In a battle of scripted versus unscripted, ABC and CBS tied with adults 18-49 on Friday. Friday Night Lights returned to NBC to begin airing a fourth-season that has now already aired on DirecTV and scored a preliminary 1.2 rating with adults 18-49 and 3.9 million viewers.
The night’s top show with adults 18-49? The premiere of Primetime: What Would You Do? with a 1.9 rating with adults 18-49 and 6 million viewers. It beat out Medium, CBS’s top show with adults 18-49 (1.8 rating), the first hour of Dateline and Kitchen Nightmares (1.4).
Wife Swap saw season highs with a 1.4 rating and 4.6 million viewers. At 10pm 20/20 scored a 1.6 with adults 18-49, topping Dateline’s second hour (1.5) and Miami Medical on CBS (1.4), though Medical did creep up a tenth from last week even though it had fewer overall viewers.
Smallville averaged a 0.8 with adults 18-49 and 1.9 million viewers.
Nielsen overnight ratings for Friday, May 7, 2010:
Time Net Show 18-49 Rating Viewers (Millions)
8:00 CBS Ghost Whisperer 1.6/6 6.51
ABC Wife Swap 1.4/5 4.50
NBC Friday Night Lights (Premeire) 1.2/5 3.90
FOX House (R) 1.1/4 3.10
CW Smallville 0.8/3 1.92
9:00 ABC What Would You Do? 1.9/6 5.98
CBS Medium 1.8/6 7.14
FOX Kitchen Nightmares 1.4/5 3.47
NBC Dateline 1.0/4 4.58
CW America’s Next Top Model (R) 0.4/1 0.99
10:00 ABC 20/20 1.6/5 5.49
NBC Dateline 1.5/5 6.02
CBS Miami Medical 1.4/4 6.27
The night’s top show with adults 18-49? The premiere of Primetime: What Would You Do? with a 1.9 rating with adults 18-49 and 6 million viewers. It beat out Medium, CBS’s top show with adults 18-49 (1.8 rating), the first hour of Dateline and Kitchen Nightmares (1.4).
Wife Swap saw season highs with a 1.4 rating and 4.6 million viewers. At 10pm 20/20 scored a 1.6 with adults 18-49, topping Dateline’s second hour (1.5) and Miami Medical on CBS (1.4), though Medical did creep up a tenth from last week even though it had fewer overall viewers.
Smallville averaged a 0.8 with adults 18-49 and 1.9 million viewers.
Nielsen overnight ratings for Friday, May 7, 2010:
Time Net Show 18-49 Rating Viewers (Millions)
8:00 CBS Ghost Whisperer 1.6/6 6.51
ABC Wife Swap 1.4/5 4.50
NBC Friday Night Lights (Premeire) 1.2/5 3.90
FOX House (R) 1.1/4 3.10
CW Smallville 0.8/3 1.92
9:00 ABC What Would You Do? 1.9/6 5.98
CBS Medium 1.8/6 7.14
FOX Kitchen Nightmares 1.4/5 3.47
NBC Dateline 1.0/4 4.58
CW America’s Next Top Model (R) 0.4/1 0.99
10:00 ABC 20/20 1.6/5 5.49
NBC Dateline 1.5/5 6.02
CBS Miami Medical 1.4/4 6.27
