Late-night Ratings: Leno & Fallon Hit Highs In Viewers, 'Nightline' Takes Season Lead

NBC won three nights in primetime last week, and its ratings gains also carried over to late-night. Both Jay Leno (4.2 million viewers) and Jimmy Fallon (1.9 million) hit season highs in total viewers. for the week of Dec. 13-17. Leno also topped Letterman and Nightline/Jimmy Kimmel in every key category and also prevailed over Conan O'Brien's TBS show (1.1 rating vs. 0.7) in adults 18-49 for a fourth straight week. Fallon too topped Ferguson and Kimmel in every major category.

Leno widened his margin of victory over Letterman in 18-49 to 22% in viewers (1.402 million vs. 1.149 million), up from a 3% win for the same week last year when Conan was the host of The Tonight Show. Similarly, Fallon topped Late Late Show for the week by 25% (861,000 vs. 689,000), up from last year's 3%.

Versus the first 13 weeks of last season, Tonight is matching its year-ago 1.0 rating in adults 18-49 and is 6% below its year-ago 18-49 viewership, while CBS' Late Show is down 10% in rating (0.9 vs. 1.0) and down 14% in 18-49 viewers. In total viewers, Tonight is up 52% versus last season, Late Show is down 15%.
ABC’s Nightline was second for the week among total viewers (3.87 million) and adults 18-49 (1.24 million). Season-to-date, Nightline ranks in first place among viewers and A25-54, the first time the newsmagazine has been in first place at this point in the season since at least the 1993-94 season when the Late Show with David Letterman began on CBS.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: ABC Tops Wednesday

With CBS assured of its first top November sweep win among 18-49 in 5 years (tied with Fox), the network put on repeats and a Survivor clip show on the final night of the sweep. That allowed ABC to completely dominate the night in the demo with its comedy block and a Primetime special on celebrity plastic surgery. All series posted double-digit declines from last week but that is to be expected on a night when a large portion of the audience were en route to their holiday destination. Versus the same night last year, ABC was up by 35% in 18-49 and 42% in total viewers. ABC's Modern Family (3.7/12, 10.5 million) was the top program of the night in 18-49 and total viewers. Topping their slots in 18-49 were ABC's The Middle (2.1/7), Cougar Town (2.5/8) and Primetime: Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Too Far? (1.8/6). CBS' Survivor: Nicaragua recap (2.0, 8 million) took the 8:30 PM hour. In its second airing, Fox's Human Target drew a 1.4/5 vs. 1.8/5 for its season premiere last week, in line with the week-to-week declines for the ABC comedies. ?Hell's Kitchen finished second in the demo in the 9 PM hour with a 2.1/7. For the night, ABC averaged a 2.3/7 in 18-49 and 7.4 million. Fox (1.8/6, 5.3 million) was second in the demo, while CBS (1.7/6, 8.2 million) was third and tops in total viewers. NBC (1.6/5, 5.2 million) was last in both categories with animated holiday specials and a Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? special.

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Ratings Rat Race: ABC Tops CBS On Friday; Are Scripted Series On The Night Doomed?

After gaining on CBS for the past few weeks, ABC topped the eye network last night for its first Friday win among adults 18-49 this season. Kudos to ABC for assembling a solid Friday lineup of Supernanny, Primetime: What Would You Do and 20/20. But, after ABC and NBC abandoned scripted programming on Friday this fall, it was comforting to see CBS' all-original scripted lineup winning the night week after week, proving that it was still worthwhile for the networks to try to program Friday night with scripted series. Will the change of the guard on the night further undermine Friday as a viable scripted night? NBC already announced its midseason schedule, which features only reality/newsmagazines on Friday. Fox, which also just unveiled its midseason plans, is going down from 2 to 1 hour of scripted programming on the night - banished sci-fi drama Fringe. With ABC's unscripted lineup doing so well, I doubt the network will mess with it. So all eyes will be on CBS, which still packs large audiences on Friday, and whether the network will stay all-scripted on the night following the departure of Medium in January.

For a second consecutive week, an ABC program was the highest-rated on Friday night. Last week, it was Primetime, this time it was 20/20 (2.0/6, 6.8 million), which posted its highest demo rating in 10 months with a Cher interview. Primetime (1.6/5, 5 million) was tied for second place in 18-49 with CBS dramas CSI: NY (1.6/5, 10.2 million) and Blue Bloods (1.6/5, 11.3 million). Overall, ABC, whose lineup also included Supernanny (1.0/4, 4.2 million) at 8 PM, hit a season high for the night with an average of a 1.6/5. CBS (1.5/5) was second while dominating in total viewers (9.6 million). The network's 8 PM drama Medium (1.4/5, 7.3 million) didn't get a boost from the official announcement this week that the show will end its run in January, finishing flat with last week. The rest of Friday was mostly status quo: NBC's School Pride stayed at 0.6, and Fox's Good Guys at 0.7 demo rating, respectively, to rank as the lowest-rated programs on any network, including CW.

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Dramas Give Up Top Friday Program Spot For The First Time

For the first time this season, a CBS drama was not the highest rated program on Friday among adults 18-49. That honor went to ABC's newsmagazine Primetime: What Would You Do? (1.9/6) which was recently put in the 9 PM to replace originally scheduled new drama Body of Proof. Meanwhile, Teri Hatcher's guest spot on Smallville as Lois Lane's mom gave the departing comic book drama (1.3/4, 3 million) a boost to a tie the season high 18-49 number it hit with its season premiere and 200th episode. Smallville was up 18% from last week in the demo, while Supernatural (0.9/3, 2.1 million) was down 18%.

CBS' drama were all down from last week in 18-49: Medium (1.4/5, 6.9 million) by a tenth, still topping the 8 PM hour, CSI:NY (1.7/5, 10.3 million) by 15% and Blue Bloods (1.6/5, 10.5 million) down a tenth from its fast national (it was adjusted up in the finals). Both CSI:NY and Blue Bloods hit lows.

NBC's School Pride (0.6/2) was flat, while Dateline (1.4/5) was up by a tenth. ABC's Suppernanny (1.2/4) was flat with its season premiere last week, while Primetime was up 12% from its fast national result (it gained a tenth in the finals.) At 10 PM, 20/20 (1.6/5) finished in a tie with Blue Bloods and Dateline. For the night, ABC? averaged 1.5/5, 5.6 million for its most watched Friday of the season to CBS' 1.6/5 and 9.1 million.

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RAT RACE ratings: magazines and "Smallville" up in sheets "school Pride."

Smallville's CW continues to fly high that approach the end of the race of the season 10. Adaptation of the comic strip (1.2/4-18-49, 2.9 million) increased 20% 18-49 and 12% in total viewers last week. His output, supernatural (1.1/4, 2.5) was flat. The network has finished third for the night in 18-49 and tied for n ° 1-18-34.

ABC Primetime: What Would You Do? (1.7/5) led to the rise of the magazine this week. With a stronger introduction, resume that is the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1.6/6) at a family ordinary No. repeat (0.9/3) last week, the news magazine past 31%.10 H, 20 20 (1.6/5) has increased by a dixième.ABC finishes second CBS dramas at 9-10 PM and won the hour 8 PM with Charlie Brown season rich in 18-49 Friday and total viewers.

As Primetime, NBC Dateline (1.3/5) from 9 to 11 H has also increased last week by 30%, but thanks to his list.New series of reality School Pride (0.6/2) continued its slide in week 3 with a new low, finishing dead last within one hour of 8 PM and overestimate as the lowest recorded in nuit.Le show which has been the regular holder of the unenviable title, The Good Guys (0.7/2 Fox) has increased by one-tenth of series week last low.He followed a House repetition (0.8/3), which was also up to a tenth.

Drama parade CBS was virtually inchangée.à 8 H, means (1.4/5, 6.9 million), which order was simply reduced to 13 episodes of what would most likely be his last season, CSI: NY (1.8/6, 10.4 million) and Blue Bloods (1.8/6, 11.5 million) were all flat in this demonstration, with average and Blue Bloods slightly until in total viewers.

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