Grey's Anatomy Tops World Series in Ratings
One could almost feel the battle over the TV remote between men and women on Thursday night. When the dust settled, ABC's Grey's Anatomy seems to have won the ratings battle over Game Two of the World Series on Fox.
The fifth new episode of Season Four of Grey's Anatomy, "Haunt You Every Day," pulled a Nielsen preliminary 7.4 rating/15 share - more or less on par with recent ratings for the show - the best-rated programming of the night.
A close Red Sox-Rockies game (won 2-1 by Boston, who clinched the title last night) pulled a 5.1 rating/14 share, down a bit from World Series numbers in Wednesday's Game One, but still higher than last year's second World Series game.
While Fox was behind Grey's Anatomy's "Haunt You Every Day," the baseball game was tops in the other parts of prime time. Fox won the night overall - just ahead of ABC - with 4.8/14 statistics compared to ABC's 4.6/10.
Grey's Anatomy aside, ABC mostly kept its audience against the Fox sports event - only down two share points from a week ago as a whole. The ratings for both Ugly Betty and Big Shots were in line with its numbers versus a week ago.
In the face of heavy male-oriented programming from Fox, CBS took its power CSI out of harm's way, offering a rerun. On a positive note, Without a Trace was a full rating point better than the disastrous Viva Laughlin debut a week ago.
NBC's comedies had a better night this Thursday - My Name Is Earl grew to 3.6/10 from a 2.7/8 of a week ago; 30 Rock also showed gains, with a 3.1/8 from a 2.6/7. NBC's best performer of Thursday - The Office - put up a comparable 4.7/11.
But this didn't do much for the season debut of Scrubs, which earned a 3.8/9. NBC had a 3.8/11 for the night. CW's Smallville was down at a 1.8/4, and Supernatural was up a bit at a 1.3/3. For the night, CW's 1.6/4 was just behind Univision's 1.7/4.
October 29th, 2007 10:21 AM
I've been noticing the ratings for GA is gradually coming back up each week. I think they have won the (demo 18-49) each week this season but one and it was very close second! Its good to see that all of GA numbers are gradually coming back up each week! And it was great to see them be the nights biggest winner in viewers this past week!
I knew it would take a few weeks back into the new season for the ratings to get back (and honestly the numbers have been good so far, just not at the #1 position each week in every catergory) but never had a doubt that they wouldn't be back on TOP!
October 29th, 2007 11:05 AM
Nice interview of Patrick Dempsey.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OAPUBGFAFxE
October 29th, 2007 12:45 PM
you all knew it was coming!!!! once again grey's is back on top and doing better than ever :), beating out game 2 of the WORLD SERIES!!!! by the way, Boston RULES, go world series CHAMPS!!! :) welcome back grey's, we're all so happy to see you again!!!!!
Grey's rules!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!!! :)
October 29th, 2007 1:02 PM
i have to say i am really happy, i was starting to get worried at one point. thks for the post and hey kathy thks for the link.
October 29th, 2007 1:14 PM
OBVIOUSLY! greys anatomy is the best show on tv
October 29th, 2007 3:14 PM
But how many million ppl watched last episode of Grey's?
October 29th, 2007 5:58 PM
Not real sure where I read it or if I heard it on tv somewhere, but I think it was around 18 to 19 million viewers. I checked the neilsen ratings and they haven't updated for last weeks numbers yet.
October 29th, 2007 6:12 PM
If you really like spoilers, check out the link that is listed under comments for "Haunt you Every Day Round Table" by Vio. THe link will take you to the recent sopilers.
Oh Gosh, I just read the spoilers that Vio listed as a link. I feel like I just read the whole script from the Thursday episode. I wonder if it is for real? I know some of the things I read, seems like I've heard it or read before that it was going to happen. So, it may be right for Thursday nights episode. It was kinda excitng to know alittle of what is going to happen. Naturally, I love the Mer/Der part but I do believe like I've said before that we better buckle ourselves in for a bumpy ride for a few episodes before all the good stuff happens with Mer/Der. I can't wait….. but in the mean time my nerves will be shot! (ha)!
October 30th, 2007 8:27 AM
Kathy would you mind givin us a link to the spoiler please?.
October 30th, 2007 10:15 AM
Here is the link.
http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3136255&st=225
October 30th, 2007 10:30 AM
Just saw this article where we could ask McDreamy a question? If I'm reading it correctly!
http://www.cinematical.com/2007/10/29/patrick-dempsey-and-amy-adams-ask-enchanted-unscripted-stars/