Prime-Tine TV Rankings

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (April 4-10) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

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*--* 1 Desperate Housewives ABC 25.55 2 American Idol (Tue.) FOX 24.45 3 American Idol (Wed.) FOX 24.11 4 NCAA Basketball Championship CBS 23.89 5 CSI CBS 22.58

6 Survivor: Palau CBS 19.75 7 Grey’s Anatomy (Sun.) ABC 17.99 8 Lost ABC 17.12 9 60 Minutes CBS 15.69 10 Without a Trace CBS 15.46

11 House FOX 15.04 12 “Prelude to a Championship” CBS 14.57 13 Apprentice 3 NBC 13.73 14 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC 12.66 15 Amazing Race: 7 CBS 12.28

16 Cold Case CBS 11.78 17 Law & Order NBC 11.65 18 The West Wing NBC 11.62 19 Law & Order: Trial by Jury NBC 11.38 20 24 (Mon.) FOX 11.06

21 Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC 10.94 22 Law & Order: SVU NBC 10.66 23 Two and a Half Men (8:30 p.m.) CBS 10.62 24 Crossing Jordan NBC 10.61 25 Judging Amy CBS 10.51

26 Life on a Stick FOX 10.11 27 CSI: NY CBS 10.02 28 NCIS CBS 9.97 29 Dateline: NBC (Wed.) NBC 9.74 30 Supernanny ABC 9.68

Two and a Half Men CBS 9.68 32 Yes, Dear CBS 9.67 33 Crimetime Saturday CBS 9.50 34 ER NBC 9.38 35 Alias ABC 9.33

36 JAG CBS 9.01 37 Third Watch NBC 9.00 38 20/20 ABC 8.64 39 “High Crimes” CBS 8.50 40 Blind Justice ABC 8.40

41 “Behind the Camera: Mork and Mindy” NBC 8.35 42 Nanny 911 FOX 8.33 43 48 Hours Mystery CBS 8.21 44 Eyes ABC 8.17 45 According to Jim ABC 8.12

Dateline: NBC (Fri.) NBC 8.12 47 King of Queens CBS 7.93 48 The Bachelor ABC 7.82 49 “Price Is Right” CBS 7.79 50 Rodney ABC 7.75

51 Numb3rs CBS 7.68 52 Joan of Arcadia CBS 7.30 53 The Simpsons FOX 7.20 54 Primetime Live ABC 7.18 55 America’s Funniest Home Videos ABC 7.15

56 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Sat.) NBC 7.05 57 America’s Most Wanted FOX 7.00 58 Fear Factor NBC 6.96 59 Will & Grace NBC 6.90 60 Dateline: NBC (Sun.) NBC 6.86

61 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How’d They Do That? ABC 6.82 62 The O.C. FOX 6.79 63 Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 6.66 64 Joey NBC 6.38 65 Contender NBC 6.21

66 Simple Life 3 FOX 6.15 67 Hope & Faith ABC 6.12 68 Wonderful World of Disney ABC 5.99 69 8 Simple Rules ABC 5.94 70 That ‘70s Show FOX 5.93

71 The Office NBC 5.83 72 My Wife and Kids ABC 5.78 73 Scrubs NBC 5.76 74 8 Simple Rules (8:30 p.m.) ABC 5.65 75 George Lopez ABC 5.46

76 Extreme Makeover ABC 5.38 77 Jake in Progress (8:30 p.m.) ABC 5.25 78 WWE Smackdown! UPN 5.21 79 Arrested Development FOX 5.19 80 Cops FOX 5.17

Grey’s Anatomy (Sat., 10 p.m.) ABC 5.17 82 Amazing Race: 7 (Wed.) CBS 5.16 83 Jake in Progress ABC 5.08 84 Less Than Perfect ABC 5.01 85 Malcolm in the Middle FOX 4.91

86 Grey’s Anatomy (Sat., 9 p.m.) ABC 4.84 87 Reba WB 4.74 88 Living With Fran (9:30 p.m.) WB 4.42 89 Bernie Mac FOX 4.41 90 America’s Next Top Model 4 UPN 4.34

91 Charmed WB 3.97 92 Tru Calling FOX 3.96 93 King of the Hill FOX 3.87 94 Malcolm in the Middle (Fri.) FOX 3.79 95 Will & Grace (Tue.) NBC 3.67

96 “Bowfinger” NBC 3.51 97 Scrubs (8:30 p.m.) NBC 3.39 98 Gilmore Girls WB 3.35 99 Blue Collar TV (8:30 p.m.) WB 3.30 100 Blue Collar TV WB 3.24

101 Living With Fran WB 3.16 102 Summerland WB 3.05 103 Girlfriends UPN 2.95 104 7th Heaven WB 2.92 105 Veronica Mars UPN 2.77

106 Smallville WB 2.75 107 24 (Sun.) FOX 2.74 108 Smallville (9 p.m.) WB 2.72 109 Starlet WB 2.62 110 One on One UPN 2.61

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Network averages

Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season.

*--* Network Last week Season to date CBS 12.42 12.86

ABC 9.02 10.24

FOX 8.38 9.94

NBC 8.34 9.95

UPN 3.06 3.36

WB 2.91 3.34

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