On Friday, CBS #1 in the U.S. ITV #1 in the UK. Nine Edges Seven in Australia.
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For Friday, February 13, 2015 (Posted on February 14, 2015)
CBS #1 on Friday as ‘Blue Bloods’ leads the way.
CBS
The Tiffany Network had the power on Friday as it easily finished #1 in prime time. At 8P, ‘Undercover Boss’ pulled in 8.50 million viewers to begin the evening. But it was at 9P, when ‘Hawaii Five-0’ lit up the evening with one of its best episodes in years, featuring the capture of a an African war lord that could lead to an arc every bit as tempting as those years of Wo Fat, drew 9.535 million viewers and was absolutely a Must See TV ON DEMAND episode. At 10P, the cornerstone of Paley’s World on Friday, ‘Blue Bloods’ drove the point across: you can’t beat CBS on Friday. In an episode, titled ‘Power Plays’ that put all of the Reagan’s in play as Dan Heyada guest starred as a former criminal in the Witness Protection program of the U.S. Marshall; Frank battled with the Mayor; Danny helped out sister Erin in a fascinating journey back to Iowa and Jamie again finds himself conflicted with his partner which has to lead to the conclusion everyone understands is coming, drew 11.255 million viewers. It was again Must See TV ON DEMAND. Friday on CBS is appointment television.
ABC
The Alphabet Network finished in second place well behind the leader. At 8P, a rerun of ‘Be My Valentine Charlie Brown’ drew 4.79 million viewers. At 9P, ‘Shark Tank’ drew 7.67 million viewers as the top Disneyville show, more than 2 million viewers less than the leader in this time slot. At 10P, ’20/20′ drew 5.465 million viewers to conclude the evening.
NBC
The Peacock Network was still whirling from Thursday debacle. And it did no better on Friday. At 8P, ‘Constantine’ drew 3.31 million viewers. At 9P, ‘Grimm’ led the 30 Rock pack as it drew 4.71 million viewers. At 10P, ‘Dateline’ pulled in 4.435 million viewers finishing nearly 7 million viewers behind ‘Blue Bloods’. Sarnoff’s Staff simply was not competitive.
FOX
The Animal Network of Broadcast just didn’t have the ammo to confront on Friday. At 8P, ‘The World’s Funniest Fails’ drew 2.40 million viewers. And at 9P, one of the final episodes of ‘Glee’ finished with 1.856 viewers, finishing well below the Mendoza Line.
The CW
The Little Network That Couldn’t was DOA on Friday. At 8P, the bright suits at LNTC simply presented a movie, ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ and it simply died with an average of 745,000 friends and family and CW suits. Turn off the lights. This party is nearly over.
For The Record
CBS again finished #1 on Friday by nearly doubling the field with 9.76 million viewers. ABC finished a distant #2 with 5.87 million viewers. NBC finished further behind as #3 with 4.13 million viewers. FOX finished a mile behind with 2.12 million viewers. And The CW became a cable network as it averaged 745,000 friends and family on Friday.
Today In TV History
On this date in 1966, CBS began what is today the biggest show in sports as it bought the rights to the NFL’s 1966 and 1967 Championship Games (The Super Bowl) for $2 million per game. The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1966 game from Los Angeles and the Packers repeated by beating the Oakland Raiders in the 1967 game from Miami.
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Across The Pond
ITV took Friday on the back of ‘Benidorm’. At 8P, ‘Barging Round Britain with John Sergeant’ drove in 3.32 million viewers (15.4%). But at 9P, ‘Benidorm’ was Friday’s (February 13) highest-rated show outside of soaps. The ITV comedy show was seen by an average audience of 4.37 million viewers (20.8%).
BBC One at 7P presented ‘The One Show’ with 3.9 million viewers (20.2%). It was followed at 730P by ‘A Question of Sport’ which drew 3.01 million viewers (14.7%). At 830P, ‘Room 101’ pulled in 3.47 million viewers (16.2%). One’s evening continued at 9P with ‘The Musketeers’ as 2.92 million viewers (13.9%) tuned in. AT 1035P, The Graham Norton Show drew 3.42 million viewers (25.6%).
BBC Two at 7P had ‘Antiques Road Trip’ and it was seen by 1.45 million viewers (7.3%). It was followed at 830P by ‘Mastermind’ which drew 2.07 million viewers (9.6%). At 9P, ‘Italy Unpacked’ averaged 1.62 million viewers (7.7%). It was followed by ‘QI’ as it ended the evening with 1.21 million viewers (6.6%).
Channel 4 at 8P presented ‘Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast’ and it entertained 1.23 million million viewers (5.7%). At 9P, it was followed by 1.72 million (8.1%) for 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’ with 1.72 million viewers (8.1%). It was followed by ‘The Last Leg’ which drew 1.31 million viewers (8%).
Channel 5 introduced CBS’ freshman police procedural, ‘NCIS: New Orleans’ and it was 5’s highest rated show of the evening with 1.17 million viewers (5.9%). At 8P, History Channel’s ‘Ice Road Truckers’ fell to 799,000 viewers (3.7%).
ITV 3 at 8P presented ‘Agatha Christie’s ‘Marple’ and it drew an average audience of 497,000 viewers (2.3%).
Down Under
Network Nine edges Seven for #1 on Friday in Australia with a 29.6% share. Nine’s top program was #3, ‘Nine News’ with 895,000 viewers. #5, ‘Nine News 6:30’ drew 844,000 viewers. #9 was ‘A Current Affair’ which drew 619,000 viewers.
Seven finished #2 by a whisker as it drew 29.5% share. #2 was ‘Seven News’ with 899,000 viewers. #4 was ‘Better Homes and Gardens’ with 868,000 viewers. #6 finished with ‘Seven News/Today Tonight’ which 801,000 viewers.
ABC, had the top program of the evening, but it came in #3 with a 20.8% share. #1 was ‘The Doctor Blake Mysteries’ which was the only program on Saturday in Australia to draw over one million viewers as it drew 1,008,000 viewers. #7, ‘ABC Evening News’ drew 724,000 viewers. #8 was a rerun of ‘QI’ which drew 622,000 viewers. #10 was 7.30 which brought in 589,000 viewers.
Ten finished fourth with a 15.7% share.
SBS finished #5 with a 4.4% share of the audience.
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