Source: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings.aspx?id=wednesday

1. "American Idol" (FOX) 16.4/24
2. "Law & Order" (NBC) 9.0/15
3. "Deal or No Deal" (NBC) 8.9/15
4. "Lost" (ABC) 8.7/13
5. "CSI: NY" (CBS) 8.4/14
6. "Dateline" (NBC) 6.2/9
7. "Bones" (FOX) 6.0/10
8. "The Amazing Race" (CBS) 5.4/9
9. "Invasion" (ABC) 5.3/9
10. "Alias" (ABC) 3.9/6
11. "America's Next Top Model" (UPN) 3.8/6
12. "Half & Half" (R, UPN) 1.4/2
13. "Movie: Final Destination 2" (WB) 1.4/2

Bad for Lost...

Ouch for Alias.

Lost just keeps dropping. The finale should pick it back up, at least.

I just find it embarassing that it's below Deal or No Deal.

Ouch for ABC overall. They are trying so hard to make something out of Thursday with the Grey's anatomy move, but they don't realize that they HAD something with Wed, but have completely lost it (yes a bad pun I know). Wed and Sunday were their STRONG nights, now only Sunday really is their strong night. It is horrendous.

In Lost's defense, there was a full hour of AI last night. The 8.7/13 is on par with Lost's ratings from 9 to 9:30; usually, it increased to a /16 during unan1mous, averaging out to the midseason norm of /15

Also, the actual numbers are almost always higher than the fast nationals.

The ratings are different today, hence a different rating for Lost and Alias and everything else for that matter.

Here are the ratings

AI - 27.1M
Lost - 14.2 Million - series low.
Invasion - Finale - 8.3 Million
Alias - 5.5 Million , Down from last episode but up from the one before it
Americas Next Top Model - Finale - 5.7 Million


a UPN reality show beat Alias. Jesus. Who thought this could happen ever, and to the best creative sprint the shows had pretty much ever as well Damn you ABC! I hope you die in your own septic tanks.

By moving LOST against AI and then Alias to Thursdays and giving Invasion essentially the best spot of the night, ABC have slowly killed wednesday.

Alias could take AI, It provided better ratings than Invasion in the versus AI timeslot. They had a good thing with their JJ Abrams block, god knows why they changed it.