigh) and the Canucks (sigh) games last night, as well as CraigyFerg. What did you watch, ONTD?
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