Ratings: 'Big Brother,' 'SYTYCD' dominate Thursday

Big Brother and So You Think You Can Dance showed summer reality is as stable a staple as ever, even on a night when the network audience was relatively small. CBS' procedural reruns held strong, while ABC's combination of burn-off episodes of Samantha Who? and repeats of Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice struggled.

Ratings: Michael Jackson special, 'NCIS' highlight slow summer Tuesday

CBS won Tuesday night as a repeat of NCIS narrowly defeated NBC's America's Got Talent for the title of the evening's most-watched program. The only real ratings surprise came at 10 p.m., when ABC's Primetime: Family Secrets took the hour by growing 5 million viewers week-to-week (and 189 percent in adults 18-49) with a program that revolved around Michael Jackson's children and featured a rarely seen interview with Debbie Rowe. It's the highest-rated installment in the three-year-old news series' history.

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Ratings: 'America's Got Talent' tops a repeat-filled week

For the week ending July 5, America's Got Talent took home the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in the weekly ratings race with 13.1 million and 11.4 million viewers for the Tuesday and Wednesday airings, respectively. And actually, the top of the chart wasn't the only place where Talent popped up: Repeats of the show, which air in the hour prior to both the Tuesday and Wednesday episodes, appear at No. 8 and No. 28, adding an additional 8.2 million and 6 million viewers to the franchise's overall pull. NBC hasn't had an entertainment program top the charts since last summer when...Talent last aired.

Amid the usual sea of repeats of CBS procedurals and comedies, a new episode of CBS' 48 Hours Mystery rolled in at No. 11 with 8 million viewers; ABC scored at No. 11 and No. 15 with fresh installments of Wipeout (8 million viewers) and The Bachelorette (7.9 million viewers), respectively; and Fox's two latest editions of So You Think You Can Dance cleared 7.7 million viewers and 7.2 million viewers on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, to land at No. 17 and No. 19. The rest of the Top 20, which you can find after the jump, is -- you guessed it! -- filled with summer repeats.

Ratings: Fireworks and news win Fourth of July weekend

The holiday weekend gave CBS reasons to celebrate during an otherwise rife-with-reruns summer weekend. An inside look at the U.S. Airways flight that landed on the Hudson River last winter and an interview with Jon Bon Jovi helped buoy 60 Minutes to 8.2 million viewers, while Saturday's Boston Pops Fireworks Special played to 6.7 million and helped the net win the night. NBC's Macy's 4th of July Fireworks entertained another 5.4 million that night as burn-off episodes of ABC's Eli Stone (2.6 million) and NBC's Kings (1.3 million) floundered the same night. Michael Jackson coverage continued to fuel newsmagazines on Friday night, with two hours of Dateline NBC (4.4 million) and ABC's hour-long 20/20 (4.3 million).

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Ratings: 'America's Got Talent' wins Wednesday

Repeating its chart-topping performance from Tuesday, NBC's America's Got Talent was the most-watched program Wednesday night. It helped the Peacock edge out the Eye for the title of the evening's most-watched network by about 40,000 viewers, according to overnight numbers. ABC's Wipeout took the 8 p.m. hour for the third week in a row, and was followed by Fox's So You Think You Can Dance, which held second place over the course of its two-hour telecast. (It averaged 8 million viewers in the 9 p.m. hour.) A repeat of CBS' CSI: NY dominated at 10 p.m..

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Ratings: 'America's Got Talent' wins Tuesday

Although it's still waiting for its Susan Boyle media sensation, NBC's America's Got Talent was a hit in the ratings Tuesday night, topping repeats of CBS powerhouses NCIS and The Mentalist to be the evening's most-watched show. With the help of a 48 Hours special on Michael Jackson in the 10 p.m. hour, CBS was, however, the most-watched network, according to overnight numbers. Critics continue to rave about ABC's Better Off Ted, but its audience of 1.8 million viewers was the low point of ABC's standard third-place night.

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Ratings: 'Talent,' Fawcett and Jackson specials dominate week

Finally! A week when a CBS repeat did not take the top ratings spot. For the week ending June 28, the Tuesday premiere of NBC's America's Got Talent finshed No. 1, reeling in 11.5 million viewers. The show's second airing of the week also fared well on Wednesday, drawing 10.4 million viewers to land at No. 3. (For the record, a CBS repeat -- of NCIS -- did finish second.)

Last year's Talent premiere nabbed 12.8 million viewers, so this year's premiere was down by a startling 1.3 million viewers. So much for that supposed Susan Boyle effect! (Many had speculated that all of the Boyle hubbub would goose the ratings for the American version of Talent.) Still, AGT did help prop up the Wednesday premiere of No. 16 The Philanthropist, which drew 7.1 million viewers.

The biggest entertainment news stories of the week -- the deaths of Michael Jackson and Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett -- had a big impact on television ratings, as the networks scrambled to put together specials that celebrated the entertainers. ABC's 20/20 earned the largest audiencefor their Thursday night special about Fawcett (which landed at No. 8 with 8.2 million viewers). CBS News, serving up a special on Jackson on the same night, clocked in at No. 13 with 7.5 million viewers.

In other new shows for the week, Fox's two editions of So You Think You Can Dance appeared at No. 11 and 18 with 7.6 and 6.9 million viewers, respectively. The full listing -- with viewership totals -- is after the jump.

TV Ratings: Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett continue to dominate with viewers

The week's two iconic celebrity deaths continued to dominate a weekend television lineup otherwise filled with typical summer reruns and burnoffs. A repeat airing of May's Farrah's Story documentary, about Fawcett's grueling battle with cancer, drew 4.7 million viewers to NBC on Friday -- beating CBS' usually solid lineup of crime-show repeats such as Ghost Whisperer (4.3 million) -- while 20/20's hour of Michael Jackson coverage averaged 3.7 million. At 10 p.m., however, 6.6 million tuned into NBC's Dateline dedicated to Jackson, winning the hour (and helping win the night) for the net. On Saturday, meanwhile, CBS' murder-mystery Harper's Island (3.5 million) continued to win the battle-of-the-canceled-shows against ABC's Eli Stone (2.7 million) and NBC's Kings (1.5 million)

Ratings: Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett specials dominate Thursday night

Network viewers were more interested in Farrah Fawcett than Michael Jackson last night -- but they still preferred CSI reruns and So You Think You Can Dance overall. Fox won the night in key demos, while ABC's news specials were the most watched among their ilk.

Ratings: NBC's 'America's Got Talent' helps out 'The Philanthropist'

The series premiere of NBC's The Philanthropist got a big boost from its 9-10 p.m. lead-in, America's Got Talent, which was Wednesday's most-watched show. By the end of the 10 p.m. hour, though, The Philanthropist had lost 17 percent of its audience and ended up tying with a CSI: NY rerun in terms of average viewership. ABC's Wipeout edged out Fox's SYTYCD at 8 p.m., though the two shows earned identical ratings for Adults 18-49.