The total viewership for ABC’s Lost dropped 1 million from last week’s premiere, but it was up 1.2 million viewers from season 5′s second episode and won the 9-10 p.m. hour with Adults 18-49. Hollywood Week boosted American Idol‘s viewership by about 12 percent from last week. NBC’s The Biggest Loser suffered from Idol competition from 8-9, but viewership shot up by 27 percent from start to finish. Meanwhile, the debut of Fox’s Idol followup Past Life faltered in the 9-10 p.m. hour against Loser and CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles. Viewership for Past Life dropped a whopping 30 percent from 9-10 p.m. The final installment of Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. hourlong couldn’t even top ABC’s The Forgotten, which turned in its best numbers in awhile.
| Time | Show | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 p.m. | American Idol 9 (Fox) NCIS (CBS) The Biggest Loser (NBC) Lost (ABC) 90210 (The CW) |
27.7 19.7 9.0 4.9 (repeat) 0.9 (repeat) |
| 9:00 | NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) Lost (ABC) Past Life (Fox) Melrose Place (The CW) |
17.8 11.0 9.0 0.7 (repeat) |
| 10:00 | The Good Wife (CBS) The Forgotten (ABC) The Jay Leno Show (NBC) |
14.7 5.9 5.9 |
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Cool first one! Loved NCIS last night. Fornell Yea! I see you heard me through the TV saying do not hurt the car!! Gibbs’s rocking Challenger.
70 Hemi Convertable Cudas were red and black, not red and white!
I liked the episode too, though it had a slow start but a really great finish. I do have to wonder if the writer had been watching Fast and Furious when he came up with this episode though
I did too
Reminded me of Bullrun/F&F. Loved the interaction between Fornell and Gibbs.
Was that in some sort of code?
I agree, it was awesome. I loved when McGee corrected himself by saying “two, induvidual beds” when discussing Tony and Ziva. Probably the funniest part besides Gibbs and Fornell fighting like an old married couple
Does NBC have any shows (other than sports) that get more than 10 million viewers?
SVU gets close…sometimes. Biggest Loser was close until AI came back. But otherwise, nope.
The season premiere of this Biggest Loser had about 12-13 million viewers I think, but that is the only show that reaches 10 or more million viewers, besides sunday night football
Yet more proof why Leno will falter in late night
Why can’t ABC program the first hour with original content of anything? Why does the CW still exist as network with so little content in a week all periods of day and then still have repeats most of time???
In ABC’s defense, the ratings for a repeat of Lost is higher than new episodes of Scrubs and Better Off Ted. Which makes me sad because I heart BOT
I thought Past Life was kinda cool. I drew me in and I watched the whole episode, even shed a few tears at the end.
LOST was awesome! Keep it up!!
NCIS: Los Angeles the best!
Can anyone tell me what happened to the agent named Kate in the 1st couple of seasons of NCIS? I just started watching the show and have been watching the reruns. They don’t show them in season numerical order so they skipped from 2003 to like 2005 and she was replaced with a new female agent. Please tell me why Kate left and what happened to her character. I am so hooked on this show.