ABC kicks up its heels over ‘Brat Camp’

ABC, which already has the summer’s biggest hit in “Dancing With the Stars,” may well have another with “Brat Camp,” according to figures released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research.

Last Wednesday’s two-hour premiere of the unscripted series chronicling the experiences of nine out-of-control teens at an Oregon wilderness school was seen by nearly 10.4 million people, making it the fourth-most watched show in prime time last week.

It was the second-highest debut of a series during television’s summer season. Only “Dancing With the Stars” had more, drawing more than 13.5 million viewers for its June 1 debut.

The CBS unscripted series “Rock Star: INXS” struggled to find an audience in its first three episodes. Its July 11 premiere was 44th for the week and fourth in its 9-10 p.m. time slot with nearly 5.5 million viewers.

Viewership for its second episode a day later increased 11% to about 6.1 million, third in its time slot. Then the Wednesday episode dropped to about 4.6 million viewers, also third in its time slot.

Fox’s coverage of baseball’s All-Star game drew about 12.3 million viewers, the smallest audience in the 38 years the game been televised in prime time. However, it was the week’s second-most-watched show.

CBS was the most-watched network for the seventh consecutive week, averaging more than 6.7 million viewers.

The network also led among viewers 25 to 54, its core audience, for the third consecutive week.

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Prime-Time TV Ratings

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (July 11-17) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number or people who watched a program from start to finish. Nielsen estimates there are 277.93 million potential viewers in the U.S. age 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.

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*--* 1 CSI CBS 12.86 2 “Baseball All-Star Game” FOX 12.33 3 Without a Trace CBS 11.71 4 Brat Camp ABC 10.40 5 NCIS CBS 9.33

6 Law & Order: SVU NBC 9.14 7 “All-Star Pre-Game” FOX 9.05 8 Law & Order NBC 8.85 9 60 Minutes CBS 8.71 10 Big Brother 6 (Tue.) CBS 8.34

11 Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC 8.14 12 Law & Order (9 p.m.) NBC 8.13 13 Cold Case CBS 7.93 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 7.93 15 CSI: Miami CBS 7.90

16 Big Brother 6 (Thu.) CBS 7.71 17 CSI: NY CBS 7.70 18 Crossing Jordan NBC 7.69 19 Two and a Half Men CBS 7.62 20 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8 p.m.) ABC 7.32

21 20/20 ABC 7.30 22 Most Outrageous Moments on Live TV NBC 6.97 23 Dateline: NBC (Sat.) NBC 6.80 24 Dateline: NBC (Fri.) NBC 6.66 25 Hell’s Kitchen (9 p.m.) FOX 6.65

26 Wonderful World of Disney ABC 6.56 27 Primetime Live ABC 6.45 28 According to Jim ABC 6.43 29 “Meet the Parents” ABC 6.29 30 “Gleason” CBS 6.25

Las Vegas NBC 6.25 32 Medium NBC 6.24 33 Dateline: NBC (Sun.) NBC 6.16 34 Rock Star: INXS (Tue., 10 p.m.) CBS 6.14 35 Rodney ABC 6.04

36 Desperate Housewives ABC 5.91 37 The Simpsons FOX 5.86 38 America’s Most Wanted FOX 5.74 39 Hell’s Kitchen (8 p.m.) FOX 5.66 40 Family Guy (9 p.m.) FOX 5.65

41 Law & Order: Trial By Jury NBC 5.63 42 Family Guy (9:30 p.m.) FOX 5.57 43 George Lopez ABC 5.51 44 Rock Star: INXS (Mon.) CBS 5.47 45 King Of Queens (Wed.) CBS 5.46

46 My Wife and Kids ABC 5.44 47 Numb3rs CBS 5.37 48 Will & Grace (9:30 p.m.) NBC 5.24 49 Grey’s Anatomy ABC 5.17 50 Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 5.12

Extreme Makeover ABC 5.12 52 Hooking Up ABC 5.09 53 Big Brother 6 (Sat.) CBS 5.03 54 WWE Smackdown! UPN 4.94 55 Will & Grace (10:30 p.m.) NBC 4.89

56 60 Minutes II CBS 4.87 57 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (7 p.m.) ABC 4.82 58 Average Joe 4 NBC 4.81 59 Lost ABC 4.77 60 Empire ABC 4.67

Rock Star: INXS (Wed.) CBS 4.67 62 Joey (9 p.m.) NBC 4.66 63 That ‘70s Show (Thu., 8:30 p.m.) FOX 4.65 64 That ‘70s Show (Wed.) FOX 4.53 65 Fear Factor NBC 4.52

66 I Want to Be a Hilton NBC 4.51 67 That ‘70s Show (Thu., 8 p.m.) FOX 4.38 68 Joey (8:30 p.m.) NBC 4.31 69 Joey (8 p.m.) NBC 4.28 70 The Inside FOX 4.26

71 Cops FOX 4.23 72 “Godzilla” NBC 4.14 73 JAG CBS 3.98 74 Princes of Malibu FOX 3.96 75 The Cut CBS 3.88

76 King of the Hill FOX 3.85 77 8 Simple Rules ABC 3.80 78 Hope and Faith (8:30 p.m.) ABC 3.56 Stacked FOX 3.56 Hope & Faith (9 p.m.) ABC 3.56

81 Less Than Perfect ABC 3.52 82 “Undercover Brother” FOX 3.51 83 The Scholar ABC 3.48 84 Malcolm in the Middle FOX 3.43 85 Rock Star: INXS (Sat., 10 p.m.) CBS 3.35

86 Beauty and the Geek (Wed.) WB 3.20 87 Rock Star: INXS (Sat., 9 p.m..) CBS 3.00 88 King Of Queens (Sat.) CBS 2.75 89 Girlfriends (Mon.) UPN 2.63 90 Summerland WB 2.48

91 “Like Mike” WB 2.40 92 The O.C. FOX 2.38 93 All of Us (Mon.) UPN 2.30 94 Girlfriends (Tue.) UPN 2.25 95 7th Heaven WB 2.21

96 Half and Half (Mon.) UPN 2.17 97 One on One (Mon.) UPN 2.13 Half and Half (Tue.) UPN 2.13 99 Gilmore Girls WB 2.12 100 All of Us (Tue.) UPN 2.05

101 Reba WB 2.01 102 One on One (Tue.) UPN 1.96 103 Living with Fran WB 1.75 104 Smallville (Wed.) WB 1.74 105 Eve (8:30 p.m.) UPN 1.70

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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 6.74 11.97

NBC 6.18 9.15

ABC 6.00 9.40

FOX 5.95 9.18

UPN 2.48 3.22

WB 1.92 3.13

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