Prime-Time TV Rankings

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (May 2-8) 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 CSI CBS 26.65 2 Desperate Housewives ABC 26.10 3 American Idol (Wed.) FOX 25.39 4 American Idol (Tue.) FOX 24.42 5 CSI: Miami CBS 20.70

6 Survivor: Palau CBS 20.06 7 Everybody Loves Raymond (9 p.m.) CBS 19.42 8 Grey’s Anatomy ABC 18.86 9 Two and a Half Men CBS 17.93 10 Without a Trace CBS 17.92

11 Lost ABC 17.20 12 House FOX 17.13 13 Law & Order: SVU NBC 16.54 14 ER NBC 15.66 15 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition ABC 15.35

16 Cold Case CBS 14.77 17 “Elvis,” Part 1 CBS 13.85 18 Primetime Live ABC 13.70 19 NCIS CBS 13.55 20 CSI: NY CBS 13.42

21 Apprentice 3 NBC 13.00 22 Amazing Race: 7 CBS 12.83 23 Medium NBC 12.73 24 Without a Trace (Wed.) CBS 11.93 25 Everybody Loves Raymond (8:30 p.m.) CBS 11.82

26 Numb3rs CBS 11.80 27 Law & Order NBC 11.70 28 Crossing Jordan NBC 11.60 29 Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC 11.54 30 Stacked FOX 11.21

31 Las Vegas NBC 10.95 32 24 FOX 10.88 33 Judging Amy CBS 10.80 34 60 Minutes CBS 10.74 35 CSI (Fri.) CBS 10.51

36 The Simpsons (8:30 p.m.) FOX 10.05 37 Still Standing CBS 9.96 38 Family Guy FOX 9.90 39 Law & Order: Trial by Jury NBC 9.82 40 Fear Factor NBC 9.53

41 “NASCAR NextelCup” FOX 9.27 42 Alias ABC 9.16 43 Third Watch NBC 8.98 44 Supernanny ABC 8.82 45 The Simpsons FOX 8.72

46 Revelations NBC 8.70 47 Law & Order: (Sat.) NBC 8.65 48 According to Jim ABC 8.39 49 American Dad FOX 8.28 50 The Bachelor ABC 8.15

51 Nanny 911 FOX 8.12 52 That ‘70s Show FOX 8.04 53 CSI: Miami (Fri.) CBS 8.02 54 Will & Grace NBC 7.62 55 America’s Funniest Home Videos (Sun.) ABC 7.52

56 “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” ABC 7.47 57 Joey NBC 7.46 58 20/20 ABC 7.43 59 “Dr. Phil: Behind the Headlines” CBS 7.35 60 48 Hours Mystery CBS 7.33

61 “Sweet Home Alabama” ABC 7.32 62 Crimetime Saturday CBS 7.23 63 According to Jim (9:30 p.m.) ABC 7.22 64 The O.C. (9 p.m.) FOX 7.19 65 Primetime Live ABC 7.15

66 America’s Funniest Home Videos (Fri.) ABC 7.02 Dateline: NBC (Wed.) NBC 7.02 68 The O.C. CBS 6.77 69 CSI (Sat.) CBS 6.76 70 Law & Order: SVU (Sat.) NBC 6.74

71 Extreme Makeover: How’d They Do That? ABC 6.67 72 That ‘70s Show FOX 6.61 73 Hope & Faith ABC 6.23 74 Contender NBC 6.21 75 Dateline: NBC (Fri.) NBC 6.01

76 Blind Justice ABC 6.00 77 My Wife and Kids ABC 5.65 George Lopez ABC 5.65 79 Dateline: NBC (Sun.) NBC 5.62 80 Most Outrageous Moments on Live TV NBC 5.40

81 Gilmore Girls WB 5.10 82 America’s Next Top Model 4 UPN 4.94 83 7th Heaven WB 4.89 84 Malcolm in the Middle FOX 4.89 85 King of the Hill FOX 4.85

86 WWE Smackdown! UPN 4.66 87 Smallville WB 4.51 88 “Rush Hour 2” FOX 4.31 89 Everwood WB 4.21 90 One Tree Hill WB 4.05

91 Reba (9 p.m.) WB 3.86 92 Crossing Jordan (Sat.) NBC 3.67 93 Girlfriends UPN 3.41 94 Charmed (8 p.m.) WB 3.31 95 Half and Half UPN 3.12

96 Enterprise UPN 3.01 97 Living With Fran WB 2.95 98 Blue Collar TV (8:30 p.m.) WB 2.91 99 Veronica Mars UPN 2.85 100 Kevin Hill UPN 2.83

101 Cuts UPN 2.81 102 One on One UPN 2.78 Reba WB 2.78 104 Blue Collar TV (9 p.m.) WB 2.72 105 Blue Collar TV (9:30 p.m.) WB 2.67

106 Blue Collar TV (8 p.m.) WB 2.64 107 Eve UPN 2.31 108 Jack & Bobby WB 2.22 109 Steve Harvey’s Big Time WB 2.16 110 All of Us UPN 2.07

111 What I Like About You WB 1.89 112 America’s Next Top Model 4 (Fri.) UPN 1.56 113 Charmed (7 p.m.) WB 1.53

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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 13.17 12.84

FOX 10.00 9.91

ABC 9.92 10.08

NBC 9.74 9.83

WB 3.32 3.33

UPN 3.28 3.35

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