The return of Heather Locklear’s character Amanda Woodward drew in 200,000 more viewers to Melrose Place than last week’s episode, and also improved on its Adults 18-34 rating from last week. Other than an 8 p.m. NBC special Merry Madagascar, it was business as usual for NBC and CBS on a Tuesday night. For ABC, viewership for Dancing With the Stars: The Results went up a bit from last week, while viewership and key demographic ratings for V continue to drop. Twelve percent fewer people tuned in for this week’s V than last week’s.
| Time | Show | Viewers (in millions) |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 p.m. | NCIS (CBS) V (ABC) Merry Madagascar (NBC) So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) 90210 (The CW) |
20.2 9.3 9.0 6.5 2.1 |
| 8:30 | The Biggest Loser (NBC) | 9.6 |
| 9:00 | Dancing With the Stars: The Results (ABC) NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) The Biggest Loser (NBC) So You Think You Can Dance (Fox) Melrose Place (The CW) |
15.9 14.8 9.5 (continued) 5.4 (continued) 1.5 |
| 10:00 | The Good Wife (CBS) The Forgotten (ABC) The Jay Leno Show (NBC) |
12.7 7.7 6.1 |
‘Dancing With the Stars’ recap: You should be dancing
‘V’ recap: The visitors’ reach gets broader
‘The Biggest Loser’ recap: Makeover madness
‘So You Think You Can Dance’ recap: Getting better
‘Melrose Place’ recap: Amanda’s back!
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these ratings recaps are so miseading. Yes V dropped but it still has numbers any network would want.
Melrose Place has 1.5 million people watching total WITH Heather. The show will not get any more eps ordered beyond the 18 just cause they got a few, literally a few, more eyeballs. It’s still in the range that got THE BEAUTIFIL LIFE cancelled. not Good. You spin it like it is.
How is this misleading? Viewership for V is continuing to drop. I’m not sure how facts can be misleading.
I think Ted is referring to the way this post is worded. It tries to act like 200,000 viewers more is OK for a show that still cannot keep the viewers of it’s better (but not by much) rated forerunner, yet is trying to imply that V dropping off, while still getting over 9 million viewers is a bad thing.
I think it is pathetic that melrose place cannot get a bigger lift from all the press that this new episode got. I figure they paid about $2 to $4 per viewer for Heather Locklear, just to see this tiny lift to the rating.
It is sad that EW is so intent on pushing 90210, Melrose Place and Gossip Girl just because they are also owned by Warner.
EW continues to become the Cosmo of entertainment magazines.
So sad.
Seeing as the CW is irrelevant to most TV viewers these days, this isn’t worth arguing over. I don’t even think EW needs to fill in the blanks on what we already know: when a Heather Locklear MP episode only earns 200K more viewers, that’s looking really rough for the show and CW.
On the other hand, V lost 4.6 mil since its 13.9 mil debut. Yes, it’s not nearly as bad as MP numbers-wise, but when V’s garnered more buzz and initial viewership than MP could muster, that red flag can’t be ignored either. V’s future could be in trouble at this rate.
It is when EW posts a new story on 90210, Melrose Place and Gossip Girl every five minutes.
V is still earning 9 million viewers, which puts it in the middle of this pack of numbers, even thought it is down a good bit from the first ep.
Heather Locklear still has it!
I love it! Don’t mess with Amanda.
I can not wait to see next episode.
EW is a bunch of MORONS
“Melrose Place” only went up by a crappy 200,000 viewers….not 800,000
Source?
YOUR OWN RATINGS PAGE FROM LAST WEEK
(last week – Melrose Place: 1.3 million)
Ha! I thought so – 800k was wayyyyy too much of an increase from a 90s botox-infested hag.
looks like they corrected their ratings – good work, Laura
Yes, thanks for the correction and calling us morons. I’d been glancing at 90210’s numbers by accident.
The problem with the ratings is shown clearly in these numbers. There are estimated to be over 300 million people living in the US, but according to these numbers, only 45.1 million people were watching network TV between 8 and 9pm. If you be generous and double the numbers to account for those watching cable, that means that less than a third of the *country* was watching TV between 8 and 9 pm. That just doesn’t seem right.
Ratings are technically by households not by people. Yes there may be estimated 300 million people in the us but not 300 million homes. Also factor in young children who may be asleep by 8 and people who just dont watch tv at all, plus your cable point which attracts more people now with HBO, Showtime, A&E, USA, TNT, etc that put on new shows now.
While the number is still probably higher than 45, this number is just a sample by Nielson, I wouldnt be surprised if doubling it would almost be the number watching network television actually.
Baby Steps . . .
Heather’s presence added much needed life to MP. Give it time. The ratings will continue to increase as the positive word of mouth continues to spread.
And that does not even include DVR viewers which are not included here.
Melrose Place cannot even keep the viewers of 90210. It is pathetic.
The sad part is that the Locklear MP debut ep did as well as the MP ep without her 2 weeks ago. This show will not last.
I agree. It’s already been announced that the show will take on a lighter, more fun tone and that they’ll be shedding their baggage as far as weak, unliked characters go. Viewers reacted to that by saying “I watched the first episode, stopped, but once [insert actress' name here!] is gone, i’ll be back for sure!” The ratings will improve once the murder mystery is resolved. I’m sure of it.
Where did all the V viewers go?? This weeks episode was way better than last week. This week was interesting and action packged. Come back viewers…PLEASE!!! Next week previews look incredible. Can’t wait…
Nashville viewers, myself included, can’t watch the show live like the rest of you. Our V showings are pre-empted becuase of post game Titans talk, and V doesn’t air until midnight. It’s stupid, I know, but we can’t help that.
The truth is Heather Locklear can only do so much. There is momentum for Melrose now, but it is off the air next week with a repeat.I hope it’s at least a repeat of her episode. If not…Dumb Da Dumb Dumb! Heather showed she has the chops to work this character around the very average writing and over the top story lines. What she can not do is program the network. She needs to get herself to another network that appreciates her talent and long standing fans. She’s still got it and we love her! And what’s the deal with getting rid of Auggie? He’s the only guy on the show that’s worth anything as an actor. Write him outta that box you’ve written him into. Who’s making the decisions around that “Place.” Sure as hell ain’t Amanda Woodward. GEEZ!
I agree with you. I like Jonah, but Auggie is amazing. Who cares about acting when he got out of that pool last night I wished I could climb through the screen to be with his hot ass.
I remember Amanda’s apartment being alot smaller than they showed last night. It looked like the whole building!
And, wouldn’t rent be so high by now, [it's not 1993], that ’struggling’ young people wouldn’t afford it?
I’m glad 90210 is holding on its viewers. I think that show is guaranteed to run at least 3 seasons. There ratings are about the same as Gossip Girl and that show made it past two seasons. Its sad about MP. I predict if it doesn’t get out of this rating slump by the end of this season there will be no season 2.
I don’t get the MP bashing. The ratings might not be high, but the show is GOOD. More people need to watch. Maybe this show is just meant to be on Fox.
I agree. It’s not the quality of the show. It’s just on a bad network (the CW is geared toward younger viewers than the original MP fans), and the fact that is in a very competitive time slot (Biggest Loser and Dancing With The Stars takes away alot of Viewers, and it will only be worse when American Idol comes back). I think the show would’ve been better on its origninal channel, Fox, or maybe on SoapNet, which aired repeats of MP and has aired original programming before. In fact, if the CW cancels it, I hope this would be considered.
I am not huge on the show, and people are welcome to like it. What I hate is EW shoving it down our throats every 10 pages in the magazine, and every day on this website.
They give all this press to shows which are just pulling in about 2 mil an ep, and ignoring more deserving shows.
It drives me crazy.
Maybe “V” numbers are down because this mess, although it has pretty faces in it, isn’t 1/10th as engaging as the previous miniseries. Three hours in and what character do viewers even give a crap about? By this mark in the original the resistance was already formed. Get on with the action already! Another huge problem, why did the writers make Joel Gretch’s character a Catholic priest???? The writers put a completely unnecessary obstacle between his and Elizabeth Mitchell’s character, two leads who have undeniable chemistry. This version of “V” is thus far lame.
I don’t really think it matters what Melrose Place numbers are thery are going to be in the 1’s for as long it takes them realize to cancel it. They are only reporting it because HL was on it. V, yes they are losing viewers but let me know when the numbers are worse than leno’s.
In the Nashville market it doesn’t even air until midnight
cancel melrose place and pick up dollhouse! seriously if a show can survive on a weekday with 1.5 million viewers as a high point then dollhouse can take over a nonfriday slot and kick ass!
Maybe V’s numbers are down because they put it in the same timeslot as the number one show NCIS. I and several other NCIS would love to watch V however NCIS is our favorite show and we want to watch it as well. Put V in a different timeslot and I guarantee it wil do better.