Sunday - 05/06
Top Shows by Viewers
1. “Desperate Housewives” (ABC) 16.92m
2. “Without a Trace” (CBS) 14.64m
3. “Cold Case” (Season Finale) (CBS) 13.63m
4. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (ABC) 11.62m
5. “60 Minutes” (CBS) 11.24m
6. “Brothers & Sisters” (ABC) 11.23m
7. “The Amazing Race: All-Stars” (Season Finale) (CBS) 10.54m
8. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 8.98m
9. “SNL in the 90s: Pop Culture Nation” (9-11) (NBC) 7.89m
10. “Family Guy” (FOX) 7.88m
11. “The Simpsons” (R) (8:30-9) (FOX) 7.74m
12. “The Simpsons” (8-8:30) (FOX) 7.69m
13. “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (ABC) 7.64m
14. “Dateline” (NBC) 6.59m
15. “American Dad” (FOX) 6.46m
16. “King of the Hill” (7:30-8) (FOX) 4.24m
17. “King of the Hill” (R) (7-7:30) (FOX) 3.09m
18. “7th Heaven” (8-9) (CW) 2.80
19. “America’s Next Top Model” (R) (CW) 1.83m
20. “7th Heaven” (R) (7-8) (CW) 1.24m

7:00-8:00
1. “60 Minutes” (CBS) 11.24m
2. “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (ABC) 7.64m
3. “Dateline” (NBC) 6.59m
4. “King of the Hill” (R) / “King of the Hill” (FOX) 3.67m
5. “7th Heaven” (R) (CW) 1.24m

8:00-9:00
1. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (ABC) 11.62m
2. “The Amazing Race: All-Stars” (Season Finale) (CBS) 10.54m
3. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 8.98m
4. “The Simpsons” / “The Simpsons” (R) (FOX) 7.72m
5. “7th Heaven” (CW) 2.80

9:00-10:00
1. “Desperate Housewives” (ABC) 16.92m
2. “Cold Case” (Season Finale) (CBS) 13.63m
3. “SNL in the 90s: Pop Culture Nation” (NBC) 7.86m
4. “Family Guy” / “American Dad” (FOX) 7.17m
5. “America’s Next Top Model” (R) (CW) 1.83m

10:00-11:00
1. “Without a Trace” (CBS) 14.64m
2. “Brothers & Sisters” (ABC) 11.23m
3. “SNL in the 90s: Pop Culture Nation” (NBC) 7.94m

Shows by 18-49 Demo
1. “Desperate Housewives” (ABC) 6.5/16
2. “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” (ABC) 4.3/12
3. “Brothers & Sisters” (ABC) 4.3/11
4. “Family Guy” (FOX) 3.8/9
5. “The Simpsons” (8-8:30) (FOX) 3.7/11
6. “The Simpsons” (R) (8:30-9) (FOX) 3.7/10
7. “Without a Trace” (CBS) 3.7/10
8. “SNL in the 90s: Pop Culture Nation” (9-11) (NBC) 3.6/9
9. “The Amazing Race: All-Stars” (Season Finale) (CBS) 3.3/9
10. “Cold Case” (Season Finale) (CBS) 3.2/8
11. “American Dad” (FOX) 2.9/7
12. “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (ABC) 2.4/8
13. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 2.2/6
14. “60 Minutes” (CBS) 2.0/7
15. “King of the Hill” (7:30-8) (FOX) 1.9/6
16. “Dateline” (NBC) 1.7/6
17. “King of the Hill” (R) (7-7:30) (FOX) 1.3/5
18. “7th Heaven” (8-9) (CW) 1.0/3
19. “America’s Next Top Model” (R) (CW) 0.7/2
20. “7th Heaven” (R) (7-8) (CW) 0.4/1

That was an excellent Cold Case finale! Probably one of the best episodes of the entire series. Now I have to wonder how many more years the show can last considering it costs a fortune to produce with all the music.

Without a Trace was one of the weakest episodes this season.

Without a Trace is now officially the dullest show on television.

That Cold Case episode Kicked ass!, exciting from start to finish. I noticed one of the song that was used in the episode was used for the final scene of last years ER *season finale*. Whats up with without a trace? I hope that wasn't the final episode of the season because if it was what a shit finale. I episode was alright but not if it was the finale because without a trace usually has a good cliffhanger.
I watched a bit of that SNL: in the 90's thing (i record all my shows) and it was alright but it was mostly recycled clips from all the SNL 'best of' DVDs.

Fortunately, that wasn't Without a Trace's season finale. It airs this Thursday after CSI in it's old timeslot because on Sunday Survivor will be a 2 hour finale and 1 hour reunion show.

Monday - 05/07
Top Shows by Viewers
1. “Dancing with the Stars” (8-9:30) (ABC) 19.10m
2. “CSI: Miami” (CBS) 16.95m
3. “The King of Queens” (CBS) 13.38m
4. “Two and a Half Men” (CBS) 13.18m
5. “Heroes” (NBC) 11.08m
6. “24” (FOX) 10.88m
7. “The Bachelor” (9:30-11) (ABC) 10.73m
8. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 10.24m
9. “How I Met Your Mother” (CBS) 7.86m
10. “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (Season Finale) (CBS) 7.84m
11. “House” (R) (FOX) 7.36m
12. “The Real Wedding Crashers” (NBC) 5.09m
13. “Girlfriends” (Season Finale) (CW) 2.88m
14. “Everybody Hates Chris” (CW) 2.58
15. “All of Us” (CW) 2.44m

8:00-9:00
1. “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC) 18.15m
2. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 10.24m
3. “How I Met Your Mother” / “New Adv. Old Christine” (CBS) 7.85m
4. “House” (R) (FOX) 7.36m
5. “Everybody Hates Chris” / “All of Us” (CW) 2.51m

9:00-10:00
1. “Dancing with the Stars” / “The Bachelor” (ABC) 16.23m
2. “Two and a Half Men” / “The King of Queens” (CBS) 13.28m
3. “Heroes” (NBC) 11.08m
4. “24” (FOX) 10.88m
5. “Girlfriends” (Season Finale) (CW) 2.88m

10:00-11:00
1. “CSI: Miami” (CBS) 16.95m
2. “The Bachelor” (ABC) 10.37m
3. “The Real Wedding Crashers” (NBC) 5.09m

Shows by 18-49 Demo
1. “CSI: Miami” (CBS) 5.3/14
2. “Heroes” (NBC) 5.0/12
3. “Dancing with the Stars” (8-9:30) (ABC) 4.8/14
4. “Two and a Half Men” (CBS) 4.6/12
5. “The King of Queens” (CBS) 4.5/11
6. “24” (FOX) 4.0/10
7. “The Bachelor” (ABC) 3.8/10
8. “Deal or No Deal” (NBC) 3.1/9
9. “How I Met Your Mother” (CBS) 3.0/10
10. “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (Season Finale) (CBS) 2.8/8
11. “House” (R) (FOX) 2.7/8
12. “The Real Wedding Crashers” (NBC) 2.4/6
13. “Girlfriends” (Season Finale) (CW) 1.3/3
14. “Everybody Hates Chris” (CW) 1.0/3
15. “All of Us” (CW) 1.0/3

Yikes. heroes and 24 drop again.

Heroes:

10/30/06 - 14.74m
11/06/06 - 14.33m
11/13/06 - 15.01m
11/20/06 - 15.99m
11/27/06 - 15.52m
12/04/06 - 15.02m *Holiday Hiatus*
01/08/07 - 5.06m (Rerun)
01/22/07 - 14.84m
01/29/07 - 13.57m
02/05/07 - 14.56m
02/12/07 - 14.68m
02/19/07 - 14.02m
02/26/07 - 14.27m
03/05/07 - 14.90m *Hiatus*
04/21/07 - 2.33m (3 episode reruns)
04/23/07 - 11.98m
04/30/07 - 11.94m
05/07/07 - 11.08m

Interesting to see CSI: Miami win the 18-49 demo battle. Last week Heroes got 5.4 while CSI: Miami had 5.1.

Maybe the networks will rethink the month or more 'hiatus' if the audiences don't seem to be coming back.

They're going to have to. Just looking at the Heroes numbers, there's no other explanation for the drop. They were hitting 14-15 million all year. Now, after a HUGE hiatus, they're getting 11 and change.

Networks have to start treating serialized shows differently. The show is better now than when it started, but it has lost momentum (and viewers) because of that huge gap.

Heroes WAS rather average last night ... but that should really affect next week's ratings, not this week's ... "String Theory" was possibly the best episode of the season and I would have thought the numbers would pick up a little. This is NBC's biggest ratings player for May sweeps?

I'm glad to see the King of Queens destroy Heroes & 24, I thought between the long break the King of Queens took it might affect the ratings but thankfully it didn't & I expect that it will get around 15-17 million people for the 1hr *series finale* next week.
Hell it even did better than Two & a Half men this week, I know there on the same network but still pretty impressive.
I hope the new adventures of old christine doesn't get cancelled. Its CBS's lowest rated show of the night so things arn't looking to good for the show.
CSI: Miami kicked some booty in the ratings last night even more so, taking the #1 spot in the 18-49 Demo.

What are they supposed to do though? There's no way NBC delays their only new hit of the season til January so they can air it uninterrupted like 24. The alternative is splitting the season into two parts with a big hiatus in between, but Lost tried that this year and it cost them millions of viewers.

I could totally be off base here but doesn't HBO break most of their original shows into 2 parts and they still maintain around the same number of viewers when part 2 starts?

I think that can be attributed more to the timeslot change, rather than the hiatus.

I think they just did it for this final season of Sopranos, usually they have the year split into 3 "seasons" - fall, spring, and summer. An entire show's season airs in a given season.

Nice to see KofQ go out with big numbers. I never thought this show got the love it deserved.

Not true... mega ratings hit Dancing with the Stars returned during that second hiatus. That surely had to have an impact, especially in an already competitive timeslot.

USA does for Monk

I may be mistaken but didn't this whole issue come to the forefront after the summer success of Survivor in 2000 and The O.C. in 2003? As FOX became more of a threat to the other networks, they tried to do the same thing. The end result is that without baseball, the networks have to find something for the extra month. Heroes, like 24, lends itself to an uninterrupted run. If they were smart, they'd hold it back and use it as a replacement for a failed show. OR....they could always move things around in January since they have to fill 3 more hours on Sunday nights once football is over.

Heroes is one of NBC's few hit shows they'll probably do the same thing next year.

Tuesday - 05/08
Top Shows by Viewers
1. “American Idol” (FOX) 24.49m
2. “House” (FOX) 21.55m
3. “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC) 16.47m
4. “NCIS” (CBS) 13.73m
5. “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC) 10.90m
6. “The Unit” (CBS) 10.80m
7. “Boston Legal” (ABC) 10.29m
8. “Without a Trace” (R) (CBS) 8.26m
9. “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (NBC) 6.94m
10. “Dateline” (NBC) 5.02m
11. “George Lopez” (8:30-9) (Season Finale) (ABC) 4.97m
12. “George Lopez” (8-8:30) (ABC) 4.42m
13. “Gilmore Girls” (CW) 3.96m
14. “Veronica Mars” (CW) 1.88m

8:00-9:00
1. “American Idol” (FOX) 24.49m
2. “NCIS” (CBS) 13.73m
3. “Dateline” (NBC) 5.02m
4. “George Lopez” (ABC) 4.70m
5. “Gilmore Girls” (CW) 3.96m

9:00-10:00
1. “House” (FOX) 21.55m
2. “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC) 16.47m
3. “The Unit” (CBS) 10.80m
4. “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (NBC) 6.94m
5. “Veronica Mars” (CW) 1.88m

10:00-11:00
1. “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC) 10.90m
2. “Boston Legal” (ABC) 10.29m
3. “Without a Trace” (R) (CBS) 8.26m

Shows by 18-49 Demo
1. “American Idol” (FOX) 8.9/27
2. “House” (FOX) 8.9/23
3. “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC) 4.1/11
4. “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC) 3.7/10
5. “NCIS” (CBS) 3.1/9
6. “The Unit” (CBS) 3.1/8
7. “Boston Legal” (ABC) 2.7/7
8. “Without a Trace” (R) (CBS) 2.2/6
9. “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” (NBC) 2.0/5
10. “Gilmore Girls” (CW) 1.8/5
11. “George Lopez” (8:30-9) (Season Finale) (ABC) 1.7/5
12. “George Lopez” (8-8:30) (ABC) 1.5/5
13. “Dateline” (NBC) 1.4/4
14. “Veronica Mars” (CW) 0.9/2

Say Goodbye to L&O: CI, Damn! I don't understand where people go when it's on? it used to get higher ratings than that.
The Unit got pretty decent ratings for its *season finale* I hope CBS decides to renew the show for a third season after that bitch of a cliffhanger.

Boston Legal is catching up to L&O: SVU even more week by week, I hope it doesn't start getting bigger ratings than SVU because than there goes another NBC show.

Holy crap Idol is taking a beating. No sanjaya, no ratings!