In an hour with prodominantly all reruns on Thursday night, the stand out success story is SMALLVILLE which while being one of the lamest episodes for the run of the series managed to pull in higher numbers than one of the major networks. WAR AT HOME lost the battle to SMALLVILLE which doesn't fare well for the abc "laugher." (The preceding quotations marks should be read as Austin Power style "finger quotes"). GREYS ANATOMY drew up the right prescription for whats been ailing ABC lately with monster numbers Thursday night even up against an all new CSI:The Good One, albeit sans Grissom. At ten o'clock MEN IN TREES took the top spot until it was eaten by a SHARK rerun in the final half hour.
Is anyone watching MEN IN TREES? Should I be?
For the complete ratings from Thursday night, 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.