Prime-Time TV Rankings

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (May 9-15) 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 American Idol (Wed.) FOX 26.63 2 CSI CBS 26.46 3 Desperate Housewives ABC 25.28 4 American Idol (Tue.) FOX 24.73 5 “Survivor: Palau Finale” CBS 20.80

6 CSI: Miami CBS 20.01 7 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS 19.79 8 Survivor: Palau CBS 19.65 9 Without a Trace CBS 18.92 10 House FOX 18.80

11 Grey’s Anatomy ABC 18.33 12 Two and a Half Men CBS 17.96 13 ER NBC 17.16 14 Lost ABC 17.10 15 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (8 p.m.) ABC 16.57

16 Amazing Race: 7 CBS 16.01 17 “Survivor: Palau Reunion” CBS 15.48 18 Apprentice 3 NBC 14.80 19 CSI: NY CBS 14.55 20 Law & Order: SVU NBC 14.50

21 NCIS CBS 13.58 22 Medium NBC 12.79 23 Crossing Jordan NBC 12.62 24 Everybody Loves Raymond (8:30 p.m.) CBS 12.41 25 Law & Order NBC 12.22

26 60 Minutes CBS 12.00 27 “Elvis, by the Presleys” CBS 11.84 28 Las Vegas NBC 11.36 29 Numb3rs CBS 11.29 30 24 FOX 11.00

31 Stacked FOX 10.75 32 “Elvis,” Part 2 CBS 10.47 33 Law & Order: Criminal Intent NBC 10.31 34 20/20 (Fri.) ABC 10.24 35 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (7 p.m.) ABC 10.14

36 King of Queens CBS 10.04 37 Alias ABC 9.84 38 The Simpsons (8:30 p.m.) FOX 9.69 39 Family Guy FOX 9.26 40 Crimetime Saturday CBS 9.10

41 Law & Order (Sat.) NBC 8.83 42 Joey NBC 8.56 43 Fear Factor NBC 8.37 44 Revelations NBC 8.36 45 According to Jim (9:30 p.m.) ABC 8.28

46 The Simpsons FOX 8.17 47 According to Jim ABC 8.06 48 That ‘70s Show FOX 7.97 49 48 Hours Mystery CBS 7.96 50 American Dad FOX 7.84

51 Nanny 911 FOX 7.74 52 Law & Order: Trial by Jury NBC 7.64 53 America’s Funniest Home Videos ABC 7.53 54 Cold Case (Sat.) CBS 7.30 55 The Bachelor ABC 7.10

56 Dateline: NBC (Sun.) NBC 6.85 57 Dateline: NBC (Fri.) NBC 6.69 58 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: How’d They Do That? ABC 6.66 59 “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” ABC 6.65 60 Dateline: NBC (Wed.) NBC 6.60

61 Primetime Live ABC 6.54 62 That ‘70s Show FOX 6.33 63 Blind Justice ABC 6.30 64 The O.C. FOX 6.12 65 Scrubs NBC 6.01

66 “Supernanny: Family Update” ABC 5.93 67 America’s Most Wanted FOX 5.74 68 Law & Order: SVU (Sat.) NBC 5.68 Cops (8:30 p.m.) FOX 5.68 70 America’s Next Top Model 4 UPN 5.54

71 “Extreme Makeover: Wedding Edition” ABC 5.50 72 George Lopez ABC 5.47 73 Will & Grace NBC 5.41 74 Gilmore Girls WB 5.39 75 Contender NBC 5.32

76 My Wife and Kids ABC 5.28 77 Malcolm in the Middle FOX 5.16 78 Most Outrageous Moments on Live TV NBC 5.13 79 WWE Smackdown UPN 5.00 80 7th Heaven WB 4.76

81 Cops FOX 4.64 82 King of the Hill FOX 4.50 83 “NBA Playoffs” (Sat.) ABC 4.45 84 Everwood WB 4.44 85 Simple Life 3 FOX 4.28

86 Smallville WB 3.96 87 X-Men FOX 3.87 88 Simple Life 3 (9:30 p.m.) FOX 3.81 89 Enterprise UPN 3.80 90 One Tree Hill WB 3.78

91 Girlfriends UPN 3.75 92 Half and Half UPN 3.59 93 Reba (9 p.m.) WB 3.57 Crossing Jordan (Sat.) NBC 3.57 95 Charmed (8 p.m.) WB 3.44

96 Blue Collar TV (8:30 p.m.) WB 3.22 97 Blue Collar TV WB 3.02 98 Veronica Mars UPN 2.99 99 Blue Collar TV (9 p.m.) WB 2.89 Steve Harvey’s Big Time WB 2.89

101 Cuts UPN 2.87 102 One on One UPN 2.83 103 “NBA Gametime” (Sat.) ABC 2.81 104 Kevin Hill UPN 2.69 105 Living With Fran WB 2.64

106 Reba WB 2.51 107 Blue Collar TV (9:30 p.m.) WB 2.44 108 Eve UPN 2.28 109 Jack & Bobby WB 2.08 110 All of Us UPN 1.99

111 What I Like About You WB 1.91 112 Charmed (7 p.m.) WB 1.63

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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 14.81 12.90

FOX 9.31 9.89

ABC 9.11 10.05

NBC 9.08 9.81

UPN 3.75 3.36

WB 3.34 3.34

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