Ratings: Thursday November 23, 2006 - 
by madeyoulaugh
Survivor was cooking up viewers last week as people, clearly thankful for a heaping portion of Probst, tuned in to watch two tribes become one and all the such and such crappedy crap that followed. Despite the surge in ratings for UGLY BETTY since it went on the air, when pinned up against hot chicks with money America is less interested in BETTY and more for the models of DEAL OR NO DEAL which, while initially tied for the second slot against the broadcast premiere of SPIDER-MAN 2, surged to second place in the second half hour.
I have a feeling that a televised corn-holing of Donald Rumsfeld by Osama Bin Laden while the ladies of Deal or No Deal give mouth relief to the dancing ladies of SHOW ME THE MONEY in the background would still fall a distant second to the juggernaut that it GREYS ANATOMY, which this past week featured women moping and crying about some hot doctor and ultimately think they have learned something about themselves, but then at the very last moment thought better of it and don't know what to think. . . And then I had my period.
GREY's proved a powerful lead in to PRIMETIME, which saw a ratings surge to 4.9/13 for the first half hour until people realized "holy crap, Im watching Primetime," and turned it off favoring the second half of ER. All in all a Turkeytastic Thursday night of television viewing.
For complete listing of the Neilsen Ratings (18-49) stick around after the jump. . .
How do I read these ratings?
A Nielsen rating may look like this:
8pm - NBC - TVgasm The TV Show - 10.0/18
Focus on the 10.0/18. The RATING, 10.0, on the left represents the actual number of households that watched a show. One rating point equals 1,102,000 households. The SHARE, 18, on the right represents the show's proportion of the total households watching television at that time.
For example, TVgasms TV Show has a 10 rating/18 share. That means 11,020,000 households are tuned in to the show and 18% of all the households with a TV turned on are watching that show.
Ratings and Share are customarily broken down for various DEMOs -- a demographic grouping of viewers, like 18-49 adults or 2-12 children or 18-34 women, etc. Advertisers, and therefore networks, covet the 18-49 adult demo, and so tend to concentrate on that number.
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