OBT Magazine

-Yesterday's Winners:
NCIS R (CBS), NCIS: Los Angeles R (CBS), The Good Wife R (CBS)

-Yesterday's Losers:

Scrubs (ABC), Better Off Ted (ABC), The Jay Leno Show (NBC)

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-Ratings Breakdown:

With 85 percent of the prime-time line-up in repeats (ABC's Scrubs and Better Off Ted, and The Jay Leno Show on NBC were the exceptions), there was very little of note. CBS remained in the overnight winner's circle with its encore combination of NCIS (#1: 9.4 rating/15 share), NCIS: Los Angeles (#1: 7.7/13) and The Good Wife (#1: 5.9/10). Next was NBC, which repeated two-hour special The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now? (#2: 2.9/ 5) and The Jay Leno Show (#2: 3.5/ 6), which still trailed CBS' aforementioned The Good Wife encore by 41 percent in the overnights. Unfortunately, Leno is not picking up the steam NBC had hoped for opposite non-originals.

Elsewhere, ABC opened this fourth Tuesday in December with a repeat of America's Funniest Home Videos at a second-place 3.7/ 7 at 8 p.m. Next was the aforementioned combination of Scrubs (#4: 2.2/ 5) and Better Off Ted (#4: 1.8/ 3), which will be concluding in January, followed by repeat holiday hour Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special at a last-place 2.7/ 5 at 10 p.m. Why ABC needed the keep Scrubs and Better Off Ted on the air this season is beyond me.

Fox filled the evening with a repeat of Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special, which averaged a mere 2.8/ 5 in the overnights from 8-10 p.m. And The CW capped it off with repeats of 90210 (#5: 0.7/ 1) and Melrose Place (#5: 0.5/ 1). It's the holidays, folks…not much is going on.

Tuesday 12/22/09

HH
Rtg/Shr
CBS 7.6/13
NBC 3.1/ 5
ABC 2.8/ 5
Fox 2.8/ 5
CW 0.6/ 1

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Note: The year-to-year overnight comparisons are not available today.

Source: Nielsen Media Research data (R = repeat)

Source: Nielsen Media Research data

-- Marc Berman

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