1. "CSI: Miami" (CBS) - 13.2/20
2. "Monday Night Football" (ABC) - 12.7/18
3. "Two and a Half Men" (CBS) - 10.4/15
4. "Medium" (NBC) - 10.0/15
5. "Out of Practice" (CBS) - 9.4/13
6. "Las Vegas" (NBC) - 9.2/13
7. "How I Met Your Mother" (CBS) - 7.9/11
8. "Surface" (NBC) - 7.6/11
9. "The King of Queens" (CBS) - 7.4/11
10. "Prison Break" (FOX) - 5.8/9
11. "7th Heaven" (WB) - 4.9/8
12. "Arrested Development" (FOX) - 3.8/6
13. "Just Legal" (WB) - 3.4/5
14. "Kitchen Confidential" (FOX) - 3.4/5
15. "Girlfriends" (UPN) - 3.3/5
16. "All of Us" (UPN) - 2.9/4
17. "Half & Half" (UPN) - 2.9/4
18. "One on One" (UPN) - 2.4/4

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Doesnt look like Surface will last long considering Vegas and Medium are 2 to 3 points ahead of it

How are the Arrested Development ratings compared to last season?

Damn that CSI: Miami! (not a fan of David Caruso at all)

Given NBC's utterly weak position at the moment, Surface will last the entire season if it keeps those ratings up, given that they were relatively solid. Mondays is one of the only nights NBC hasn't had problems with.

They're about the same (still depressingly low).

Out of Practice did surprising, though it did have the big lead-in.

I forget how last year ended but in this premiere he took his over-acting / brudding to the far extreme.

Looks like it is going to be a hard year to take watching him / that show.

How is that for Men as it is now the big comedy replacing Raymond.

I dont know about that, they have an extremely bad history of canceling quality shows like Third Watch and Boomtown that have won peacock awards. Given that Surface's huge rating gap between Vegas and Medium, it will either be shifted to a new night or canned. Its not like Medium or Vegas dont have strong competition against 3&Half Men and CSI

CSI Miami is by far the worst of the three CSIs. New York at least has a gruff but more likable (not to mention talented) lead in Gary Sinise.

How are those ratings for "Just Legal?" Since it's on the WB it can't be expected to get that high of ratings. I didn't catch the premiere last night but the WB always replays their shows on Sunday nights.

Kitchen Confidential didn't do too well at all. Too bad since it was a decently humorous show.

"Surface" did pretty well. I agree with Libs that if it can maintain ratings around where it started it'll last the entire season for sure.

Surface will fade fast; these heavily marketed shows lose momentum when they dont meet high expectations.
How I Met your Mother drew around 10.7 Million viewers for episode one. Not a bad start at all.

Two and a Half Men is no "Raymond", but starting with 15.2 Million viewers this season its on par to basically repeat what it had been set up for with Ray as its powerhouse.

Out of Practice was also relatively potent with 13.4m and a good hold from Men.
CSI Miami's start marked 18.6 Million viewers.

Surface pulled 10.9 Million viewers; and notably built throughout its hour. But its significantly less than the series debuts of Lost and Alias but is on the level of Prison Break. Las Vegas was on with 12.4 Million viewers, and Medium returned to 12.5 Million viewers; significantly off from its last year debut of 16.1 Million but in line with its ending last year. With Arquettes undeserved emmy on the shelf, expect realtively good holds for the show next week as interest continues to see what the hooplas about [sadly, its not much]

Kitchen Confidential, one of the brightest new stars on the lineup, bombed with 4.4 Million viewers on FOX, which is too bad with its likable cast. Arrested Development could be in for one of its last years pulling 4.6 Million viewers in showing one.
Prison Break continued to be all over the place; this week it saw 7.8 Million viewers tuning in.

Elswhere 7th Heaven's tenth season was down over a million viewers from its last year premiere pulling 5.4 Million. Jerry Bruckhiemers Just Legal was also dissapointing, pulling just 3.5 Million viewers in its premiere.

On UPN - Ratings growth of about 20% from last years debuts. Thats all folks.
All my ratings info is from TVTRACKER

Season to Date: Nearly all debuts have been down from last year; with dissapointing figures for nearly all shows apart from maybe Prison Break and CSI Miami.

Two and a Half Men I think lost around 2 million viewers from last year's Raymond 9th season premiere in the same timeslot.

NBC did very respectable numbers; keep in mind this is all against Football on ABC.

CBS still held their own. Their 8-9pm hour was down a bit from last year but last had The Contender in the 8-9pm timeslot on abc. this year we had football at 8. So the sub million loss of viewers is actually very promising considering football came into the early frame thsi year. It did see its 9-10pm hour slide some this year, which isn't as good a sign, but CSI: Miami topped the entire evening, so they still own that night (especially after midseason).

I know Arrested Devlopment does bad in the ratings, but I forget exactly what type of numbers it used to get.
The Season Premiere, according to the overnights, raked in just slightly under 4.6 million viewers. That's pretty damn low. I don't knwo if it was a drop or a build from last year, but I think it's over; this will be the show's last season! Kitchen Confidential even lost some of those viewers at 8:30pm.

Prison Break, however, build about 2+ million viewers from Kitchen Confidential and "I think it's pretty much a keeper for the entire year for Fox!

If the ratings continue to stay that low, I'm willing to bet that "Kitchen Confidential" won't last until mid-season, not that having the perennially low-rated "Arrested Development" as its lead-in helped matters. Fox should shift Prison Break so it starts off the night and have it be the lead-in for the other two.

Why would Arrested Development just end now, when those ratings are virtually identical to what it's been getting throughout its run?

Because theres a wide impression that the only reason Arrested Development was staying on the schedule was for critical acclaim - with the Emmys snubbing the show this year; its going to simply be continously pulling down Foxs rating averages and I think theyve given it a lot of pushes to turn it into a hit - but the niche design of the show just hasn't been enough to give it wide appeal.

Yep. At least Arrested's ratings are consistently... arrested. The first two seasons pretty much averaged about 5 million viewers a week. Even Prison Break repeats have better ratings. They can end the show after Charlize Theron does her guest arc.

I don't think those ratings are identical to what Arrested used to get. It's a bit worse than the old numbers, and while it wasn't expected to be a breakout hit on its own, I don't think these numbers are good news at all. It's up to FOX, really. As always. If they find a way to save the show, or feel the need to save the show, it will continue for longer than three seasons. We'll have to see what Week 2 has for the show.

The people who do watch the show like it, it's not like everyone hates it other than Emmy voters and critics.

Overnight ratings for Arrested Development on April 10: 4.0/6

They're really not much different.

Well, that was with a Simpsons lead-in, so I guess they're not all bad. Still, though... I think if this show drops anymore, it's going to take a lot to shine a positive light on the ratings. Trust me, I want nothing more than to find the positive in the ratings. Hopefully, the competition goes down a bit, and the ratings go up. That would be nice news next Tuesday, when we're all waiting for the ratings.

still so low

Thought we had 15 million in the bag.

Oh yesssss! If 7th Heaven pulled in just 5.4 Million viewers then that means Gilmore Girls actually did more in its premiere than it. Gilmore had over 6 Million. This is AWESOME! Thankfully this should be the last season of 7th Heaven and with that having been the highest rated show for WB wouldn't that now make Gilmore Girls the highest rated show? If so then it's where it rightfully belongs and hopefully it gets even bigger!


Poor Arrested Development and Kitchen Confidential. I recorded Kitchen Confidential but did watch bits and pieces of it while it was on and it looks good. Too bad it's not going to last long at all.

Just Legal did better than I thought it would. It could gain in viewers for the second episode too since I'm pretty sure it was TNT that was going to air the first episode again right after it aired on WB. Plus WB will probably air it again on Sunday.

Dude; 7th Heaven was still easily one of WBS top rated debuts of the season - theres no way in hell they are going to cancel a top 3 show for no apparent reason. Its ratings have always fluctuated a little.

I'm not saying it will go because of the ratings, I'm saying it should go because it is time. It's well overdue. The show has overstayed its welcome. The only reason it is around is because it's one of the highest rated shows on WB but I don't know if they can pull off keeping the damn thing yet ANOTHER season after this. They will have squeezed every damn thing out of it that is possible. All shows have to end sometime. Friends was one of the top rated on NBC too and yet that ended as well.

I figured Gilmore Girls would beat it this season though, and even with only one episode each so far I know it will.

7th Heaven must be running low on stories now, is it? Or... did it have any good stories to begin with?