Arguably the best highlights of the series. The show is so much better when it's just light hearted fun.

Seven
18:00 Seven News 1.38m
18:30 Today Tonight 1.28m
19:00 Home and Away 0.91m
19:30 Vicar of Dibley / The Matty Johns Show 0.84m
20:30 How I Met Your Mother 0.76m
21:00 How I Met Your Mother (R) 0.75m
21:30 How I Met Your Mother (R) 0.55m

Nine
18:00 Nine News 1.25m
18:30 A Current Affair 1.13m
19:00 Two and a Half Men (R) 0.96m
19:30 Getaway 0.74m
20:30 Sea Patrol (15/16) 1.03m
21:30 The Footy Show 0.90m

Ten
18:00 The Simpsons (R) 0.64m
18:30 Neighbours 0.61m
19:00 The 7pm Project 1.12m
19:30 MasterChef Australia 2.51m
*series high.
20:30 Rush (1/22) 1.07m
21:30 Law & Order: S.V.U. 0.80m

ABC1
19:00 ABC News 1.05m
19:30 ABC News 24 Launch: ABC News Special 0.61m
20:30 The Making of Modern Australia 0.75m
21:30 A Good Man 0.51m

They really do love Masterchef, don't they - Ten must be grinning from ear to ear, it just keeps getting better ratings each night.

About 200k up on last year as well. Brilliant, extraordinary, huge... I'm running out of adjectives, good job the series is nearly over!

Crap for Rush considering the huge Masterchef rating.

PREMIERE WEEK:

New series underlined

Monday 20th September:
Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Hawaii Five-O, Mike & Molly, Dancing With The Stars, Castle, House, Lonestar, Chuck, The Event, Chase.

Tuesday 21st September:
NCIS, NCIS:LA, Detroit 1-8-7, Glee, Raising Hope, Running Wilde, The Biggest Loser, Parenthood,

Wednesday 22nd September:
Criminal Minds, The Defenders, The Middle, Better With You, Modern Family, Cougar Town, The Whole Truth, Hell's Kitchen, Undercovers, Law & Order, Law & Order: Los Angeles,

Thursday 23rd September:
The Big Bang Theory, $#*! My Dad Says, CSI, The Mentalist, My Generation, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Bones, Fringe, Community, 30 Rock, The Office, Outsourced, The Apprentice,

Friday 24th September:
Medium, CSI:NY, Blue Bloods, Human Target, The Good Guys, 20/20, School Pride, Dateline, Outlaw,

Sunday 26th September:
The Amazing Race, Undercover Boss, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy.

Others:
Wed 15/9 - Survivor
Tue 28/9 - The Good Wife, No Ordinary Family
Sun 03/10 - CSI: Miami, American Dad
Wed 10/11 - Lie To Me

On the "big 4", nearly everything has been scheduled for premiere week. The most competitive will be Monday & Wednesday, with each night seeing the launch of 5 brand new series.

The CW:
Wed 8/9 - America's Next Top Model, Hellcats
Thur 9/9 - The Vampire Diaries, Nikita
Mon 13/9 - 90210, Gossip Girl
Tue 14/9 - One Tree Hill, Life Unexpected
Fri 24/9 - Smallville, Supernatural

Many shows still seem to be tinkering with their casts despite the fact that premieres are now 2 months away. Some series have gone into production already, others have yet to begin.

It was a bit low wasn't it. Barely ahead of Sea Patrol, which should beat it next week based on these figures.

Especially disappointing since I've heard last night's episode was very good.

Glad to see Luther is looking likely to be recommissioned - it's refreshing to see a decision being made without basing it on its ratings.

Masterchef doing the business again. Will be interesting to see how Junior Masterchef rates, as well as next years series.

Is that a new digital news channel from ABC?

That's right. The channel launched at 7:30pm yesterday and its first broadcast was simulcast on the main channel, ABC1, in place of current affairs show The 7.30 Report.

You can watch the first 8 minutes on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7AFaMC9oE

Looks good. I like the graphics, nice and clean.

Thanks alot.

Any news on when Body of Proof (Fridays, ABC) will premiere?

Hi,

I really enjoy reading the Austrailan updates from Dancc and over the last few weeks I've also been reading the American overnights for Fox, CW, ABC, NBC and CBS. I quite enjoy reading them and was wondering if others were also intrested in hearing how they do. If there is an intrest I'd be happy to post them

Thanks. Happy to see dates for Criminal Minds, Supernatural and Chuck - can't wait to see them.

Some bits and pieces from Deadline:

Forget Piers Morgan at CNN, who remembers Martin Bashir? Currently a co-anchor of ABC's Nightline, he has now got his own afternoon show on MSNBC and will contribute to NBC's current affairs series, Dateline.
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CBS have picked up CIA drama "Chaos" for midseason. Starring Eric Close (Without A Trace), the show is made by 20th Century FOX Television and the two sides struggled to reach an agreement. Arguments ranged from the length of the episode order (CBS wanted 8, FOX would only do 13), the license fee per episode, where it would be filmed (FOX offered Dallas to cut costs, CBS wanted LA) and finally broke up when CBS tried to get their in-house studio involved.

However, CAA (Creative Artists Agency) has managed to bring them together and a deal has been done for a 13 episode midseason order. The only other midseason drama CBS have is the Criminal Minds spin-off.
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An interesting move by Channel 4.


They claim that the move will give them more creative control in their US series and say that they hope to do more such deals in the future
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Perhaps mindful of some declines in the past season or maybe just with a slew of new programming, ABC are reinstating their "current" department, which looks after existing series. Traditionally, US networks had separate development departments and current departments but in cost cutting, ABC and NBC did away with it. Both have now reinstated the current departments. FOX and CBS never made the switch in the first place.

They are usually posted during the main TV season, but in the summer not so much. It would be good to see them, as I don't usually get to look at TV By The Numbers.

Yeah I was thinking that it might be intresting for people who don't have the time/don't know about "By the Numbers" but are intrested in American overnights.

Not yet. Apparently the premiere dates for it and Secret Millionaire will be announced at a later date. I'll post them if I see them.


I was posting them during the main TV season (until the end of May) but I've taken the summer off! So on you go! I put up the cable ratings once a week but haven't really posted much from the main networks.

PS: Until just over a year ago, somebody else was posting the US ratings regularly. They went on holiday, I said I'd do it for a while, but they never came back!

Thanks

lol, I didn't realise anyone else had been doing it as I only came into the thread mid June. I'll do it up until the main season and then in September we can both just do it in a first to post/ be bothered way.

That sounds good.

It's good that CBS have a midseason drama but I'm annoyed at the creation of the CM spinoff. Why create a spin off when you're having to make cuts to the casting of roles in the main series.

Nice to see that Ch4 are trying to expand on their US dramas, I'd like to see it pay off for them.

new show = cheaper cast, CBS has been getting really tough about cast pay, they did it with all there shows (from what I can tell) NCIS very pubically was without its cast confirmed, less so but same for CSI, and Stella left CSI NY because of it.

One other piece of US news which I forgot;

Justin Bieber is to guest star in the season premiere of CSI. This somewhat absurd piece of casting, which marks Bieber's acting debut on primetime television, is most likely an attempt to recreate the success of the Taylor Swift episode in 2009. That was the last time that CSI surpassed 20m viewers and the episoded skewed younger than usual. That episode was 3m+ higher than the episodes on either side. Whether it replicates that remains to be seen. But it's not a particularly encouraging sign for the health of the franchise, IMO.

Thanks, common sense that CBS would do this I guess but I just hope this it doesn't ruin CM. I wish they just used the spin off money for CM

God, they must be desperate. It really does make the franchise look very weak when they have to depend on singers to bring viewers in.