The Ratings Report for Wednesday, October 25th

Another night of ratings and we're here to make it as simple as possible for you. Our apologies for being behind the ball today, but some personal stuff is keeping us away. We're also going to be behind the ball tomorrow as well so keep that in mind. Now, let's move on to the ratings report.

ABC can claim to be #1 on Wednesday evenings as they were able to just barely inch out CBS with a 9.6/15 for the evening to pull out roughly fourteen million visitors over the course of the night thanks in part to Dancing With The Stars and Lost. CBS would pull down 9.5/15 for roughly fourteen million viewers just like it's ABC counterpart and clinch second place. In terms of the number of viewers, ABC had 165,000 more to give you an idea of how close the race was. Coming in third was NBC with a 4.9/8 for seven million viewers while Fox managed to get a 3.8/6. In last place was the CW with a 3.0/5.

In the highly coveted, 18-49 demo, ABC would win that race as well with a 5.0 rating. CBS would finish second with a 4.3. In third and fourth, we have NBC with a 2.9 while the CW had a 2.1. Finally, Fox pulled up the rear with a 2.0. Now, let's break it down by hour and show.

ABC and Dancing with the Stars took first place for the 8PM hour with a 13.2/21 for a nice 19.85 million viewers for the highest season rating yet to date. In second place was the CBS rookie show Jericho with 6.8/11 for ten million viewers. Next we have a tie for third place, with NBC's 30 Rock and Twenty Good Years and CW's America's Next Top Model both getting a 3.7/6 for five million viewers, but NBC had more viewers slightly. America's Next Top Model is the highest rated show on the CW network this season. Fox trailed the networks with a washed out World Series resulting in a The War at Home episode that brought in a 3.5/6 for about 4.8 million viewers.

In the 9PM hour, we saw CBS take the hour with a 10.8/16 for 16.589 (per TV Guide) million viewers while ABC would come in second in terms of household with Lost getting a 10.3/15, but having more viewers with 16.795. That just goes to show you how crazy the ratings can be. Following those two shows, we have NBC taking third thanks to The Biggest Loser getting a 5.1/8 for seven million viewers. After that, The War at Home took fourth for Fox with a 4.0/6 for five million viewers while the CW got a 2.4/4 for 3.5 million viewers from One Tree Hill.

Finally, the 10PM hour saw CBS keep the lead with CSI: New York getting a 10.9/18 for seventeen million viewers while NBC's Dateline got a 6.0/10 for 8.5 million viewers. The Nine for ABC brought in a 5.2/8 for 8 million viewers.

That's it for the ratings. We're going to probably wrap up the day with a news roundup as we're having a fairly quiet day in the news arena.

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Looking Back at Wednesday October 25th

Let's take a look at last night's television shows, which featured another great episode of Lost.

• Jericho: I missed a portion of last night's episode, but from what I saw it looked interesting though lacking in any big developments. An EMP was launched and fried all electronics which I think will back them into a corner sooner or later (the writers). However, thus far they've handled it well as they jumped forward two weeks. Stanley and the woman from the IRS (having only watched six episodes, it's tough to remember everybody on an ensemble drama of this size. I'm fairy certain this is the largest ensemble drama on TV) look to be hooking up sooner or later, unless they did during the portion I missed. The black guy (sorry!) looks to be a spy from the U.S. Government that knew this was coming so I'm interested in seeing more about that. Jake also has an interesting background, and in the upcoming weeks it looks like things are going to get really interesting for him according to the previews. Another good show, but next week looks to be the one where we start getting some answers.
  
  
• Lost: Last night's episode may have been one of the best episodes purely because of the fact that the episode focused on Sawyer and he nailed it out of the park. We got to see more of the background of Sawyer as we see him in jail, find out that he has a child, and conned his way out of jail by turning over ten million dollars to the government that one of the prisoners came in with hidden outside of the jail. On top of that, he gets a cut of the money, which he gives to his daughter Clementine. Loved that. Just loved it. With Sawyer going through heartache in his flashback we then get to see Sawyer tortured and conned by the Others, and then having to hear Kate tell him that she loves him only to say later that he doesn't. Then, in the end, while he still thinks he has a pacemaker that could kill him, he's told he was conned, and that he is not on the same island that he was on before as he looks at the island he used to be on. God, it sucked to be Sawyer in that episode. It looks like Ben has tumor according to the previews that Jack is going to have to operate on, and Desmond can see the future. With two more episodes before the fall finale, this has been an amazing stretch of episodes, and well worth it. Going to suck waiting three months for the next episode, and hopefully Day Break can fill the void rather well
  
  
• 30 Rock: Saw this one early yesterday and meant to talk about it, but it totally got away from me. 30 Rock is a mixed show with some great laughs and some horrible stories in there. However, it's the only sitcom I'm watching, and it looks to be getting a chance. I like Tina Fey and thin she has talent. I also think her talent is being shown here while it was wasted on Saturday Night Live personally. With her getting the time, I hope she gets the most of it, and we'll see eventually what happens. Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan are also hilarious on this show, and worth watching the show just for them. Average show that has potential. But, I think it's the best of the new sitcoms.

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What to Watch on Wednesday, October 25th

Postings are going to be slower today then yesterday as there are some things I'm trying to take care of. My apologies for that. Tonight is Wednesday October 25th, and I'm here to give you some insight on what you should be watching tonight.

• Jericho (CBS at 8PM EST): When I first watched the pilot of this show back in June/July, I thought this show would be a good show, but could be one of those shows that either did really well or really bad. Thankfully, it was a show that's doing good thus far, and is slowly gaining visitors. This show is about a town coping with what looks to be a nuclear attack on the United States, and coming together as a town as they try to save themselves while finding out answers. There are many questions here to be asked and with each episode, some questions are answered while new questions rise. This is a show like Lost, but it seems to be taking the mistakes that Lost has made and fixing them to make the pace a little bit faster. However, this far in the game we haven't gotten answers, but I'm still loving it. I imagine in the next few weeks some big answers will be coming down the pipeline only to set up more questions. Check it out if you're not watching it.
  
  
• Lost (ABC at 9PM EST): One of the top shows on television year after year is airing it's fourth episode of the season, and it looks to be amazing. If you don't know about Lost yet, then now isn't the time to jump in because you would be beyond lost in this show that prides itself in such a tight story that you have to watch it from the beginning. Less people are watching the show then this time last season (21 million last season, 15 million this season), but I imagine it has to do with the fact the show is much better to watch on DVD. This week there looks to be some things happening on the Kate/Sawyer front after they kissed last week. I hope the balance of the story is a little bit better as we got all Kate, Jack, and Sawyer week one, some Kate, Jack, and Sawyer mixed with some Sayid, Jin, and Sun in week two. Last week, we got Locke, Charlie, and Eko for most of the episode with a smattering of Desmond and Hurley, but no Kate, Jack, Sawyer, Sayid, Jin, and Sun at all. Lots is happening on this island and it looks like things are just going to get more interesting this week.
  
  
• The Nine (ABC at 10PM EST): This is actually a show I'm behind on, but if you're interested in a show that is like Lost, but in a different setting and much earlier in the story then try this show out. I loved the first episode, but have yet to find the time to watch the other two episodes thus far. Check it out as it's a winner based off of the pilot.

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