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Tuesday Ratings: Idol Down, Fringe Up
Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Drama, Music, Prime Time, Reality, Sci-Fi/Horror, Specials, ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, The CW, American Idol, Ratings,
There’s only one man in our country who could make American Idol fall 25% in one week: Barack Obama. It’s assumed that coverage of the presidential inauguration is responsible for the program’s Week 2 decline. (If it isn’t, the show could be in serious trouble.) Meanwhile, Fringe still managed to benefit from AI’s lower numbers. The freshman series saw its second-largest audience to date.
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- American Idol (22.4 million, 8.9/22 in 18-49) plunged 7.7 million.
- ABC’s Neighborhood Ball: An Inauguration Celebration (3.7/9) attracted 12.6 million.
- NCIS* (11.7 million, 2.3/6) was down 6.9 million.
- The Biggest Loser: Couples (10.2 million, 3.9/9) piled on 1.3 million more.
- 90210 (2.4 million, 1.1/4) improved by 200,000.
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